Most Underrated KRAUTROCK album (Taken From Julian Cope's Top 50)

Making sure my Ash Ra Tempel vote counts this time! (for some reason in the last poll it didn't get counted)

Faust IV easy

Monster Movie?!? That album's awesome! You Doo Right! Father Cannot Yell!

i actually think Soundtracks is fucking great

where is this alternate earth where people don't like faust IV? and soundtracks is one of the bestest can albums?

anyway, i'm voting for paradieswarts duul. though kraftwerk 1 is pretty underrated/overlooked by the technopop dudes.

Still voting for Cosmic Jokers.

and soundtracks is one of the bestest can albums!

fixed that.

voted for joinn inn this time.
this is actually a good idea for a poll. hopefully it will encourage people to listen to things they have ignored or avoided before.

Next poll - Most Overrated KRAUTROCK album (Taken From Julian Cope's Top 50)

Kraftwerk I

kRAUTROCK - isn't this an offensive term ?

coined by Germans themselves, if I'm not mistaken

dunno if that makes it OK though, I'm not German.

kRAUTROCK - isn't this an offensive term ?

no. shut up.

coined by Germans themselves, if I'm not mistaken

The NME coined it, didn't they?

'there's this new music sweeping the country'

yes.

so kraut isn't an insult to Germans?

Faust IV and then probably Sowiesoso

oh, today E+S then Wolf City, ,aybe Join Inn

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Soundtracks, for sure.

so kraut isn't an insult to Germans?
no. why? i find it funny. btw it also means herb. as in "was für ein kraut rauchst du denn da?" what kind of herb are you smoking? which somehow fits much better to this music than the sauerkraut one usually associates with kraut.

For frenc-speaking ILXors, there's a book that just came out on krautrock. Looks pretty good::

http://www.amazon.fr/Au-del%C3%A0-rock-%C3%A9lectronique-exp%C3%A9rimentale-soixante-dix/dp/291537838X

That's pretty apt, and "herb skirt" sounds nicer than "cabbage skirt". Anyhow...

Faust IV, Viva, Sowiesoso, Schwingungen, Kraftwerk I? Whoever voted last time, you guys crazy! Or whoever forgot to vote last time because there were too many choices. Like me. And like I'm probably going to do again.

(Also, I will sulk if Can win, since as just about the only krautrock band I ever see/hear mentioned outside ILM everything they did is automatically "overrated", even though those albums are pretty good.)

Also, I will sulk if Can win, since as just about the only krautrock band I ever see/hear mentioned outside ILM everything they did is automatically "overrated"

Hmmmmmmmmm, "Landed" and "Saw Delight" are underrated, to name but two

For some reason I voted for Gilles Zeitschiff, even though there are clearly better albums on there. It is great, though.

As to where the term comes from, judging from the crack Faust made the other night before they played 'Krautrock' it was a British invention, and I'm pretty sure they said something about London, so I'm guessing it was the NME's very own work.

according to the german wikipedia john peel may have been the first to use the term. apparently he was inspired by a track by amon düül from 1968 called "mama düül und ihre sauerkrautband". it was on their album "psychedelic underground".

btw cluster are playing on friday in kassel during the opening of the documenta. it is a free - i suppose outdoor - concert.

according to the german wikipedia john peel may have been the first to use the term. apparently he was inspired by a track by amon düül from 1968 called "mama düül und ihre sauerkrautband".

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, and not by the fact that "Kraut" is an insulting term for a German? Unlikely, I'd have thought.

that is the well-known german self-irony...

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faust IV for reals! that last poll was balls.

Ash Ra Tempel finally gets some votes recorded.

I've been quite into Sowiesoso lately; it's good music for lying around on lots of painkillers.

recently i listened to vuh, the 2nd side of in den gärten pharaos on the autobahn. it seemed like the most intense music ever recorded with the church organ drone and those crashing cymbals. scaruffi thinks that it is spiritual and apocalyptic. which probably makes sense but i had this impression of reaching a very high plateau and staying there. like having sex with an orgasm that lasts 15 minutes.

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BTW faust IV is the most OVERrated krautrock record

oops clean link at least
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my vote as of june 2007 was for Hosianna Mantra

I love Faust IV more than most things, but... so many people who only own one Faust record own that one, it's total pop, half-page ads in Sassy magazine, the one on a major record label... I don't hate the term 'underrated' as much as I do the term 'overrated' but richard rorty rip

yes what of contingency (dom), irony (siloah), and solidarity (achim reichel) ?

Shock horror, somebody shows up to bitch because the choices aren't obscure enough! Nothing if not predictable.

And it's not you! ;)

yeah but doesn't that make sense if the poll is for "most underrated"? surely it should be some completely unknown thing that's actually half decent.

Nice to see La Dusseldorf getting some recognition, though Viva isn't exactly my favorite.

neither la dusseldorf album is my favorite. you know? if they could've somehow mashed them together it would've been one excellent album.