No Drums - No Dice

johnobvious wrote: When I first found prog on internet radio, I listened to Progressive Soundscapes.  They were playing DT and some other bands that I was just getting into at the time and I thought, hey this is great. But then they would put on a 20 minute ambient-electronic thing.  No singing, no drums and I would finally go numb from boredom.   The Tangerine Dreams and Klaus Shulz's of the world are not for me and I am curious why people like that type of thing.

Oh, but there are Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze albums with drums. And you don't have to sound like them to play music without drums. It seems you are not so much concerned about music without drums but about music without rhythm.

As to why people like them: Their music lets you imagine strange worlds. For Tangerine Dream this is true only up to a certain point though; there is a turning point in their career after which they became completely unlistenable for me; the quality of their albums slowly deteriorated over the time.

rileydog22 wrote: Some of my favorite drumless albums: I think it's absolutely childish and silly to disqualify music you haven't heard just because of the presence or lack of a specific instrument.

ABSOLUTELY Childish and silly?  I guess I better listen to the latest 50 cent.  Since I haven't heard it, I might like it even though that isn't my type of music.  I'm pretty sure he doesn't use mellotron so I disqualified it.  Back to Romper Room for me.

BaldFriede wrote: As to why people like them: Their music lets you imagine strange worlds.

BF is right. Tangerine Dream and Schulze make (for want of a better word) meditative music. Some people like it, some prefer Dream Theater.

The middle section in Free Hand - Gentle Giant is probably one of my favourite instrumentals, and it is drumless. I also listen to classical and acoustic music, so it'll have to be option 3 for me.