Krautrock documentary Pt 1 of 6

[EmeraldTriangle80]

I visited that park that the woman from Amon Duul was sitting in. Bavaria and Munich are beautiful. I also visited Dachau that was heavy and sad.

[0809hozjan]

@TiLTPRIMAT: Amon Düül II - Kanaan, masterpiece 

[TiLTPRIMAT]

fucking found... track list is just here bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nf10k

[TiLTPRIMAT]

Need the song at 5:32 ! please someone !

[DuskAndHerEmbrace13]

9:20

Does anyone know what music is playing at this point? If you could tell me, it'd be much appreciated! :)

[987345987345]

MORE FOCUS ON ROEDELIUS AND CLUSTER, CONNY PLANK, SCHNITZLER, ETC, PLEASE.

[AndreasOkocha]

6:04 "So, space was one solution.."

[AndreasOkocha]

6:04

[AndreasOkocha]

6:04

[AndreasOkocha]

6:04

[AndreasOkocha]

One of the best documentaries I've seen. Long live prog!

[threeby8887]

Thank goodness Amon Duul II had the brains and hearts to not get mixed-up with the Baader-Meinhof gang.

[titanayrum]

shit, whats the song in the begginning, its beautiful and haunting!

[dcanmore]

@titanayrum ... "whats the song in the beginning"

Popol Vuh - Aguirre I (L'acrime di rei)

from Aguirre: The Wrath of God soundtrack ... enjoy!

[Ghoopty]

"So, space was one solution...." - fuck yeah!

[threeby8887]

@Ghoopty  Oh yeah!!!

[Ghoopty]

5:52 - hahaha what the fuck?!??

[leapfrompixels]

amazingly wonderful

i don't care what anybody else says

[sputrain]

I don't like them implying that the whole genre was run by political ambitions.

[kkmatt]

wow. until i saw this i thought krautrock was the name of a band. had no idea it was a "genre"of music.

so thank you for posting this. it's an antidote to my ignorance.

[DJPaggos]

OMG 1:05 NUDITY...BAN BAN BAN

[tigerlovesrupert]

if you press "4" a couple of times and then "8" the game Snake starts on the mediaplayer Screen!

[guitarfan1979]

"we didn't know anything about it" - of course you didn't

[freq32]

thank u for posting this.  very good

[Zardoz151]

Werner Herzog was actually from Bavaria. He went to Munich in his twenties.

[dcanmore]

@Zardoz151 ... according to Werner Herzog's website, he was born in Munich September 5, 1942. Munich is a city in Bavaria.

[royko22]

One very serious factual error in this film. Bavaria was not a hotbed of Nazism and in fact was the only German stadt to vote against Hitler in the election of 1933. Due to its predominate Roman Catholicism, its citizens resented the anti-Christian tenets of Hitler's National Socialism. Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch did take place in Munich in 1926 -- and it was put down by the Bavarian police.

The BBC had it 100% factually wrong. This is typical of the BBC's slipshod journalism these days.

[dcanmore]

@royko22 the BBC are correct. Bavaria was a hot bed of National Socialism so much as they tried to create the Bavarian Socialist Republic in 1919 after the dissolution of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1918. This led to suppression by the German army. Then the declaration of the Free State of Bavaria by the ruling right-wing party, again put down by the army. The failed Beer Hall Putsch was 1923 (not 1926) and was a clash by two right-wing ideologies, one controlling the Bavarian State Police.

[2dollarkevin]

8:17 .!! angry woman with german accent rules .!

[250Yogi]

unfortunately, schlager (the unoffensive german pop of the 60s mentioned at the beginning) is still pretty popular in germany. it all sounds exactly the same, has no musical value whatsoever, and listening to it feels similar to being stabbed in the mouth with a dirty machete.

[h4nr]

5:49 F**ING LOLd

[Franzko787]

WTF is this endless "Brave New World" nonsense that these documentaries always spew.? Sounds like a advertising slogan.

[JazzSheep]

Interesting, Amon Duul had similar problems with radical members as Les Rallizes Denudes in Japan around the same time.

[Zernobilly]

Warning to all of you who are just getting into the krautrock.

When i got into it, i didn´t listen anything else in a few months. I heard Harmonia/Tangerine dream/Popol Vuh etc.. Results was, that i felt like i was in another dimension for some time, had to listen some music with long tradition or roots, to get "normal" again. I´m pretty sure, that kraut came from some where beyond...

[swineburn]

Excellent documentary with one minor complaint: the lack of emphasis on Klaus Schulze.

[dojokonojo]

Why is it the British who make a documentary about the greatness of Krautrock instead of the Germans lol?

[ArtFargunkel]

Thank you for posting this - very generous! I didn't know there was a documentary about Krautrock, but then again, it doesn't surprise me that the BBC made one. Again, brilliant television, as always. I'll watch it completely...

[mussman717word]

8:40 -- Could it be Quentin Tarantino's dad?

[Snarg3000]

This is amazing!! Could anybody burn this to dvd for me?

I have lotz of DVDs for trade: This is Kraut, Leonard Cohen, Tortoise, Brainiac, SDRE, Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Don Caballero. And cool film stuff like Cronenberg and Kubrick.

[rayolacer]

@Snarg3000 omh my fucking good you have a DVD on brainiac and scratch acid PLLEASE make that available!!!!!!

[gsixties]

It´s a big shame that the English BBC has made this great documentary about the German Krautrock-scene!!! There was no German TV channel who has the idea to do that: IT´S A SHAME for the German TV-makers and the so-called "cultural experts".

Anyway - I am delighted and I wanna thank the BBC for doing this work- "THANX"

Krautrock was a very interesting musical direction which influences were to be seen often many years later... .

also thanx for posting it.

[mafco]

@gsixties or because the germans still shitting their pants about making anything about anything that has to di with ww2 or hitler.

[Annamandabella]

WTF is going on with those weirdos in lederhosen @ 5:50?????? Fart in my face, fart in my face NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OdCzapyZestaw]

@Plexpara

I'm afraid you're wrong. But... yours haughtiness and cockiness are so well know that i'll leave you whit good mood my (as you said) gay neighbor.

bye.

[dojokonojo]

What is the name of that piece that starts at around 3:00 and lasts to the Amon Duul segment? The piece they play over the Bavaria part.

[MannyMUC]

@dojokonojo I think it is a piece out of a Richard Wagner opera. It is quite common to play something from Wagner, when Hitler is coming up. Hitler was a big fan of Wagner

[thegreenolivo]

Interesting.

[cover821]

what year was this documentary made?

[dcanmore]

@cover821 ... Oct 2009 (first broadcast)

[daithemove]

Germans quest for Heimat. ..

[SpincterManBubba]

WWAD? What would Allah do? These guys can't sing!!!

[Snarg3000]

what is the word that florian is described as? is sounds like "talismandic".

[farangstar]

@Snarg3000 talismanic - believed to possess magic power.

[Snarg3000]

what is the word that florian is described as? is sounds like "talismandic".

[lerbagge]

After seeing this I believe everything happens for a reason after all lolz..

[datalal624]

What on earth is that butt-slapping dance at 5:50 all about? LOL.

On another note: thanks for posting this doc! I'll have to check out some of these bands later. :)

[erictheviking871]

AAAAHHH LOVELY ,EUROPEAN,NO AMERICANS FUCKING IT UP .BRILLIANT.GERMANY HAS A GREAT HISTORY .

[scottvska]

Foreign aid didn't make Germany wealthy. How retarded.

[farangstar]

@scottvska What else did?

[witchsphere]

Thanks for uploading this. I'd not seen it. Huge fan of Amon Duul II..

[michbeck88]

For me as a German, its very funny that English people really like these bands, because except for Kraftwerk, all of them mean shit in Germany, we have some great music here, but most of these are not part of it

[SupperOfTheMightyOne]

@michbeck88

Don't let your nationality get to your head. Being German =/= being the 'supreme arbiter of German music'.

I live in America. Does that give me the authority to determine what people should and shouldn't listen to? Lolno.

"I hear -artist x- is quite popular in Germany!"

Well fuck dem people. We doesn't like em here much in America nuh-uh. There's plenty o good American music but they ain't them!

[lordoid]

@michbeck88 You are wrong! Most of these bands are well known to a wide audience of music lovers in Germany. But of course not so much to the younger generation cause they are not present in mainstream media. But that doesn't mean they are not appreciated. Can, Neu, Amon Düül and all the others are also cult here and prices for the original records are high as never before.

[Sylaq]

@michbeck88 German music and culture has always been respected in England, and always will be. Wir sind Blutsbrüder!

[SuperIanrush]

drie kolsch bitter

[StarAll4life]

8:10 all around that was about the RAF wasn't it?

[kukkaisrinsessa]

@StarAll4life Yup.

[MercuryClock]

Lol at 6:43.

Sounds like my roommate when she heard me listening to Augmn off of Tago Mago one time.

[pelolargo]

haha, the one at the end (was heisst nochmal Menschenwürde?) ... thats funny!

oll se best fromm tshermannie...:D

[steelwizard]

@pelolargo

yeah^^

[ludocrat]

Thing is, the fine German language does not lend itself easily to pop music. Death Metal, yes. But pop? Nein!

[loorambient]

Great documentary!!

Thanks for the upload!

[appositiongh]

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[drewcox010101]

1:04 Tits

[Lengsel7]

5:49 .....WTH?!!!!! Haha!!!

[Lengsel7]

5:45 .....WTH?!!!!! Haha!!!

[brian8793]

Dumb Krauts...

[jdoget07]

@brian8793 Dumb Krauts? You sir are a dumb-ASS!!! Krautrock was perhaps the best thing that happened to rock music. They were REAL hippies unlike the fluffy flower power bullshit that the Haight-Ashbury musicians were doing. And I say that because they saw the world for what it really was and their music reflected that perfectly. They didn't pretty it up by singing "love, love, love." They actually made music that went for the psyche by exposing the dark, seedy side of human nature.

[milesmcclain1989]

@jdoget07

lol, "real hippies"

[AltDeathMetalMan]

2 people are nazis...

[legolas11795]

Great Doc. But one complaint. I HATE HATE HATE that whenever a documentary shows scenes of 60s youth rebellion, they play Hendrix, All along the watchtower. EVERY DAMN TIME

[Benzin819]

@legolas11795  Hi! I do deaply agree with you legolas! By the way... I do think Hendrix is good but overvaluated as J Joplin. Those artists are onely a TINY TINY TINY TINY TINY bit of the Counterculture of the 1960.

[Bottlekiller]

@legolas11795 They should have played "Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht" by Ton Steine Scherben it would have fitted the scene much better.

[Adastra14]

@legolas11795 ..but man, it hits the spot you know? ;D

[rix66]

@legolas11795 -TOO TRUE, either that or STOP, HEY WHAT'S THAT SOUND... ugh. It's the simplistic packaging of a complicated era. They do the same thing with every decade.

[keeblin]

@legolas11795 I agree with your point about 60's images and Hendrix. It's become a package deal. My biggest issue with this doc though is the survival of the term 'Krautrock'. I love the music but find the term racist.

[legolas11795]

@keeblin -- Youre probably right.Its interesting.Allegedly racist words. While "Kraut" was originally intended as an insult,it never actually upset germans.. Much like I could care less if someone called me a "cracker".Just doesnt have any meaning that cuts.. I lok at the term "Krautrock" more as lazy than racist.. The music and term are explored brilliantly in Julian Copes book by the way.

[mpresev]

I listened to Tangerine Dreams "phedra" stoned and I had a bad trip. 

[albivinehart]

essential doc!

[maraujo1984]

The first take looks like a post-apocalyptic scenery, like Mad Max or Terminator... and was real! was 1945 after WWII

[Plexpara]

great start in this vid.i love my germany and our history.and i not talk about 6 years of war.i talk about everything.bbc is a great channel.

peace

[cofpaddy]

In love with this documentary. A great era of original music making.

[underyourskindvd]

very good

[4stringsoFURY]

What's the music at 9:10

[cofpaddy]

@4stringsoFURY 'Wehe Khorazin' by Popol Vuh (my favourite artist) Should be easily available on youtube.

[gaseousform]

a truely awe-inspiring documentary. thank you, bbc!

[pythonbyte]

the narrator laments the name Krautrock and then calls his doc just that. make your mind up son.

[popluhv]

5:50 is brilliant

[matzomaniac]

HAIL TO THE BBC FOR THEIR EXCELLENT TASTE!!

[canthinkverywell]

wtf at 5:51 ...

[doodoobrown1987]

@canthinkverywell omg that was funny

[76sagi]

amazing. i love this music. love love love it.

[greoar]

I'm afraid of going to live in UK.

In my country all national TV do is talking about cooking, football or elephants reproduction.

Britain kids are educated about fucking krautrock & dubstep !

[kotep777]

not spoiling....we need more of these......amazing work but we need more

[MannyMUC]

Very impressive work, BBC. Great visuals + informed, intelligent text in television - is this still possible today? Yes, seems so.

[mathieuplasse1]

Dear brits, you make the best television in the world. I hope you appreciate your luck. I live in Quebec, I usually watch canadian and american television -which have its good moments- but when I see what you guys can watch on a daily basis, my mind is bent.

[PostBox12345]

@mathieuplasse1

As long as you do not eat the food britains are eating. Everything is fine!

[masterchiefer123]

@mathieuplasse1

wow go suck the queens tits why dont you

[TheSpankymonkey]

@masterchiefer123 - What a rather dumb and random reply. The queen has very little do with anything, let alone documentaries.....

[Hexachloraphine]

@mathieuplasse1

yes maybe, but apparently the BBC is planning to axe the channel where these programs originate from.

[Jasminebeautyfairy]

It lets the quiet contemplative geniuses of german brilliance in synth music speak for themselves with a touch of german kook. don't like prog rock but when kraftwerk came on its like hallowed gods in view. how gorgeous was wolfgang flur so pale skinned dark haired and pointed featured sigh:) from synth loving snow white

[deruweee]

krautrock as answer to the nazis??????totally nonsense-sorry ...

and the music was aweful-a bunch of totally fucked up non musicians,most of them,of course not all....

[ldybby]

@deruweee uh, not an "answer to the Nazis", but definitely a response to growing up in post WWII Germany... absolutely.

[bootsy4u]

5:51 is hilarious

[elcandor1]

Thanks!!!

[ledhed318]

What a wonderful ideal. None of these musicians were destroyed in the way so many British and American ones were, by the music industry.

[oharamike]

WOW! A five-star documentary . . . required viewing for anyone who believes they understand the history of rock music. Now let me get back to my dumb-ass American 'rock' station that wants to play morons like Bob Seger, Tom Petty and John Cougar Mellonhead.

[Annamandabella]

@oharamike Living in deep dark heart of Kansas I know exactly what you mean!!!!!

[crocodilewerewolf]

i think i've just gone to heaven by discovering this documentary

[clivetemple]

Very cool car sticker.

[jcmorellana]

This BBC label is one of the most prolific channel in rock.

[NervousCurtains]

BBC4 is ruling it.

[manoftheworld1000]

I wonder if it's Alan Bangs' voice in this documentary - does anyone know?

[villainsdeeds]

I saw titties!

[YerJob]

HERZOGGGGGGGGG

[youwantotestmykungfu]

the track is by Popol Vuh , called: Aguirre

It is the sound track for the film "Aguirre - rath of god",

its on you tube..;-)

[mailbox827]

This is the prequel to Synth Britannia.

They are a pair of exceptionally good programmes made by the BBC.

Even though the subject matter of this documentary is chronologically before Synth Britannia, SB should be seen first IMO.

[marianosoule]

5:50 HEIL HITLER!!

[kribbod]

5:50 - a perfect exempel of german folkmusic!

[saum65]

Best music documentary ever!

[metalheadnick555]

Can someone tell me what music was played in this documentary (preferrably in order)? I'm not a big krautrock fan (more into the English prog movement), but this documentary legitimized the music for me

[shittyshit69]

@metalheadnick555 nobody cares

[glitchtoast]

amon duul II - phallus dei, kanaan, Henriette Krötenschwanz

[metalheadnick555]

Thanks. Is the song at the beginning also by Amon Duul?

[beepbeeprustrust]

@metalheadnick555 it's popol vuh, can't remember what it's called but it's from the soundtrack of the movie aguirre by werner herzog

[glitchtoast]

awesome. I never knew what it was ^^

[glitchtoast]

around 5:00 you mean ?

[metalheadnick555]

@glitchtoast I meant the very beginning at 0:00, but I also wanted to know the Amon Duul II songs too.

[pillutimati]

Great documentary,,, bbc should make a whole documentary about Amon Duul II

[rexcat]

I love that Amon Duul jam in the middle. What song is that? What album is that?

[glitchtoast]

the first vocals is probably from phallus dei, and the second is kanaan, both by amon II, third phallus again

[Skelros]

werner herzog alias ron jeremy. jk :P

[PAULLONDEN]

INDEED! brilliant, with Amon DüüL II, I always had a feeling of a postwar generation exorcising some very powerful demons.

You just have to imagine living in Germany in those days,being young ,and knowing what had happened those previous years.Yet, the music they made, had a dreamlike positive beautiful atmosphere,but on the other hand there was this Wagnerian dread. This is what makes 'Krautrock'so special.

[milokossowski1]

Die Niklashauser Fahrt

[nickyballantine]

whats the film with rainer werner fassbinder in? i cant make out what theyre saying!

[ggdtribute]

Great video/documentary!

Does anyone know what's the song that starts at 2:56 and goes on until 3:40? It' sounds very familiar to me but I just can't remember where I heard it before!

Thanks!

[Maren1723]

Probably Wagner

[Satak8]

@ggdtribute

Richard Wagner - Siegfried's Funeral March

[duceooo]

Singin' a song called 'phallus dei' lol

[Kulturbundt]

Exelente!!!

[Caligula138]

@springsteenrules There is another Doc. called Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution.

Its amazing & very in depth, probably the best there is on the subject.

[zyatkoff]

Maybe you have english subtitles?

[BurningSpear213]

Renate Knaup ist mein waifu.

[a19993680]

Thank you very much for upload this amazing documentary, thank you!

[MattieCooper]

Fascinating`!!! Thanks Mark!

[OxygenBurglar]

BBC Four really are spoiling us lately, first with Synth Britannia, and now this. Cheers to them.

[michbeck88]

@OxygenBurglar

I have watched Synth Britannia for 4-5 times now, it's sooo great!

[sydbarret12]

PLEASE, PLEASEEEE try to put in this, the spanish sub titles

and thank you so for it

Danke

[Meckipsychman]

German avantgarde Psych/ progressive musik

[elephanta2]

beginning is Popol Vuh

[theswampland]

This is just brilliant!

[badpandarecords]

This is great. Thanks BBC, thanks for sharing.

[gudrungut]

fantastic- the whole 6 - a treasure to see some of germans musical history so nicely researched and put togehter... kraut rules :-)

[Caligula138]

im in for a fucking treat tonight!

[Oscar301]

your name's Caligula, you're in for a treat every night!

[Caligula138]

@Oscar301 haha!

If you only knew

[Ponsonby]

cheers for putting this up, I near had a fit after they took it off the BBCi player!

[broefra]

It's Rex Gildo. He died after a jump out of the window.

[picturemusic75]

Thanks for sharing...!!