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Krautrock pioneers or self-indulgent wank merchants? (Although I'm sure some of you don't think those terms are mutually exclusive.)

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― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 20:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

C++

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 20:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

70s = Classic.
Now = Dud.

(disclaimer to Now: I think of Rien as more of a Jim O'Rourke solo album featuring all-Faust samples.)

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 20:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

Albums don't get much prettier/scarier/noisier/sweeter/melodic/bewildering/fun than IV.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 20:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

all the releases up to and including IV are classic. i favour the noisier / cutup things more and so the 1st album and Tapes are my favourites. in fact, they get a bit dud when they do straight songs even if there's always a wry smile in them.

Now=Dud: don't think so really, just different. 'you know faUSt' is quite good in an early faustion way and the later releases are more drone, fuzz rock (which i find a bit boring). the live 'Land Of Ukkio...' is far better than the studio based 'Ravvivando' in this type.

still waiting on the latest album to reach my mail box. here's the blurb from AndyW's wonderfull www.faust-pages.com :

After years of on-off debate about whether there are any significant unreleased works from the early days of Faust, now comes the group's definitive answer with the release of Patchwork: 1971-2002. While the album compiles material from right across the group's history to date, most is from the Wümme period, 1971-1974. Including new versions of classic Faust material such as It's a Rainy Day, Krautrock, Psalter and Stretch Out Time (from the original Faust Tapes)

― phil turnbull (philT), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 20:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

i just listened to faust tapes for the firs time inna year or so. is good!

"jennifer" is still one of my all time favorite songs.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 21:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't have any of the new stuff, but I'd say classic. The 2-on-1 Faust/So Far CD is a steal. I finally realized that Stereolab/NWW ripped off "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" for one of their collaborations. "Picnic on a Frozen River" (any version) would probably be good music for a video game, signaling that your time is running out, or that you ate a power pellet that makes you invincible for 15 seconds.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 21:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

'You Know' is as gd as any of their 'classics', and in fact I prefer it to the Faust Tapes.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 22:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

the songs are better than the noise

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 22:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

Faust tapes is the only thing i have by them and I'm not bowled over by it really. but i can understand how good it would be to someone in 1974 (year of release no?).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 22:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

i think the noise on the first one is good: faust tapes was a far-sighted idea but millions now living have done it better

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 23:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

classic up to and including IV. definitely not dud after that. not heard much of the more recent stuff but what I have was ok. not amazing but ok.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 00:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

classic post-Faust IV?

SEARCH:

71 minutes of FAUST

(not entirely post IV, but a good bit of it)

― gygax!, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 00:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

'it's a rainy day, sunshine girl' is one of thee finest songs ever, by anyone.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 00:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

i really like iv,never heard anything else by them though...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 01:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

Dud. No, I don't really know. Haven't knowingly heard enough, but Rainy Day Sunshine Girl is dreadful.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

70's - definitely classic, get The Wumme Years box and IV
Current - a bit patchy to be honest

Incidentally, I understand that "Outside The Dream Syndicate" (the album Faust did with Tony Conrad in '73) is due to be re-released (complete with a 2nd CD of bonus tracks etc. apparently) but I've heard very mixed reports of this one - is anyone familiar with it? C or D?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 09:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

Haven't heard anything by the reformed Faust, but 70s Faust = classic classic classic. The thing about them that annoys me (and it's something that annoys me about a few German bands of their era) it's that when they hit on something that sounds genius, they spoil it by veering off on some less genius tangent, like on Mamie Is Blue or most of No Harm. Things I love about Faust - that mental guitar solo on It's A Bit Of A Pain, that bit on Jennifer that sounds like a prog-rock band falling down a flight of stairs, the first three minutes of No Harm, and I could go on about The Faust Tapes but it would be too hard to refer to a specific bit.

― Damian (Damian), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 09:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

Incidentally, I understand that "Outside The Dream Syndicate" (the album Faust did with Tony Conrad in '73) is due to be re-released (complete with a 2nd CD of bonus tracks etc. apparently) but I've heard very mixed reports of this one - is anyone familiar with it? C or D?

Classic. "Academic" mid-1960s underground L.E.S. NY little-m minimalism meets German psychedelia.

I think the bonus tracks is probably the same schtuff as was released on the 7" that originally came with the CD (which had a bonus track itself), but I've no idea. I've got the orig. Caroline issue (released as a "nice price" style, just like Faust Tapes), plus the CD + 7" version...

― hstencil, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 15:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

I've only heard Faust thru to IV; but it is all most assuredly classic. The first one is totally underrated, btw; Some peeps claim that they make awkward use of sound collage technique, but that's part of the beauty. The second one (So Far) is tooooo poppy for me, but I like the folky guitar track. Faust Tapes is excellent. But IV is the all time best: Krautrock is fecking genius, so is the sad skinhead. I luv the sense of humour these guys have (who says germans don't have it) and they're my fave "Krautrock" group!

― Anas FK, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 18:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

i really like "rien" (apart from that hippyish "listen to the fish" bit) - everyone says "rien" is dud. i don't know why. the other stuff (older (not george michael older)) doesn't get me off. why everyone brings up "motorik" pavlov style evrytime someone mentions kratrock i don't know - i find even neu & can plod really stiffly.

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

Agreed abt 'Rien' being OK, maybe even as gd as gd: I esp. like the 'credits' being read out at the end, more ppl should do that. But as Stencil points out upthread, it's much more like that Brise-Glace rec that O'Rourke put together (round abt the same time?) than an 'real' Faust rec, which is both gd and bad.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...
Utterly classic.

― Matt Kendall (mattkendall), Sunday, 15 December 2002 10:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...
Wumme Years stuff and 4 are unqualified classics.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 9 March 2003 02:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think Faust were an amazing band - their 70s albums are absolute classics. Having said that, I think they're a bit clunkier than the likes of Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk - they're a bit more of a hippy band in places with a definite Zappa influence and even a little bit of the dreaded Prog Rock (tho with a commendably German disregard for Prog nonsense like instrumental virtuosity). I didn't like "Rien", thought it was a master-turned-pupil situation, too "Industrial" plus it didn't have Hans-Joachim Irmler's organ-playing, which I love. "You Know Faust" I really liked - it was like an old Faust album, with pure aggressive noise, nice acoustic and pop elements and even silly pseudo-mediaeval stuff. "Ravvivando" I liked too - it sounded like a good live album, very rough-edged.

― Dadaismus, Monday, 10 March 2003 16:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

Classic. Second only to Can.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

if Rien is a jim O solo album, then it's better than anything else he's ever produced.

Faust are one of the cornerstones of my life but that's based entirely on the first four albums and Rien. they never really jumped the shark, so to speak, but they just sort of became less essential.

i saw them live in 1998 or 1999, and it was good, but not amazing. the sense of danger and unpredictability that i expected was absent.

― john fail (cenotaph), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

but John, what about 71 Minutes?? IMO, as good as the first four.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

yeah, 71 minutes has some great moments. and those BBC sessions that came out with the box set are also nice. how could i have forgotten that?!

― john fail (cenotaph), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think the version of krautrock on the BBC disc is better than the original.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:09 (10 years ago) Permalink

it's a different mix of the same performance, isn't it? I agree though, there's more energy.

I will grow old and they will remain my favorite band. Can't do the new stuff though, the balance is gone without Rudolf Sosna's songs and Kurt Graupner's engineering.

The story in this month's Wire was nice to see but frustratingly Irmler-centric. I don't trust that guy...

― Jon Leidecker, Monday, 10 March 2003 19:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...
well well, what have we here then?

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 19 March 2006 10:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

ah, here we go (from faust pages):

EMI, who now own the Virgin label, have announced the release of a remastered Faust IV with extra tracks. You'll want to snap this up, not only for the new material but because the mastering of the existing version of the album on CD is so poor.

From the press release: "The bonus disc is completed with six previously unreleased tracks recorded by Uwe Nettelbeck. Beginning with a soporific take on Jennifer, followed by an alternate take of The Sad Skinhead, an extended version of Just a Second takes the track to greater levels of trance inducement, before ending in its almost trademark snare crack half roll. The ambient Piano Piece is reminiscent of Brian Eno's Another Green World - best known as the theme tune to the BBC documentary series Arena. A gentle and shimmering piece it is a gem tucked away on this second disc that concludes with alternate takes on Lauft and Giggy Smile."

As with the existing release, the track listing doesn't mention the track Run seperately, although presumably it will stiill be there, tacked on to the end of Lauft.

CD1: The original album, re-mastered

* Krautrock
* The Sad Skinhead
* Jennifer
* Just a Second (Starts Like That!)
* Picnic on a Frozen River (Deuxieme Tableux)
* Lauft... Heist Das Es Lauft Oder Es Kommt Bald... Lauft
* It's a Bit of a Pain

CD2: bonus disc

* The Lurcher (BBC Peel Session)
* Krautrock (BBC Peel Session)
* Do So (BBC Peel Session)
* Jennifer (Alternate)
* The Sad Skinhead (Alternate)
* Just A Second (Starts Like That!) (Extended Version)
* Piano Piece (aka Das Meer)
* Lauft... Heisst Das Es Lauft Oder Es Kommt Bald... Lauft (Alternate)
* Giggy Smile (Alternate)

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 19 March 2006 10:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think I might just be buying this.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 19 March 2006 10:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

A remaster's not a bad idea. I love this album, most of the times it's my favorite Faust. The bonus disc contains some tracks (1-3) that are also available on BBC Sessions + and Piano Piece/Das Meer is from 71 minutes I guess. Still a very nice package though!

― willem -- (willem), Sunday, 19 March 2006 13:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

badly needs a remaster, the original CD has the track placements all wrong, and there's a glitch on 'jennifer' right after the cymbal crash that leads to the tack piano outro, sounds like the tape splice catching as it passes over the capstan. engineer must have left the room while doing the tape transfer.

the track listing on faustpages is incorrect as well -- looks like the new remaster got it right though

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 19 March 2006 22:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...
anyone heard this yet? still waiting on mine

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 1 May 2006 17:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

just got this, and sounds great

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

Faust, the wumme years box, I got cheaply (see past threads), and have played it all a few times.

The only track I'm not fussed about is the third (longest) one off the first album.

All the rest, and indeed "IV" is all classic. I don't know why.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

The only track I'm not fussed about is the third (longest) one off the first album.

What that one where they're all round the pianner having a good old Teutonic singalong (Knees Up, Mutter Braun) and "Garlic, yes/ White/ Yes white" etc etc?

― You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (Dada), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

Miss Fortune, apparently.

"Why don't you eat carrots" still my favourite. Like a manic circus parade ploughing through some couple's bedroom, at one point.

Woman: "Have they gone?"
Man: "I Think so"
"ting....."

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

1st album has great riffs interspersed with found silliness, definitely prefigures & anticipates the Residents. 2nd is weak VU inspired junk. 3rd is undeveloped fragments. "Faust IV" is pretty good prog-rock/krautrock mixture. "70 Minutes" CD has the heaviest stuff, quite great, anticipates Throbbing Gristle and Industrial.

― Hidden Fire, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wumme Years stuff and 4 are unqualified classics.

-- John Bullabaugh (Liphedd...), March 9th, 2003 1:34 PM.

Yes, also: Patchwork, which is like a Faust mixtape made by crazies and Derbe Respect, Alder (with Dalek) are fucking grand.

― S- (sgh), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 02:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Faust IV" is pretty good prog-rock/krautrock mixture.

That album is overrated, IMHO. They skitzophrenically switch genres with each song to the point that the album really loses something. The first song is a pretty nice krauty instrumental jam. Nothing amazing, but nice. I can't remember the exact track order, but at the beginning of the CD there's also the dub, ambient rock song, which is pretty nice. But then there's that one that sounds something like an Irish jig. What the hell is with that? It's so out of place. I think the album is lacking a cohesive flow to the whole thing.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

'the sad skinhead' = mega classic.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

the sad skinhead is awesome. that's not the jig I'm thinking of.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

"I don't know why."

That is why.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 10:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think so.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 10:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

2nd is weak VU inspired junk

Totally ridiculous. While Rainy Day Sunshine Girl is a very VU type thing, it is it's own beast and a magnificent one at that, and also classic for I've Got My Car and My TV/Picnic On a Frozen River.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

The title track is gorgeous, too.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

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Has anyone got In Autumn or Nobody Knows It It Ever Happened yet?

Any good?

― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 30 March 2007 19:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

I really like Ravvivando

― admrl, Friday, 30 March 2007 20:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

all the releases up to and including IV are classic. i favour the noisier / cutup things more and so the 1st album and Tapes are my favourites. in fact, they get a bit dud when they do straight songs even if there's always a wry smile in them.

i'm with ya homey. I'm only into Faust for their Residents-esque stuff. Everything else got boring over time.

― theoreo, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

So Faust are playing Hull on June 10th but I've promised a friend I'd babysit. Please tell me I'm not missing much re: their current incarnation.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

Aren't there 2 versions kicking about now?

― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

What do Faust "play" when they play live? Is it guitar, drum and bass set up? I couldn't imagine how they would play the majority of their songs like that. Unless they became a more normal band type thing nowadays and used to be something more wild.

― filthy dylan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

Faust IV was always my favorite, but Faust v. Dalek is pretty compelling too.My "review," or response, was in theVoice, and I also try to describe a new version of "Beware (The Transatlantic Feedback," with Gary Burger, in my take on Silver Monk Chant: A Tribute To The Monks, which will be out in the States later this month, and so will the review, again in Voice. Irmler saw them on The Beat Club in '66, revelatory for teeenaged him, as he describes it in the documentary, Monks--The Transatlantic Feedback. (Although wathching that same appearance on You Tube, and their studio stuff,I can't agree that "they had no Afro-American or Caribbean influence," but maybe he just means how he heard them at the time.)

― dow, Monday, 4 June 2007 05:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

Jean Herve Peron had a track from their new album available on his website and it's fantastic. Steve Stapleton has a big part to play in the whole thing and it's exactly what they need to make their music come alive again. Live - they play guitar bass drums and machinery - all a bit silly.

― nonightsweats, Monday, 4 June 2007 06:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

It seems to be really popular among fans, but I've never liked "Why Don't You Eat Carrots?" There's cool stuff in it, but that recurring riff drives me up the wall. That may be the intended effect.

― clotpoll, Monday, 4 June 2007 08:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

I missed the London gig, my own fault, anyone go? I prefer Faust when Jean-Herve is in them, but I'm not sure about a Faust where he is the prime mover.

― Tom D., Monday, 4 June 2007 09:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

I went to see Tony Conrad. Does that count?

― PJ Miller, Monday, 4 June 2007 11:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

Oh man, was he playing too??!?!?

― Tom D., Monday, 4 June 2007 11:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

I went to the Tony Conrad show. He was dressed just like Anderson from Beavis and Butthead.

Didn't realise Faust played. They was great last time they played London! Jean-Herve did some ironing.

― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 4 June 2007 11:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

Tony Conrad played in St Giles in the Field church, Dadaismus. Right opposite the nu-Intrepid Fox. I only found out about it the day before, and then by accident, because a friend was going to see the Finnish support band.

I'm not sure how good it was. I must admit he'd lost me by the end. And I was trying ever so hard. I'm glad I went though.

Did you like it, Gnarly Sceptre?

― PJ Miller, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

Sorry, the Monks trib, with the Faust featuring Gary Buger track,is Silver Monk Time, not Silver Monk Chant. Speaking of their concerts, I once read in an English mag about their early (first?)LP, that was so very inexpensive that a lot of schoolkids bought it, and one who was maybe 11 at the time remembered then going to one of their shows, as did a lot of her classmates, and the set started with roadwork machinery or something, and all the kiddies booed and hooted through the whole gig, the ones who stayed that long.

― dow, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

xpost: I thought Tony Conrad's second track was over an hour. I'm sure I'm as happy with drone stuff as much as the rest of that audience, but I think he coulda cut it down by about 20 minutes or so and everybody would have been satisfied. But then whenever it did seem feel like it was *finally* about to draw to a close, suddenly he'd pull out some fat static and turn it up to level 11 again, and I was happy to see it though. I thought Richard Youngs accapella worked real well too, particularly given the surroundings. Shame nobody could sustain his request to imitate a massed eBow.

― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

I e-bowed along quite merrily.

20 minutes shorter would have been better, yes.

― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 16:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I'm listening to 71 Minutes for the first time right now, and I'm "Knockhentanz" is as good as anything else they've done.

I'm filling in at a friend's record store today, and people keep walking in during songs like "Don't Take Roots" (a meandering 5 minutes of moaning and feedback) and rolling their eyes at me, buy Icky Thump and Funeral, and then on the way out the door I can hear them say "God!" to their girlfriends. Then, as soon as the customer leaves and the store's empty again, the feedback dissolves and it's back to Faust-style accessibility.

I'm enjoying this more than Faust/So Far/IV/etc right now.

― Z S, Sunday, 8 July 2007 16:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

new faust is pretty good!

― eman, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

― eman, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

Which Faust line-up is it?

― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

Hamburg-based Krautrock outfit Faust has returned from a creative kosmische aether, bringing with them a new studio album C’est com…com…compliqué due out April 13 on the Bureau B label. According to group member Jean-Hervé Peron's website www.art-errorist.de, the album was recorded in Hamburg during 2006 by producer Tobias Levin, and joining original members Peron and Werner “Zappi” Diermaier was Amaury Cambuzat of French post-rock group Ulan Bator (who first toured with Faust in 1996 as Collectif Metz/Faust, a project which also produced an eponymous album).

― eman, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

I watched the ending about four times

― Milton Parker, Friday, 13 February 2009 20:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

urgent request for .gif loop of 4:56 - 5:05

― Milton Parker, Friday, 13 February 2009 20:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

:D

― eman, Friday, 13 February 2009 23:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

lol I didn't even know about the deluxe IV! Guess who's going to be shopping online in a few seconds (possibly to find out I'm SOL)?

― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 14 February 2009 02:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

What about Faust Wakes Nosferatu? Their 1997 live interpretation of the "Nosferatu" film.

Listening to it now and I like it, even on its own. I don't know if having the film playing alongside would improve it.

What does anyone reckon to this one? Have I missed discussion anywhere?

― krakow, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 22:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

What can I expect if I go see them in Detroit next week?

[All I've ever heard is 71 Minutes]

― peepee, Thursday, 1 October 2009 01:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

What about Faust Wakes Nosferatu? Their 1997 live interpretation of the "Nosferatu" film.

I once tried watching the film with this playing in the background, but it goes "out of synch" fairly quickly... so back to he "Wizard of Oz" and "Dark Side of the Moon" for me

― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

What can you expect? The only (and not very helpful) answer is to expect the unexpected.

When I last saw them about 3 years ago, it felt at times like me and my friends were the only people there who weren't somehow in on what was going on; like some odd Krautrock Truman Show. They got some "random" girls in the audience to join in on vocals, and they somehow knew all the words (I think they turned out to be The Pipettes), they made some guy in the audience take his shirt off to have it ironed onstage as part of a song ("zis is not rock and roll, zis is ironing!!" IIRC), at one point a brass band appeared through the main door of the venue, joined in on a song and then left again.

Terrific fun, and largely documented on this set:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Autumn-Faust/dp/B000MGVA1U/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1254390085&sr=1-18

(Amazon reviewer hated it, maybe you had to be there.)

The time before that, someone climbed up some stepladders and through rocks into a mic-ed up tin bath full of flaming materials. I thought it was hilarious, but it was generally responded to with chin-stroking solemnity by everyone around me.

― Officer Pupp, Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

*threw

― Officer Pupp, Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― am0n, Sunday, 24 October 2010 03:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

this is really good, probably the best i've heard of their late period

― am0n, Sunday, 24 October 2010 23:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

"faust is last" is definitely the best of the releases where irmler seems to have control. "ravvivando" just seemed messy but this one has some great moments and is definitely better than the peron / zappi faust on "c'est complique". but "disconnected" is really great (even if that seems to be mostly due to NWW).

― nonightsweats, Monday, 25 October 2010 00:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

I see I killed this thread for a year. I can't help but wonder whether PeePee went to the gig and what they thought.

― Officer Pupp, Monday, 25 October 2010 13:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

I dunno if I'm a fan of the "Faust is Last" album; sadly it would have been better if they had trimmed it by about a half hour. Because both discs have some great pieces along with a lot of interchangable material. Ravvivando is still the post-reformation group's high water mark.

― frogbs, Monday, 25 October 2010 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

I heard C Pluus off of You Know Us...I thought that was really good.

― scaruffi kaleidoscope (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 October 2010 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

frogbullshit

― am0n, Monday, 25 October 2010 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

do you disagree??? I run a review site here where I have reviewed all of Fausts albums:
http://www.listology.com/jamool/story/faust

IMO the problem with Faust's recent albums is that their primary songwriter died before the reunion and they never really bothered to replace them or attempt to write songs themselves. Not that they are song-based but without them their newer albums tend to be kind of monotonous. Not bad, but just kind of gray and stark.

― frogbs, Monday, 25 October 2010 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

how are Faust live these days? "They" are playing here in a short while, with Jean-Herve. I think I want to go.

― Aceveda (admrl), Monday, 20 August 2012 23:17 (9 months ago) Permalink

i've seen them twice and enjoyed them both times. One was more of a 'best-of' set, which was super awesome, the second one was more leaning towards a commune hippy jam, but still good.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 00:07 (9 months ago) Permalink

Jean-Herve generally keeps things song-oriented IIRC; I've never seen 'em, but I've heard some of their live albums with him and they're a pretty good mix of long industrial jams and their good song-oriented 70's material

― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:03 (9 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Dear Faust fans,

We're getting ready for Friday and our tech director just showed us his "Faust Procurement Checklist." There's a couple firsts for us on here, so we wanted to give you a sneak peak at what you have to look forward to:

Faust Procurement Checklist
1 Cement Mixer, 1 Demolition Hammer, 2 Angle Grinders, 3 Large Canvasses, 55 Gallon Drumm, 2 four-by-eight Sheets of Styrofoam, 2 Sledge Hammers & One Sacrificial Piano

P.S. We also need a 12" (or smaller) Gas-Powered Chain Saw for the night. If you can loan us one, we will set aside a pair of tickets for you to stay for the 11 PM performance and watch Faust "play" your chain saw!

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 19 October 2012 07:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

has anyone seen them recently

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 19 October 2012 07:27 (7 months ago) Permalink

They did two shows in Seattle, Mon & Tue. I went to the Monday show. I still can't believe I saw that show.
I can cross Long Hair Raising Chainsaw On Stage Smiling off my rock n roll bingo sheet now.
<3 <3

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Friday, 19 October 2012 08:53 (7 months ago) Permalink

which Faust is this

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

That piano got merked

― Heyy M. United This Is Your Last 48 Hours 3-0 3-0 3-0 (admrl), Sunday, 21 October 2012 00:23 (7 months ago) Permalink

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2012 00:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

I described this show to my wife as "like watching a happy and newly crawling baby tear up someone else's living room"

― Heyy M. United This Is Your Last 48 Hours 3-0 3-0 3-0 (admrl), Sunday, 21 October 2012 00:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

ALso Geraldine Swayne is the "Geraldine" in the Gallon Drunk song of the same name, yes? Would have been rad if James Johnston was there too.

― Heyy M. United This Is Your Last 48 Hours 3-0 3-0 3-0 (admrl), Sunday, 21 October 2012 00:36 (7 months ago) Permalink


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