Tangerine Dream play the Devil's Music

I guess one of the things that I hold most against the senile octagenarians who run the WTBTS and tell us things like "rock music is from Satan" is how much music I either missed out on or felt guilty about listening to.  I LOVE music.   Everyone who knows me can tell when I am not listening to enough music. 

I will never forget the first time I heard Tangerine Dream.  It was like being in a dream world.  It was astonishingly beautiful. 

Then a "mature brother" heard the music one day at my house.  "WHAT is THAT?"  So, I get the Tangering Dream album cover, Phaedra, and show it to the "mature brother".

I was accused of being demon possessed. The "brother" took my album outside, made a great theatrical spectacle of praying that the album could be destroyed, and burned it.

I was then "counseled" by the elders not to listen to "the Devil's Music".

I remembered this because I just signed up to Pandora Radio and made a station called Patrick O'Hearn and one of the tracks that I just LOVED but couldn't place the artist was by Tangerine Dream.

Which tracks do you like, the best?  If you likw psychedelic, you would like pink floyd's earlier stuff, like 'echoes'.

S

I like everything on Phaedra and Rubycon.  I also like Dream Mixes. 

The one that came on on Pandora Radio is called Lady Monk from a CD titled Booster, I had never heard it before.

I have Echos, one of my favorites.

I love Tangerine Dream. I'm a real Prog Rock fan. My collection was often scrutinised by my friends and family but I just ignored them.

There's no reasoning with insanity.  This elder obviously was mad.

I'm also a fan of Tangerine Dream.

What rubbish eh!!

The wts like many high control groups, eschews any culture, the reason, cos it's from the devil. The real reason is that culture apart from entertaining, challenges and develops society. Mao and the Taliban have and had a similar modus operandi.

BTW i have Phaedra too

David

Big fan of Tangerine Dream too - I recall the same stupidity while I was studying over Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.  I could not believe the hogwash they are fed:  Mike Oldfield did not write Tubular Bells with the Exorcist in mind - William Friedkin bought the rights to the music for his movie.  So while the composition is featured in the Exorcist, one cannot say it is demonic.  Add to this Hotel California - nothing about devil worship; or how about my best one - "lay Lady Lay" by Bob Dylan.  Some bonehead told me it was a song about fornication and should not be part of my collection - the song is actually about Dylan's pet as a child and what a pet meant to him - Lady was a dog.  Oh the fun over the years with trying to explain songs.  Also, John Lennons Imagine.  Then there was the backward masking era - Stairway to Heaven - LOL there.  I showed how you could play most Kingdom songs in reverse and get anything you want out of it - actually, they sounded better and the sibliminal messages do need backwards masking.  I never got rid of anything because I was never bothered by it. 

Simon Morley

Simon reminded me of how disgusting the "kingdom" music is.

I am not a musician but I sing so I spend a lot of time listening to good music.

I would not call the societies noise "music" at all.  It is total trash.

I offered a few times to sing some of the Kingdom "songs" at assemblies, but I was always turned down with some stupid excuse.

Love Tangerine Dream.

Back in 1980 I was living with my untie & uncle in Auckland him an elder, all this crap about music blew up in the cong, I had a lot of albums & most of it 'questionable' in the eyes of jws, I was asked about my music & bcoz I was not advancing spiritually it must be bcoz of the music, I had to sort through & burn any that I thought  wrong, so I selected some that really was crap music & didn't really want & burnt them instead, everyone was happy, still didn't advance spiritually tho.

I got to keep my

rolling stones, uriah heep, lynyrd skynyrd, meat loaf, elton john, tangerine dream, pink floyd, and a host of other stuff

finallysomepride,

Do you like Humble Pie?  I didn't like them all that well but their Live album is AMAZING.  THeir version of "Walk on guilded splinters" the Dr. John voodoo ritual is .... well, you just have to listen to it.  Then there is their version of "I don't need no doctor".

I wonder how many JW teenagers and young adults succumbed to the pressure and threw out their "questionable" music?

I did.....and so regret it now. But I have bought back a lot of stuff that went missing,including some Tangerine Dream.

I saw them twice at Manchester Apollo,astounding stuff.

For all prog fans try this   http://powerofprog.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_invite_net.

Great website Four Candles. BTW - Have you always lived in wales? I think recognise your photos on Flippers post your photos thread.

Not always,had a spell in the late 80's,early nineties on Anglesey,been back in Mid Wales for the last 3 years.

hey thanks guys - I've never heard of Tangerine Dream but just downloaded their 1974 album Phaedra (before I was born) and it's great!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_QXc5duq-4

Tangerine Dream is awesome!  I was introduced to their music in the movie 'The Keep'.  It was amazing.  Would love to get a DVD of that movie but they are hard to come by.   

I never got to listen to - and enjoy - any of this sort of music when it was first released and new. I only discovered it much later in life - when I was no longer active. My daughter would want to go to a local second-hand CD store to purchase music she liked - and I would puruse the alternative jazz (or new age) sections. I have this CD in my collection, along with others like Patrick O'Hearn - Indigo, Yanni, Keiko Matsui, Jean-Michel Jarde - Oxygene, Kitaro, and others.

When I was still married to my first wife, who was/is a JW - I was listening to a lot of 'Easy Listening Jazz' locally on the radio, and this helped introduce me to a lot of new artists - like the above-mentioned ones. Another one - Enigma - and their 'Mea Culpa' from their MCMXC album was played a lot on the radio. This gal went out and bought me the CD for an anniversary present. I appreciated it a lot! I jokingly called it my 'demon music', as there are some other cuts on this CD that are very haunting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itkzaT9yk9Y&feature=related

Another Enigma cut - Return to Innocence - may be applied to us ex-JWs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ALElMLpRA

Lyrics :
That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence

Love, devotion
Feeling, emotion
Love, devotion
Feeling, emotion

Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart, my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence

If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself, don't hide
Just believe in destiny
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence

That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence

Don't care what people say
Follow just your own way
Don't give up, don't give up
To return, to return to innocence

If you want, then laugh
If you must, then cry
Be yourself, don't hide
Just believe in destiny

Listen to the song - and follow along with the lyrics... it is very haunting music... and very true.

Another artist that I 'discovered' when I was much younger - and worked in radio - was Mike Oldfield - who most people know for his 'Tubular Bells' album. I knew him for his 'Ommadawn' album - which I copied from the 33RPM LP - that was at work - and listened to on my cassette player - until I pretty much wore it out. (Music like that was always great - playing it with someone new around - and seeing their reactions)

Good Luck to everyone on their musical journey.

Regards,

Jim TX

Jim,

I can remember where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard Mahavishnu Orchestra's  Between Nothingness and Eternity.  OMG.  What amazing music.

I like Tangerine Dream; it's rather interesting the arc that project has had and the number of movie soundtracks that they've done. 

Sorcerer is a 1977 action-adventure film, produced and directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal and Amidou. It is a remake of the 1953 French film Le Salaire de la Peur (Wages of Fear).

Sorcerer is notable for its electronic score by Tangerine Dream, which was the group's first Hollywood film score and led to its becoming popular soundtrack composers of the '80s.

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So...not only debbil music, but just look at the title of their first film score!

This was my favorite TD "period", though I also liked the Babylon 5 stuff by Christopher Franke.