Search - Tangerine Dream :: Best of Tangerine Dream: The Pink Years

A Major Dissapointment

James Schulze | 06/21/2000

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Tangerine Dream's early years were deeply innovative and incredibly atmosperic, and as a group they practically invented the Ambient movement before anyone had ever heard of the word. This could have been a great opportunity to showcase this dark and beautiful period, but instead it contains most of the WORST bits of thier early cannon. In addition, one of the strengths of thier early works was thier ability to make 20-25 minute pieces develope and flow over time, and most of the pieces on this album are brief 5 minute excerpts. And the last three pieces are all from "Green Desert," which good as it was, didn't need to take up almost half the album. Finally, why call it "The Pink Years?" These years were DARK. Deeply atmospheric, moody, and ambient. If you want truly the best of Tangerine Dreams early years, the two CD set "Zeit" is the answer."

Not the best compilation for the pink years.

M. Marcon | Wisconsin, USA | 07/30/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I'm a big fan of TD's early chapter but this "best of" album does'nt quite give a good overview of the "pink years". It seems short and feels more like an album of misc. tracks. Although I like the tracks from "green desert" they don't seem like they belong. The first CD of "book of dreams" which features remixed and shorter versions of pink year songs is actually a better listening experience because the tracks flow together really nicely.This album has some diversity to it but it does'nt feature "wahn" which is one of their most unique and powerful tracks from that era. I recommend getting "book of dreams" and "Atem" (1973) and you'll have most of the good tracks from the pink years."