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Tanz Der Lemminge

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If you think Pink Floyd is psychedelic, for God sakes, check this out. This album makes them seem flat out LAZY. The Germans were creating some crazy messed up noise rock in the '70's, and these guys were near the top of the heap. One of THE MOST varied, schizophrenic sound journeys from that magical year for music (1971) - you can tell they worked hard on this one, and it is a technicolor nightmare of extreme proportions that still startles today. Really, it runs the gamut from acoustic to rock to imaginary sci-fi soundtrack sounding stuff. If yer looking for something calming, however, this is not it. A towering musical achievement.

This really is the White Album for the psycadellic underground. When the Beatles were breaking up and CSN were making FM anthems, there was a dark, freaky subculture-Hawkwind, Brainticket, and Amon Dull-playing a whole different ball game.

Here, Amon Dull creates a double album using folk and rock,tightly written songs and open ended jams. But throughtout they use flanged voices, wha wha guitars, early syntasizers and lots of other spices to make this music more spacey and frightening than any 1967 kid in love beads ever wanted.

The record is fantastic because it dates well; the writting is that good. A lot of styles are strung on a common thread, so it brings you on a trip well worth taking. If Martha My Dear and Yer Blues can exsist on the same record, and you end the set feeling great, that gives you an idea how good this album is. But this music is for the harder, meaner, post-Kent State freaks; 1967 art based on 1970 discontent values. A little less flowers, a lot more toxic acid, and a lot more rock and roll

Get it.

How can I avoid all of the usual banter about a classic recording such as this? It's hard to do but, if you are in the market for an audio adventure, this is it!!! One of the best bands from W. Germany in the early seventies had many releases. Some of them were awesome but, this is the gemstone! Some say Reagan brought down the wall but, with bands producing sounds like this, a wall couldn't exist! Enjoy!

Then I saw that there are only 4 reviews and one was whining about the mastering. So I wrote this to keep the score up. :p

Be warned: sonically speaking this new upgrade is no different that the version of this that was available many years ago. I felt royally screwed after getting rid of the old versions and spending quite a bit of cash to upgrade all the albums only to find that they sound EXACTLY the same! This is a great album but if you own the older version there is no reason whatsoever to "upgrade" to this version.