Tanz Der Lemminge [Import, Original recording remastered]

Amon Duul | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B00005TPKE
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,756 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Syntelman's March of the Roaring Twenties: In the Glasgarden/Pull Down

2. Restless Skylight-Transistor-Child/Landing in a Ditch/Dehypnotized To

3. Chamsin Soundtrack/The Marilyn Monroe-Memorial-Church

4. Chewing Gum Telegram

5. Stumbling over Melted Moonlight

6. Toxicological Whispering

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inner Space = the final frontier, June 29, 2002

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Junglies (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tanz Der Lemminge (Audio CD)

Despite being released as another double album, this sprawling CD is in actual fact one huge piece of work - a veritable collage of composition with overlays and instrumentation aplenty and despite the track titles there are not really any tracks at all.

There are repetitive themes which occur throughout and notable pieces where the listener will find recognisable rock music. In every sense of the word this is a trip. The listener is treated to an entire experience which lasts for over an hour.

The album represents the pinnacle of improvisational achievement from a traditional rock band. No less improvisational than Can or Ash Ra Tempel, this band lets loose all of their influences from Stockhausen, through to the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. They recognise their roots in the German collective by incorporating some of the softer sides of the musical range.

Unfortunately, the trip has not lasted well unless you are an afficionado of that type and era of music. Personally I love this album and am glad that it is available on one CD which allows for the whole to be experienced in it's entirety. This album was such an awesome experience I would play whole sides of it, without interuption at the Locarno Ballroom in Sunderland often before or after bands such as Genesis took the stage as they were no comparison.

English album entitled Dance of the Lemmings.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amon Duul II - 'Tanz Der Lemmings' (Repertoire), October 5, 2004

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tanz Der Lemminge (Audio CD)

Super-nice CD reissue of the band's third effort,originally released,as a double album in 1971.Some might say that 'Tanz...' is indeed THE best Amon Duul II lp ever,and it probably is.That doesn't mean that you should bypass the band's other key albums,like 'Phallus Dei','Yeti' or,say 'Wolf City'.As for these reissues have plenty to offer as well.The Repertoire label did a first rate job at mastering this six track disc,wanted to mention that THIS posting of the CD's track listing is incorrect.The absolute BEST track on 'Tanz...' is the eighteen-minute acid drenched tripping "The Marilyn Monroe Memorial Church".Fellow krautrockers,IT doesn't get much better than this.The disc's other two lengthy cuts,"Syntelman's March" and "Restless Skylight" appears to get musically divided into other segments.The three remaining cuts are regularly played Amon Duul II tunes.Highly recommended.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Skylight Transistor Child, December 22, 2004

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ProEvil (MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tanz Der Lemminge (Audio CD)

Riding in a bus from El Paso, Texas to Guadalajara, Mexico, my walkman played a 90 minute tape recording made by an older painter friend. Side One and part of side two was Amon Duul II's 'Tanz Der Lemminge', the rest was Lee 'Scratch' Perry's 'Public Jestering'. One of 3 tapes I brought on the trip, this would often play on auto-repeat for hours before being changed. Riding through deserts, changing into mountains then to tropical jungles, beetles and iguanas bathing in the sun and rain. Eating a space cake and listening to the sound of UFOs flying over the swiss alps while bearded german jazz musicians sacrifice guitars and synths to ancient mountain goats following off with some jamaican ska hex incantations. I should note that I was all of one year old when this album was originally released.