For me , Pink Moon is his most beautiful album . Lots of people find it depressing but its haunting melancholy warms me deep inside . Harvest Breed , From the Morning....
Yes, Conny Plank produced Ultravox's "Rage in Eden" but, more importantly, he produced Ultravox's "Systems of Romance" (1978), ft John Foxx, which is considered as the first full-fledged synth-oriented new-wave album in history (it influenced Gary Numan, Human League,...).
@@bowness1 Thanks Tim! Certainly impressed with your two's knowledge of the lesser known and/or underappreciated - and happy to see a little more love being sent Sunwheel Dance's way.
Absolutely loved the discussion on krautrock! My favorite "movement" in music history, for sure! It's incredible how the bands were so different from one another, definitely something unique and created by the socio economic conditions of Germany at the time.
I visited folk clubs in the 1970s. I didn't hear about Nick Drake until the 1980s. I never understood why. I heard his voice in a record store in Chiswick and bought a compilation album. Steeleye Span had two hits in the top twenty in the 1970s. They appeared on Top of the Pops. They were the most popular folk band in the UK in the mid-1970s. I liked Tangerine Dream, Faust, and Can, but it was difficult to hear Kraut Rock. British radio was crap in the 1970s.
I don't have ONE favourite album, but 'Zeit' is definitely my favourite Tangerine Dream album. Can, Cluster, Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze (though I prefer 'Blackdance' or 'Picture Music' to 'Irrlicht'), Neu, Nick Drake (for me it's 'Five Leaves Left' just slightly, but 'Pink Moon' and 'Bryter Layter' are also oustanding albums), Fairport Convention/Sandy Denny - all wonderful stuff. I've been meaning to give Tony Conrad a listen for some time...
I first heard Zeit in my late teens (mid-1980s). I went in having no idea what to expect. But something changed in me when I heard it. Zeit, probably more than any other album ever, got me to listen to music in whole new ways. It remains my favourite TD album to this day and one of my all-time favourite albums. Like you, Steven, I never get tired of listening to it.
My knowledge of Steven Wilson appeared in a rather random way. In the early 2000's I became interested in 5.1 and at some point I became aware that some my "favorite 5.1 mixes" were done by a guy named Steven Wilson. One of these was an album by Porcubine tree and to my surprise he had not only mixed this album, but he also performed as a composer and musician! ( Apparantly I'm not a diligent reader of the creditential notes ) Having one artist at the pin board, often leads to other artists, thus, Tim Bowness. A good friend recommended these podcasts, which I have now somewhat reservedly tuned in to. But my built-in skepticism has been put to shame. It is an exquisite pleasure to hear these two gentlemen discuss the subject alone, because they are astonishingly well informed and show a detailed knowledge of these mostly little-known German artists. The pre-punk and super minimalism , doesn't relly fit well on my musical palette, but never the less.......The German Kraut-rock scene had many very exciting names to offer at the time. I have attendet to two Steven Wilson concerts in Århus, Denmark. In one of them, I wrote a note to S.W via the merchandise sale and suggested him to make 5.1 mix of Gentle Giant, Tangerine Dream and several others. I sincerely doubt he ever ever read that note, but it DID happen....! He he.... If you are in to surround sound, Steven Wilson is a name you have to pay attention to. Kurt Lilienthal
Another excellent episode! More albums to discover and more to revisit. I was listening to Babbacombe Lee again only a couple of days ago (as you do having just returned from Fairport's Cropredy Convention) and it struck me that yes this is very much a Folk-Rock Concept album, particularly with the spoken word pieces to accompany the story. Coincidentally I have a pal who has worked with Steven that lives in same village that John 'Babbacombe' Lee inhabited - he showed me the cottage the last time I was there. I discovered Nick Drake c/o Dream Academy’s Life In A Northern Town which led me to purchase the Fruit Tree box set on vinyl. 1988 or 1989 I think. Also while I'm here, Can's Monster Movie is my favourite album of theirs within the genre discussed (not 1972 obvs). I need to dive into more of the German drone albums discussed here. I enjoy listening to Zeit in the same way Mr Wilson does. 👍
Florian Fricke wasn't the only person who owned a MOOG IIIP in Germany in 1972, strangely his next door neighbour Eberhard Schoener had one as well. HANSA Tonstudio also had one later in the year (later sold to Tangerine Dream)
I, too, love ambient music and have been buying lots since 2000 triggered initially by Moby. I have a number of Tangerine Dream tracks from iTunes and have been considering ZEIT for quite awhile (vinyl, of course!). May take the leap. The Tony Conrad & Faust album has really caught my ear: thanks for the heads-up on this one. Neu! sounds incredible! Really enjoying your discussions about music/great albums.
If I was going to choose two singers, it would be Sandy Denny & Tim Buckley. The Nick Drake albums are all amazing too. What I'd really like to hear is a 'Nick Drake Unplugged' album with just him and the acoustic isolated from the first two albums. I think, if push came to shove, it would have to be Pink Moon too but I'm really splitting hairs here. Couldn't not have all three Nick Drake albums. We're talking gold, platinum & diamond. Have I missed 1971 as that was a great year too.
1972 Prog Rock was definitely starting to cool down depending on where your interests lie (I was always a very big fan of early prog, canterbury stuff like Egg from the turn of the decade) Nektar A Tab in the Ocean, Gentle Giant Three Friends, Khan Space Shanty, PFM - Per Un Amico, Yes - Close to the Edge, Genesis Foxtrot, ELP Trilogy (Definitely ELP's best album by miles), Caravan's Waterloo Lilly which was a massive change to their sound, and a successful one too.
Ah SANDY DENNY, , such a Haunting, , Wonderful, Very British Voice, , Personally I prefer her Solo Albums, , “Just Like An Old Fashioned Waltz” being my Favorite, , Richard Thompson’s guitar lead work on those is the perfect Mate to her Voice, , also adore “Fotheringay” , , Her lyrical Storytelling is Wonderful.
Ambient music has always moved me. And German music (Kraftwerk included) was my exploration ever since Einsturzende Neubauten sonically punched me in the face with Halber Mensch. 😅
Drawn to very popular, well known vinyls. Most of the magic is found more under the radar, as it were! Popol Vuh's music was relatively average, but when used as soundtracks became magical at times!
I made a 1972 favourites list a couple of years ago. It went (best at top) Kraftwerk 2 Brigitte Fontaine Faust - So Far Klausz Schulzr - Irrlicht Manu Dibango - O Boso Roxy Music Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys David Bedford - Nurses Songs with Elephants Novos Baianos - Acabou Chorale Gentle Giant - Three Friends Cluster II Joachim Skogsborg - Jola Rota Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen Iskra 1903 Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing Roger Nicholson - Nonsuch for Dulcimer Francie Armstrong - Beautiful on the Water Xhol - Motherfuckers Czelaw Nieman - Nieman vol 1 A very krautrock list. I think Kraftwerk 2 is the best of the year and my favourite Kraftwerk album.
That is one of my top five records, but there is next to no rock in it. Perhaps there are other contenders like Giles, Giles and Fripp, America by The Nice, Freak Out maybe ? I don’t know.
Ironically, Jerome Froese calls Zeit the worst TD album. Great to hear Popol Vuh got their deserved mention in your conversation. Love to hear you both talk about music. Being accomplished artists yourselves you never stopped being fans of music, which is something I love about your music - one can hear it’s made by passionates and not spoiled rockstars!
Big Kraan fan their Rhythm guitar player is on another level. I believe Ed Wynne cites him as a huge influence on his playing. Sadly no Wigwam album in 72 one of my favourite euro prog bands.
hey guys, if we talk about pre punk and old music that sounds like punk, you should check out the band Los Saicos from Peru, and their song Demolicion from 1965! sounds extremely punk for the age!
The problem with Sandy’s albums after North Star and esp after Sandy was the production. Listening to the outtakes or performances where it’s just Sandy on piano or guitar really brings out how the production used by (hubby) Trevor Lucas was poorly conceived. Thank g-d for those BBC, etc, recordings!
If you think that Trevor Lucas put those arrangements on her lps without her wanting them there, you don't know much about her personality. It was the fashion at the time; Nick Drake's are similarly arranged but no-one ever complains.....
@@markfuller3948 I know as much about the narrative as you. Yes, I agree Sandy wanted much of the bad production choices, but it’s the job of the producer to advise what are poor decisions. The production on her albums became worse over time and it is Trevor’s name as producer. Would Glynn Johns (eg) have done better? He certainly would have told her what worked best for her songs & voice
If we just had the albums from 72, most viewers here would be satisfied. Neu, Can and Pink Moon are hits for me. Interesting that in this year no albums from King Crimson or Led Zeppelin. Let's hope Volume 4 by Black Sabbath is featured in a episode.
All Cluster albums were done as a duo... Y'know since Cluster was a duo. Obviously excluding the record they did with Eno. And then, obviously once again, excluding the records done as Harmonia, which was a trio.
Lifemask by our man Roy Harper came out in '72 as well but I guess you can't cram everything in. And anyway.. how do you explain "The Lords Prayer". It was the album that introduced me to him and I have been a Roy fan ever since. And now Nick of course.
Indirectly yes: it introduced a robotic / motorik kind of rhythm, which developed throughout the new-wave period (Simple Minds,...) and the EBM wave (DAF, Front 242), which, together with disco and rap, was a founding element of dance music (new-beat, techno, trance,...).
No love for Power Pop pioneers Big Star with their ‘#1 Record’? The first American Power Pop Band hot on the heels of Badfinger whom I guess invented the genre. Love the show despite my grumblings btw.
First time I heard Zeit, today.. It actually has some depth to it, I like it. I gave it a miss in the 70s, wouldn't listen to Td at all, due to bent cold sidewalks, etc.
I was also a big fan of Tangerine Dream's Zeit but I felt Klaus Schulze's Cyborg album surpassed Zeit in a way I couldn't imagine at the time. I would joke that Zeit sounded like "ghosts in a tin can" but Cyborg embodied the otherness in such a serene way. Almost seductively so. Normally I could joke about albums I like because "this sounds like...." but Schulze's Cyborg I can't because it just really envelops the listener from start to finish. It's made me break it out again one more time.
Zeit is great but not my personal favourite of theirs,haven't got a favourite. I think Pheadra, Rubycon and especially Alpha Century and Atem are better.
Agree with you gents on Sandy Denny, some great songs on her albums, too much filler. Fairport with her (and RT) were peak British folk. She never met that again, even with Fotheringay
Brian Eno invented ambient music, no arguments. Edgar Froese made amazing music but didn't create the concept or define the term. But saying that Eno was obviously inspired by german kosmische Musik.
The problem with all that German electronic stuff is you could have gone out and spent a thousand dollars on albums back in the day and not found anything particularly interesting. It literally takes 50 years to sort through and appreciate.
Send us your album reviews and questions for inclusion on future episodes of The Album Years, we'd love to hear from you! fanlist.com/thealbumyears
Great to hear Ege Bamyasi by Can getting a mention. What an incredible band, and this album is up there with their very best.
Gentlemen Steve Reich had started experimenting with sound collage in 1964/65 ..great to see you mention Neu! and of course Zeit
Pink Moon is a top 10 album for me, gorgeous melodies and incredible lyrics
“KrautRock” was for me a rage against post war Schlager Music
“Pink Moon” is a masterpiece ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
River Man from Five Leaves Left...😀
For me , Pink Moon is his most beautiful album . Lots of people find it depressing but its haunting melancholy warms me deep inside .
Harvest Breed , From the Morning....
But a bit gay
@@miguelmelchior986 strange thing to say ....do you actually know anything about Nick Drake ????
For me, Five leaves Left wins out due to the gorgeous string arrangements by the talented Robert Kirby.
SO nice hearing them talk about Fairport and Steeleye.
I have read somewhere that the first two albums by Yoko Ono fom 1970 and 1971 was very influential and popular among many of the krautrock groups.
"Mindtrain" and "Greenfield Morning" is pure proto-kraut, at least the non-sound collage/white noise corner of the genre.
Speaking of Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson's 'Henry the Human Fly' came out in 1972. An idiosyncratic but brilliant album.
Great you mention TD, probably my favourite artist, besides you guys ofcourse 😂.
Again a fascinating episode, so much to listen to 🙏
Imagine coming into adolescence in post-war Germany and realising what your parents had been involved in.
You need to bring that If you wanna understand krautrock
thank you Steven for introducing me to the track Saucy Sailor, what a banger!
I'm glad that my favorites Tangerine Dream Dream Syndicate and Can are in your rated list of 70s..
Thank you Tim and Steven..🙏😌💯💎📀♦️💞💖💕🌬🌊🎶
Yes, Conny Plank produced Ultravox's "Rage in Eden" but, more importantly, he produced Ultravox's "Systems of Romance" (1978), ft John Foxx, which is considered as the first full-fledged synth-oriented new-wave album in history (it influenced Gary Numan, Human League,...).
Does this count as a "schoolboy error'? They of all people should know that Plank did a trio of Ultravox albums (IMNSHO Ultravox's 3 best albums)
@@keithdawe5512 Ha! Ha! Ha! includes the first synth-new-wave song: Hiroshima Mon Amour.
He also produced Kowalski Schlagende Wetter.
Thanks for these in depth discussions. For more relatively unknown folk beauty from 1972, I really love Bruce Cockburn’s “Sunwheel Dance”
You're right, that is a beauty.
@@bowness1 Thanks Tim! Certainly impressed with your two's knowledge of the lesser known and/or underappreciated - and happy to see a little more love being sent Sunwheel Dance's way.
Tim Bowness seems so comprehensive, sensitive, nuanced and knowledgeable about music-----all while remaining as cool as the other side of the pillow.
Zeit is great and the beginning of a great run of albums. Zeit / Phaedra / Rubycon are great meditative synth albums.
Not forgetting 'Atem'...
Absolutely loved the discussion on krautrock! My favorite "movement" in music history, for sure! It's incredible how the bands were so different from one another, definitely something unique and created by the socio economic conditions of Germany at the time.
My favourite Tangerine Dream album is "Ricochet" because it captures the haunting, gothic, even mystic atmosphere of their concerts
great album, but mostly studio, apart from a section on side 2
Hear hear! The opening of side b is nothing short of angelic.
Huge thanks for the time stamps. This is a lot of music to digest and it's nice to have all these great albums listed.
What a time to be alive if you were tuned into all this music.....
take a shot every time steven mentions zeit
I would add Wolf City by Amon Düül II to the albums you mentioned as high points of 1972 era kraut rock.
A monumental album 😎
Your best episode yet, bringing attention to this music.
Terry Riley in C in 1964. Daevid Allen knew him already. About Neu, it had in common with Soft Machine, Mike Oldfield, etc was Minimalism
Neu!, were not.... etc...
@@ec6455 As a composer, i tell you What Neu! had in common was repetition. Very minimalistic approach
1971 Catherine Howe .What a beautiful place Brilliant British folk album .So underrated .And a copy now well over a grand
I visited folk clubs in the 1970s. I didn't hear about Nick Drake until the 1980s. I never understood why. I heard his voice in a record store in Chiswick and bought a compilation album. Steeleye Span had two hits in the top twenty in the 1970s. They appeared on Top of the Pops. They were the most popular folk band in the UK in the mid-1970s. I liked Tangerine Dream, Faust, and Can, but it was difficult to hear Kraut Rock. British radio was crap in the 1970s.
It wasn’t until Radio Caroline became an album only radio station that you could regularly hear this sort of music on the radio.
I don't have ONE favourite album, but 'Zeit' is definitely my favourite Tangerine Dream album. Can, Cluster, Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze (though I prefer 'Blackdance' or 'Picture Music' to 'Irrlicht'), Neu, Nick Drake (for me it's 'Five Leaves Left' just slightly, but 'Pink Moon' and 'Bryter Layter' are also oustanding albums), Fairport Convention/Sandy Denny - all wonderful stuff. I've been meaning to give Tony Conrad a listen for some time...
I first heard Zeit in my late teens (mid-1980s). I went in having no idea what to expect. But something changed in me when I heard it. Zeit, probably more than any other album ever, got me to listen to music in whole new ways. It remains my favourite TD album to this day and one of my all-time favourite albums. Like you, Steven, I never get tired of listening to it.
My knowledge of Steven Wilson appeared in a rather random way. In the early 2000's I became interested in 5.1 and at some point I became aware that some my "favorite 5.1 mixes" were done by a guy named Steven Wilson. One of these was an album by Porcubine tree and to my surprise he had not only mixed this album, but he also performed as a composer and musician! ( Apparantly I'm not a diligent reader of the creditential notes )
Having one artist at the pin board, often leads to other artists, thus, Tim Bowness.
A good friend recommended these podcasts, which I have now somewhat reservedly tuned in to.
But my built-in skepticism has been put to shame.
It is an exquisite pleasure to hear these two gentlemen discuss the subject alone, because they are astonishingly well informed and show a detailed knowledge of these mostly little-known German artists. The pre-punk and super minimalism , doesn't relly fit well on my musical palette, but never the less.......The German Kraut-rock scene had many very exciting names to offer at the time.
I have attendet to two Steven Wilson concerts in Århus, Denmark. In one of them, I wrote a note to S.W via the merchandise sale and suggested him to make 5.1 mix of Gentle Giant, Tangerine Dream and several others. I sincerely doubt he ever ever read that note, but it DID happen....!
He he....
If you are in to surround sound, Steven Wilson is a name you have to pay attention to.
Kurt Lilienthal
Thank you Steven Wilson for your music and The Album Years. I am 33 and have just discovered Krautock. Shame on me.
A great 10 mins about Pink Moon , have you both talked that long about a single record before ? I think not ....a classic ...thanks gents
Another excellent episode! More albums to discover and more to revisit.
I was listening to Babbacombe Lee again only a couple of days ago (as you do having just returned from Fairport's Cropredy Convention) and it struck me that yes this is very much a Folk-Rock Concept album, particularly with the spoken word pieces to accompany the story.
Coincidentally I have a pal who has worked with Steven that lives in same village that John 'Babbacombe' Lee inhabited - he showed me the cottage the last time I was there.
I discovered Nick Drake c/o Dream Academy’s Life In A Northern Town which led me to purchase the Fruit Tree box set on vinyl. 1988 or 1989 I think.
Also while I'm here, Can's Monster Movie is my favourite album of theirs within the genre discussed (not 1972 obvs).
I need to dive into more of the German drone albums discussed here. I enjoy listening to Zeit in the same way Mr Wilson does. 👍
Florian Fricke wasn't the only person who owned a MOOG IIIP in Germany in 1972, strangely his next door neighbour Eberhard Schoener had one as well. HANSA Tonstudio also had one later in the year (later sold to Tangerine Dream)
Greatest Teutonic album of 1972 was Amon Düul 2: Wolf City.
Disappointed (GUTTED) you blokes didnt use my 15 sec review of Ege Bamyasi... oh well... next time! 😂😂😂
I love this podcast! Are you guys thinking about start reviewing/commenting new releases?
Both the Tangs and Fairport were faves at Uni. Although Faust were best for pre exam revision.
I love the Fairport song " Sailors Life' and Steeleye Span album "Hark The Village Wait"
electronic album from Klause Schulze Cyborg
Love Nick and Jeff Buckley,Northern Sky is beautiful as is Jeffs Last Goodbye
Lovely job
Esto es increible muchachos!
Horslips' The Tain gives Babbacombe Lee a good run for its money as progressive folk-rock concept LP. Their first album is also grand.
First time I heard Black Eyed Dog from ND it was 2001....I was hooked on Nick Drake
I, too, love ambient music and have been buying lots since 2000 triggered initially by Moby. I have a number of Tangerine Dream tracks from iTunes and have been considering ZEIT for quite awhile (vinyl, of course!). May take the leap. The Tony Conrad & Faust album has really caught my ear: thanks for the heads-up on this one. Neu! sounds incredible! Really enjoying your discussions about music/great albums.
HERE WE GOOOOO
ah cool...for some reason, this Tangerine Dream escaped my sight
If I was going to choose two singers, it would be Sandy Denny & Tim Buckley. The Nick Drake albums are all amazing too. What I'd really like to hear is a 'Nick Drake Unplugged' album with just him and the acoustic isolated from the first two albums. I think, if push came to shove, it would have to be Pink Moon too but I'm really splitting hairs here. Couldn't not have all three Nick Drake albums. We're talking gold, platinum & diamond.
Have I missed 1971 as that was a great year too.
You both have some influence, I see Pink Moon is back in the Amazon UK vinyl bestsellers list… and rightly so.
I just bought the Neu! debut album (white vinyl) NEU! that you talked about and all I can say about the record is "where have been all my life!?"
I could argue Comus' First Utterance is a folk concept album that predates the Fairport Convention album.
1972 Prog Rock was definitely starting to cool down depending on where your interests lie (I was always a very big fan of early prog, canterbury stuff like Egg from the turn of the decade) Nektar A Tab in the Ocean, Gentle Giant Three Friends, Khan Space Shanty, PFM - Per Un Amico, Yes - Close to the Edge, Genesis Foxtrot, ELP Trilogy (Definitely ELP's best album by miles), Caravan's Waterloo Lilly which was a massive change to their sound, and a successful one too.
Ah SANDY DENNY, , such a Haunting, , Wonderful, Very British Voice, , Personally I prefer her Solo Albums, , “Just Like An Old Fashioned Waltz” being my Favorite, , Richard Thompson’s guitar lead work on those is the perfect Mate to her Voice, , also adore “Fotheringay” , , Her lyrical Storytelling is Wonderful.
Ambient music has always moved me. And German music (Kraftwerk included) was my exploration ever since Einsturzende Neubauten sonically punched me in the face with Halber Mensch. 😅
Drawn to very popular, well known vinyls. Most of the magic is found more under the radar, as it were! Popol Vuh's music was relatively average, but when used as soundtracks became magical at times!
I made a 1972 favourites list a couple of years ago. It went (best at top)
Kraftwerk 2
Brigitte Fontaine
Faust - So Far
Klausz Schulzr - Irrlicht
Manu Dibango - O Boso
Roxy Music
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
David Bedford - Nurses Songs with Elephants
Novos Baianos - Acabou Chorale
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Cluster II
Joachim Skogsborg - Jola Rota
Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
Iskra 1903
Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing
Roger Nicholson - Nonsuch for Dulcimer
Francie Armstrong - Beautiful on the Water
Xhol - Motherfuckers
Czelaw Nieman - Nieman vol 1
A very krautrock list. I think Kraftwerk 2 is the best of the year and my favourite Kraftwerk album.
hangmans beautiful daughter by incredible string band is the first prog folk album
That is one of my top five records, but there is next to no rock in it. Perhaps there are other contenders like Giles, Giles and Fripp, America by The Nice, Freak Out maybe ? I don’t know.
Ironically, Jerome Froese calls Zeit the worst TD album.
Great to hear Popol Vuh got their deserved mention in your conversation.
Love to hear you both talk about music. Being accomplished artists yourselves you never stopped being fans of music, which is something I love about your music - one can hear it’s made by passionates and not spoiled rockstars!
Don’t forget to mention Grobschnitt and Eroc
Big Kraan fan their Rhythm guitar player is on another level. I believe Ed Wynne cites him as a huge influence on his playing. Sadly no Wigwam album in 72 one of my favourite euro prog bands.
Kraan and wigwam. Superb bands . Big ozrics fan too.
@@paulcollins5586 I adore Wigwam, I think 'Being' is my favourite prog album of all time. :)
hey guys, if we talk about pre punk and old music that sounds like punk, you should check out the band Los Saicos from Peru, and their song Demolicion from 1965! sounds extremely punk for the age!
The problem with Sandy’s albums after North Star and esp after Sandy was the production. Listening to the outtakes or performances where it’s just Sandy on piano or guitar really brings out how the production used by (hubby) Trevor Lucas was poorly conceived. Thank g-d for those BBC, etc, recordings!
A very good point. The BBC sessions, and several of the album outtakes, are superb.
If you think that Trevor Lucas put those arrangements on her lps without her wanting them there, you don't know much about her personality. It was the fashion at the time; Nick Drake's are similarly arranged but no-one ever complains.....
@@markfuller3948 I know as much about the narrative as you. Yes, I agree Sandy wanted much of the bad production choices, but it’s the job of the producer to advise what are poor decisions. The production on her albums became worse over time and it is Trevor’s name as producer. Would Glynn Johns (eg) have done better? He certainly would have told her what worked best for her songs & voice
Zeit makes me feel like I'm lost and alone on a haunted spaceship.
Steven give Tim a shot at talking
If we just had the albums from 72, most viewers here would be satisfied. Neu, Can and Pink Moon are hits for me. Interesting that in this year no albums from King Crimson or Led Zeppelin.
Let's hope Volume 4 by Black Sabbath is featured in a episode.
I have never heard the term Krautrock before.
In 1972, I am wondering if Cluba de Esquina was mentioned in any of the parts. I thought I watched all three.
It's mentioned in a later episode.
The Album of Fairport Convention was release in novermber 1971, not in 1972...
All Cluster albums were done as a duo... Y'know since Cluster was a duo. Obviously excluding the record they did with Eno. And then, obviously once again, excluding the records done as Harmonia, which was a trio.
Lifemask by our man Roy Harper came out in '72 as well but I guess you can't cram everything in. And anyway.. how do you explain "The Lords Prayer". It was the album that introduced me to him and I have been a Roy fan ever since. And now Nick of course.
German rock was my way into progressive rock. Bands like Omega, Scorpions, Epsilon.
V2 Schneider...five years later.
I would like to know if the influence of Neu! stretches as far as todays dance music?
Indirectly yes: it introduced a robotic / motorik kind of rhythm, which developed throughout the new-wave period (Simple Minds,...) and the EBM wave (DAF, Front 242), which, together with disco and rap, was a founding element of dance music (new-beat, techno, trance,...).
Listen to Circle Pospekt.
I really like the fusion band Passport. Not sure when they started, but I believe they are German. Loved infinity Machine from 1976. Any thoughts?
great era and album chat. But... what's up with Steven's mic... sounds rough...
I think Babbacombe Lee was released in 1971?
You are correct (we were wrong!).
No love for Power Pop pioneers Big Star with their ‘#1 Record’? The first American Power Pop Band hot on the heels of Badfinger whom I guess invented the genre. Love the show despite my grumblings btw.
Big Star are discussed in a later 1972 episode.
@@bowness1 Splendid, thanks Tim.
Big Star made the kind of perfect rock music I hear in my head! #1 Record is why I get up in the morning!
Never thought of Zeit as ambient. Its fkn space music.
Faust and Cluster 2
In a way Nick Drake is the Vincent Van Gogh of music.
What turntable is that?
Linn?
WOLF CITY Amon Duul II......
According to Wikipedia (so it must be true) and discogs, Babbacombe Lee was released in November 1971. Massive schoolboy error?
It's true!
Steven where to buy your t shirt?
Yet another opportunity for you nuts to branch off (of Shultz) and talk about Go! Although...I guess their albums were in later years.
The opening of Irrlicht is deliciously terrifying
1972 - a great year for music or the greatest? Discuss…
"Babbacombe" Lee was 1971. Just saying.
You Sir, are correct!
First time I heard Zeit, today.. It actually has some depth to it, I like it. I gave it a miss in the 70s, wouldn't listen to Td at all, due to bent cold sidewalks, etc.
Mellow Candle weren't half bad either.
I was also a big fan of Tangerine Dream's Zeit but I felt Klaus Schulze's Cyborg album surpassed Zeit in a way I couldn't imagine at the time. I would joke that Zeit sounded like "ghosts in a tin can" but Cyborg embodied the otherness in such a serene way. Almost seductively so. Normally I could joke about albums I like because "this sounds like...." but Schulze's Cyborg I can't because it just really envelops the listener from start to finish. It's made me break it out again one more time.
Zeit is great but not my personal favourite of theirs,haven't got a favourite. I think Pheadra, Rubycon and especially Alpha Century and Atem are better.
Agree with you gents on Sandy Denny, some great songs on her albums, too much filler. Fairport with her (and RT) were peak British folk. She never met that again, even with Fotheringay
4'33"
Brian Eno invented ambient music, no arguments. Edgar Froese made amazing music but didn't create the concept or define the term. But saying that Eno was obviously inspired by german kosmische Musik.
The problem with all that German electronic stuff is you could have gone out and spent a thousand dollars on albums back in the day and not found anything particularly interesting. It literally takes 50 years to sort through and appreciate.
How can y’all not mention Dan Fogelberg Home Free! with Wisteria, oh my God, 1972! … Duh …
ZEIT = tsait
Didn't you have to be stoned to listen to Neu! ?