Blue Years Studio Albums 1985-1987

Great for background music or to enjoy listening to.

TD do it again! Great collection of tunes in another great box set. I love these box sets. Get them all! A sure thing if you like this genre.

Excellent.

I would have to agree with the other reviewers here. This is a disappointing CD. I still have my first Virgin Dream albums but no turntable. I was hoping this CD would bring back some of the magic that I found when I first heard TD's music. Unfortunately, that's not the case.I fall into the early Dream camp, liking the long extended trippy music much more than the more commercially viable later music. While some of the best of that is sampled here, it is just sampled, and not very well at that. The first cut, Genesis doesn't even have a good edit point. It just ends abrubtly and jarringly, without the grace of even a good fade. And the selection of material is mediocre at best...sounding more like New Age fodder than the coloristic sound collages that I loved from this period.All in all, Zeit is a better introduction to this period of Tangerine Dream. And I still count Phaedra and Rubycon as my favorite synthesizer albums. Dream just doesn't respond well to cutting up. Better to invest in one or two original Cds.

Tangerine Dream's early years were deeply innovative and incredibly atmosperic, and as a group they practically invented the Ambient movement before anyone had ever heard of the word. This could have been a great opportunity to showcase this dark and beautiful period, but instead it contains most of the WORST bits of thier early cannon. In addition, one of the strengths of thier early works was thier ability to make 20-25 minute pieces develope and flow over time, and most of the pieces on this album are brief 5 minute excerpts. And the last three pieces are all from "Green Desert," which good as it was, didn't need to take up almost half the album. Finally, why call it "The Pink Years?" These years were DARK. Deeply atmospheric, moody, and ambient. If you want truly the best of Tangerine Dreams early years, the two CD set "Zeit" is the answer.

There are endless numbers of 'Best of Tangerine Dream' collections; selecting between them is often difficult and invariably confusing. It is not helped by the fact that the band has been contracted to so many different record companies over the years. Each label naturally feels it necessary to keep repackaging THEIR material as the best! Castle Communications/Essential Music has the rights to the band's output during two of their main periods: the "Pink Years" refers to their early 1970's pre-Virgin era, and covers the albums "Electronic Meditation", "Alpha Centauri", "Zeit", "Atem" and "Green Desert". The "Blue Years" covers the band's output immediately after their period with Virgin Records, when they signed with the now-defunct Jive Electro label.The "Best of Tangerine Dream: Pink Years" collection consists of bleeding chunks from two of these 5 albums (the title track from "Atem" and 'Nebulous Dawn' from "Zeit") and sample tracks from the other 3, with "Green Desert" getting the most coverage, with 'White Clouds', 'Indian Summer' and 'Astral Voyage'. This is an unsatisfying collection: if all you want is a sample of Tangerine Dream's early "Pink Years", you'd be better off buying "Tangerine Dream: The Collection Vol I", which contains a much better selection, has no excerpted tracks and features a generous running time. Or better still, buy "Three Classic Albums" and grab the whole of the first three albums at a bargain price.

This is a reasonable survey of Tangerine Dream's albums "Le Parc" and "Underwater Sunlight", with some chunks of "Poland", "Tyger" and "Livemiles" thrown in. It doesn't contain enough of any of these albums to be worth having, though, nor is it sufficiently representative (especially of "Poland" or "Tyger") to be a useful way of finding out whether or not the full albums are worth having! Personally, I'd recommend putting the money towards copies of "Livemiles" and "Poland", if you don't have those. Or, if you're interested in the "Tyger", "Le Parc" and "Underwater Sunlight" tracks, go for the 5-CD "Dream Roots Collection" instead. It is more expensive, obviously, but it has a better mix of tracks than here, (from the same albums) and has some otherwise unavailable tracks on it too.

Tangerine Dream in the mid to late 80s lost a lot of the innovation and creativity that drove their best work. However it is is still good material and enjoyable. Green desert was supposedly recorded in the early 70s but has been reimagined with 80s technology. Very little of of it sounds of the 70s but it’s pleasant.

Quattro album del periodo 1985/1987.In questi 4 compact discs , sono stati eliminati alcuni errori di master, presenti nelle edizioni degli anni 80 e 90,LE PARC: Chi pensava che i Tangerine, non riuscissero ad abbandonare il genere “Cosmic Music” dovette ricredersi a questo album.Infatti, le composizioni attingono a piene mani (con tanta raffinatezza) a tutto il Pop elettronico del suo tempo, House “Central Park”, Techno “Hyde Park” e ”Gaudi Parc”, Ambient “Zen Garden”, Electro Fusion “Bois de Boulogne”,ed anche New Age “Yellowstone Park” con la splendida voce di Clare Torry (per chi si ricorda “il grande spettacolo nel cielo”).GREEN DESERT: La produzione di questo album risale al 1973, ma nel 1985, Edgar Froese restaurò i nastri originali e gli aggiunse alcuni suoni anni 80, in questo modo l’album risulta essere un ibrido di generi, Space Rock anni 70 e Synth Pop anni 80.UNDERWATER SUNLIGHT: il brano di apertura “Song of the Whale” è una delle migliori composizioni dei Tangerine anni 80. La musica è influenzata da differenti generi Fusion, Techno, Ambient, New Age.La chitarra di Froese è come sempre grintosa , in particolare in “Ride on the Ray”.I sintetizzatori di Franke sono raffinatissimi “Scuba Scuba” e “Dolphin Dance”.TYGER :Prima dell’addio di Franke ai TANGERINE DREAM, c è ancora voglia di stupire.In tre composizioni è presente una cantante di colore ,con un fluente accento inglese, che va a immortalare, con la sua voce, alcune delle poesie di William Blake.La cantante, sulla musica dei Tangerine , risulta essere molto espressiva, decisamente meglio di certe voci in voga in quel periodo (le frivolezze di Laurie Anderson, i gorgheggi di Kate Bush, il pop ruffiano della Tikaram, le pompe di Enya).Altrettanto validi e grintosi gli strumentali “Alchemy of the Heart” e “21st century common man”.CONCLUSIONI: A quell’ epoca, in cui era in corso una escalation agli strumenti elettronici sofisticati, i Tangerine, dimostrarono che, rispetto ai loro colleghi tecno-dipendenti (JM Jarre, Synergy, Art of Noise, Vangelis) il migliore utilizzo delle strumentazioni all’avanguardia, restava sotto il loro controllo con inconfondibile maestria.

J'aime beaucoup Tangerine Dream (je connais environ 40 albums et en possède une bonne vingtaine).Je croyais connaître les 4 albums qui constituent ce coffret mais il faut croire que ma mémoire n'est pas excellente car je suis surpris de la qualité des CD. A part peut-être Tyger (et encore pas complètement) j'ai vraiment adoré les autres CD alors que je pensais cette période de leur activité un peu faiblarde.Green Desert : enregistré initialement en 1973 et ressorti à l'époque Blue Years avec un son plus moderne et probablement un peu retouché, ma note 4/5Underwater Sunlight : une excellente redécouverte tout à fait digne du grand TD, ma note 4/5Le Parc : excellent lui aussi, les morceaux s'enchaînent et nous emmènent visiter quelques parcs emblématiques, ma note 4/5Tyger : déjà cité plus haut, moins percutant que les 3 autres CD mais quelques titres tops quand même, ma note 3/5.Au total un excellent coffret pour une période un peu oubliée de TD (à tort).

Época irregular esta de los "blue years" Que vuelvo a desconocer el por qué del título. Quizas por alguna portada. Merece mucho la pena por el precio

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