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Topic ClosedTangerine Dream vs Mike Oldfield
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Poll Question: Which one do you prefer?
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For the first four albums in particular, Tangerine Dream by a light year.  I wonder why they aren't rated higher?


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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

^ I like how he missed TD's 5 or 6 best albums there
I don't really care for their very early stuff which is what I guess you are talking about. Not everyone has the same taste.
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^ I like how he missed TD's 5 or 6 best albums there
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Points: 26199 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2011 at 15:52
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

TD for not doing any bad pop albums that I know of.
TD have done a lot of really bad albums though mainly from about 1987 onwards when Christophe Franke jumped ship. They have recovered though in recent years with the Booster series of albums and the beautifull operatic inspired Purgatorio.
 
Oldfield has also done some pretty uninspired stuff as well like Islands and just about everything after Tres Lunas.
 
This is a particlularly hard poll as I love both artists. 5 star albums?:
 
TD
Ricochet
Force Majeure
Tangram
Pergamon
Poland
Purgatorio
 
MO
Hergest Ridge
Ommadawn
Incantations
Amarok
Songs Of Distant Earth
 
TD it is by 6-5!
 
 
 


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Tangerine Dream without a doubt. There's only one Mike Oldfield album I find listenable throughout.
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Tangerine Dream get my vote for sure.
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Tangerine Dream get my vote - they're amongst my 'most played'.

Edited by Takeshi Kovacs - April 15 2011 at 17:42
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TD completely loses me after the mid-80s.  Oldfield has released some sub-par material as well, but he did return to form in more recent releases.  Also, the very earliest TD releases either bore or annoy me, whereas the earliest Oldfield is stellar.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Mike Oldfield.
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Points: 19236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2011 at 13:35
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

TD is better in just about every way imaginable


I would agree if it's the Froese,Franke and Baumann lineup of TD.
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Tangerine Dream by the thickness of a hair.
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TDfloyd says TD by a mile!!!
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need a both are awesome option!
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Oldfield. Much more lively music from him. Especially his '70s records.
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Can't get into TD (yet?) but I love Oldfield's early albums, plus some of his later stuff, so it's the Mike - man.
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I love both, but TD have more good albums i like then Oldfield has, so they get my vote.
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by miles TD !!
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TD for not doing any bad pop albums that I know of.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 2082 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2011 at 04:27
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