absolutely awesome album as all of tangerine dreams albums are but ...
588613
absolutely awesome album as all of tangerine dreams albums are but so sad to hear of edgar froese passing,he will be missed
2228010
I LOVE the album BUT---the songs are incorrectly titled in the download! This is REALLY annoying! I love this album, but having not heard it for 30 years, I'm not exactly sure of which track goes where or what its proper name is. UGH.
4439281
This album is truly inspiring and captures the best of Tangerine Dream.
Since the early eighties, the sound and style of Tangerine Dream experienced a major transformation and not a positive one for me.
With Booster, I can enjoy the best from the old and new Tangerine Dream in an innovative album.
As an amateur astronomer, I always bring inspiring space music when observing in the field. This album is a must in every trip.
1408266
It is an awesome album, however, the condition of the CD was very poor... I received the CD with a huge scratch and I cannot listen to the 13th track because it skips like crazy due to the scratch.  I've loved listening the the album and don't want to spend the time/energy/expense sending it back for a replacement.  It's a bummer but I continue listening and just fast forward the bad part of the CD.
3475153
This album was pretty awesome the first time I listened to it, but it really grew on me the more I listened to it. I love the album, but it is still my least favorite of their first 6 albums with Ozzy. True it is their last great album, but I actually like Technical Ecstasy. It's a fun album. Sabotage on the other hand is an awesome album, just slightly under the likes of Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Volume 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

It starts off with the pretty good opener "Hole In the Sky". Not one of their best opening songs, but I still really like it. Then it's suddenly, out of no where, interrupted by an awesome, very short instrumental...

"Don't Start(Too Late)". It's very short which is a shame because it's awesome, in that it's really simple, but perfect.

Then right after that, like that on Master of Realitys "Ebryo" going into "Children of the Grave", Sabotages "Don't Start(Too Late)" leads into the most fast paced kick butt song of the album, "Symptom of the Universe"!! Which has an awesome middle section to it, but leads right back into madness!

"Megalomania" is a 10 minute epic full of great riffs and vocals. At first listen I wasn't big on this song, but after a while I loved it.

"Thrill Of It All" is a pretty awesome song with a really cool riff you would easily expect from Black Sabbath. Great Tune!

Then comes the short epic wonder "Supertzar" which I don't know for sure how to pronounce, but that's ok I love it anyways. It's nice, dark and the choir is a nice creepy touch. It has a very epic sound to it, but IMO epics are usually longer songs ranging over 10 minutes. Gorgeous instrumental!

"The Writ" is a great song as well with some of Ozzys very best vocals and a very beautiful middle section to the song! I might consider this to be my favorite songs on the whole album.

At first I didn't care for "Am I Going Insane(Radio)", but I like it, because it's creepy and campy!

Black Sabbath fans should own this one already! It's a keeper and it rock! I don't consider it their best by any means, but it is still very much worth getting.
3383337
I love every track on this album, but full disclosure, I was a fan of both the album and band before buying this ;)
4870615
This album is a must for any Tangerine Dream lover. Covers a long span of time. Buy any of their albums.
1246059
ok ppl if you don't have it you must buy this album it is incredible the musicians are amazing ...beter than anything i can think of ......

buy it buy it buy it  however their first album only has a few good songs and we are expecting a new one soon
2458722
I have been a fan of Saint Etienne since stumbling on Foxbase Alpha in 1991. I love the quirky, all-too-British sound. It was a true and refreshing alternative to the direction music took in the States, e.g. Nirvana. THIS band truly smells like teen spirit and isn't ashamed. So Tough is my favorite album, but I have had Finisterre for a few days now and I think that it's a close second. It's got some great tunes, folks. I must confess that I'm addicted to "Shower Scene" and I only wish that I still went out to clubs just so I could go out and dance to this song with a frenzied mob.  Anyway, back to the album...
Some here have complained about "Soft Like Me," and I think it's probably the weakest track on the CD.  It just barely fits. Go check out Saint Etienne dot com to hear some longer samples of all the tracks on Finisterre as well as be entertained by an awesome Flash-based website with a talking tube map (be sure to roll over all the stations!). This album might not serve as a great introduction to the uninitiated, but for the fan it is classic Etienne. Supposedly there was a documentary film made with the same title!?! Will we ever see it released on DVD? Hope so! Thanks Sarah, Pete, and Bob for a job well done.
2482320
This would be a truly great album, except for one thing: When you listen  to it, you'll think you're hearing re-makes of songs you already know. This  is the most un-original album I've ever heard. Practically every song  sounds like some other song.
After listening to it for a while, though, I  started to enjoy it more. The one exception is some sissy song about making  the world a better place and everyone getting along or something. Now I  just skip that song.
The music is awesome (it should be - it's copied  from some of the greatest metal bands) and the vocals are excellent as  well. The last song on the album actually compares favorably to something  by Metallica before they turned wimpy (like Creeping Death, etc.)
Iced  Earth absolutely has the potential to be one of the great metal bands, but  they are blowing it by ripping-off everyone else's work. This is very  surprising, because the other Iced Earth albums don't suffer from this  problem. I get the feeling that with "Something Wicked," the band  wants to be something more than what it is, and it shows. They were a  solid, super-heavy, no-nonsense metal band. Now, who knows?
If you're  fairly new to heavy metal, then I highly recommend this album, because you  might not notice all the plagiarism going on. Otherwise, you might be  disappointed.
3238195
This album has some great songs!.....
....ruined by drum machines and crappy instrumentation and arrangements!
One exception is "For My Wedding" which is perhaps my favorite of all Don Henley songs. It's in the Top 5 for sure.

Like I said, this album has some really great lyrics. I sincerely regret that no one said to him, "Don, what the hell are you doing?! You're going to ruin these great songs with a drum machine?!!"

This album would have been great with some songs "unplugged" and others played with a good straightforward band.

I recently played this album again, and frankly I couldn't wait for it to end. The drum machines bug me so much, I want to scream at him! "Why??!! Why??! WHY???!!!!"

Clue: How to ruin a good album: Use a drum machine instead of a drummer!
2912260
I love this album very much.  I originally received the glow-in-the-dark record pressing, but it's since been scratched right at the climax of "pedals", which is my favoured side, though both songs are absolute masterpieces.  Some of Eluviums best work, in my opinion, alongside "Covered in Writing", from Nightmare Ending.  I have since ordered a replacement and await it eagerly.  I will likely be using the glowing record as a wall hanging.
1625527
This is a fantastic album, but the MP3 link takes you to another album entirely, so it's impossible to purchase this album in MP3. Someone should fix this so this great album will be accessible to more people.
2117383
This is basically the first Klaus Schulze album I've heard in its entirety and that's only because I'm in an open-minded mood tonight.  Honestly soundtrack-like, background music isn't my forte at all which explains why I've been hesitating to delve deeper into the world of Klaus Schulze.  I'm willing to make an exception and occasionally listen to some of the prime Klaus Schulze stuff from time to time.  The man is a living legend after all.  He's popular for several reasons, mostly because of his contributions to Tangerine Dream's classic period specifically.

"Bayreuth Return" perfectly captures the feeling of floating through outer space on a spaceship taking notice of all the stars and planets.  While it may seem like a cheesy description I'm giving (and I wouldn't disagree either!) the song itself is quite the opposite- the synths are really beautifully played and enjoyable overall.  Also this is one of the VERY rare occasions when I can say the synths don't sound dated at all.  Amazing sound Klaus established here for sure.  "Wahnfried 1883" is more along the lines of drifting on an empty boat alone and lost with a feeling of hopelessness that someone will ever come and save you, so you spend your days with your head hanging over the boat just watching the waves waiting and praying for anything to come.  That's why the song sounds lonely to me.

It's not often I'll give a Klaus Schulze album a listen, but I suppose whenever I'm in the mood for a mood piece or an unmelodic electronic experience with lightly played synths, Timewind is the album I'd reach for.  Unless Klaus Schulze has other memorable albums as well?  It seems like this album is clearly his most popular work, however.  Truthfully Tangerine Dream strikes me as a significantly more creative and adventurous band with a better variety of instrumentation (except for Atem which is the only 70's work Tangerine Dream has released that has never clicked for me).  I think I'd rather stick with Tangerine Dream's work instead unless, again, Klaus Schulze has albums more interesting than this one.

Again though, Timewind is a decent offering but the lush ambience of the music will probably never click for me so I'll never think of it as a masterpiece like so many others do.
2502591
Love the album, but the vinyl skipped so badly that 'way down we go' was completely unintelligible. I would wait to get the vinyl until they release a monocolor vinyl
3875166
Hi
I love this album and re-purchased it to see if the rest of the remasters were worth getting for the "sonic upgrade". And ...drum roll...the answer is NO! I own the Virgin releases (with most of the bonus tracks from years ago). I a/b'D the older disc and this new remaster with pro-quality headphones and struggled to see what, besides a couple extra tracks, I bought this for! Not really remastered at all! What a ripp off. The other release is years and years old and with todays technology there should be a huge differenece "if" they went back to the masters. I heard from an inside source (from the industry) that this may not have been the case! Why do they do this!? What a missed opportunity. Save your money folks..what a bummer. I did actually luck into a few remasters that Repertoire did a few years back, and they were a decent improvement but the label seemed to have abandoned that project after remastering "future Shock", Double Trouble" and the Ian Gillan Band Budokan" live disc. Weird but true. What a shame....Great album though, and totally worth having but just not for the "remastering" aspect. Music 5 stars remastering 2..averaged to 3 :(
3536291
This album was as wonderful as I had expected. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because there were 2 things that annoyed me on the album.

1. The word Christ was never uttered in any of the songs. They changed all the traditional lyrics that mentioned "Christ" and replaced them with vague references. If they don't want to mention "Christ", perhaps they should go with less religious Christmas carols like "Deck the Halls" or "Here We Go Caroling".

2. I am not the biggest fan of "Wish You Were Here". I was disappointed to see they had included it on this album since it has nothing to do with Christmas. I would have loved to see them include "Greensleeves" instead. That way the song would have fit on the album AND they wouldn't have to mention Christ! :)

Overall, I do highly recommened the album to all, not just Blackmore's Night fans.