Cleveland 1986 (Live) - Tangerine Dream

Advantages: One of the best 'electronic' albums ever
Disadvantages: It is somewhat short

...five minutes have gentle subtle harmonies playing with bright synth sounds. I have heard this part used on nature programmes to accompany underwater scenes, which it does splendidly. Finally a lonely mellotron flute sound concludes the album on a sombre note. Overall the music on this album is quite remarkable especially if you consider the equipment available in 1975. Don't expect tunes or simple backing beats as this is more of a free flowing soundscape. It may be only 35 minutes in length, but it is possibly the best 35 minutes of Tangerine Dream's lengthy career and certainly one of the finest electronic albums of the 1970s. Although it is sometimes categorised as such, it is not really "new age" as there are dark eerie moments and not quite "ambient" as there are some lively driving near-rock moments. Highly recommended... Read review

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Advantages: Live TD music
Disadvantages: Only half a concert

...I bought this album about two years ago with some other TD albums. It’s been in my ‘wanted’ list for some time. Unfortunately, after listening to it, I was sadly disappointed. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t as good as I imagined it to be. I have recently listened to this after quite some time. In fact, I think this is only my third time of listening to it. It is supposedly the first release of the so-called "Tangerine Dream Classics Edition", released in 1999, featuring the first part of the Sydney concert. The rest of the concert (Soho Man 2 perhaps) has never, as yet, been released. A bootleg LP version called ‘Leprous Appearance On Wednesday’ appeared in 1984 and was re-released in CD format in 1993, featuring the same part of this concert. When listening to the bootleg, it’s obvious that Soho Man has been altered to obtain better... Read review

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Advantages: Upliftiing double cd full of hits
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...If i could have been to any live performance by any band ever, it would have to be this, the 1986 performance by Queen at Wembley Stadium. It attracted 150,000 people over two nights which, altough overshadowed by their Knebworth Park gig where they played to about 180,000 people in one night, was probably their greatest ever live show. Sure Knebworth had more people, but to play at Wembley must have created an atmosphere never seen at any gig before or since. However, i was only a one year-old at the time so even if i was there i wouldn’t have appreciated it. Therefore, to listen to it on cd is probably as near as i can get to that unforgetable night that will live in music history. This concert was part of the Kind of Magic tour that played to 400,000 people, breaking all previous attendance records. Wembley... Read review

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