Screaming Lord Byron
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Sat Apr-03-04 12:42 AM
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Man, do I love Krautrock! |
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Sorry, I'm bored, the wife is in bed ill, I'm drinking and listening to Neu!. God, I'm a Krautrock evangelist.
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bobthedrummer
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Sat Apr-03-04 12:44 AM
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1. Is Front 242 Krautrock? |
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Edited on Sat Apr-03-04 12:45 AM by bobthedrummer
on edit: I've always liked Kraftwerk
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Screaming Lord Byron
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Sat Apr-03-04 12:46 AM
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2. I think Front 242 are Belgian. Bloody good, though. |
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The classic five Krautrock bands are Can, Kraftwerk, Amon Duul II, Faust and Neu!. Tangerine Dream fit in too.
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Sat Apr-03-04 12:48 AM
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And on a separate note, isn't all krautrock ultimately descended from Karlheinze Stockheizen's avante garde experiments? Weren't the members of Can originally students of his, and from Can came Kraftwerke, etc.?
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Screaming Lord Byron
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Sat Apr-03-04 12:52 AM
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4. All true. Can were formed by former students of Stockhausen. |
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Neu! were a splinter group of the original Kraftwerk, I believe. Don't quote me on that, it's late, and I've had a few (if there was a drunk smilie, i'd post it now)
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Sat Apr-03-04 01:04 AM
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(stumbling back from our local Mexican restaurant with a few margaritas as an accomplishment..)
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Sat Apr-03-04 01:20 AM
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6. Only Schmidt and Czukay were in the Stockhausen circle |
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Leibezeit was into jazz and Karoli was originally a student of Czukay's--he started the whole thing. Mooney I think was some deadbeat American sculptor and Damo Suzuki was a Japanese scumbag who played guitar outside of a tea house, and when they saw him they took him on and he played a gig that very night. :D
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Sat Apr-03-04 01:38 AM
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7. I have ComputerWorld and Man-Machine |
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Some of the best songs are by non-Kraut bands...
Warm Leatherette by The Normal
...also Vangelis did a track called "3 + 3" that was so Krautish, I swear I remember it being used in a Volkswagen commercial.
(I also own both of the above BTW.)
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