Neu! - Negativland

[cheeezdooodle]

A question for the technical music folks out there, what instrument is used to create that

drone that washes over most of this awesome song?

thanks!

[macsuili]

Joy Division listened to this record an awful lot i would say..kind of puts into perspective what the UK music press pass off as innovative i.e it must come from the UK..all those millions of joy division soundalikies owe this band a huge debt including New Order,Joy Division and a plethora of American bands from the past 30 years

[sydbarrett5]

@macsuili right on the mark there. I say that as a huge Joy Division fan.

[jmummot]

Unique and outstanding!

[sweiland75]

According to Wikipedia, this group formed in 1979. How could they have then released an album in 1972? Is the Wikipedia article wrong?

[kraftneu]

@sweiland75 no the 1979 year is wrong, the band was formed in 1971 after rother and dinger left Kraftwerk that year and went their own way.

[cosmicrider287]

these guys were pushing some envelopes here.

[a10dollarhooker]

@cosmicrider287 Wow, this comment was in my head untill I saw someone post it before me. Just curious, if you meant pushing the envelope with psychedelics?

[cosmicrider287]

@a10dollarhooker neu!is pushing more than one envelope here.

but psychedelica is in there as well.

[a10dollarhooker]

@cosmicrider287 I can agree with that. It's funny I thought I've heard almost everything from the 70s but thanks to YouTube I keep discovering neu! music haha.

These guys sound a bit like this song I find! watch?v=dZ_697psKxE&feature=re­lated

[pozzi0]

this is something great

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

the perfect soundrack for this modern depression. i want to cuddle up to angela merkel and dream of a cameron free environment when I hear this.

[cloud9savagehenry]

Very good.... Few bands say so much with no words at all... Desmond Son

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

@cloud9savagehenry very perfectly put my friend. there is violent subversion walking in every avenue of this track...fuck the capitalists. as unpopular as it may seem, but the Baader-Meinhof ethos seems to be more alive and relevant than ever - and by that I am NOT condoning terrorism!

[n64321]

sounds so balearic

[heavyrockfan98]

4:37 Florian from Kraftwerk!?

[lennoxido]

@heavyrockfan98 these guys both played with the kraftwerks before they left to form neu!

[andramoore89]

i love the embience behind them

[SydBarrett7]

Music from last week sounds more dated than this.

[corkscrewfoley]

@SydBarrett7 But this would still be better than last week's music.

[triplettam]

@SydBarrett7 Yeah, Justin Bieber is really subversive. And you call yourself SydBarrett. Ever hear "Interstellar Overdrive?"

[triplettam]

@SydBarrett7 I'm very sorry. I completely misread your comment. Up too late and too much brandy. The friend who sent this to me called me on it and after I thought about it, I realized what you're saying. No hard feelings. Slainte.

[SydBarrett7]

@triplettam no problem I'm not going to loss sleep over a youtube comment.

[MinaDeMilena]

Yeah! Rock and Roll!! Enjoy!! ;-)))))))))))))))

[AIKevorkian]

Wow...this sounds more like 1980 than 1972! Amazing! I could totally imagine this song being on a Police record!

[ColdOasisU2]

truly great bands(can , Faust, Kraftwerk ,Neu!) came out from kraut rock scene...this one is one of them

[estereohed]

busco baterista para banda de Los Angeles... tenemos lockout y nos late el kraut, post punk, y shoegaze. ahora es 8/30/11... ke onda?

[SeanDemey]

dude at 5:00 reminds me of John Frusciante :)

[HeyWhatupYeldah]

I can't tell if you're trolling or not...

[PeregrineTrousers]

This sounds so much like Wire. Strange!

[tobor78]

Truly amazing stuff. There is nothing really new after Neu!

[italiaholic]

This is a german brain on drugs.

[grahamlaur]

Every time I hear NEU! I think to myself "It's impossible that this was made in the early 70s." It's simply impossible to get your head around.

[ramapcsx2]

Great to improvise to using any other instrument :p

[kuj4z]

meh

[bitjezeverpeisek]

4:30 very similar to Von Himmel Hoch fromcthe first kraftwerk album

[TomBandfield]

@bitjezeverpeisek Well both Klaus DInger and Michael Rother were in Kraftwerk at that point... :P

[Davis752]

@TomBandfield Klaus Dinger played drums on "Von Himmel Hoch" (and only on this one from Kraftwerk's studio recordings), but Michael Rother joined Kraftwerk after the album was recorded; he took part only in live performances in 1971 with Dinger and Florian Schneider.

However, I don't really feel that something here is very similar to that song... Although Kraftwerk had some influence for sure.

[evelyneverettgreen]

p i l

[Hollandia777]

A music 2 lis'n while ridin' on a highway from Amsterdam to Berlin!...

[angulovideo]

1972??!!!

[DmitriyLyzhin]

Существовало очень много солидных и блестящих культурных и музыкальных сообществ в Германии в 70-х годах. До этого я правда слышал о краут роке, но посмотрев фильм канала BBC посвященный этой теме я понял на сколько это было серьезно, жаль что это не нашло большого распространения за пределами Германии.

[khonkhen]

just brilliant i feel so sad i discover their music today.I feel like i discover the source that everything came from.Joydivision the cure stereolab sound wipersand so much more.cheers mate from greece

[TheFunkyKingston]

astonishing anthem

[namaste91]

I get stuck on this mean bassline. And i know who will buy the complete NEU! Fanbox soon ;)

[Scrotemeister]

22 people wear their anuses as hats.

[666nAck]

Don't forget This Heat

[thejay3033]

loop, spacemen 3, stereolab and yeah i can definatly hear joy division

[KotOREffecT]

Krafterwerk as well, also influenced many of those same great bands

[KotOREffecT]

awesome, you can really see the pre orgins of Bauhaus, Joy Division, Public Image Ltd and many other post punk/ 70's & 80's acts

[JoeCuff]

Its so cool how they play this live in the 70', and right now at the same time. I love technology !

[sex6cult9revolution]

@n0irdrache True, great bands. But it's the other way around. This song is from 1972 and the band by the same name followed about a decade later.

[augustusdes]

If you have even an ounce of self -respect you should be listening to this music every day. The ultimate anti-dote to our shitty dumbed down manufactured modern world..

[stripeyninga]

what! it ended!! wanted it to go on

[jrmetmoi]

This song sounds vaguely like Joy Division without Ian in it.

[cbmdg8551976]

@jrmetmoi actually not that vaguely. No doubt a big influence on Hook's bass playing.

[jrmetmoi]

@cbmdg8551976 Hmmm. this is most ...trestingk (Russian accent)....heh heh heh heh

[blueglueclue]

First time listening to Neu! and it sounds good and looking at the picture of Michael Rother at 2:37 I've just realised that the D. in Richard D James must stand for 'Doppleganger'.

Beware musical double walkers are roaming this earth!

[motwhy]

sounds like a jam session. very nice. more krautrock by motwhy.

Take a look - would be nice.

watch?v=vlemsBCYG0Y

[infinitefathom]

this song has always felt really drugged-out to me

[goducks20101]

i'm curious or confused, are neu! and einstrezende neubauten two unrelated bands or did they merge ? thanks in advance.

[jrmetmoi]

@goducks20101 They're two unrelated bands totally. Neubaten didn't come about until the early 80s. I have Halber Mensch and it is the best and to this day SO different in a lot of ways.

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

Not content with ripping them off back in 1977, Eno and Bowie stole the intro of this song when providing into to 1995's Heart Filthy Lesson.

[elijahkelso]

hahahaha, what did they rip off in 1977 man?

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

@elijahkelso Bowie and Eno went to Berlin to record Low and Heroes - inspired by Eno's sourjorn a year earlier at Harmonia's country retreat in Saxony. Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius have both described in detail how Eno came, observed, recorded, left with the tapes and they never heard from again! The title of Heroes is even liften from the classic Neu! track "Hero". Daylight robbery!

[steveswoon]

@CONSIDERABLYMORE1 half right



[cbmdg8551976]

@CONSIDERABLYMORE1 Even further back to Station to Station intro.

[theroseofthevalley]

The video clips are very good and the tune is magical:) Thank you for posting!!

[TheInundation]

the thing he wrote about the bass isn't true

[h1soka]

Psycho Killer reminds me of this song.

[stevebray55]

This and Hallogallo stand head & shoulders above any other- ANY OTHER- piece from that era!!!!

[hairymarx]

@stevebray55 I disagree, Faust were producing equally groundbreaking music

[uktransplantedyank]

@hairymarx

Why don't you eat carrots, hairymarx?

[MenNoHorses]

MEN NO HORSES

[fuckamericanidiot]

IS THERE ANY ESCAPE?? FROM NOISE??

[alvar00]

Fritura Intensa

[NotComingBack01]

Stupid question- is the band name pronouced as in the German "Noy" or the English "New"? Great song anyway :)

[19Mellon73]

@NotComingBack01

Grandma always told me: "There are no stupid questions"

It's the german way "Noy"

[MenNoHorses]

MEN NO HORSES

[NameCC8687]

Their first album is one of the most amazing I've ever heard, especially when you consider it was done in 1972. Staggeringly crafted. I can't wait to get hold of the next one. Thanks for posting this.

[themonkeylarry5000]

it's weird how such simple songs can be so cool

[dannyhood66]

They worked the sound of a japanese banjo until it sounded like a bass...No wonder it took members from kraftwork because im sure it took a lot of time in studio messin around to get that

[MicahBuzan]

@dannyhood66 Really? That's amazing.

[dannyhood66]

@MicahBuzan I don't really know? But that is what it said on tags.And i remember rick wright said they went though that electronic scene in 1970 the album with that cow on the front cover? 'Rick said they used rubber bands around a spoon until it sounded like a bass which 2 weeks later, He said rodger, this is insane.'' The owner of the cow found out his cow was on the front cover of the album from someone, and thru a fit.. I think he received a check in the mail?

[dannyhood66]

@MicahBuzan Oh shit you probably know this already but in case,'the album with cow on front cover is from pink floyd but i still cant remember the name its mother something? Oh yeah, 'Atom heart mother. Wow,'Im done.

[Fouceky]

@dannyhood66

Actually no. That is a bass you hear. The other high pitched noise you hear is the Japanese banjo, which is actually called a bulbul tarang and is a Pakistani/Indian instrument, they just bought it in Japan and called it that.

here is the interview where they talk about the instrument : watch?v=ug1VlkAehMY&feature=re­lated

[FWFWFWF]

Could have appeared on a Joy Division album

[hairymarx]

@FWFWFWF Yep, it's got 'Isolation' from Decades written all over it. Neu are THE most influential band of all time.

[stonerrockMP]

This is going to be stuck im my head all day now........ AWESOME!!

[genschii]

baaa bam kch bam baaa bam kch bam baaa bam kch bam baaa bam baung + flanger! ...GENIUS!!! =)

[0Cailash0]

check out "my sleeping karma"

(in my opinion, they build the bridge from neo avantgarde to the classic times..but only an example and maybe not so experimental.)

great too: amon düül II (albums:yeti,lemmingmania,wolf city) Can, Faust (lastfm´s live gigs here on yt are very nice) Colour Haze, Rotor (excellent stoner bands)

[mile5away]

Less is more! Nice to hear something DIFFERENT for once.

[bikiniatoll]

Hey, let's have an argument about Flangers!? @FrederickHamilton @Vlaxitov

[Erich745]

Bauhaus owe these guys big time.

[Kenckaplus]

Now i know where Joy Division got influenced.

[Evanest25isBack]

@Kenckaplus And Public Image Limited ,i mean "Metal Box" and "Flowers of Romance''.

[Vlaxitov]

Holy over used flangers...

[FrederickHamilton]

@Vlaxitov considering that electronic flangers had just been invented, I say they used them pretty well. Goofing off with flangers/electronic delay ruined the mixes of records like Houses Of The Holy and Raw Power, both released about the same time as this.

[Vlaxitov]

@FrederickHamilton

Sorry but I disagree. Flanger is an effect, not a stand alone sound to be showcased while a drummer and bass player play the same measure for ten minutes straight.

[seantynan1]

outstanding



[666slink]

great song! Thanks for posting this.

[neurfreiradikale]

Die Deutsche sind eine fantastische Leute.

[epics7]

Def. more psychedelic. 

[keste1ja]

way ahead of its time

[cbmdg8551976]

Definitely a Station to Station influence, and Bowie openly admitted when he was living in Berlin in late 70's that Kraut rock was that. Also you can definitely hear where Peter Hook was tuning into when Joy Division started. These guys influenced some giants and how many people in the US even knew of them, I'm thinking zero.

[theecopeel]

@cbmdg8551976 I like your comment up until the end. Everyone I know loves them. We may not represent the general target audience throughout the US, but that could be an entire other conversation.

[cbmdg8551976]

@theecopeel

where are you from? Mid-70's in southern California we didn't even know of Kraut Rock except a few grumblings about Kraftwerk. Been playing catch up ever since, but do like the vibe. Any recommendations of what I like to refer as Nietzche bands to check out?

[oldoipunk]

@cbmdg8551976 I have listened to NEU! and Can for almost 30 years, here in the USA. Several friends also listened to this and Can. So, you are off by at least a dozen!!

:P

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@oldoipunk huh! what exactly are you trying to say? Thirty years ago was still 1980. I was referring to mid-70's for Bowie and Late 70's for JD. I'm sure by then the cat was let out of the bag so to speak. But early 70's, I'm pretty sure, was an all together different story for MOST not ALL if you catch my initial statement. Still glad to have found them and see the impact they had on major artists.

[polyphonickeyboard]

@cbmdg8551976 exactly you're totally right.. i've heard he wanted to use krautrock musicians..

[uberpatrick]

I remember when TRIAD an amazing 70s fm radio station in Chicago would play this.It totally changed me!

[uberpatrick]

@bmac778

TRIAD radio in Chicago yes!

the best radio station ever

Can Kraftwerk Eno SunRa ..........................

[GolumTR]

Even more than the fact of their influence it is easy to hear the reason for it. I could see a reborn Beethoven advising a bandmate to listen to them:

"Go to [them] to learn how to achieve great effects, by ... simple means."

[missvqtoyou]

amazing!!!

[allenbroadway]

Sounds like Bowie copied this. Listen to the beginning of "Station To Station".

[Wanderlustus]

@allenbroadway wouldn't doubt that a bit.

[brijhar]

I hear the influence on Sonic Youth & Joy Division as well.--Wicked guitar! Part of me wishes the drums & bass would have followed the guitar in the mid-section, but that would've probably ruined the minimalist-drone effect they were going for. Killer stuff!

[PAULLONDEN]

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[Smeerlappen]

one of the best

[religion]

ill!

[pakistano12]

this is THE music.

[siggyuke]

bl00dy brilliant!

[Boots59100]

This take's me back, right to the day! fantastic!

[klippspringer]

best track from the debut

[yesiamawizardjonny]

joy division sure did like some kraut rock for sure, and I thought Hooky's bass sound was original! funny, right?

[yesiamawizardjonny]

dead souls they keep calling me! wow shat a blatant pinch i love it

[Goldfischle]

gerne 5 Sterne lg

[Ooouuuuhhh]

this is music!!!

[lasio9]

ejaleeeee

[freedomnonfighter]

@RandomConcepts : this song is most definitely NOT mediocre!!

[Zatzzo]

nimmt irgendwie die ganz spätere post- punk sache vorweg

[bobmonk64]

Sounds like Talking Heads - Psycho Killer. (I know this pre-dates)

[megadarthfader]

this is PERFECT

[discofunken]

negative Vs warriors..

[Burt472]

Loved this record which I found on a streeet market in Cambridge , England in the summer of '73. I'd like to listen to 2 tracks I can't yet find available on youTube....Im Gluck and Sonderangebot.....Great avantgarde Music

[clearviewmind]

aRE THERE ANY LYRICS TO neu! SONGS?

[MrFeri82]

De jó lenne ha kiadnák újból ezeket az albumokat!!!!!!

Ha valakinek van felesleg szóljon:-)))

[TrottaVonSipolje]

@MrFeri82 Vidám:

Nemetorszagban felnöttem a 80as evekben. Es a mi helyi aruhazankban, egyebkent egy magyar tulajdonassal, pont ezt az album minimum 6-7 evig allt a polcban es senki akart megvenni. Kedvezmenyyel se. Es en se.

Neu! teljesen sikertelen volt Nemetorszagban.

De jo dal es album termeszetesen.

[nyczumazooma]

I played this song at a party in Brooklyn, NY and 5 people had seizures. Whats up with that?? Prop 420.

[suppenk123]

danke

[antonfjordson]

who killed sgt pepper?

[Reulor]

Masterpiece. And so influential. Thanks for Posting.

[Rufusdos]

awesome, thank you for posting!

[gggfader132]

you late only 2 years....aoxoaxoaxo, by the way nice song

[greenowl2]

I was just gonna post this song but its already here.. GREAT!!!

thanks for posting

[seapockets]

this song is heaven.

[liquidsounddestructi]

cool stuff, i like it

[loorambient]

One of the best german bands.

[DarkFukt]

@PERSONIFICATIONOFYAY

Their best album is Neu! 75' IMO.

This is the most groundbreaking though.

[ghirdasimo]

Potenzialmente un raggio di sister ray dei Velvet Underground, quasi un riff dei Led Zeppeling attraversato da una logica cubista cambia continuamente per rimanere uguale a se stesso, il ritardo del rock che cerca il suo fantasma e ritrova la dittatura piacevolmente motociclistica noise. Il fondo dello space rock che si dichiara trucco e raschia a vuoto. Industria dei clangori e sfasciacarrozze rock. Motore immobile.

[dolgorukij]

sfigato!

[sigmapleide]

@ghirdasimo

MA CHE CAZZO STAI A DDI! QUESTO E' SEMPLICEMENTE KRAUT, SE PROPRIO DOBBIAMO CLASSIFICARE. MA BANDO ALLE CLASSIFICAZIONI. E' UNA FIGATA E BASTA.

[PabzGLRP]

I can understand negatively criticizing mainstream artists that are consistently in your face, but relentlessly posting spiteful comments about a Krautrock band that could be seen as incognito by today's standards in popular music is just a little absurd. Did they interject with the crappy electronica music playlist at your glowstick-and-whistle-friendly birthday party or something? I'm curious.

[nicholasjames100]

@PabzGLRP fantastic comment mate

[Wanderlustus]

@PabzGLRP Thanks for the comment. To what you're replying makes one wonder if the water in the supply is what it says it be. Cheers.

[mystoermerwithme]

I assume that is what you want to do - suck some ...

[drawingshadows]

says the guy who's name is BetterTasteThanU.

[FWFWFWF]

No life at all in the house of dolls, no love lost.

[MicahBuzan]

that bass riff is genius

[xraycortina]

@MicahBuzan how about the bass riff on 'master of the universe' by hawkwind?

[WizardofFuzz]

@xraycortina i was just listening to "space ritual" xD "master of the universe" is one of my all time fav. rock songs!!! btw. hawkwind promoted many krautrock bands in britain, look at the sleeve of the vinyl version of NEU!, there's a comment by dave brock

[DrR0cks0]

@MicahBuzan hahaha Are you joking? Seriously? The only good thing of this song that i heard was that background electronic sound. Everything else was so boring. Do they have another song that would be a good start, for listening to for this band?