Tangerine Dream - Catch Me If You Can

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Another old TD soundtrack had been made available on CD in 1994. The story of the US film, directed by Stephen Sommers in 1989, does not seem very extraordinary: it deals with the well known subject of man and woman, cars and money… As stated on the CD insert, this album was prepared without the musical authorisation of TD. This resulted in a large number of very short music tracks.

Well, it's the late '80s and Tangerine Dream are cranking out soundtracks at the rate of about one every 3 weeks (I exaggerate, but you get the idea). This soundtrack lacks any real heart with most of the compositions sounding quite repetitive. The music has an almost '50s feel to it, although some tracks are quite modern and a scant few show traces of a brilliant Tangerine Dream. Overall, this is probably their 2nd weakest soundtrack (Heartbreakers would be their absolute weakest in my opinion). It sounds like the band threw this one together in just a couple of hours and spent another couple of hours recording it. This is one of TD's weakest attempts to make a soundtrack. And this one really stands out from the rest with it's repetitive tracks, which to me, feels so lifeless and dull. There isn't really a song on this disc that captures your ears wanting you to hear more. It is sad but true. With this said, there are however a few songs that probably suits well for the kind of film it was/is, but I can't comment on this since I havn't seen it yet. But from what I've heard on this disc I'm not really in awe, and there is nothing that inspires me at all to have a few more listens. Buy it only if you are a Die-Hard TD fan that simply must have every output by TD no matter what it cost or sound.