Valentine Wheels [Import]

Tangerine Dream, Jerome Froese | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Tangerine Dream Intl
• ASIN: B00000I8ZB
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,429 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Waterborne

2. Betrayal

3. Poland

4. Sundance Kid

5. Silver Scale

6. Warsaw In The Sun

7. Stratosfear 95

8. Dolphin Dance

9. Le Parc

10. Beach Theme

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for all TD fans!, March 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Valentine Wheels (Audio CD)

Exceptionally well recorded and mastered, this live performance showcases the versatility and consistency which hallmark Tangerine Dream's 30+ years of excellence. This could easily be called a "Best Of" album.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Getting it up again, January 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Valentine Wheels (Audio CD)

Who would have thought that after all these years of emptiness, they still can play some good electronic rock of the past? Who cares if it's a little mangled, performed without the nerve the once had - when you are present at such concert, if you are lucky to catch them when once every ten years they decide to treat us with golden oldies again? I don't care. For this little pleasure of hearing the cheer of the audience again, of other people as happy as moi - it's worth spending money on this album. For "Valentine Wheels" is a nostalgic journey into the past.

The album begins by a bang, like an old ferro cassette you recorded froma radio. Where were the sound engineers? Anyway, the band delivers 'Waterborne', a good misty track from Oasis of 1995. Next, we are treated to the only official live recording of 'Sorcerer's Theme' of 1976. I can't say that I was set on my knees with the way it was performed, but the tune is like balsam for the soul. You can't deny that, can you? Then, we briefly enter 'Poland' of 1983. A little lukewarm, but still, the same comment applies. Unfortunately, the next number, 'Sundance Kid', is taken from the shallow recent era, to transform swiftly into 'Silver Scale' known from an excellent soundtrack album "Wavelength" of 1983. Beautiful melody of that Schmoelling track is somewhat spoiled by Froese interpretation, but nevertheless, it was a great surprise. I have never heard "Wavelength" live! 'Warsaw in the Sun' - of course they chose the least attractive part of "Poland" album to play! fear not, the next composition is 'Stratosfear', not the original version of 1976, but the one from "Tyranny of Beauty" of 1994. Still, Zlatko Perica made a very good job of recreating the original sound of Froese's Les Paul guitar, and even added some! It's one long guitar solo. Awesome. The band fills the space between this rocket of a tune and the next one with some unimaginative muzak, but fortunately, it's a short break, so we can endure it. What happens next is 'Dolphin Dance' - and we are jumping back to 1986. This Christopher Franke composition is bland in comparison to Franke's own version played on "The London Concert" of 1991. Sorry Edgar! After a while, the band increases an already fast tempo to match 'Le Parc', a dynamic composition from the beautiful album "Le Parc" of 1985. Sadly, "Valentine Wheels" end much too fast with 'Beach Theme' known from "Thief" of 1980.

I agree that the performance does not stand up to the comparison with the old times, but still, after tears of boredom we shed in the recent decade, this is a treat, a journey back in time, which is always welcome. Everything must end somewhere, everything must pass, as George Harrison would have said if he were alive.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, August 21, 2000

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"dan_ehrlich" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Valentine Wheels (Audio CD)

As a life-long TD fan and former youngest member of the now non-existent Tangerine Dream International Fan Club, I reckon this live album is absolutely great. I generally am a big fan of TD of the 70s and early 80s, and much less enthusiastic about the 90s stuff. I think it is great that TD at times play some of the old material using the original tunes in their recent performances (e.g. 'Betrayal' or 'Poland' in this album), but also throw into the mix some of the newer stuff as well. I would have been thrilled to be in the audience for such a performance. Tournado and this album are both great, in my opinion their best live albums since Poland of 1984.