Good Life - Neu!

Neu! 4 is the final studio album to date by Krautrock band Neu!.
It was recorded and mixed between October 1985 and April 1986 at Grundfunk Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany, Dinerland-Lilienthal Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany, and Michael Rother Studio, Forst, Germany. This was the first time Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger had entered a studio together since 1975. However the sessions were not completed and the planned album was abandoned.
During the 1990s the first three Neu! albums were available on CD on Germanofon Records, a dubious label allegedly based in Luxembourg who specialized in unauthorized and illegal reissues (bootlegs) of otherwise unavailable Krautrock albums. Germanofon managed to get a number of their releases, including the three Neu! albums, into mainstream distribution. According to Michael Rother's account Dinger released Neu! 4 "in an act of despair, so he says" in late 1995 as a response to the bootlegs, which Dinger rails against in the liner notes. Neu! 4 was issued by the Japanese label Captain Trip Records, without Rother's input, knowledge, or consent. He only learned what had happened in a telegram congratulating him on the release of the album. Rother, writing in March of 2007, described this experience as "a rather painful disaster between Klaus Dinger and myself".
The release of Neu! 4 exacerbated the disagreements between Rother and Dinger, which prevented an official CD release of the three classic Neu! albums until 2001. The 2000 agreement between Rother and Dinger which led to the CD releases on Astralwerks in the U.S. and Grönland Records in the UK called for Neu! 4 to be recalled and it has been out of print since then.
Despite Michael Rother's continued objection to Klaus Dinger's original decision to release Neu! 4 and his oft stated opinion "that [Neu! 4]isn't a legal/real NEU! album", Rother has no objection to fans buying the CD second hand and has left open the possibility that Neu! 4 might be reissued legally with his consent in the future. Rother and Dinger did attempt to negotiate such a release after the official reissue of the first three albums. In March, 2007 Rother termed the failure to reach such an agreement "unfortunate". With Dinger's death in 2008, such an agreement is unlikely, though no relevant announcements have been made since.

- Courtesy of Wikipedia

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[Sonnenroeschen6]

Wunderschön

[mondx]

@markhornbogen  i agree - and yet your wrong, taking it just like it is - its beautiful

[mantra3000]

This is better than most bands, but definitely under their other albums' artistic incredible standard. Production is godawful. I guess Connie Plank wasn't around anymore?

[devomk]

nice jam 

[devomk]

nice jam

[davetevez84]

gran canción!

[xraycortina]

@markhornbogen That's possibly why Kraftwerk wrote 'the model'. It was completely out of character, but the only song that charted, sold some singles and appealed to the masses. I don't think that Neu! ever wrote a song that was better than Hallogallo, but that wouldn't have got into the top 40....

[markhornbogen]

i'm not convinced yet... sounds pretty plastic... like an 80's commercial... and i love the first 3 records... this doesn't sound timeless at all... they probably had their reasons why they didn't release it in the first place... i guess somebody needs money...

[calisway]

So basic and beautiful.

[kosmischesynth]

This is definately one of NEU!'s best songs. I can't get enough, as soon as it finishes I start it again!