Neu! - Hero

[crayyawn]

Neu! One of the greatest bands of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­! no doubt about it. some of my favorite music ever

[guitarsole666]

love it.

[Rottenostalgia]

Whoever said that music needs to be complex to be brilliant? These guys took two chords and a 4/4 beat, and it still sounds so powerful!

[antonioACR1]

Wow! this could be post punk too!! These guys must have came from the future, otherwise it would be hard to believe they did this wonderful music at those years.

They're sick!

[lowproductions92]

I can hear bits of Autobahn in the beginning

[nicomadriz]

this track is at the crossroads of so many great styles...is spacey, is punky, is avant-garde, is rock'n'roll, etc, etc...no wonder it has inspired so many different artists along the way...definitely on my all-time top ten, never get tired of this. masterpiece indeed!

[hess6wi]

It's like if the Sex Pistols had talent.

[MrSphibe]

Affirmative!

[TheDewclaw]

Yum, might just have to get me a band togeather, might just have to play this track, over and over and Over again! why did hawkwind rip HaloGallo with thier Opaloka?

[emilyoshiro]

timeless.

[FerenswayRecords]

I heard Wire play this before they went on-stage and heard it on a whole new light. Before I thought Hero was a really good song, now I think it's one of the greatest songs of all-time.

[grimandi18]

@GilbertSmith : John Cage's 4'33" doesn't have a blues riff in it.

[leonardotube]

@grimandi18 and is not a rock song, neither.

[glaeken14]

Influence to David Bowie!!

[yourfacearts]

Why don't people stop arguing and just appreciate one of the most amazing rock songs of all time, and potentially one of the most influential?

[MEATYOKERRable]

If this wasn't such a good song, it would sound like Karaoke at Happy Hour.

[LOSTASTRONAUTA]

atararingui !!  terrible werewey los padres del protopunk!!

NEU!

[shadigradisprint]

Das NEU-zzze ISt FUNNtasctischtennnnnnnnnn....!­!!

[1rusticus]

hallo,danke ,danke......diesen song höre ich mir bestimmt 35 jahre an...lieben gruß aus berlin hartmut bauer

[kingpatty11]

scheiße....

[1rusticus]

hallo,danke für das video aus der jugend......gruß aus berlin wilmersdorf hartmut

[BigKatz]

Sometimes the original is just the best

[evilrobottolhurst]

Went to Norway. What more can I say?

[baf4redrum]

ma il tizio dietro la batteria sta a punto di morire?

[alastairpearson]

i love neu. the more i hear the more i like. really great and underrated.

[mantra3000]

So, wait... This was before te Sex Pistols?

[uktransplantedyank]

@mantra3000

It was, indeed!  Quite frankly I like Neu! better than the Sex Pistols.

[Skrczipcze]

@mantra3000 aye the sex pistols said later they were inspired by this song

[MinecraftPublic]

Thumbs up if "Away At War 2" brought you here.

[skutratufahija]

velvet & nico plus iggy pop made neu. neu made joy division. division made new wave and whole indie shit of 2000's. everything before indie mentioned here is art.

[egdoh]

@skutratufahija ...... you are correct up untill you write off "indie"... all music is art, all art is subjective,and therefore qualified, ps I dont like "indie" but will always defend its right to exist as an artistic form, its just another link in the chain, who knows what it will spawn or inspire next...and if indie kids follow the chain backwards they will educate and inspire themselves..

[skutratufahija]

@egdoh

in 2030 people who'll analyze rock culture will still talk about those who moved the barriers of music and i bet my ass people will know about joy division but franz ferdinand and the strokes won't be there. there's no rock spirit in them. they're pop. indie rock is nothing but pop movement, nothing significant.

[egdoh]

@skutratufahija .... probably not, but the connecting artists are still a major factor, if they wernt we would only have about 12 bands to listen to. Influence, even blatant copycat is at worst a compliment, at best a continuation of an idea to further generations. The connections may be immaterial through time to the general populace, but to the informed observer a linear path through music history..

[shatchett0]

@skutratufahija Don't be an elitist. It makes you blind.

[roejogan8]

@skutratufahija wrong. franz ferdinand's debut and is this it by the strokes are very good albums. and i'm not even a big fan of either.

[NeuElement]

lol xD!

[AFirmKickInThePants]

This > all the punk crap that came later

[punkrockcol23]

Amazing music

everybody has stolen from Neu but few give them credit.

[czech698]

the old man sat bolt upright in the bed, staring at the wall, nightcap canted crazily. Outside the wind sucked along the eaves with hollow hooting. It was a tiresome way to make a census, but it was the only way to make the kind of World Committee wanted-and needed. Grant stared in perplexity at the atomic gun. He tapped the gun on the rocka agian, harder this time. Still no soap.

"You ain't huntin' no old roads, be you?"

"Nope," said Grant. "I'm a census taker."

[thankGodforDavidG]

Every human has good reasons to feel and believe the way they do, I have good memories of my stay in Germany during the mid sixties. I was a language student at die Universitaet zu Koeln and found german people and culture wonderful. Now I enjoy listening to Krautrock um mich wieder daran zu errinern.

[Hordkorowiec328]

Despite I don't bear much sympathy and affection to Germany altogetger - I have the highest respect to manifestations of German culture like Goethe, Nietzsche Hesse, Herzog... and Krautrock as well.

[dolphinea]

Every single punk band that ever was, and certainly all the pop that came out of it, sounded like this. Amazing innovators.

[DecoPage666]

um absurdo sonoro de múltiplos prismas. incrível, e mais que isso, maravilhoso. VIVA NEU!

[youronly]

these comments only show how futile your knowledge of music and the arts really are.  Shut up these guys dachieved more with their lives than and brains any of you ever will. Neu is a milemarker.

[gargouyee]

I like this music, Im fan of Kraftwerk and neu!!!

Long life to germany

Greeting from france!

[SpeedMjam]

@gargouyee Thank you... :)

But I think inspiration and creativity is all over the world...

Just give them attention = microphone, canvas or a empty script book :)

[Eddie141250]

Vom englischen Magazin UNCUT als "the Lennon and McCartney of Teutonic boogaloo" gerühmten Avantgarde-Duos NEU! (1972 - 1975) und Mitglied der nicht minder sagenumwobenen Experimental-Elektronik-Format­ion Harmonia (1973 - 1976) hat der Gitarrist, Multiinstrumentalist und Klangforscher Michael Rother Musikgeschichte geschrieben.

[thankGodforDavidG]

Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger (formerly Kraftwerk) created this gem of the 70s, it had big influence on many artists, incredibly genial !!!

[petrezky]

only the british don't see the racism behind expressions like kraut rock or spaghetti western.....

[propopollo]

accidenti ke fikata

[AndromedaNomad]

Wow ! Really reminds me of the equally awesome " red sails" from bowie's "lodger", lot's of help from eno :-)

[ChrisUtzig]

Yeah, i've heard that Eno and Bowie were really into Neu! during the Berlin Trilogy era... not too bad. I love this band.

[thesuikerlounge]

dieser scheiß song is so sau geil... ich wär beinahe vom stuhl gefallen gerade... ujaujauja...

[clashboy1977]

my first thought upon eharing this was that it sounded like the sex pistols and the stranglers!

"krautrock" particularly neu definelty hugely influenced punk. but to say lydon stole it is a bit absurd if i do say so myself!

[hairymarx]

@clashboy1977 For me, it's early U2.

[clashboy1977]

@hairymarx i wouldnt know i'm irish and i'm proud to say i hate u2 hahaha! thin lizzy are is best band here! hahaha

[roscofaemoscow]

@clashboy1977 finally someone has said it!

[leonca76]

Excelente!!

[ghostmachine]

this song sounds awesome playing on my turn table at 3 in the morning

[Nakkinak]

Am I the only one here who thinks of stereolab?

[Israfvel]

Seems so. I'm here dreamin' of punks.

[BejnXander]

Influenced David Bowie. Now that is some real music!

[doppelgangerstudios]

Really, really cool

[Raymantico]

touch my monkey...

[marlboro555555]

Now ist the time on Sprockets when we dance!

[Nakkinak]

Dinger sounds like a melange of david bowie, rio reiser and lou reed

it's cool, indeed

[templeball1]

thanks for this it was another forgotten classic.

was 19 then

[pk1001]

the unbelievable spirit of Klaus Dinger...

[lyca71]

neu!: una nuova scoperta, un territorio inesplorato! A new discover for me!

[elwalsho]

i can hear a lot of different things in this.bit of bowie,bit of lydon,bit of pink floyd,bit of achtung baby U2,in fact quite a bit of early and late U2 as well,bit of Iggy,there's probably more...

[Andrewsmate]

Agree, in Neu! 2 I can hear a riff nicked by the sex pistols

[elwalsho]

yeah,i thought the singin kind of reminded me of john lydons.he went down this kind of direction with PIL.

[Andrewsmate]

...and I know it's obvious but a lot of early stereolab too

[AlvinLeeLang]

the thing is, when they sing "oh not another hero, running through the night/city." They mean not another drunken alkohol guy running trough the city. Neu! is true ganja smokers and evereyone knows it. I love Neu!

[craigdamage]

My honey went to Norway.

....fuck the press.

[willyousuckmyballz]

PURE CLASS

[morangochris]

After all these years, still wonderful

[fiscornioman]

David Bowie recognized openly that he was inspired by this song when writing "heroes".

Check it out if you want, is real.

[8bitpuntoes]

I think the instumental parts of "Red Sails" from the Lodger album are very similar to this song. I love both :-)

[somadicto]

gran video, una de las canciones que más me gusta de Neu!

[siarung]

me thinks this was more an influence on johnny rotten,bowie was surely more kraftwerk?

[GilbertSmith]

Bowie loved this song, but yeah, he was also a huge fan of Kraftwerk during his Krautrock period. Johnny Rotten basically stole everything he knows from Neu! and put his own twist on it.

And before some idiot gives me the thumbs down, I think all music is based on thievery, so no, I'm not saying Rotten is an idiot. Name one rock song that doesn't contain a blues riff.

[Pomeray8]

there's a lot of rock both past and present that doesn't use pentatonic (blues) scales or blues-based riffs, or riffs at all. but, that depends on what your definition of rock is. songs by: yo la tengo, my bloody valentine, pinback, blonde redhead, radiohead, battles, brian eno...just to name a few. 'candle' by sonic youth doesn't contain a blues riff

[minutegongcoughs]

GilbertSmith. John Lydon's influences go way back before this and the mid seventies. He had the whole canon of The Kinks albums. He has a broad taste in music so shouldn't be pinned down in one genre.

[andreaprodan]

Hi Gilbert, John Lyddon loved Van der Graaf and was heavily inspired by Hammill's 'alter ego' album...

but I'm sure you know that already...

[PROTECTMAN1138]

Actually no I didn't, thanks for the info!

[ZRN959]

@GilbertSmith Heroin- the Velvet Underground.

[SkydivingKnife]

@GilbertSmith

How about a Neu! song? They tend to abandon the blues. Otherwise, spot on.

By the way, actionbutton is a pretty rad site, if you ever heard of it ;)

[clashboy1977]

@GilbertSmith theres hundreds of rock songs that dont contain blues riffs. you know open, barre chords, 5ths triads etc etc were around before blues!

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

@GilbertSmith

Well said. If you steal from one person it's theft, but if you still from lots of people it's research :)

[HeathenLoveGod]

@GilbertSmith: I agree! All art is based on thievery. Every artist takes what has gone before and builds upon it to create an original hybrid.

[schickersaal]

@GilbertSmith - RIGHT!

[paniciao]

@GilbertSmith too bad more don't share Your thoughts. I mean as long as You feel the music right? That is what should matter.

[DCioccoloni]

@GilbertSmith there's loads. actually off the top of my head i can already think of a rock album that in its entirety probably doesn't contain a single blues riff, Lullaby Land - Vampire Rodents.

[dndersen]

@DCioccoloni I think he was talking about good rock records

[DCioccoloni]

@dndersen what is a "good" rock record exactly? define the qualifier please.

[coolfire1]

@GilbertSmith Not thievery, influence and inspiration

[GilbertSmith]

@coolfire1 I call it all thievery so I don't have to waste time arguing with people about the difference between this artist borrowing ideas and that artist borrowing ideas, between cover songs, sampling, remixes and borrowing whole riffs. Most people basically say "Sex Pistols were influenced by Neu because I like Sex Pistols, but since I don't like rap, rap DJs steal." It's splitting hairs. Either it's all thievery or it's all influence and inspiration.

[Aksentievich]

Yeah and you could defenitely hear Neu's Negativland on Bowie's Heroes in my opinion... they were a major influence on him

[jsangspar]

I'm not sure a better song exists.

[egits]

a little something for the cagey guitarists

[mokria]

True+RiGhT

[InterestingSpecimen]

"And the Lord looked down upon the face of his creation, overwhelmed by all the beauty he manifested and said...LET THERE BE NEU!"

[spockbella]

@InterestingSpecimen 

[spockbella]

@InterestingSpecimen

WELL SAID!!!!

[logonazo]

@InterestingSpecimen hahahah very good man,...

[faustain]

We owe, this band!

Stunning

[ZILLA2010]

Sounds like Johnny Rotten ripped this song off for God Save The Queen. :-o

[alexiscalciumkidd]

it sounds like Johnny Rotten ripped this song off for Never Mind the Bollocks... entirely.

[vokshumana]

Many krautrock bands were the missing link between hippie and punk rock.

[das81]

Fuck, this band really makes thing came in place.

[traenemusik]

yes yes yes Kraftwerk Rock n' Roll

[Krautrockfan]

Voll GEIL

[MintySpunkBubble]

Fucking amazing. Best band eva!

[fatalcze]

True

[VogelMic]

VERY GREAT MUSIC !

Michael Vogel

Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth

(Dingerland)

[bezgin]

Awesome. Favorited and added to playlist. Thanks.