Benny Bunter
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Even the big names' stuff is quite patchy, neu for example, with a lot of filler. You could probably boil the whole genre down to maybe 10 great albums at a push?
Very few other artists I can think of with 75 albums, I mean, phew!Even the big names' stuff is quite patchy, neu for example, with a lot of filler.
Any worthwhile krautrock album has three really good tracks on it, and no bad tracks.Haha.
All of the neu albums have only got like three really, really good tracks on them each, which is why I didn't vote for them.
I personally prefer Mooney-era Can ("Are you waiting, for the streetcar") but I'd agree Tago Mago is the culmination and epitome of the "rock" part of krautrockTago Mago still towers over everything else for me when it comes to the more standard rock band set-up end of things.
Haha.
All of the neu albums have only got like three really, really good tracks on them each, which is why I didn't vote for them.
I like the one on neu 75 that sounds like a motorik sex pistols!
Side 2 of the record caused consternation at the time. Neu! had quite simply run out of money to finish recording the album, so the second side consists entirely of their previously released single "Neuschnee/Super", manipulated at various playback speeds on a record player, or mangled in a cassette recorder. Critics at the time dismissed this as a cheap gimmick and a rip-off. While it was indeed an experiment born of desperation and necessity, it was entirely in keeping with Neu's pop art aesthetics, taking a "ready-made" sound object and re-presenting it with a series of stylized manipulations, and also quite in keeping with the way Neu's music deconstructed and pared down the form of rock music. Dinger subsequently pointed to side 2 as being a prototype of the now ubiquitous multiple remixes which typically accompany any pop single release.
Hero I guess. Was the one that blew my mind when I was at university and really got me into all this stuff.I like the one on neu 75 that sounds like a motorik sex pistols!
Listening to the Neu albums again tonight (well flicking through them) and I think I was being very generous here. You could really boil down their whole thing to just three great tracks - Hallogallo, Negativland and Hero. The rest is totally inessential, just more of the same but not as good, or dodgy half-formed experiments. I like Michael Rother with Harmonia though, deluxe is a great albumHaha.
All of the neu albums have only got like three really, really good tracks on them each, which is why I didn't vote for them.
I like the one on neu 75 that sounds like a motorik sex pistols!
I've been listening to the first two tonight as well, sort of. Loads of album space wasted on stupid 'jokes' (presumably?) like that godawful closer on the first one, or the same song played at different speeds on the second one.Listening to the Neu albums again tonight (well flicking through them) and I think I was being very generous here. You could really boil down their whole thing to just three great tracks - Hallogallo, Negativland and Hero. The rest is totally inessential, just more of the same but not as good, or dodgy half-formed experiments. I like Michael Rother with Harmonia though, deluxe is a great album