Can: Tago Mago (1971) ***** 5 FUCKING STARS
years without can = years with
less brilliance
less intensity
less freakishness
less - great fucking music!!
"paperhouse" - one of my fav songs...the feeling approaches...dimly lit nightclub...the band starts and the music flows through the room...disparate notes dance and weave amongst the revellers...damo is dancing maniacally...
"mushroom" - this has an air of eerieness...spookiness...damo spits out his words...because he has to...it is a part of him...feel the band getting into tune with each other...i am mushroom head...you are mushroom head...we are all mushroom head....
"oh yeah" - the end is near...the mushroom blows up...it is time to take stock...
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Guru Guru have become one of my fav krautrock bands. These guys were fucking ON baby!! Got me motivated to do a top 10 list
Top 10 Krautrock bands
[aside: i know it's an obvious list...im a slow starter to krautrock but am devouring and electromagnetizing my brain to the krautrock way!]
1. Can - my favs
2. Ash Ra Tempel - just got a hold of the private tapes and i'm hoping for some major brain cell ping pong
3. Faust - listening to faust always makes an improvement to my day
4. Amon Duul I - better watch out for the gurus
5. Guru Guru - moving up fast
6. Agitation Free - malesch and 2nd flow floatingly flotsam and jetsam spew like chatter...um...excellent! Check them out in Egypt 1972!! Awesome!! drugs are a good thing!
7. Embryo - the more i hear the more i hear and the more i love...steig aus is yet unheard and may move them up...look out agitation!
8. Neu! - excellent shit
9. Brainticket - one of my first krautrock listens and still a fav
10. Amon Duul II - yeh yeh yeh less experimental than I but it aint no britney fucking paris spears either or ron sexsmith!!
10. Cosmic Jokers - i side with mr. cope on these guys! fantastic!
[- tie for 10th
had to get the
motherfucking
jokers on there!]
outside the list
still on the
dissecting table
Popol Vuh - listened to the classics once and ready for another go round...very impressive so far
Dom - gotta hear edge of time one more time
Sergius Golowin - cool cover...freak! thats a good thing
German Oak - got it yesterday and the cover looks cool, dark, foreboding and...well, we shall see.
outside the list
just not there
for me...yet?
Kraftwerk - i like the first best
Cluster - what? its over already? what the hell just happened?
Harmonia - is clusters sister
special mention
Walter Wegmuller - love tarot but gotta have more than one to make the list
Tony Conrad - outside dream syndicate with faust is faustastic!!
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weird but interesting times
which seems to correspond
to the music i listen to...lately
the experimental, the avante-garde
unearthing delights
new sounds to pentrate the ear lobes
yet sometimes...
cranking it up
still does the trick!
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Krautrock links
Krautrock - tons of krautrock links and also band links
Cosmic Dreams at Play - tons of info on tons of bands under the umbrella of "German Progressive and Electronic Rock" from the 60s and 70s...ill be checking this one often!
Krautrockgroup - a database of krautrock bands and albums...looks good.
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