Neu! - Classic or Dud?

don't forget Neu! 2

>>I've had these discs on an eMusic "Saved For Later" page forever, but I think it's time to fish-or-cut-bait.

Seems like a no-brainer purchase for eMusic - in fact, I signed up for eMusic last month and Neu! was one of the first bands I looked up! There's only, what, six tracks on each record? In eMusic terms, that's a pretty solid deal. It'll barely dent your monthly track allowance.

Yeah. Truthfully, it won't even do that; I'm sitting on roughly 1500 extra downloads (down from 2000 originally), via these eMusic Circuit City cards (65 downloads per $5 card).

So Neu 75 translates to roughly $.50... yeah, I'd say buy it.

Just another hero

is that even what he's saying? It's what I always here it as anyway

Just another hero

You mean me? I wasn't trying to be a jerk. Sorry if it sounded that way.

And yeah, I'll pick up both discs today.

Should also say here that the midsection of the 88 BoaDrum performance last night was audibly a mega-Neu! homage, in fact the best damn tribute to Klaus Dinger's impact imaginable, specifically thinking of how it reminded me of "Lila Engel" in its blend of slabs-of-feedback percussive chime and huge drum punch. So no, not historical documents at all, not when 88 drummers from all sorts of bands are pounding that out.

You mean me? I wasn't trying to be a jerk. Sorry if it sounded that way.

No no, he's referring to the lyric of the song "Hero" from Neu! 75.

Ahhh. Got it.

>>Should also say here that the midsection of the 88 BoaDrum performance last night was audibly a mega-Neu! homage

Yes, I had the exact same thought.

Also, I just took my own advice and downloaded the first Neu album from emusic.

The Astralwerks reissues were out of print and got hard to find, but a nice surprise this weekend, I saw they're all reissued by Gronland, same 2001 remaster.

if i recall, gronland was working on this at the time the astralwerks reissues came out. the web site was always kinda vague about where they were on that, which in a weird way seemed appropriate. keeping with the neu! "confused enough yet?" stylee. so did the gronland thing just now come about?

On my cd's it says: "2001 Grönland under exclusive lizenz to EMI Electrola GmbH - Remastered in London" (I bought them in 2001/2)

Earlier this summer I tried to upgrade my old bootleg version of the first album with the remaster, and it simply wasn't available. One used copy could be had for $34 on Amazon.

The reissue is distributed and marketed by High Wire Music via Fontana Distribution, and came out August 26th. $13.99 at Reckless, yay.

Fuck I thought I was kinda over Neu! like they were too sleek and cold, I preferred La Dusseldorf and Harmonia to this. But Hallogallo came on early and it just sounds like clouds of dust left behind. Its almost not there. It kindof overshadows everything else though....

Also Klaus Dinger singing on Lieber Honig is incredible.

Neu! 4 is NOT worth getting

Yes it is! It's a fun album! Doesn't sound much like Neu!, basically sounds like a combination of Michael Rother and (latter day) La Dusseldorf, not surprisingly. It's unfinished and a bit ragged in places but it's certainly better than anything Michael Rother managed after 1982, it's more in the vein of later Dinger efforts like "Neondian" - but, fine by me, I like that stuff. It is basically the same tune played over and over again, but it's a good tune!

where did you find a copy?

Eine kleine blog

Neu! 4 is awesome.

if anyone could point me towards it I'd be much obliged, googling neu! is no fun

....

WTF, how could Neu! possibly be D?

i salute you willem

any idea if these neu albums are going to be re-reissued on vinyl?

They discovered an implicity archetype of rock music, that was independently discovered both before, and after them. They get more credit for some reason.

if anyone could point me towards it I'd be much obliged, googling neu! is no fun

Suggest blogsearching "elanoizan" instead.

La Dusseldorf and Rother's solo stuff often sounds to like it should be the theme music from the Winter Olympics or Ski Sunday With David Vine, and "Quick Wave Machinelle" from this album is like the ultimate example of this!

waht
http://thequietus.com/articles/01209-oasis-kasabian-for-neu-tribute-album

oh neu

Cleopatra records beat Oasis to something

hopefully not a leather whip

also lol "omg Ciccone Youth". Is there a Don't Look Back planned for the Whitey Album?

LCD Soundsystem - 'Watch The Tapes'

really?

i just don't see how this is supposed to turn anyone onto the music of Neu! or any music at all

It's actively putting me off Oasis, so that's a result.

it's also a joke post, I'm guessing

Noel Gallagher added, “My current new favourite German band of all time. Proper tour bus music. Spiritual!!”

Hmmm.

But why would they deceive us???

Trying to anNEU us!

It's actively putting me off Oasis, so that's a result.

Because they were so appealing before they appeared on a Neu! tribute comp, my GOD what have they done!

For some awful moment, I thought Oasis were doing a Neu Cover for the album, now the result doesn't seems so bad after that.

If this album makes even one Kasabian & Oasis fan think "This is great, why am i listening to that pish?" then it will have done good in this world.

No-one remembers this but when Kasabian were a totally new band they were promoted completely differently to once people actually started giving a shit abt them - they were like these trippy waster guys who lived in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere and listened to Neu! and Floyd and Boards of Canada and jammed all day. Then it became apparent that the arena chant element was much stronger/more sellable and that was how it went

Perhaps the "arena chant element" is more sellable, but I wouldn't exactly call it a strength.

Oh, but I digress...

I don't get what that album is meant to be

To my great shame, I saw Kasabian once, in Columbia, Missouri. My boss at work quasi-forced me to go. They actually weren't that bad or good, but what made it pathetic was that there were maybe 20-25 really bored people there at the bar, and yet Kasabian acted like arena megastars onstage.

But anyways, Neu! couldn't be more classic.

related note: there are literal arena chants on the La Dusseldorf LP.

The First La Dusseldorf album is my favourite krautrocky album ever.

The video for Viva is incredible