http://peteashton.com/2007/12/loving_the_drone/ June 2000 to June 2010 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://peteashton.com/2007/12/loving_the_drone/comment-page-1/#comment-24606 Ken Davidson Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:17:32 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2007/12/loving_the_drone/#comment-24606 As someone who has followed Tangerine Dream's music from the beginning I fully understand Morley's comments - but it really only applies to their material up to around the early eighties. Then it went pear-shaped, a big fat pear with lots of juice and no flavour. I still follow the material of Edgar Froese and chums, but in a kind of blinkered hope that something of worth will be emitted. Listen to Rubycon, Force Majeure and Phaedra, perhaps even Poland (from 1984) - forget everything that came after. Rubycon was the first album I bought when everyone else was buying Adam and the Ants and Duran Duran. I lost myself to the drone during my teens, couldn't afford booze ;) As someone who has followed Tangerine Dream’s music from the beginning I fully understand Morley’s comments – but it really only applies to their material up to around the early eighties. Then it went pear-shaped, a big fat pear with lots of juice and no flavour. I still follow the material of Edgar Froese and chums, but in a kind of blinkered hope that something of worth will be emitted. Listen to Rubycon, Force Majeure and Phaedra, perhaps even Poland (from 1984) – forget everything that came after. Rubycon was the first album I bought when everyone else was buying Adam and the Ants and Duran Duran. I lost myself to the drone during my teens, couldn’t afford booze ;)

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