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Track Listings

1 Krautrock
2 The Sad Skinhead
3 Jennifer
4 Just A Second (Starts Like That!)
5 Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux
6 Giggy Smile
7 Lauft..Heisst Das Es Lauft Oder Es Kommt Bald..Lauft
8 It's A Bit Of A Pain

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When this Krautrock masterpiece (the 12-minute piece that coined the term is featured here) came out in 1973, there were those at Virgin who thought they might have a hit on their hands, what with Tubular Bells blowing up and Can's "I Want More" right around the corner. Not bloody likely, as it was too experimental for the masses, and not wanky enough for the Camel/ELP crew. The off-center reggae-ish rhythms that would become prevalent in experi-pop are in high supply here (although Faust was always less funky than Can), as well as an affecting minimalist acoustic piece, "Giggy Smile," which would become their trademark. Marginally more commercial than their other releases, here is where the Terry Riley/Lee Perry horse that so many post-Stereolab bands ride came in from. --D. Strauss

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 0.39 x 4.92 inches; 2.83 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Blue Plate Caroline
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 13, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Blue Plate Caroline
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000003RUV
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Nick
5.0 out of 5 stars Insanely good album from the German legends.
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2016
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One of my favorite albums ever by one of my favorite bands ever. Faust IV is nothing short of a spectacular krautrock album. The other day I was listening to MBV and out of nowhere thought "Krautrock by Faust totally sounds like shoegaze!!" so I stopped the Loveless album that was spinning, grabbed my Faust IV and threw it on to confirm my notion. Damn straight. I was so happy that I had discovered the beginnings of shoegaze, then realized other people who like gaze and Faust have only said the same thing as me... Oh well, LOL. Anyways, this record is so so so good it just makes my jaw drop every time. I never fail to start the album without finishing it all the way through every time, it just grabs my attention and doesn't let go until it's over. Oddly, it actually feels like an album, even though every song or snippet is so odd and different from the next.. Every song is magical. I won't go into the details of each song, because I'm horrible at that. But know this, if you do not have this album or any album by Faust for that matter, and you love good music that requires talent and creativity, then you NEED to get some Faust albums. Absolutely essential listening and very very fun to listen to. I hate the phrase "ahead of their time" as it is much overused, but in the case of this album, it is so perfectly applied, because this album truly is ahead of it's time. 1973!!?/@! Whaaaat! It could easily be made in 2047. From the sound effects, to the songs, to the way they play their instruments, it just screams future of music. I am never shy to recommend Faust to anyone who thinks they like music. Easily one of my top 5 favorite bands ever.
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W. M. Berger
5.0 out of 5 stars Faust IV ultimate edition
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2007
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As a well-seasoned fan of Faust's music, my mania dating back to the early 80s, the question was - "Why buy Faust IV again?" Owning both the Virgin LP and the original Blue Plate CD reissue, did I really need this double CD edition? The answer of course is yes, as the original album has been given the exquisite digital remastering it deserved the first time around, as well as being issued for the first time with a correct track sequence and track times. The second disc includes the band's 1973 BBC session (available previously only as limited edition vinyl or in the Wümme Years boxed set), as well as some not-terribly-different alternate takes of album material. This release is an absolute must for fans, and a treat for those who've never owned these recordings before.
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Colonel Mustard
4.0 out of 5 stars Possesses a certain je ne sais quoi that grows on you
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2013
If you buy only one Faust album, buy this one. It includes the classic work, Krautrock, that came to define the genre, plus a second disk containing the prestigious John Peel Sessions and alternate takes. There are some good songs and some great jamming. This album is essential listening for those seeking an historical understanding of the evolution of experimental rock. The music possesses a certain je ne sais quoi that grows on you.
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House of Wolves.
5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable.
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2013
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This record is so many things at once but truly just Faust when it all comes down to it. Proto-Shoegaze (Listen to "Krautrock" and tell me My Bloody Valentine didn't cop this style from our boys in Germany), psychotic pop songs, minimalist psychedelic....the album is a masterpiece from start to finish.

I smoke weed on the regular and this record is a true companion. Germany's finest. It transforms the air around you. If you listen to it as loud as possible, it only enhances the experience.

In the city I live in, this week alone it's been between 115-117 degrees. I listen to this record in my truck during these hot days. No working AC, just the heat and Faust. It fits perfectly.

Cop the record. It's a must for any fan of forward-thinking and mind altering music.
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Geoffrey R. Balme
5.0 out of 5 stars FAUST FAUST FAUST
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2006
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This double CD set really advances the experience.

i'm not as wowed by the tape collages they were fond of making - but I really enjoy the psychedelic and hypnotic jams they were so adept at.

I sometimes wish Faust were more interested in making great powerful pieces of music than just messing with our heads as artists -- but, then, maybe they wouldn't be so interesting after all.

This is by far the best of their early material - and there's not very much!

Though, a reformed Faust exists - perhaps in a guise not quite the same as this period.

They were the very adept but slightly deranged Stereolab of thier day.
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5.0 out of 5 stars After listening to the original since I was a kid it was nice to hear the new versions
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2015
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The double CD with outtakes and alternate versions. After listening to the original since I was a kid it was nice to hear the new versions. This, and 71-Minutes of Faust are must haves for the old time Krautrock fan!
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GB
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant + extras.
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2014
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This is a classic album for anyone with an interest in German rock. The bonus extra are just the cherry on the top. Necessity!
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D. Mills
4.0 out of 5 stars Can Fans Take Note
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2009
Despite 15 years of listening to Can, another German Krautrock group from the 1970s, I hadn't heard of Faust until recently. This effort goes back to 1973, but like the best of Can, you'd be hard-pressed to put a date on it by simple listening. As a Can point of reference, this Faust offering reminds me of an amalgam of "Soon Over Babalooma" and "Tago Mago". There are differences: extensive vocalizing in the vein to Can's Damo Suziki is notably absent here, and when Faust does turn to voice, it is more like the breathy rhythmic style of Can's Michael Karoli on 'Dizzy Dizzy'.

Faust's signature piece "Krautrock" features a driving, mesmerizing guitar riff with occasional grunts and groans from other sources. It reminds me of Can's Holger Czukay's best tape loop experiments, but branches out into saxophone (an instrument that Can never approched, as far as I know).

This is a beefy two-disk set that combines a studio effort (disk 1) and outakes, along with some Peel tapes, from the same period. My only regret is that it took me 36 years to discover this, but it's a case of better late than never.
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J from NL
3.0 out of 5 stars Toffe plaat, kapot hoesje
Reviewed in the Netherlands on July 28, 2024
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Hele toffe plaat van Faust. Helaas was het hoesje compleet gebroken aangekomen.
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amedeo
5.0 out of 5 stars Ok
Reviewed in Italy on July 3, 2024
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Tutto ok, grazie.
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Mr. Stephen Tonks
5.0 out of 5 stars A near classic
Reviewed in Canada on November 21, 2016
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A must have for Kraut rock fans!
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Toshé
5.0 out of 5 stars Das Krautrock Album für die Charts schlechthin! Aber für welche Charts? ;-)
Reviewed in Germany on June 4, 2008
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Faust haben hier ein relativ eingängiges Werk geschaffen, das der geneigte Krautfan auf keinen Fall verpassen sollte. Zu genial und umwerfend sind mal wieder die einzelnen Stücke und Atmosphären gelungen. Und dann dieser typische Beat, der manche Tracks zu richtigen Reißern macht. Das kann sonst keine Band in diesem Sonnensystem.
Es ist, abschließend, beglückend, festzustellen, welch tolle Musik dieses Ländle doch hervorbringen kann, wenn es sich nur einmal wagt.
Faust spielen in den höchsten Sphären mit! Entdecken und ausflippen!
Mega-Empfehlung!
Gruß
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freewheeling frankie
5.0 out of 5 stars new improved version
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2007
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Faust IV was Faust's first album not to be recorded at their own studio at Wümme in north Germany. Having been dropped by Polydor (and lost Wümme in the process) after two brilliant but exceedingly uncommercial albums and signed to Richard Branson's fledgling Virgin label, bringing a dowry of the incredible archive collection of Wümme recordings, The Faust Tapes, they were now installed in Virgin's Manor Studios in southern England to make their third "proper" album (but fourth release).

The title of the opening Krautrock may be a jokey reference to this initially derogatory name for German "kosmische" music, but the piece itself is one of the best things they ever did, an extraordinarily lush two-chord grind that just builds and builds. The Sad Skinhead is a jokey piece of white reggae, fortunately Faust are not in the business of trying (and inevitably failing) to create authentic reggae and the song references skinheads' liking for reggae and violence ("going places, smashing faces"). Jennifer is far better, a beautiful, placid, almost pastoral song that eventually builds up to a quiet storm of synthesizer and fuzz guitar before resolving into a drunken-sounding piano coda. Just A Second (Starts Like That) does indeed start like that, i.e. the tape machine was started when they were already playing, and sounds more like their earlier material than anything else here, segueing into the extremely abstract Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxiême Tableux, which features some odd squirty synthesizer noises. Giggy Smile is perhaps the most normal piece of music they had recorded to date - it's a lurching but rather good piece of rock in 6/8 time which features a sax solo extremely reminiscent of parts of The Mothers Of Invention's King Kong both in timbre and musical content; the coda (a reprise of a piece featured on their second album, So Far) is another rather Zappa-esque tune. But despite being arguably the most derivative piece Faust ever recorded, Giggy Smile is most enjoyable. Läuft... etc., despite the German title, is sung in French and is another of those gentle and unclassifiable tunes of which several appeared towards the end of The Faust Tapes. Being Faust, this dissolves into a swirl of echoed clicking noises before another plangent guitar figure emerges, the whole thing then fades to nothing before a very slow middle-European organ coda appears. And finally... It's A Bit Of A Pain is yet another gentle little song but is then amusingly subverted by, firstly, a rude synthesizer blast and then a truly horrible fuzz/wah guitar solo reminiscent of a sort of comedy Ron Asheton. It was recorded at Wümme during the sessions for So Far and originally appeared on a single at the same time as that album.
Overall, Faust IV is probably the least radical of their 70s albums, and the most accessible. It's also not the best. But having said all that, it's still a very fine record containing a lot of excellent music.

This reissue not only improves considerably on the mastering quality of the earlier CD issue, it also includes a bonus CD containing a John Peel session from the same period and alternative mixes and out-takes from the album.
The Peel session has been issued before but for those not familiar, it includes The Lurcher, an otherwise unissued and fairly restrained piece featuring mainly drums, bass and sax, another version of the excellent Krautrock which, to my ears, sounds like an alternative mix of the original Faust IV version, and Do So, a different version of which appeared on The Faust Tapes. Of the alternative mixes, The Sad Skinhead sounds more fully developed than the album version, and Just A Second, instead of seguing into Picnic On A Frozen River after 3 minutes or so, is allowed to continue to its full length of over 10 minutes, revealing an excellent jam reminiscent at times of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. There is also the very moody and rather lovely Piano Piece, previously available (but not in this quality) as Meer on 71 Minutes Of Faust. This bonus CD is a bit light on completely new music, especially if you already have the BBC Sessions + CD that included the Peel session, but it's all very good and some of the alternate mixes are superior to the originally issued ones. And given it's cheaper than the original and inferior CD, you can't really go wrong.
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