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Meltdowner 
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 10:27 |
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Two Electronic classics released in 1976. Which one do you prefer?
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digdug
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 11:13 |
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I like the Ashra album ok
but IMO it is no match for
Stratosfear
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Prog On!
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Larkstongue41
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 11:31 |
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New Age of Earth. Tangerine Dream got less and less interesting for me starting with Atem. Huge fan of the debut and Zeit though.
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"Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar."
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ALotOfBottle
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 12:03 |
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I prefer Ashra, it's just more solid for me. Stratosfear, on the other hand, was the first Tangerine Dream LP I owned.
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Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.
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Replayer
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 12:26 |
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Definitely Stratosfear for me. I enjoy New Age of Earth, but it's a little ambient to really move me.
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 12:28 |
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TD....I have never been that impressed with AShra in general.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 12:37 |
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TD
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Dopeydoc
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 12:43 |
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Stratosfear
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 13:57 |
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Ashra. Stratosfear is a good album, but doesn't match up with the earlier Tangerine Dream material.
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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verslibre
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 14:45 |
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Stratosfear!
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maryes
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 17:42 |
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Stratosfear is one of my favorite Tangerine Dream albums
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 18:00 |
Definitely `New Age of Earth' for me, as much as I like `Straosfear'. Still to this day I listen to `NAoE' at least twice a week, so by this point I've heard it hundreds of times and I am yet to tire of it, so that definitely makes it one of the most special albums in my collection. I was very humbled to have Manuel Gottsching sign my LP of it when he played in Melbourne back in 2015 too! 
Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - May 23 2017 at 19:34
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Barbu
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 19:25 |
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Dream
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: May 23 2017 at 23:38 |
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TD by a long shot. I've had both for decades, and I've only spun the Ashra album a handful of times ! I even prefer the next album, Correlations, to NAOE. Sunrain was about the best. The TD is, quite possibly, my favourite from them.
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Posted: May 24 2017 at 08:26 |
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Ashra for me, though I like both very much.
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Mormegil
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Posted: May 24 2017 at 08:57 |
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Have to go with Stratosfear for this one.
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Lewian
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Posted: May 24 2017 at 19:22 |
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Difficult. Both are special albums, steps into something new without cutting off the roots in the developments of these bands, and not without their flaws. I vote for TD (despite going for a somewhat more superficial melodic approach than before); the atmosphere on NAOE is very special but if I'm not 100% in the mood there are too many parts that bore me. I can just listen to Stratosfear more often.
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Posted: May 25 2017 at 05:57 |
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Stratosfear was the first TD album I heard, but I'm very much into NAOE right now, so I'm giving it a vote... not because it's way behind. It's funny because that Ashra album has the highest rate of the two.
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Posted: May 25 2017 at 06:05 |
To your credit, Sam, you definitely gave me a kick up the backside about getting onto `Stratosfear' a lot more!  I'm quite familiar with it, but it's still `fresh' enough to me that I listen to it most times and find plenty of new little details I haven't remembered yet. But man those sudden booming chiming moments and the big volume increases freak me the hell out!  I noticed similar elements on Peter Baumann's solo discs `Romance '76' and (I think) `Trans-Harmonic Nights' when I re-listened to them recently, so I think those bits are his doing on `Stratsofear'.
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Posted: May 25 2017 at 06:18 |
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Stratosphere. For the cover as well.
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