Phaedra, Rubycon? Tangerine Dream Study.

Hello there my fellow music lovers and friends!

    I have been wondering which you, the progarchivists, like more of these two electronic albums. Tangerine Dream, the prolific Berlin School band consisting of three sequencers/keyboardists from Germany, created these records in 1974 and 1975. Phaedra contains four tracks of utter spine-chilling journies, and Rubycon is more of a solid plot, in my mind, consisting of two long playing tracks.

I would love your vote here, as I really can't decide for myself which of the two appeals most to me. Phaedra consists of ultimate variations, but Rubycon feels like a dark and evil journey through some abyss and other worlds. I love them both.... can one be considered more beloved, if not better?

Even stevens .................sorry, but you do need to throw in Ricochet also, the live album.

Phaedra is a perfect album. I love everything about Rubycon, but in the end Phaedra pleases me more.
 

I don't know if there is a favorite one; it's part of a trilogy with RICOCHET.

Definitely Rubycon for me. I find it a more satisfying and pleasing listening experience (not to say that a good album need necessarily be 'pleasing'). Ruby is more consistent and evocative of distinct imagery (the beach or the ocean for example), whereas Phaedra tends to be cold and just generally dystopic (Again, not that 'cold and dystopic' are necessarily "bad" qualities!)  

For some reason, I cannot listen to the music in and after "Stratosfear" as intensely as I can "Phaedra" and "Rubycon". They added guitars into the mix, and mouth organs.... this seems like murder to me. If Tangerine Dream hadn't made those two latter albums, though, "Stratosfear" would be top-notch for me.

Everything is so ridiculously relative. I think we should have all members of PA vote on albums instead of have a shadowy elite control what we consider "progressive". Look, Glenn Miller was progressive!; he wrote different music!

In hazier daze, with the help of a mixer board, I used to play Phaedra and Rubycon at the SAME TIME. They blended beautifully, such a trip.

To this day, when I play either of them by themselves, it feels like something is missing.

Give it a try. Your world won't be the same again.

Rubicon and Phaedra are indissociable IMHO. Both come between the completely adventurous Pink Years (Atem and Zeit) and come before the more "symphonic years" (from Ricochet to Force Majeure and beyond)

I really need to buy Rubycon and Ricochet.

Phaedra and Rubycon are great records, at the same level that "Encore" or "Force Majeure", but for me, TD´s masterpiece is "Ricochet". But very few consider "Alpha Centauri" as a good record, very original despite being less "technological", and I would include it with their great works