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Please fix Soundtracks

Please reinstate Sountracks and links. Someone seems to have screwed up the entire article. 172.58.146.94 (talk) 11:21, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Origin story inaccuracies

It can be argued (and has, by reknowned TD expert Andy King) that The Ones didn't quite disband so much as reform and rebrand. Edgar founded Tangerine Dream on 29-Sep-1967 and the members of The Ones went with him. Indeed the very first incarnation of TD was basically The Ones but with Edgar leading into different, more surrealist and psychedelic territory. Yes, other members switched out quite rapidly, but the current wording makes it seem like The Ones split completely, with Edgar starting fresh with brand new members. Perhaps this should be rephrased to say that after TD's founding, The Ones was no more, but the members followed Edgar into TD before leaving shortly thereafter.

Another point of contention I have, and perhaps this is the much bigger issue, is that the article claims Tangerine Dream was a misheard lyric from LitSwD. There is a book referenced here, but there are many more interviews and the like where Edgar explains exactly why he deliberately used the word "dream," stating that it was a dream-like vision, and changing it reflected that imagery better and made for a better name. Also, the German baum (tree) is very similar to traum (dream) so there was a hint of wordplay there.

It is known that Edgar gave some joke answers to interviewers after he got tired of being asked this over and over ("I misheard it," "the name has a special meaning that we don't talk about," etc.), but more than once he does explain the change. Unless we can get more concrete support for the "misheard lyric" theory, I will look for references for the other explanation. We may need to say that there are two possible explanations unless enough sourcing can be acquired for baum->traum to establish it as correct. MXVN (talk) 20:16, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]