Rockoon (Special Editon CD Single) [CD-single]

Track Listings

1. Rockoon [Special Radio Edit] - Tangerine Dream

2. Oriental Haze [*] - Tangerine Dream

3. Interview [Indexed] - Edgar Froese

Rockoon (Special Editon CD Single),Tangerine Dream,Miramar [Dead],Electronic,Popular Music,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Rock

Tracks:

Big City Dwarves
Red Roadster
Touchwood
Graffiti Street
Funky Atlanta
Spanish Love
Lifted Veil
Penguin Reference
Body Corporate
Rockoon
Girls on Broadway

Customer Reviews:

The Froese family.......2007-06-26

Well, it's 1992 and TD has been reduced to a duo once again. Paul Haslinger was forced to leave the band when his home country of Austria tried to draft him. Since military service was compulsory for all Austrian males, Paul fled to the good 'ol USA to embark on a very prolific solo career (mostly doing soundtrack work).

Nevertheless, TD carried on as father and son (Jerome Froese is Edgar's son for those of you not "in the know"). Jerome, having been marginally involved in the band since 1989 and then becoming a full-fledged member in 1990, had proven that he was a capable and talented musician in his own right (how could he NOT be?).

Rockoon definitely reflects Jerome's influence. Many of the tracks are rife with heavy, distorted electric guitars (frequent TD guest guitarist Zlatko Perica can also be heard on some of the songs) and convey more of a hard-rock, if not heavy metal, sound. The result is a new direction and a new sound that one would not easily identify as coming from Tangerine Dream.

Does the new sound work? Yes and no. Songs like "Big City Dwarves" (where do they get these titles from?!?!?), Funky Atlanta and Grafitti Street are deft compositions with some excellent guitar and keyboard work, but the rest of the album seems to lack any passion.

Is it enjoyable? Again, yes and no. Depending on your tastes as well as your loyalty to the band, I'm sure you will be torn on this album. It is definitely something different, which is what Tangerine Dream has always been about. I'm sure the band gained a new fan base with this album and I'm sure they lost a few long-time fans as well.

Was it worth it? Give this album a spin and decide for yourself...

Average customer rating:

OH COME ON! "Rockoon" is a great album.
The best 90's TD CD... whatever others say....
The birth of a monster
I've heard worse, but...
A fairly decent album.

Rockoon
Tangerine Dream
Manufacturer: Miramar
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tyranny of Beauty
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ASIN: B000003IMH
Release Date: 1995-01-24

Tracks:

Big City Dwarves
Red Roadster
Touchwood
Graffiti Street
Funky Atlanta
Spanish Love
Lifted Veil
Penguin Reference
Body Corporate
Rockoon
Girls On Broadway

Customer Reviews:

OH COME ON! "Rockoon" is a great album........2006-09-09

I am appalled at the really scathing reviews that "Rockoon" has been getting. While certainly not on the heights of 1988's "Optical Race", I really find it to be a really enjoyable treat for the ears then again it's because I can eat up a wide variety of styles.

The album has a very rock-oritented dance sound especially with the title track but also has some very unusual New Age grooves such as "Penguin Reference" as well as the eerie "Lifted Veil". Though I can't say that it's essential, "Rockoon" is certainly better than what it's given credit for!

The best 90's TD CD... whatever others say...........2002-11-18

Sometimes people just don't simply understand music bands evolves the same way life, technology and other things. Someone is saying, 'why waist your money on this CD if this band has produced about 40 previous records?'... Tell me something, why people like modern music instead of some hundred years of classical mussic? simply, because everything evolves and we can't force our brains to like something that appears to be 'aged out', even if this was 'art' or 'glory' some year before...
TD didn't make any mistake producing Rockoon. They evolved their style and actually you can find this album was one of their finest production. Listen to Optical Race and Lily on the Beach and Melrose. These four albums including Rockoon have a very similar style, but I really like this album and it is the best in it's class.
Of course, new times are coming, so they can give us new inspiration with their brilliant music.

The birth of a monster.......2002-01-18

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.

I've heard worse, but..........2000-11-28

...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.

A fairly decent album........2000-04-20

Rockoon is a fairly decent album from Tangerine Dream. I've had this disc for a few years. I admit that I don't listen to it that often though. The production and musicianship are very good, but I find that a lot of the songwriting just isn't that captivating--that doesn't mean that most of the songs are bad though. The songs that I like the most are "Big City Dwarves," "Touchwood," and "Girls on Broadway." I've only got a handful of releases from Tangerine Dream. I pretty much lost interest in them a while back because I felt that they tended to be repetitious. This isn't a favorite of mine, but it still has some good moments. Rockoon is worth a listen.

Average customer rating:

Rockoon
T-Square
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005Q8DC
Release Date: 2001-10-24

Album Details

Dsd Digitally Remastered Japanese Version in an LP Style Slipcase.

Average customer rating:

Rockoon
Tangerine Dream
Manufacturer: Castle Music UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000024N2E
Release Date: 1996-03-10

Tracks:

Big City Dwarves
Red Roadster
Touchwood
Graffiti Street
Funky Atlanta
Spanish Love
Lifted Veil
Penguin Reference
Body Corporate
Rockoon
Girls on Broadway

Average customer rating:

Rockoon
T-Square
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Q8D5
Release Date: 2001-11-14

Tracks:

Rockoon
Really Love
Tomorrow's Affair
Banana
Way I Feel
Little Pop Sugar
Come Back
It's Happening Again
Good Night

Album Details

DSD digitally remastered Japanese version.

Average customer rating:

Rockoon
Tangerine Dream
Manufacturer: Tangerine Dream Intl
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00003ZA64
Release Date: 2003-01-01

Tracks:

Big City Dwarves
Red Roadster
Touchwood
Graffiti Street
Funky Atlanta
Spanish Love
Lifted Veil
Penguin Reference
Body Corporate
Rockoon
Girls on Broadway

Average customer rating:

Rockoon (Special Editon CD Single)
Tangerine Dream
Manufacturer: Miramar [Dead]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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General | New Age | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00000DEE2
Release Date: 1992-08-05

Tracks:

Rockoon [Special Radio Edit] - Tangerine Dream
Oriental Haze [*] - Tangerine Dream
Interview [Indexed] - Edgar Froese

Average customer rating:

Froese/Froese era stumbles out of the gate
Tangerine Dreamýs darkest hour?
Weak album from the early 90s period.
My first Tangerine Dream CD.

Rockoon
Tangerine Dream
Manufacturer: Castle - Old Numbers
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music

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ASIN: B00004TCP9
Release Date: 2000-06-20

Tracks:

Big City Dwarves
Red Roadster
Touchwood
Graffiti Street
Funky Atlanta
Spanish Love
Lifted Veil
Penguin Reference
Body Corporate
Rockoon
Girls on Broadway

Customer Reviews:

Froese/Froese era stumbles out of the gate.......2001-09-22

The only reason this album hasn't disappeared into the dust bin of prog rock history is the name of the band that made it. Paired down to the father/son duo of founder, visionary Edgar Froese, and Jerome Froese, Tangerine Dream released this album, much to the dismay of longtime Tangerine Dream fans. Gone are the long, sequencer driven masterpieces, replaced with shorter pieces emphasizing the electric guitar. The backing rhythms would fit in well on any upbeat New Age album, which says enough. Sadly, this effort garnered the band its first Grammy nomination. This promted Edgar Froese to praise whoever it is who gives these awards for finally recognizing "intelligent" music. It never dawned on him that the Grammy people hadn't raised their standards. Despite the overall blandness, "Rockoon" still has its moments. The anthemic title track is fun, while the sublime "Girls on Broadway" is also nice. Overall however, it is a complete disappointment,especially when compared to what the band was capable of with former members aboard. Since however, Amazon won't let me give this album the 2 1/2 (read : mediocre) stars it so richly deserves, I hereby award an extra 1/2 star for the title of Track 8.

Tangerine Dreamýs darkest hour?.......2000-08-09

Periodically during their thirty-odd year history, Tangerine Dream have found themselves at one musical crossroads or another, usually as a result of a change of personnel. When Paul Hasslinger left in 1990, the remaining father and son team of Edgar and Jerome Froese chose to continue the group's musical development by finally abondoning their purely electronic and experimental musical roots, by drawing other musicians into the group on an informal basis, and by producing music much closer to traditional rock in both its outlook and makeup. Their early results, in the form of the album "Rockoon" did much to lose them most of their traditional following! (It is probably no coincidence that TD's official fan club disbanded round about the time of its release!) 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.

While still undeniably Tangerine Dream, this disc moves their sound world well away from the experimental music scene of the 70s and firmly into the acid house world of the 90s. Perhaps less of a crossroads and more a dead end? Only time will tell...

Only buy this disc if you're a fan of mid- to late-90s Tangerine Dream and want more of the same, or if you're a die-hard collector!

Weak album from the early 90s period........2000-06-29

Tangerine Dream's strength lies -IMHO- in the interaction between the various band members and the compromise that results. Jerome Froese (son of Edgar Froese, founder and still member of the band), being new to the band, wasn't enough of a force to "oppose" to Edgar's direction, and the result is clearly Edgar being the primary contributor to this album.

Due to this, "Rockoon" is a somewhat weak album, with few memorable moments - it tries (IMHO, unsuccesfully) to have a rockish feel, but doesn't quite achieve it.

Compared to other albums with the same lineup ("Turn of the Tides" and "Tyranny of Beauty") this album comes somewhat behind. I'd recommend buying TotT and ToB first, THEN come back to check out Rockoon.

My first Tangerine Dream CD........2000-06-21

This was the CD that got me hooked on Tangerine Dream about eight years ago. One of the first albums by the line-up of Edgar and Jerome, this CD has more of a jazz-like feel to it than most of TD's earlier albums. The mix of songs and the instrumentation is varied and upbeat. The use of guitar, both electric and 12 string, saxophone, and synthesizer works very well. Songs like Touchwood and Spanish Love stand out, and are balanced very well with Penguin Reference and Lifted Veil.