i <3 yeti...i need to give tanz der lemminge more time...
still, someone go nominate AD2 in Sven's best band ever thread RIGHT NOW!!!
― Janitor in the Valley of the Dolls (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I like a lot of Yeti, but I don't like all of Yeti. The last two tracks (one of which is 18 minutes long) sort of lose the plot. At least, the plot I was following.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I put on Carnival in Babylon in hopes of liking it, and I'll admit I liked it more than I did last time I tried it, but it was still eh to me.
yeti yeti yeti
CiB is pretty eh to everyone, i think, it's got a couple of good songs but it just feels flabby and unmemorable.
― Manclusion (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 18 December 2008 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM. Whereas "Wolf City" is sheer entertainment from start to finish.
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2008 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Wolf City is a masterpiece. Even if the band doesn't agree.
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 18 December 2008 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
since when has a band's opinion mattered
― Manclusion (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeti >> Wolf City >> Carnival In Babylon > Phallus Dei
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
And Dance of the Lemmings?
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't heard it
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
get on that, colonel.
also it's
YETI>>>>WOLF CITY>>>TANZ DER>>>>PHALLUS>>>>>VIVE LE TRANCE>>>>CARNIVAL
not to imply that any of them are terrible, though, they're all worth listening to.
― Manclusion (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 December 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Carnival is certainly better than Viva Le Trance. The first few songs on Viva are really good, but then it falls off...
Anybody want to buy my Hi-Jack LP?
― Nate Carson, Friday, 19 December 2008 04:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i was actually going to put them as tied
but you're probably right, now that i think about it.
― Manclusion (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 December 2008 04:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't really argue with the rest of your hierarchy. Yeti is spectacular and Wolf City purrs along like a dream.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 19 December 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I find this band perplexing. I like various chunks of their catalog but sometimes I am baffled that the term krautrock is used to encompass acts as disparate as Amon Duul II, Cluster, and Neu!, all of which seem wildly different for the most part. have had Wolf City and Yeti (never heard any of the Amon Duul stuff) and they're okay - not as goofy/fun/random as Faust. Kinda of a piece with Hawkwind but not as conceptually together.
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
AD2 had more range than Hawkwind. Tanz der Lemminge, one of my favorite albums of all time, zigzags thru a panoply of psychedelic flavours. Restless Skylight Transistor Child goes from awkward Teutonic boogie to sitar-addled psychedelic folk idyll to distorted overdriven acid rawk to impending doom. The next track, Marilyn Monroe Memorial Church is a stagnating pool of echoey Goth bleakness.
I love Hawkwind and can see the comparison but I think it sells the Duuls short and ignores just how much they could do well.
― kingkongvsbasedgodzilla (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Amon Duul II is def more all over the place than Hawkwind (who pretty much just cycled between one or two modes for the bulk of their early career). whether or not that's a virtue... eh, I'm undecided. I find the sprawl of Amon Duul II's stuff a bit off-putting.
― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah well that sprawl is the essence of the band. No other band combining Jefferson Airplane, Incredible String Band, Velvet Underground and Night on Bald Mountain
― kingkongvsbasedgodzilla (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
So I guessing Stefan Zauner, singer of Freiheit, is the only former member of Amon Duul II to have appeared on Top of the Pops? (This could have gone on The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread, er thread).
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
Amon Düül II--C, because
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqxH2aU9z-Q
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
"Hijack" is rubbish.
Me otm. I listened to this today, along with a lot of other shitty so-called Krautrock, and... well, put it this way, Renate sings two songs on this album and Lothar Meid sings THREE, I mean, wtaf?!?!? He's the worst singer in a band that contains Chris Karrer and John Weinzierl, need I say more? And what's with that song where he just lifts entire lines of lyrics, unchanged, from Mott the Hoople?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
HISI (had it, sold it) - long gone from my collection, never to be heard again
― zoomer death circus (sleeve), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
Chris Karrer sings three songs too! But then Renate did say the guys in the band were a bunch of sexist hippie assholes.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
Touring next year… could be exciting or maybe not?
― mmmm, Saturday, 4 September 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
I hear they're pretty good! I mean it's an oldies act, but most of the original lineup iirc
― sleeve, Saturday, 4 September 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Okay thanks! Going to buy the tickets. Will give me a nice run up to spend the time with their music.
― mmmm, Saturday, 4 September 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
please report back! very cool.
― sleeve, Saturday, 4 September 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link