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I am a FANATIC about Amon Duul II, but I haven't heard a lot of other Krautrock. If you had to pick one album, which one kicks the largest butt?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

The Faust Tapes!

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Faust Tapes for me

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Ege Bamyasi. it was my gateway drug.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

but Deluxe is way way up there too.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Just listen to Yeti again, Orbit!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Neu!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

I'll sell you my copy of Echo by A.R. & Machines for 200 bucks!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Haha! I listen to Yeti a million times and I NEVER tire of it. It's like Sundial's Acid Yantra.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

and i never tire of wolf city! it is my wolfy bible.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

i'm gonna have to go for yeti.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Can - Future Days

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Neu!

this was way hard!

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

I'll have to go with Tanz Der Lemminge.

Yeti and the first Ash Ra Tempel album come VERY close seconds...

very close thirds: Kraftwerk, Kanguru, and Neu! 75

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Future Days

Faust So Far

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Damn. I pick Amon Duul's "Paradieswarts Duul". But Yeti runs a close second.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

i think monster movie is my current fave

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

but also tago mago, deluxe, neu!, yeti, tanz..., faust's first three albums

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Tago Mago with Neu! a close second.

― Ds (ikue mori), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Ege Bamyasi

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Cannibalism!

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

Only picking one Krautrock album is insane. That's like asking me to only pick one British album.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

More like asking you to pick one britpop album.

The one I've played most in the past year has been Embryo's Steig Aus.
I'm not sure if it's my favorite, as I love it half the time, and find it lame and annoying the other half. That makes those good listens extra special though! It's practically kozmigroov at times!

― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Surely a much more diverse range of music falls under the banner of Krautrock than Britpop.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Tago Mago.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

"Das Hoheleid Salomos", easy.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

Neu! 75....just beats Tago/Ege/MM/Future.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Neu! 75

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

it's gotta be the 1st faust

― phil turnbull (philT), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

I guess it started with the Kraftwerk double album.

Naturally, I had "Autobahn" first, but the above would be the starting point for me.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

Can Soundtracks, closely followed by Neu! 75

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

"Neu! 75" or "ege bamyasi".

I really need to check some Amon Duul out.

― Ellis, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Me too, where do we start?

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Neu 75 w/ Tago Mago a close second

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Wolf City may be my favorite AD2 album, but I guess I won't know until i get my own copy. Ege Bamyasi.
Phallus Dei was my introduction to Amon Duul 2, sometimes I like it more than Yeti, althogh it does not have "archangels thunderbird" which is the best song ever, of course.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Future Days

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Tarot

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Golem

― evorggniohce (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

we fight about this all the time.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Four come to mind: Yeti, Letzte Tage Letzte Nachte (Popol Vuh), Musik Von Harmonia, and Lord Krishna Von Goloka (Sergius Golowin). But I guess the point is to choose one so...Yeti wins!

― Joel (aquabahn), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi and Zuckerzeit close behind.

― - (smile), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Ah looks like ILx is starting to work again. I realized part of my Amon Duul post would be more appropriate here. I was mentioning Cope's entertaining yet frustrating Krautrocksampler book. I really wish he made his top 50 list in order of preference rather than alphabetical. Occasionally he would make a solid statement, like, "this is my favorite Can album" (Ege Bamyasi). I made a top 13 of Cope's picks, gauging them by the amount of hyperbole he spewed.

1 Ash Ra Tempel
2 La Dusseldorf
3 Neu! 75
4 Can - Ege Bamyasi
5 Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
6 Neu!
7 Amon Duul II - Yeti
8 Popol Vuh - In den Garten Pharoas
9 Harmonia - Deluxe
10 Tangerine Dream - Zeit
11 Cluster - Zuckerzeit
12 Can - Tago Mago
13 Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri

I need to check to see if there have been any exceptional remasters of any of the above other than Can, Neu! and Amon Duul II. Anyone know?

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Saturday, 2 September 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

there have been some popol vuh remaster/reissues, i believe-- i have a 2005 bonus tracks version of 'coeur de verre' but id have to go find it to see if it was actually remastered. also i'm pretty skeptical of the chances of seeing a la dsseldorf remaster any tim ein the near future

― nervous (cochere), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

all of popol vuh is remastered and essential for the most part. la dusseldorf was remastered too, i think last year, but are german imports only (on warner music group germany). they look and sound great though, i have the first 2

― señor citizen (eman), Saturday, 2 September 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

the vuh reissues don't sound very remastered to me.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 3 September 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah IIRC some of those Vuh 'remasters' are from the vinyl.

― robert in SLC (robert in SLC), Sunday, 3 September 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

Look Can were so far above "Krautrock", let's put them in a category to themselves and not connect them with said genre. Instead let's nominate Cluster. Thanks.

― Joker! Hysterical! Face! (Bimble...), Sunday, 3 September 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

Man I missed ILM the few days it was down. There isn't any other forum I know of that would have given such useful responses. Thanks for the warning of the Popol Vuh, and the heads-up on the German La Dusseldorf reissues. Some were listed at places like Gemm and Amazon for over $35, but I found them for only $20 each at Wayside Music. I'm also picking up Cluster '71.

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Sunday, 3 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Scorpions

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

krautacidfolk:
kalacakra - crawling to lhasa
witthuser & westrupp - trips und traume

also, check out the agitation free records.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 3 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah IIRC some of those Vuh 'remasters' are from the vinyl.

i think the case might be that the few that sound like that (aguirre, for example was never an official release anyway) are because the master tapes are lost. the reissues sound great to me, remastered or not.

― señor citizen (eman), Sunday, 3 September 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Are the remastered Faust and So Far much improved on the previous two-fer?

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Sunday, 3 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

future days, immed followed by Neu!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

if i had to do a loose top 10, i would say ...

1. harmonia "musik von"
2. cluster "zuckerzeit"
3. cluster "71"
4. the solo gottsching stuff ("new age of earth" / "blackouts" / "e2-e4")
5. can ("tago mago" / "ege bamyasi" / "future days")
6. neu!
7. tangerine dream ("alpha centauri" / "atem" / "zeit")
8. kraftwerk "1" + "2"
9. klaus schulze "picture music"
10. the cluster/eno stuff

i think i am more into the "kosmische" thing ... i don't really care for the "hairier" / "folkier" end of the krautrock spectrum ... i'd rather listen to hawkwind or sunroof! than harvester or faust.

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

harvester were swedish and by definition not krautrock.

but seriously though, have you heard anna sjalv tredje? there were some kosmische swedes.

― GOD PUNCH TO SNIFF COUGH ETIQUETTE BREACH (yournullfame), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

neu! 75.

― genital hyphys (haitch), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

haha, I just tried to think of a POX and it is impossible. IMPOSSIBLE. but I will say that Ege Bamyasi and Deluxe are 1-2. after that its a fools game. hundreds of wonderful records.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

Tago Mago

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

actually I just reread this thread and I see that I made the same picks originally! for some reason I didn't think I had posted to this thread (and hadn't reread it before posting just now). It's satisfying to know that all the alcohol over the last year has not, at the least, dulled these truths..

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

End of Summer Haiku:
Sitting on the beach
Cold grey sky pissing on me
At least there's Krautrock

There's biscuits to be found, such as a Krautrocksampler.zip (436 MB)

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Crap, I meant to link to my MOG blog, not the other one.

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Just to be totally contrary I'm going to pick the first Cosmic Jokers record (which probably isn't even that contrary just no one else on this thread has put it up.) Truthfully it could be any of a dozen or so records though if you asked me on any given day.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Holy shit, Echo by A.R. Machines is really, really good. When I first started listening to old krautrock stuff I mainly just used Julian Cope's Krautrocksampler as a starting point, and I've been happy working my way through his list for the last half decade or so. A.R. & Machines wasn't anywhere on the list, buthis fellating review of Echo confirms that he simply wasn't familiar with them at the time of publication.

And what an inner world this album is. Over four sides of vinyl, Reichel created a vast parallel otherworld which allowed listeners to sink so deep within themselves that the return to the real world at the end of side 4 always came as a genuine shock. Even more so than Walter Wegmuller’s Tarot, which allows the listener to rove from emotion to emotion, Echo operates on such a singular level that listeners actually start to feel inhabited by this record.

This has vaulted out of nowhere into my top two or three krautrock albums.

― Z S, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

Anyhow, Neu! 75 is still the correct answer to this.

― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

*plop*

just dropping by to say i would vote for deluxe by harmonia

― the stickup man from the gripping "wire" television show (omar little), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ocnFjmbLL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― the HOOS from the hilarious internet connection (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

or Future Days, obv

― the HOOS from the hilarious internet connection (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

A.R. & Machines wasn't anywhere on the list

i think they were pretty much under the radar, for some reason, but the freeman brothers (crack in the cosmic egg) had a handful of albums on their top 100 krautrock list. when i first got a.r. stuff i really couldn't believe he wasn't more hyped.

― Manclusion (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 18 December 2008 02:38 (sixteen years ago)

oh and the only thing you could get for a long time was a really poorly picked anthology.

― Manclusion (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 18 December 2008 02:39 (sixteen years ago)

ZS, achim rachel's 'die grune reise' is really good too. the songs are shorter, and there are more of them, but they get to the same places

― kamerad, Thursday, 18 December 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago)

there should be more AGITATION FREE on this thread

― kamerad, Thursday, 18 December 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

just picked up "die grune reise" ... it's good, but i'm not quite blown away.

― the late great, Sunday, 6 September 2015 23:12 (ten years ago)

i think i need to hear "echo" though

― the late great, Sunday, 6 September 2015 23:13 (ten years ago)

also my POO choice would be "musik von harmonia"

― the late great, Sunday, 6 September 2015 23:15 (ten years ago)

Sowiesoso

― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 September 2015 00:57 (ten years ago)

Deluxe in 2nd place

― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 September 2015 00:57 (ten years ago)

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