How did Krautrock happen?

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i dunno...have any of the kraut dudes ever talked CCR? like frankly i just don't see that as a band they would have been listening to...

mr. que, covering up the vital parts, lest he embarrass the ladi (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link

They don't have to have heard it. It's kind of like calculus being independently invented by Liebniz and Newton.

o. nate, Monday, 16 November 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link

By the way, Bayou Country (on which "Chooglin" appears) reached #33 on the German charts, so it's pretty likely that the Kraut guys did hear it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival_discography

o. nate, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link

chooglin' has a bluesy shuffle to it that is absent from the motorik beat. it still sounds krauty though

sackful of hollow (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 16 November 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg44BKJhqk0

tylerw, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link

krauts tsarted rockin and a legend wasb orn

NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Monday, 16 November 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link

honestly there are a million sources for the motorik thing--it's really high-modernist minimalism coupled with rock instrumentation coupled with late-60s tendency for rock bands to jam out. so you are all correct.

figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link

:D

tylerw, Monday, 16 November 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link

cookies for everybody!

figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link

krautrock cookies are hella experimental

mr. que, covering up the vital parts, lest he embarrass the ladi (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link

allow cookies

Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link

'bootleg' fits what we're getting at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4eE3ZxlF28

andrew m., Monday, 16 November 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link

whatever we decide or don't decide, we can agree that Creedence was fucking awesome. also: cookies.

tylerw, Monday, 16 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link

also also: hawkwind

kamerad, Monday, 16 November 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link

i mean, i haven't really listened to them, but aren't Endless Boogie supposed to sorta be an updated take on canned heat/creedence boogie mixed with kraut motorik/minimalism?

jaxon, Monday, 16 November 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link

the little i've heard i'd say yeah

andrew m., Monday, 16 November 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link

"Keep on Chooglin" sounds more like motorik to me than anything I've heard by VU.

"The Gift" is pretty motorik, if you ask me.

I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Motorik seems to have so infused music in this decade, I gotta wonder if the next decade will produce a Nickleback of motorik.

bendy, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link

... we've already got one, Kasabian

I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Well you just got me to listen to a band I'd been ignoring. Can't wait for the North American derivative. I'm thinking the singer should sport a rat tail.

bendy, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link

I've been ignoring them as well but I have heard it said they have Krautrock influences - maybe via Primal Scream, rather than directly. Personally I think Primal Scream aren't far off being the Nickelback of Motorik but people seem to take them seriously, for some reason.

I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link

primal scream are the pearl jam of motorik

sackful of hollow (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link

discussing motorik and the velvets and nobody's mentioned Sister Ray?

dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link

Sorry, I can't get past the krautrock cookies. Mmmmm.

LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

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