Goblins' Club

Tangerine Dream | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Castle - Old Numbers
• ASIN: B00004S96X
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,987 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Towards the Evening Star

2. At Darwin's Motel

3. On Cranes' Passage

4. Rising Haul in Silence

5. United Goblins Parade

6. Lamb With Radar Eyes

7. Elf June and the Midnight Patrol

8. Sad Merlin's Sunday

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Beat Goes On, November 7, 1999

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snowleopard (Oregon) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Goblins' Club (Audio CD)

While this is probably an improvement over the mediocrity that seemed to settle in on Tyranny of Beauty and Turn of the Tides, this is hardly a top notch album from the band that once sat at the forefront of electronic music. While there is less of an emphasis on drum machine and the pop sound of previous albums of the 90's, it still none the less contains a similar, layered up-tempo feel that marks where TD has settled over the last several years. Listen to the clips for yourself, they'll give you a good idea as to just how "new" or "mature" this CD compares to recent works.

If you loved Tyranny of Beauty, Turn of the Tides, and Rockoon, you'll love this. If you loved the TD of Tangram, Exit, or Underwater Sunlight it might be best to stay away.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 1 star for one good track..., August 1, 2000

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Neil Thompson (Birkenhead, Wirral United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goblins' Club (Audio CD)

For any one who cares, I'm a big TD fan and as one of my fellow reviewers here has stated, I fall heavily into the pre '90s era fan group. Lest anyone think I'm here just to have a go at TD, I urge you to read the reviews I've posted here on a selection of TD's other albums. Anyway...

To get it out of the way, my one star is for "Elf June & The Midnight Patrol", which is extremely nicely composed; a bit of a classical edge to it and mercifully free of the tiresome rhythms TD have felt obliged to ruin their sound with in the past 7 or 8 years.

Reading the other reviews of "Goblin's Club" the word that sticks in my memory for how to describe this album is "pleasant". Pleasant? and it gets 5 stars. For 5 stars I want an album to move me, creatively and emotionally. TD used to have the power to do this; listen to "Rubycon", "Phaedra", "Poland" right up to "Song Of The Whale" on "Underwater Sunlight"... I defy anyone to tell me in all honesty that this album moves them... but then I guess it takes all kinds.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I like to think that I approach any music with an open mind; it's more difficult with TD because a) I know what they're capable of and b) I'm passionate about the band, to the point that I eagerly await each new release, hoping that they'll rediscover their passion for sound. It seems I'm to be continually dissapointed.

While this is a negative review, I hope it encourages people to look at the TD back catalogue and discover what made TD great and above all else innovative...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended, July 11, 2000

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B. martin "no_one_u_know" (wimberley, texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Goblin's Club (Audio CD)

I have owned this CD for quite some time, but when it appeared on the "recommendations for you" page I felt strongly enough about it to submit a review. I have a large collection of Tangerine Dream and this one is my favorite. Edgar and Jerome Froese do some of their best work here. "At Darwin's Motel" is a beautiful piece.