NEU! – Neuschnee (1973)
My first interest into Krautrock beyond Kraftwerk. I found NEU! ‘75 (1975, duh) when I was 17 and have yet to stop listening to it eight years later.
NEU! was the brainchild of Kraftwerk’s Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother. Anything Rother touches, I like; which you will see in future posts.
This track is off of NEU! 2 (1973) and is a fine example of Rother’s melting guitar melodies, and (along with almost every other NEU! song) displays Dinger’s self-invented Motorik beat.
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04/26/10 - 
August 25th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
nice track! didn’t know they had MS Paint back then.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Har har har
Posting sometime soon is La Dusseldorf’s VIVA – you’ll love the cover just as much.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Please don’t pollute Scott’s blog with bad album covers.
k thx
August 25th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Haha! Ah paint, brilliant.
The risk of letting other people post blogs (no offense beamer), you need like a style guide or something.
Music does sound like something from an old school game though.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am
ha, not what I meant at all. was supposed to be a joke. yeah, by today’s standards this album cover is not exactly the best thing in the world but you have to think about the context of when it was released and what the artists were trying to say with it. sure, this blog is primarily about visual work, but we also post music and Neu was a great pioneering band, I would put their music up here regardless of the quality of the cover.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Great post Beamer, i love this track, keep knocking out these mid 70s cuts, i really enjoy the education
August 27th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
@jakub: Glad you enjoyed it! I’ve got a lot of good stuff queued up.
October 17th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
If you haven’t yet, you MUST check out CAN.