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THE BLUE YEARS STUDIO ALBUMS 1985-1987

Tangerine Dream

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2019

Songs / Tracks Listing

CD 1 - Le Parc (41:43)
1. Bois de Boulonge (Paris) (5:28)
2. Central Park (New York) (3:43)
3. Gaudi Park (Guell Garden, Barcelona) (5:14)
4. Tiergarten (Berlin) (3:10)
5. Zen Garden (Ryoan-Ji Temple, Tokyo) (4:49)
6. Le Parc (L.A. - Streethawk) (3:22)
7. Hyde Park (London) (4:00)
8. The Cliffs of Sydney (Sydney) (5:45)
9. Yellowstone Park (Rocky Mountains) (6:12)

CD 2 - Green Desert (38:33)
1. Green Desert (19:29)
2. White Clouds (5:02)
3. Astral Voyager (7:07)
4. Indian Summer (6:55)

CD 3 - Underwater Sunlight (40:13)
1. Song of the Whale Part One: From Dawn... (8:20)
2. Song of the Whale Part Two: ...To Dusk (10:55)
3. Dolphin Dance (5:07)
4. Ride on the Ray (5:34)
5. Scuba Scuba (4:26)
6. Underwater Sunlight (5:51)

CD 4 - Tyger (47:26)
1. Tyger (5:49)
2. London (14:24)
3. Alchemy of the Heart (12:15)
4. Smile (6:11)
5. 21st Century Common Man (Part One) (4:49)
6. 21st Century Common Man (Part Two) (3:58)

Total Time 167:55

Releases information

Esoteric Recordings ‎- EREACD41038
4 CD album compilation
Barcode: 5 013929 753808

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TANGERINE DREAM The Blue Years Studio Albums 1985-1987 ratings distribution


4.00
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Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(25%)
25%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(50%)
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Good, but non-essential (25%)
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Review by Warthur
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4 stars The mid-1980s found Tangerine Dream focusing far more on their movie and television soundtrack work than on standalone studio albums - which means that this boxed set isn't really telling the whole story when it comes to their activities from 1985-1987. Further complications arise from the inclusion of Green Desert, because whilst that release was finished off with additional recordings in the 1980s the earliest components of it came from the 1970s.

Nonetheless, this is a good value collection offering a nice snapshot of the New Age-tinged style that the band adopted in this era. Aside from on Green Desert, the spacey style of their 1970s works is absent, and this is very much in the style they adopted in their mid-1980s soundtrack work, making this a bit less essential but still worth a shot for fans.

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4 stars A nice set of the most new age inflected ones among Tangerine Dream studio albums. Let's take a comparative look: Disc One "Le Parc": As the title states, this is a mosaic composed of a miniature for each one of the selected parks. Somewhat conventional at times, but always with a timely mutation ... (read more)

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