Rockoon

Tangerine Dream | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Miramar
• ASIN: B000003IMH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,016 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Big City Dwarves

2. Red Roadster

3. Touchwood

4. Graffiti Street

5. Funky Atlanta

6. Spanish Love

7. Lifted Veil

8. Penguin Reference

9. Body Corporate

10. Rockoon

11. Girls on Broadway

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I've heard worse, but..., November 27, 2000

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CMOS (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rockoon (Audio CD)

...in Tangerine Dream's case, this is not a commendable effort in my opinion. They went for a new sound with this CD - more of a pop approach rather than sticking with the style that made them so successful. To be honest, this CD really lacks the character that TD's better works possess. The best way I can describe it is to say that it sounds like a bunch of theme songs from bad 80's drama shows. No, I'm not kidding.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The birth of a monster, January 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Rockoon (Audio CD)

In 1991 Edgar Froese trumpeted that the band is going to significantly change its musical direction. What we didn't know at the time was that Tangerine Dream shrunk to father and son (Jerome). "Rockoon", recorded and published in 1992, was the first album conceived by the family powers, and abstracting for a while from the impressions I had at the time, I must say that from the 10-year perspective, one cay strongly claim that Tangerine Dream died in 1991 as an ensemble we knew. As a founder of the band, Edgar Froese had rights to the brand name, and thus when in 1991 he effectively set up a new band, of a completely different musical orientation, he preserved the name. This fact appeared unforgivable to millions of the band's followers all over the world. The audience shrunk considerably, and if we buy Froese's new records, it's because of that enormous sentiment we have for the old days of glory. As is widely known, the release of Rockoon caused the band's fan club to dismember. Now, if the compositional condition of performers simply worsened, this wouldn't have happened. We lost the heart and the trust we had in Edgar Froese because setting up a new band, he glued the noble name to it. That's a grave sin, Edgar, although you might feel entitled to do with Tangerine Dream what you wanted. A definition of property implies that the owner is free to destroy his property. Indeed.

"Rockoon" is a hopeless trial to enter the world of modern music, guitar-driven, percussive rock that is only augmented with electronica. It might have been good, but it just isn't, what can I say. It includes a large number of completely forgettable, boring muzak: 'Touchwood', 'Lifted Veil', 'Penguin Reference', 'Body Corporate', 'Rockoon', 'Girls on Broadway' and 'Spanish Love'. Out of one hour of music, only four tracks escape the abysmal quality of the rest. Although boring, repetitive and unimaginative as well, 'Big City Dwarves', 'Red Roaster' and 'Graffiti Street' at least show a minimal effort to produce something new. The only good track on "Rockoon" is 'Funky Atlanta', a very dynamic cheerful tune, which might serve well as a number in a Seattle discotheque.

Don't buy this album, or any album released afterwards, if you are a newcomer to Tangerine Dream world of music, and if you like the older albums. With so many records this band produced, you will be happy with about 40 albums recorded before. Don't waste your ears on this.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tangerine Dream's darkest hour?, January 21, 2000

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Steve Benner "Stonegnome" (Lancaster, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rockoon (Audio CD)

This album is an unimaginative collection of some 11 5-minuters, nearly all of which sacrifice the traditional Tangerine Dream approach of innovative and varied synthesiser and sequencer programming for a uniformly bland sound world of everyday synthesiser string washes and jangling guitar lines over a relentlessly boring rock drum-machine beat. Gone is the variety of tempo of earlier albums. In fact, gone is any great variety of anything! Only the short `Penguin Reference' manages to capture some of the sparkle of earlier Tangerine Dream successes, while the incorporation of alto sax into the tracks `Body Corporate' and `Red Roadster' give some new interest and also look ahead to the later incorporation of Linda Spa to the group.

(For a fuller review of this disc, see its entry on the amazon.co.uk site.)