Neu

1. Go Ahead Now!

2. Ms-17

3. XCT

4. S.V.O.

5. Making Sense

6. Each Life Each End [Sputnikless Mix]

7. Disorder

8. Cy/CB

9. X-Rays (This Is My Life)

10. What

11. Plaster Caster

12. Urge On!! [Velocity 2]

13. I'm a Worker

14. Black Out Fall Out

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Average customer rating: NEU! Electro jam music that rocks Neu! is worth it for just one song. Atmospheric and experimental. unreal... I am awestruck

Neu! Neu! Manufacturer: Astralwerks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Krautrock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Germany | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Neu! 75 Neu! 2 Faust IV Tago Mago Ege Bamyasi ASIN: B000056IKS Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

1. Hallo Gallo
2. Souderoujebob
3. Weimensee
4. Im Gluck
5. Negativland
6. Lieber Houig

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Neu! was recorded over four days in Hamburg with Can producer Conrad Plank, and its static, aggressive harmonies and almost (but not quite) robotic sound still has a resonance that echoes even today. As any musician from Add N to X to Sonic Youth, from Stereolab to Cabaret Voltaire could tell you, early '70s Dusseldorf band Neu! were one third of the original triumvirate--alongside Can and Faust--that defined Krautrock. Michael Rother (guitar/keyboards) and Klaus Dinger (drums) formed the band in 1971, and with their first three albums established a pattern of minimalist melodies and locked groove "motorik" beats that were to later exert a tremendous influence over left-field music, both in dance and rock. Indeed, one of the great U.S. avant-garde '90s bands, Negativland, take their name from a track on this album. "Hallogallo, Sonderangebot," "Im Gluck"--these are the conveyor-belt grooves, the elemental sweep and soar of the neon-bright autobahn, and the sound of the future when it was still shiny and clean. As David Bowie put it, "[Neu! were] Kraftwerk's wayward, anarchistic brothers." And so much more. --Jerry Thackray

Customer Reviews:

NEU!.......2007-04-16

Whilst British rock music in the early seventies increasingly laboured under the burden of artifice, and American musicians came to worship at the shrine of the singer-songwriter, Germany's NEU! made an album so sleek, so streamlined and so lean, that it still stands as a milestone in hypnotic avant rock stylisation.
The oft-mentioned cliché about Krafwerk's love of the clean, unblemished expanses of the Autobahn could equally stand for NEU!'s debut album. A new brush to sweep the clutter of the post-60s hangover away, opener "Hallogallo" stands as the quintessential Krautrock track: the disciplined Motorik beat, sparse guitar and languorous running time (over ten minutes) define the genre. And just listen to "Negativland" and you can hear Glenn Branca, No Wave and Sonic Youth being born. =Totally essential.

Electro jam music that rocks.......2007-01-28

My favorite music is free form type of stuff, so hearing "Hallo Gallo" made me buy this CD. I have heard this band before but never bought anything by them in the past. This is a hard album to put in a catagory, maybe 70's Krautrock?? This album is a perfect example of how much you can do with a little when you know a lot. There is not much in the way of melodies, but the sonic structure is what makes this record. The fact that there are guitars on this album, really give it a dynamic push/pull that most electronic music lacks. There is a balance of beautiful weirdness and improvisational structure that has it's roots in much 60's psychedelic music, the make up the heart of this music. Truly unique.

Neu! is worth it for just one song. .......2006-10-21

It's the first song, Hallogallo.

And this is despite the song is ONLY ONE CHORD FOR TEN MINUTES over a obsessive 4/4 pulse. But this chord, this chord is special. This chord is fwacka-fwacka-fwacka'd up and down like taffy.

I defy you... DEFY you... not to shake yer moneymaker just a little bit listening to this. It will make you pogo like an idiot.

The rest of the album is good, in a Teuton-angsty noise kind of way, with a few pretty bits spaced throughout. But Hallogallo... Hallogallo is special.

Atmospheric and experimental........2006-05-29

This 1971 album is an excellent example of music that was coming out of the experimental rock scene in Germany during the early 1970s. Neu! was largely the product of a collaboration between Mike Rother (guitars/bass guitar) and Klaus Dinger (drums/percussion), with Conrad Plank as the engineer/partial producer. My own opinion of the album is that it is the finest that Neu released, although "75" is pretty good too.

With the exception of the last track, which features some slightly off-key and hoarse whispering/singing, the six tracks on the album are instrumental and range in length from 4'50" to 10'07", with most tracks in the 4 - 7 minute range. The album is at times hypnotic and nearly trancelike, with a pulsating and insistent drum part atop which very spacey guitar parts weave in and out. There are experimental tracks too, that present "found sounds" (everything from human voices to jackhammers, and a shouting audience) and eerie effects generated on electric guitars. This is (to my ears at any rate) indicative of a 1968 - 1969 Pink Floyd influence. In fact, I would even go so far to say that these guys were also somewhat influenced by American minimalist composers such as Terry Riley - their music is similarly very rhythmically charged with subtle permutations in a given musical theme. Although I love the whole album, my favorite track is Negativland, which is pretty heavy.

Overall, this is a very atmospheric and experimental album and is very highly recommended along with "Neu 75" (1975).

unreal... I am awestruck.......2006-02-23

I am flat out awestruck by this band. This album is just unreal... simply beautiful... remarkable music. Words, descriptions and trivial attempts at categorizing Neu! are futile. If you are the least bit curious about purchasing this album do so with confidence. Play the daylights out of it if you already own it. The music captured here is on a heavenly level.

Average customer rating: Neu Melodic Moods Innovating the innovaters with less punch but more sheen for farewell album Way ahead of its time Absolutely beautiful Bring the Neu's

Neu! 75 Neu! Manufacturer: Astralwerks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Krautrock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Neu! Neu! 2 Faust IV Tago Mago Faust/Faust So Far ASIN: B000056IKV Release Date: 2001-06-05

Tracks:

1. Isi
2. See Land
3. Leb Wohl
4. Hero
5. E-Musik
6. After Eight

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Neu! '75 is the third and most essential record from Krautrock wunderkinds Neu!--a two-man experimental force that pioneered the rapid, repetitive drum-beat known as motorik, and mapped out the future of music for groups like Sonic Youth, Stereolab, and Spacemen 3. Recorded after a two-year moratorium on the Neu! design, 75 is the sound of a band in a state of disintegration--but it's the simmering tension between the ambient-minded Michael Rother and the fiery Klaus Dinger that makes this an artistic triumph, rather than a cacophonous dissolution of ideas. Neu! handle this fracture by effectively splitting 75 in two very different parts. The first half, featuring the drifting catatonic majesty of "Seeland" and the tidal ambient lull of "Leb' Wohl" is very recognizably led by Rother's sense of affecting minimalism. The second half, however, is Dinger's blank canvas, over which he bitterly vents his spleen: "Hero" surges forward on an aggressive pedal-to-the-metal wave of guitar, Dinger bellowing "The only crime is money" like an anarchist sloganeer. Suddenly, claims that this record was an influence on the young John Lydon make perfect sense--'Neu! '75' is a masterpiece of cosmic punk rock, beamed in from a time before punk rock even existed. --Louis Pattison

Album Description

The album oscillates between Michael Rother's more ambient, minimalist approach and Klaus Dinger's rock infused abrasiveness that predates punk by a year. In fact, when Neu!'75 was imported in the U.K., it influenced key players responsible for the punk rock movement. 2001 reissue.

Customer Reviews:

Neu Melodic Moods.......2007-07-17

Simplistic review here: Beautiful piece of composition. Seeland is just timeless any way I look at it, as is Leb Wohl. Just both so subtle, so emotional, refined, brilliant. Hero is this punky indie funk track that really kicks up the energy, while E-Musik slows it down again as one of the trippier tracks, short and bold in atmosphere. After Eight brings it back up to pace with more punk sounds, and I can even see some sex pistols in it; I would even go so far as U2. Great guitars with layered melodies throughout the album. Overall the most accessible Neu! record in my opinion. There certainly is an escape from the experimentation in previous albums in exchange for something more listenable, and something that can be enjoyed at face value for the layman. Recommended for the beginning Krautrock fan. The roots start here

Innovating the innovaters with less punch but more sheen for farewell album.......2007-02-08

Not as intense or free form as their first two releases, the Kraut rock legends instead offered a more refined, two-formed approach at laying out what may have been their last offering. The bipolar cycle works well, with occasional pretentious lapses in judgement (Leb Wohl) in the first trio of spacial, elegant dreariness offering a pleasent contrast to the latter half's louder, more glamorous affair. Displaying a driving psychedelic undercurrent that became their signature sound prominently in only one track (E-Musik), the fractured album still holds up quite well despite the obvious musical divide that became apparent between the two members. An ideal starting point for more timid fans to wade into the waters of what was that vastly creative and fundamental period of artistic growth known as Kraut rock, a band whose sound must not be overlooked when shown to have lent itself to some of alternative music's roots in many different facets.

Way ahead of its time.......2005-07-26

I've said it before, I'll say it now, and I'll say it again and again - Neu! was way ahead of their time just like other great bands from Germany during the 60s-70s period. It's amazing how they sound like they were recorded yesterday(or tomorrow) 30 years later. Neu!75's spacey, hypnotic sounds with the trademark 'motorik' drumbeat is simply irrestible. Neu! has been hugely influential to whoever's had the oppourtunity to listen to them. And why not? The beautifully layered textures of sound and white noise with flowing guitars and unique hammer drumming creates a hypnotic effect. Simply put, Neu! was a great creative output and this albums along with Neu! ranks as some of the best of their era.

Absolutely beautiful.......2005-05-12

This record is nothing short of brilliant. Obviously you will have heard of the different personalities between Micheal Rother and Klaus Dinger. One favoured a more laid back, languid, mellow pace to his songs ( Rother ) while the other wanted a more all out assault on the listener ( Dinger ). This album catches that beautifully and balances either side out very well. While side 1 has soothing ( all 3 songs of side 1 ), almost spacy feel to the music, the second ( again 3 songs ) is more aggressive but still retains a certain spaciness to it. The result shows that whatever/despite the overall differences between Rother and Dinger in their approaches and their personalities, they could still make great music together. An album recommended without hesitation

Bring the Neu's.......2005-04-17

The third and final record by the 70's Krautrock duo is easily their most accessable, while still showing an influential edge that helped inform the punk and new wave movements that were shortly to come in 1975. It is mostly instrumental, and ranges musically from ambient to symphonic to proto-punk at the drop of a hat.

The first half of the album is more in a Krautrock-meets-symphonic-prog style while things take a turn toward punk on the second half (side 2 for those of us who grew up with vinyl.) The opening track, "Isi" is a dressed up and slimmed down variation on "Fur Immer" from Neu!2. Neu! again starts with the metronomic Krautrock beat, then layers atmospheric guitars and synths over it. Much more "composed" and concise than "Fur Immer" plus the bass player learned a few more notes! "See Land" slows the tempo for a long ambient ride. It's probably this type of track that drew Brian Eno's attention, sounding a lot like Eno's work of the period. Beautiful yet slightly foreboding, it's my favorite track on the record. "Leb Wohl" begins with more ambient sound effects before a lilting piano rises up from the mist. The first vocal on Neu75 appears here, although the voice is used more as an extra instrument than a traditional vocal. Imagine Eno ca. Another Green World mixed with Sigur Ros for an idea of how it sounds.

Some brash guitar work and a pounding beat announce a total change of direction on "Hero," which also shows where John Lydon learned his vocal style. This song reminds me of Can, always a good thing. "E-Musik" is the longest piece on Neu!75. The driving Teutonic motorbeat is overlayed with some cool speaker-to-speaker swirling effects before the whole thing slows to what sounds like a narcotic reprise of "Leb Wohl." A classic slab of Krautrock although proggers might find it repetitive and overlong.

"After Eight" starts out as a straightforward punk song, although punk hadn't technically been invented yet. The angry, slashing guitar is later joined by a piano that could only be described as "rollicking," the kind of inventive merging of styles that perfectly sums up Neu! 75.

In my opinion their best, most accessable and most satisfying album.

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Handel: The Masterworks (Box Set) Manufacturer: Brilliant Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concerto Grossi | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Trio Sonatas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Recorder | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Passions | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Blowout Box Sets | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Brilliant Classics | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Vivaldi: The Masterworks (Box Set) Haydn: The Masterworks [Box Set] Mendelssohn: The Masterworks [Box Set] Dvorák: The Masterworks [Box Set] Schubert: The Masterworks [Box Set] ASIN: B00062FLI8 Release Date: 2004-11-30

Average customer rating: Interesting Noy? No. We're gonna do it anyway Is there such a thing as avant-garde punk? Neu! - 'Neu! 2' (Astralwerks)

Neu! 2 Neu! Manufacturer: Astralwerks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Krautrock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Neu! Neu! 75 Faust IV Tago Mago Faust/Faust So Far ASIN: B000056IKU Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

1. Neuschnee 78
2. Super 16
3. Neuschnee
4. Cassetto
5. Super 78
6. Hallo Excentrico
7. Super
8. Fur Immer
9. Spitzenwualitat
10. Gedenkminute
11. Lila Engel

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Stereolab must be quietly fuming: the sweet repetition on the 11-minute opening track "Fur Immer" here defines the parameters of the bachelor-pad band's sound so accurately, it's uncanny. Until this long-overdue reissue, however, only a handful of famous and/or connected musicians--David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Add N to X, DAF, Blur--had heard this relatively obscure album, first released in 1973. Stereolab isn't the only group this experimental, minimalist, unsettlingly beautiful Germanic duo influenced, though; you can hear traces of Suicide's aggressive disco-punk and almost all present-day dance bands within Klaus Dinger's almost robotic, forceful drumming on "Spitzenqualitat" and the finale "Super." What strikes the listener most about Neu! 2, however, is the sheer enjoyment these aural visionaries were deriving from their conveyor-belt grooves: ecstatic yelps of ecstasy sometimes obliterating the percussive din, keyboardist Michael Rother thumping his guitar like he's the first child on a new motorway of sound which, indeed, he was. Tracks are sped up and then slowed down, almost at random. Indispensable listening. --Everett True

Customer Reviews:

Interesting.......2007-07-17

Quite the fun one. Im going to try to be as succinct as I can and not draw out the review or anything here, but Fur Immer got me listening. Although minimalistic on the skin, the deeper you get, the more you start hearing. Whether this is due to subtle instrumentation or just sounds playing with your ears, it is quite entertaining. Some critique the "speed up slow down" tunes, but nonetheless its interesting to note the differences between the tracks. Its almost as if you are looking at the same picture from different angles, except you are looking at it with your ears. The distortions bring out peculiar visions thats for sure. And Super, is just, well. . .Super.

Noy? No........2005-04-10

As a big fan of 70's Krautrock, I've been intrigued by the buzz surrounding Neu! in hipster circles these days. They seem to enjoy a higher standing than excellent bands like Can, Popol Vuh and Kraftwerk, and my excitement increased when the cashier at the hip, indie-type record store practically gushed over my brilliant selection. So I rushed home to listen to it and.....was completely underwhelmed to say the least.

This band has quite the cult following, who I'm sure will be hitting that "unhelpful" button, but I'm sorry. I gotta call 'em the way I hear 'em. The entire second half of this record consists of the band taking two (rather mediocre) songs and then playing them at the wrong speeds like little kids playing with their parents' stereo. That's right, they actually recorded the songs being played at 16 rpm or 78 rpm or whatever, and expected people to both pay for and be entertained by it. To me it's "experimentalism" at it's most pretentious and annoying (not to mention lazy-how about just writing some songs or something?)

The opening "Fur Immer" is actually a very nice encapsulation of the Krautrock sound, as Neu! lays down some interesting synth and guitar textures over a driving beat. Unfortunately, the bass player's decision to play exactly one note throughout wears thin about halfway through the eleven minute running time. "Lila Engel" is instructive as an influence on the post-rock movement. Play this for any Mogwai fan and they'll instantly recognize the musical language.

Maybe I just picked the wrong introduction to the band. Maybe Neu! and Neu 75 are better, but after blowing sixteen bucks on this one I'm not sure I'm in a hurry to find out.

We're gonna do it anyway.......2005-02-19

First of all, let me say that once in a great while amazon gets the track listing slightly off. I bought the album tonight and it is sitting here in front of me as I write this. The album, I assume, is supposed to look as closely to the original vinyl as possible. It even has the songs split into two sections which are noted as Sides 1 and 2. The correct track listing should be:

1. Für Immer
2. Spitzenwualitat
3. Gedenkminute
4. Lila Engel
5. Neuschnee 78
6. Super 16
7. Neuschnee
8. Cassetteo
9. Super 78
10. Hallo Excentrico !
11. Super

On the back of the CD, what would have been side two of the original record release, is above what would have been side one. So if you do not happen to notice that they are labeled as side one and side two then you may be confused. However a CD as we all know only has one side.

Anyway, the album is brilliant. I'll bet Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother said some variation of "we're gonna do it anyway" a time or two in their careers as NEU! Just look at the record, the track listing is shoved all the way into the top left corner and takes a minute to figure out. Beyond that, once you listen to the album you'll notice something. For those familiar with turntable speeds, you'll know that Super 16 does not refer to the variation of 16mm motion picture film used to give a higher quality look when transfered to 35mm. If you know anything about the history of the turntable, records, and vinyl (in relation to sound recording) you'll know about the 16RPM records were used for voice recording and by Chrysler for the car stereo turntables that they jokingly used. They printed special versions of various albums in 16RPM. Yes, to answer your question, every bump your car hit caused the needle to scratch and most likely ruin you're album. The turntable was only good when the player was used while your car was at a complete stop. Anyway, they took the same song (on vinyl) that was recorded at 33 1/3 speed and ran it at 16 and 78 RPMs. They even included the 33 1/3RPM version. They even have another track (Neuschnee) at 33 1/3 were they run it at 78 and include both versions. I'm sure someone along the way said something to Dinger and Rother and they replied with some variation of "we're gonna do it anyway." Different versions of the same song? Hard to read track listing? They deserve some credit for doing what they want to do. It obviously looks like somewhere along the way they didn't take someone's advice and it was for the better!

The music holds up even under the technical aspects. Weak music is made even more weak with technical special effects. However, great music can be made even better with the same effects.

I'm only sad that each generation is farther removed from vinyl than the last. One day someone will see this album and say "what does 16 and 78 mean?"

Is there such a thing as avant-garde punk?.......2005-02-08

If so, it probably starts here. What do you do when you've finished recording half of your second album (despite you and your partner trying to pull it in opposite directions while dealing with screwy studio equipment), then run out of money and have your label refuse to advance you any more? Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother chalked one up for spite and finished Neu! 2 anyway, presumably through sheer force of will. Tracks were doubled, stretched, compressed, sped up, slowed down, remixed and voila - enough new material to finish the record. It probably wasn't intended to be avant-garde or a new experient in strange recording techniques, let alone to spawn a whole genre niche on its own, but it's amazing how things can take on a life of their own.

If Neu! self-titled was an exploration of simplicity in repetitive grooves, this album is the sound of that idea being gnawed at by gerbils, composted, half-torn apart, spit out in a mess of tangled tapes and reassembled by a frazzled sound engineer in a hurry on his day off. And I realize that makes it sound like a hopeless mess, but it's not, really. The off-the-wall wackiness is what makes the finished work so fresh and intriguing. "Super" closes the album out nicely with a trademark smooth-chillin Neu!groove, but before we get there we hear part of it once at half speed and once at a zippy hyper pace that leaves your head spinning. "Neuschnee" is put through a similar treatment to get "Neuschnee 78," and I can't even tell what the source for "Cassetto" was, since that track consists of a tape being chewed up in the player. Fun stuff.

Elsewhere some moments are sheer motorik satori, creating more of the same blissful clockwork-cruising grooves the first record did. The dreamy "Für Immer" alone is probably worth the price, traveling from beautiful highway cruise to trippy outer-space groove and back again without missing a beat. "Neuschnee" and "Lila Engel" (even though it's got some questionable vocals on the side) are similar patches of ear-pleasing Krautrock, which are usually enough to keep the flow of the whole thing listenable amid the freaky parts.

Neu! 2 may be my least favorite of the three and the most rarely listened to (as it probably will be to anyone who usually prefers the sound of a finished product to the sound of a half-baked one put through a broken paper shredder), but it's got its own musical value all the same. And of course "Für Immer" is sheer aural perfection any way you look at it. Go for Neu! '75 for the most listenable taste, then come here to make your day a little more surreal.

Neu! - 'Neu! 2' (Astralwerks).......2004-04-26

Nice follow up to the band's first lp,originally released in 1972,having eleven tracks.I was impressed with the fluid dynamics of "Fur Immer"(meaning 'Forever') and with the somewhat trend setting industrial "Spitzenqualitat".I notice that this reissue tends to change moods more often than the first one did.Apparently,Rother and Dinger stuck a bunch of fillers on 'Neu! 2'(I heard they ran out of funds during the middle of the lp's recording session)that were previously released with the speeds altered,which are "Neuschnee 78","Super 16" and the 78 rpm-sounding "Super 78".Clever.Don't worry about your CD player,it's fine.Several stops,skips,etc here and there."Hallo Excentrico" and "Super" are probably the best remixes.Certain fans of experimental just MAY find themselves drooling over this title.

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The Strauss Family: Waltzes, Polkas & Overtures - Willi Boskovsky/Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna (6 CD's) Johann Strauss , Johann Strauss II , Josef Strauss , Eduard Strauss , Willi Boskovsky , Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna , and Vienna Symphony Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Johann Strauss Sr. | Strauss Sr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Josef Strauss | Strauss, Josef | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Lehár: Waltzes Strauss: Waltzes, Polkas & Marches Waldteufel: Famous Waltzes Strauss: The Best of Vienna Lehar: Die Lustige Witwe, Der Graf von Luxembourg, Paganini, Der Zarewitsch, Friederike, Das Land des Lachelns, Giuditta (13 CD's) ASIN: B0002RUAFG Release Date: 2004-11-02

Tracks:

1. Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228
2. Sigh Galop, Op. 9
3. Blue Danube, Op. 314
4. Artist's Life, Op. 316
5. Tales From The Vienna Woods, Op. 325
6. Wine, Woman And Song, Op. 333
7. Vienna Blood, Op. 354
8. Roses From The South, Op. 388
9. Voices Of Spring, Op. 410
10. Emperor Waltz, Op. 437

Tracks:

1. Features Section Waltz, Op. 293
2. Flight Of Fancy, Op. 215
3. Accelerations, Op. 234
4. Ever More Cheerful, Op. 235
5. Carnival's Ambassador, Op. 270
6. Leading Article, Op. 273
7. Morning Papers, Op. 279
8. Pamphlets, Op. 300
9. New Vienna, Op. 342

Tracks:

1. Carnival Pictures, Op. 357
2. Where The Lemon Trees Blossom, Op. 364
3. Du Und Du, Op. 367
4. Kiss Waltz, Op. 400
5. Lagoon Waltz, Op. 411
6. Treasure Waltz, Op. 418
7. Viennese Women, Op. 427
8. Danube Maidens, Op. 427
9. Explosions-Polka, Op. 43
10. Champagner-Polka, Op. 211
11. Fancy-Dress Parade, Op. 240
12. Episode, Op. 296

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1. Pleased As Punch, Op. 301
2. Express, Op. 311
3. Light As A Feather, Op. 319
4. Thunder And Lightning, Op. 324
5. Long Live Hungary, Op. 332
6. Im Krapfenwald'l, Op. 336
7. At The Double, Op. 348
8. From The Banks Of The Danube, Op. 356
9. Greetings From Austria, Op. 359
10. At The Hunt, Op. 373
11. I-Tipferl, Op. 377
12. Bandits' Galop, Op. 378
13. New Pizzicato Polka, Op. 449
14. The Carnival In Rome
15. The Bat
16. Cagliostro In Vienna
17. Blindman's Bluff

Tracks:

1. The Queen's Lace Handkerchief
2. A Night In Venice
3. The Gypsy Baron
4. Pearls Of Love, Op. 39
5. Village Swallows From Austria, Op. 164
6. Secret Powers Of Attraction, Op. 173
7. Delirious, Op. 212
8. Watercolours, Op. 258
9. My Life's Course Is Love And Joy, Op. 263

Tracks:

1. Masks, Op. 33
2. Forward!, Op. 127
3. Off On Holiday, Op. 133
4. The Gossip, Op. 144
5. Woman's Heart, Op. 166
6. Sport, Op. 170
7. All Sorts, Op. 219
8. In Flight, Op. 230
9. Chatterboxes, Op. 245
10. Typographical Letters, Op. 252
11. Fireproof!, Op. 269
12. Without A Care!, Op. 271
13. Artists Greeting, Op. 274
14. Jockey, Op. 278
15. Line Clear!, Op. 45
16. Where One Laughs And Lives, Op. 108
17. Non-Stop, Op. 112
18. Below The Enns, Op. 121
19. Alpine Rose, Op. 127
20. Delight In Travel, Op. 166
21. Out Of Hand, Op. 168
22. Carnival Letter, Op. 203
23. With Pleasure, Op. 228
24. With The Breakes Off, Op. 238

Average customer rating:

In Clear View Andrew Neu Manufacturer: Andrew Neu Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Babysoul Something To Ride 2 Ready to Play Grand Central Crystal City ASIN: B000MAHZC4 Release Date: 2007-01-01

Tracks:

1. Celebration
2. Wine
3. Moving On
4. Come To Me
5. Seven Mile Bridge
6. Night Lights
7. I Heard It In The Night
8. You Are
9. Shadow Dancing
10. Clear View
11. Sob City
12. Babe
13. D'aja Wu
14. Blame It On Rio
15. Easy Pass

Product Description

Produced by smooth jazz luminary Brian Bromberg with performers Jeff Lorber, Dave Weckl, Vinnie Colaiuta, Doc Gibbs, Kevin Toney and Gerald Veasley. Featuring the singles Celebration and Wine.

Average customer rating: Permanently altered state of musical awareness "...a decade late yet right on time, dollar-wise." More Major Minimalism

John Adams: Shaker Loops: Light Over Water Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Adams | Adams, John | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Computer | Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Naive & Sentimental Music Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians Adams: Harmonium John Adams - Harmonielehre · The Chairman Dances · Tromba lontana · Short Ride in a Fast Machine / Sir Simon Rattle ASIN: B000000R2C Release Date: 1994-04-05

Tracks:

1. Shaker Loops: Part I. Shaking And Trembling - Part II. Hymning Slews - Part III. Loops And Verses - Part IV. A Final Shaking
2. Light Over Water: Part I.
3. Light Over Water: Part II.
4. Light Over Water: Part III.

Customer Reviews:

Permanently altered state of musical awareness.......2005-10-27

When New Albion records brought out the LP Light Over Water by John Adams in 1983, I was flipped into a new sonic world. "Flipped"? Well, it is transcendant music, and I experienced a new emergent state of mind from which I still get a contact high (and there was no external substance involved!).

What's especially interesting about this early piece (Adams has called it, "My forgotten [master]piece") is that it beautifully establishes John Adams' unique musical vocabulary/sytax/style that can be discerned in nearly all of his subsequent work--all the way through the recent (2003/5) 2nd violin concerto, entitled Dharma At Big Sur.

"...a decade late yet right on time, dollar-wise.".......2001-02-01

John Adams calculatingly stepped into the role formerly held by Aaron Copland &, perhaps, Leonard Bernstein: Unofficial official American Composer. The job of this composer is to channel durable avant garde ideas into compositions suitable for a Kennedy Center performance. John Adams is a fine composer. The only hitch is that the so-called minimalist techniques of Steve Reich & Philip Glass had already achieved popular currency, while more "difficult" composers such as Terry Riley, Lamont Young & Pauline Oliveros had found smaller but equally enthusiastic audiences. Also, the minimalist "sound" had crossed over into pop music by the early Seventies, influencing both disco & new wave.

Glass moved into experimental opera. Reich returned to his spiritual concerns. & strong political viewpoints. So here comes a two-fer of "Shaker Loops" (1977/revised 1983) & "Light Over Water," the latter by 1983 a decade late yet right on time, dollar-wise. The road lay open for the grand Verdian/PBS hoopla of "Nixon in China."

"Light Over Water" is a charming & listen-able extended composition by John Adams, reassuringly subtitled "symphony for brass instruments and synthesizers." It's nice that one doesn't need to flip a record halfway through. "Shaker Loops" is a better work, albeit as contrived an "Americana" creation as an Andrew Wyeth painting, & lots more fun performed by a larger ensemble, anyway.

But what's the point? Early electronic masterworks by Pauline Oliveros & Morton Subotnick that delight the ear & mind are back in print. Reich, Glass, Young & Riley are well represented in the catalogue. You can still purchase the Talking Heads' "Remain in Light," produced in the minimalist style by Brian Eno. Anyone for Kraftwerk? Laurie Anderson? Sonic Youth? Balinese shadow puppet music? Surf guitars? Rev up yer media player & explore. You can thank me later.

Bob Rixon

More Major Minimalism.......2001-01-18

These are two more fine works by minimalist composer John Adams. If one appreciates Adams' style of composition, this CD is well worth acquiring.

Average customer rating:

Neu Konservatiw Laibach Manufacturer: Cold Spring UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Laibach - The Videos ASIN: B00008WG3K Release Date: 2006-04-03

Tracks:

1. Vier Personen
2. Nova Akropola
3. Vade Retro Satanas
4. Die Liebe
5. Der du Herausforderst
6. Der Staat

Album Description

Remastered reissue of the industrial rock act's classic 1985 album. Coldspring. 2005.

Album Details

The Official Release of the Semi-official, Legendary 1000 Only Vinyl Album from 1985 (A Highly Sought-after Collectors Piece!). Lovingly Remastered, with an Eight Page Book of New Text About Laibach and Nsk of the Time by Alexei Monroe (Commissioned Exclusively for this Release by Laibach), plus Never Before Seen Images from the Nsk Archive. This Album Finds Laibach at their Most Powerful, Orchestral and Anthemic!

Average customer rating:

Neu Throne Crionics Manufacturer: Candlelight ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000OLHGCA Release Date: 2007-07-31

Tracks:

1. Introduction
2. New Pantheon
3. Arrival 2033
4. Neuthronaeon
5. Superiors
6. Hell Earth
7. Humanmeat Cargo
8. Outer Empire
9. Frozen Hope
10. When the Sun Goes out...
11. Black Warriors [*] [*]
12. Humanmeat Cargo [Video]

Average customer rating: 'A Homage To Neu!' - Various Artists (Cleopatra) Strengths and limitations Not-quite NEU!, but...

Homage to Neu Various Artists Manufacturer: Cleopatra ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Krautrock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000007OEM Release Date: 1998-06-02

Tracks:

1. Neutronics 98 (A Tribute To Conny Plank) - Michael Rother
2. Hallo Gallo - Download
3. Weissensee - Autechre
4. Funfundsiebzig (Based On E-Musik) - Dead Voices On Air
5. Fur Immer - Khan
6. Hero - Sunroof
7. Interstate (Using A Sample From Hallo Gallo) - System 7
8. Super - Legendary Pink Dots
9. Lila Engel - James Plotkin
10. I'm Gluck - Jeff Greinke

Customer Reviews:

'A Homage To Neu!' - Various Artists (Cleopatra).......2004-05-20

This HAS to be one of the best tribute CD's I think I've ever heard.Neu! was a German duo made up of reknown guitarists Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger.They more or less defined the term 'krautrock' with their three outstanding lp's in the early '70's.'A Homage To Neu!' features pretty much ten,of the band's best works.The tracks that I dug the most are "Hallo Gallo" by Download and "Im Gluck" covered by Jeff Greinke.Other gems would be "Super" by the Legendary Pink Dots and "Lila Engel" done by James Plotkin.I nearly forgot to mention the opening tune,done by Rother himself,it's a nine minute spacey piece,a tribute to producer the late Connie Plank titled "Neutronics 98".A true keeper.

Strengths and limitations.......2000-09-25

The album is quite variable. If you were one of the many followers of Neu (Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger) when their 'motorik' style music was WAY ahead of its time (the '70's) this album will disappoint. However, it does contain two stellar cuts: Rother's homage to Conny Plank ('Neutronics 98') and the piece by Steve Hillage's System 7 ('Interstate'). However, most of the remainder of this CD is quite dispensable. If you are new to Neu (!) you might find the early Neu albums, now being released on the Japanese label Captain Trip a better introduction. Also worth investigating: Rother's 'Sterntaler' and 'Katzenmusk' and Dinger's 'La Dusseldorf' albums

Not-quite NEU!, but..........1999-06-24

NEU!'s three 1970s releases are important, seminal works to many varied musicians these days. And while this release sums up the impact that NEU!'s music has had on a wide cross-section of the techno and ambient set, it misses that which has been visited on the rock and noise crowd, probably best-exemplified by Sonic Youth and their admitted NEU! fascination. Still, these reduxes really have a great appeal, and the addition of a new Rother track here only adds to the musical value. But it doesn't quite add up to the real Holy Grail here, i.e. the official CD reissues of the NEU! LPs.

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1. Niceland
2. Opus: Non Stop Remixes by Hex Hector [Import]
3. Out of Breach (Manchester's Revenge)
4. Oyebo Soul
5. Portrait-Robot [Enhanced] [Import]
6. Re:Mix
7. Reset
8. Rick Springfield - 12 Inch Collection [Import]
9. SALUTE TO HIGHLIFE PIONEERS
10. Silence [CD-single] [Import]

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Boogie Dawn

Hans Paisson; Laszlo Simon; Eva Knardahl

Live at the Bottom Line, New York 1983 [Live] [Import]

Music: Pass the Biscuits

I'm a Fool to Care: The Complete Recordings 1958-1977

Kings & Queens

I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray

Mozart - Don Giovanni / Furlanetto · Tomlinson · Salminen · Heilmann · Pertusi · Cuberli · Meier · Rodgers · Barenboim

Greatest Songs of 70's Country [Karaoke]

Giros [Import]

INXS - Greatest Hits

Homebrewer's, Vol. 2

Jagger 67 [CD-single] [Import]

David Nixon's Peter Pan

Man with the Golden Trumpet