Best Neu! Album

definitely not the neuest one.

oh boy.

aren't 4/'72/'86 all the same or something?

It's got to be the debut for me, both 2 and '75 have high quality side 1s, but the 2nd halves I just end up skipping.

That said, if they had released the first sides of 2 and '75 as one record, that might be better than the debut but now we're wandering off into pointless fantasy conjecture.

4 was unfinished and was released in an attempt to beat the boots. It was revised and reissued in 2010 as '86. There are differences.
'72 is some bad n' weird rehearsal recording.

nah - 2 for me all the way

I feel like 2 has the best track ("Fur Immer") but '75 has the least amount of bad songs

I like '75 most of all, after two-and-a-half albums of instrumental music, to hear Dinger start screaming on "Hero", just the best. I mean vox are not what make Neu! good but it makes for a brilliant climax imo

Never heard '72 but I like 4 and/or '86 a lot

I had Neu 86 in the car, the family found it and put it on, and liked it immensely.

I had a Neu! search kick last year, and I have the two UA singles.

Two? My sister bought "Super/Neuschnee" single when it came out, so I grew up with it!

(It was a bit like "The Faust Tapes", in that it was originally sold at a reduced price, so there used to be a lot secondhand copies around, certainly in Glasgow)

(Never thought about it before but 14-year old schoolgirls had appear to have had different tastes in 1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au8cCvGk9eU

http://images.45cat.com/neu-isi-united-artists.jpg

Edited versions of Isi and After Eight

Also, Connie Plank

it's got to be the debut. weissensee is my all-time fave and the other tracks are almost as strong.

i think 75 is going to take this. has this really not been polled before? wow

The debut.

neu were as good as 'rock' or whatever ever got

theres scarcely much reason to rank the main lps when there are only three and each of them is necessary to understand what they were trying to do, its not like sonic youth or the beatles &c

75 is the lp ive probably played the most

Their debut, hands down. Mostly because it is the one that doesn't sound as dated. There are parts from their third album which I cannot listen to anymore. Their second is very good, as well, but I felt their more ambient passages weren't to my liking. I prefer other ambient pieces of and around that time.

I still listen to the first one a lot

I like where they went with La Dusseldorf and Harmonia/Rother-solo more than '75, but when I see that unhinged clip of WDR footage of them playing 'Hero' live, I can't help but hope the whole concert is in the can somewhere waiting to come out

75/La-D/Deluxe is an amazing pseudo-trilogy. Never got much into Rother solo outside of the first album, what's good?

the first four are produced by Conny with Jaki Liebezeit on drums, and I like them all (though it took a few spins). then he replaces the guitars & drums with Fairlight presets and things immediately become terrifying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_4Fms-PqHM

Debut is astonishing. Need to hear other 2 properly before voting. Weissensee was pretty much my inner soundtrack this summer

prediction: chronological order prevails.

Second half of 2 is vastly underrated and anticipates Super Roots 6 among other things.

And Fur Immer is p much the best thing ever, so that.

Wow, never heard that Michael Rother "Katzenmusik" track before. I really dig it.

I may be a "Weissensee" guy myself, some of my favorite guitar playing ever on that song.

Solo Rother is beyond urgent. I would say start with Flammende Herzen.

hm, kinda torn between the first two. i tend to listen the first one more often, tho.

75 for me. It's the one that works best as a complete album. I don't need much off the first two after Hallogallo/Fur Immer.

75

Another 75 backer

iirc "Negativland" got lots of upvotes on a Neu! poll/discussion and it made me re-evaluate the non-Hallogallo tracks on that record. Great record! Everything is great about these records. Jeez

It took me so long to get my head around the non-Hallogallo tracks when I first heard that record years back, but when they clicked they reaaally clicked. I still pull out 75 the most and think it's the most satisfying listen, but I wish they'd done more stuff like Negativland for sure.

the ambient tracks on 1 are by far the most satisfying ambient tracks neu did imo.

i'm voting for one. i've still never heard anything like that album. it is soo weird and beautiful. there was a time i would vote for 75, i would still vote for it if i was posting on the road with it blasting out of my 97 kia sephia speakers somewhere in nevada 10 years ago.

hero is indeed amazing

prediction: chronological order prevails.

― chromecassettes, viernes 13 de septiembre de 2013 12:24 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd love this to be true as it is my actual ranking for them.

Talk of "Hero" means an obligatory post of this clip. Surely WDR has more footage of this show?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuBCfvMrBA

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

chronological order call is insane. 75 will beat 2 by about 20 votes

voted neu! after giving 75 and fur immer listens. it's subtler, more psychedelic, more refined and more synaesthetically redolent of summer and its hopes, IMO

Based on the RYM scores the actual ranking would be:

Neu 75 > Neu! > Neu! 2 > 4 > 86 > 72 Live

first is by far the best album here.

1972!!!!!!!

something was in the water in germany 69-74

1960-1970

god it would be fun to do a poll in the chronological stylee of shakey's vu solo member poll with selected krautrock artists, i'm thinking kraftwerk, neu, can, ash ra at a minimum

god it would be fun to do a poll in the chronological stylee of shakey's vu solo member poll with selected krautrock artists, i'm thinking kraftwerk, neu, can, ash ra at a minimum

― Very gud laser controled organ. (Matt P), sábado 21 de septiembre de 2013 9:11 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post

If it's 70-75:

Faust IV
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Amon Duul - Yeti
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Harmonia - Deluxe
Ash Ra Tempel
Gottsching - Inventions for electric guitar
Embryo - Steig Aus
Popol Vuh - In Der Garten
Neu!
Can's Tago and Ege
Gila
Wegmullet - Tarot
Twenty Sixty Six and Then - Reflections on the Future

Are eligible. This being ILM Can would have an unfair advantage.

yeah! limit by years is a good idea.

Neu! fans be sure to check out Master Of The Flying Guillotine!

Twenty Sixty Six and Then - Reflections on the Future

What's this?

This being ILM Can would have an unfair advantage.

No, I think it's more the fact that they were really really good

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there's a website on the interent called discogs.com

LOL, what a dick

Anyway, not sure what to vote here. '75 is the most consistent but 2 contains probably my three favourite Neu tracks... but not much else... also it was the first one I heard/saw. I suppose it'll have to be 2.

LOL, what a dick

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Saturday, September 21, 2013 2:07 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i may be a dick but i thank god every day i'm not a fucking moron

Well that's something at least, well done there, pleased for you

*reflects on past appearances of tom d.* oh i don't give a shit you never have an interesting opinion or way of expressing your boring ones. what the hell are you doing on a neu poll anyway, shouldn't you be farting about blur or something

step away from das lagerbier matt p

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Who is this Matt P person, is he a neubie? Two votes for '86!

It's a fine album!

interesting results. This thread had a bit of a funny turn though didn't it.

It started off being quite straightforward, then had an argument with itself and reversed up and slowed down, then went past in a flash, and finished reasonably together again.

Yes, this thread/poll was Neu2.