| " | Tangerine Dream experiments with an ever-widening lexicon of sound on White Eagle, though the arrangements tend to suffer for it. The album's principle work is "Mojave Plan," a four-movement, 20-minute song that represents some of the darkest music they've recorded in a while. Perhaps it was Edgar Froese's fear of nuclear annihilation that fueled this bleak view of the future, but the piece's effectiveness is undermined by the decision to continually dabble with different sounds. Where earlier extended pieces tended to move the listener from point A to point B, "Mojave Plan" doesn't flow so much as fuse disjointed sections together. The remaining songs are more cohesive, though Christopher Franke's sequencer patterns, while initially intoxicating, remain static here. That's not a problem on the brief "Midnight in Tula"; four minutes of contagious dance music that turns corners as tight as a Polyrock tune is a welcome respite at this point in the album. "Convention of the 24" clocks in at under ten minutes, and is arguably the closest in effect to Tangram et al. The album closes on a pleasant note with "White Eagle," a mesmerizing song that spins on a slightly off-kilter axis while delivering a lovely little melody in the bargain, in some ways suggesting a meeting of Tangerine Dream's sequencer-led journeys and Cluster's playful side. While it's ultimately an uneven work, White Eagle is clearly the sum of its parts, and readily identifiable as the work of Tangerine Dream. Perhaps Froese had relinquished too much of the music to Johannes Schmoelling, whose curiosity for new sounds often comes across as restlessness. Most likely, though, TD wanted to move its music into the modern age. People weren't as likely to sit in a lotus position for 40 minutes as they were in the '70s -- a point that Exit acknowledged. Conceptually, the band members fall back on familiar ways with White Eagle, but musically their minds are operating on a more contemporary level. It's not an ideal amalgam, suggesting the band was at a stylistic crossroads. by Dave Connolly | " |
01 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Otis Redding
02 Tumbling Dice - Linda Ronstadt
03 19th Nervous Breakdown - Jason & The Scorchers
04 No Expectation - Johnny Cash
05 Brown Sugar - Little Richard
06 Wild Horses - Leon Russel
07 Under My Thumb - Ike & Tina Turner
08 You Can't Always Get What You Want - Aretha Franklin
09 It's Not Easy - Charlie Sexton with Ron Wood
10 Miss You - Sugar Blue
11 Take It Or Leave It - The Searchers
12 Gimme Shelter - Detroit with Mitch Ryder
13 Dead Flowers [Live] - Steve Earle and The Dukes
14 Jumpin' Jack Flash [Live] - Johnny Winter
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| " | Hyperborea for me is one of the last albums that show me a part of the perspective that Tangerine Dream had built in the 1970-1980(1981) period(i'll include the 1985 album "Le Parc").Until 1997,when "Mars Polaris" explores again in a wonderfull manner the electronic space music, many of the studio can be easely confused with the light- soundtrack material and are very commercial."Hyperborea" starts very good in my opinion and taste with "No Man's Land",which is energic,deep composed,with not so many distinctive themes and togheter with "Sphinx Lighning" draws the TD lines and melodicity. The other two parts are not anymore reflecting that.The overvolumed percussion really starts to bug me at one point,and the light-themes used in other albums of the 80's (Le Parc;Underwater Sunlight) are clearly noticed.3 stars,although it oscilattes during the tracks between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2. | " |
| " | Ace Frehley is a 1978 solo album from the lead guitarist of American hard rock band Kiss. It was one of four solo albums released by the members of Kiss on September 18, 1978. "New York Groove" rose to #13 on the US Billboard chart, the highest showing for a Kiss single since "Beth" in 1976, until the song "I Was Made For Lovin' You" a year later (#11). The album itself reached #26 on the US Billboard album chart. It was certified Platinum on October 2, 1978, when it sold 1,000,000 copies wikipedia | " |
1. Bad Horsie
2. Juice
3. Die To Live
4. The Boy From Seattle
5. Ya-Yo Gakk
6. Kill The Guy With The Ball/The God Eaters
7. Tender Surrender
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