KRAUTROCK POLL

YOUR THREE FAVOURITE KRAUTROCK BANDS ARE?

  • Neu!

  • Faust

  • Kraftwerk

  • CAN

  • Cluster

  • Harmonia

  • Amón Duul II

  • Ash Ra Temple

  • Popol Vuh

  • Tangerine Dream


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Benny Bunter

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La Dusseldorf weren't bad but again it's just more of the same only not quite as good. I'm convinced that all you need are those three songs I mentioned
 

william_kent

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@william_kent why did you delete those posts? They were good.

I'm drunk, thought I'd regret them in the morning.. but here goes for posterity, what i can remember posting then deleting:

present day Faust, a joke of a band, like expecting to go and see Goblin and witnessing the crew who did Suspiria soundtrack and then realising it's the guy who shook a tambourine for 5 seconds on the seminal recording with a bunch of hair metal dudes.. shitting on the corpse of a once great band once capable of marvels like this proto breaks masterpiece from 1972:


Faust - We Are The Hollow Men

In their heyday, out McClarened Malcolm in ripping off the record companies

the other post I deleted was basically: "Krautrock" is a name I hate, seems racist to me, no one would tolerate calling Magma or Heldon "frog rock" - I just call it german rock or more generally "euro rock'

the poll: I can't bring myself to vote because every band has soiled its legacy, but if I were then Popol Vuh ( or more properly, Florian Fricke ) is the one I'd go for, because he taps into an objective cosmic current in a more consistent manner than any of the others, despite a misguided abomination of an album in the 90s, ( "for you and me"), which he managed to redeem by "Messa Di Orfeo", before dropping dead.. but the others operate on a sliding scale of brilliance to shit that ranges from 1970 to 1980, and they've all shat on their rotting corpse in some manner...

( @Benny B : is that close to what i deleted? )
 

Benny Bunter

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Yeah, I think so, sorry for making you type all that out again when you're all drunk and melancholy!

I'll have to check Popol Vuh out properly.
 

william_kent

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Yeah, I think so, sorry for making you type all that out again when you're all drunk and melancholy!

I'll have to check Popol Vuh out properly.

i forgot to mention that my love of Popol Vuh is, maybe, related to watching the sun rising after a night of consuming "sacraments" ( LSD. psilocybin, etc. ) - it all makes sense with the right soundtrack and chemistry
 

Benny Bunter

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Had Hosianna Mantra on earlier, quite nice, reminded me a bit of Talk Talk somehow, but got bored after 3 tracks. Got Affendtunde on now - this is more like it! Electronics and mad percussion.

I'm actually having a bit of deja vu from the tangerine dream thread a few weeks ago when I was listening to Phaedra for the first time. Every now and then on a saturday night in with a bottle of wine I pine for this stuff, but it's always hard to find stuff that really hits the spot.
 

william_kent

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Had Hosianna Mantra on earlier, quite nice,reminded me a bit of Talk Talk somehow, but got bored after 3 tracks. Got Affendtunde on now - this is more like it! Electronicsa and mad percussion.

I'm actually having a bit of deja vu from the tangerine dream thread a few weeks ago when I was listening to Phaedra for the first time. Every now and then on a saturday night in with a bottle of wine I pine for this stuff, but it's always hard to find stuff that really hits the spot.

Hosianna Mantra is a weed album, I can't pick out a single track, you've just got to mong out and let it flow over you
 

william_kent

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confession time: I'm drunk enough to admit that I bought the expensive Faust "1971 - 1974" vinyl boxset when it came out came out last year ( prescient as it goes for silly discogs prices now ) on the strength of the 3 "unreleased" LPs that were bundled in

only listened to one of them, when drunk, fell asleep somewhere along the line, but "experimental"

going to have a crack at the legendary "Punkt" LP now ( previously unreleased ), may type something about it if I'm still conscious in 45 minutes..

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william_kent

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running commentary on the Faust 'punkt." LP ( first impressions, etc., ):

side a, track 1, is pretty much the 'we are the hollow men" drum beat I posted above but with added unchanging bass figure with overlaid psychedelic gtr noodling, minimal & different processed vocals, no chant / minus the teutonic rap - Ok, I suppose, but I prefer the "Hollow Man" chant to be honest 4/10

side a, track 2: total filler, 'studio experiment" ( aka I could have done this, but I would have deleted the file, etc., ) - not bothered if I ever hear again.. 0/10

side a, track 3: Viking conch melody ( as in the Kirk Douglas film version from the 1960s film ), motorik drum beat, sort of sounds familiar, features "dynamics" ( the engineer is slowly pushing up the gain slider ), shades of Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" album, which is endearing me to it...could do with Wyatt whining over the top but I'll give it 6 or maybe 6.5 /10 ( if I had to do this again, I'll just stick the Robert Wyatt album on, cut to the chase )

not exactly gearing me up for side 2, I've had enough, going to listen to some rocksteady now
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
La Dusseldorf weren't bad but again it's just more of the same only not quite as good. I'm convinced that all you need are those three songs I mentioned
I always think that La Dusseldorf are kinda cheesy, I remember my friend saying they were like Neu! crossed with Meatloaf which kinda makes sense to me although some of their tracks have grown on me a bit since then.
 

william_kent

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I always think that La Dusseldorf are kinda cheesy, I remember my friend saying they were like Neu! crossed with Meatloaf which kinda makes sense to me although some of their tracks have grown on me a bit since then.

I was disappointed when I first heard La Düsseldorf, Julian Cope raved about them, but I could only hear the "Glitter Beat" and you know what that has connatatons of...

didn't stop me posting a tune in the 'motorik" thread, but whatever
 

DLaurent

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From Wiki.

Some fans of Faust's earlier work felt that it was a "sell-out" album, for suggested reasons including more "palatable" songs such as The Sad Skinhead and Jennifer which are today praised as some of the band's best lyrical work.

It's funny, they're the two tracks I go back to most often by Faust. Along with It's a Rainy Day. You could say Post rock before it existed if that way inclined.
 

Benny Bunter

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I once saw a picture of a member of Faust in a magazine or something, might have been him, playing what I think was a double necked bass looking like the ultimate hippy crusty of all time and it prejudiced me against them ever since. Can't find the picture now but it was horrendous, like a member of the ozric tentacles or something. They may well have some good tunes for all I know
 
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