Meta List of Top 10 Lists : Favorite KRAUT ROCK albums by fans

[N_Singh]

I compiled this informal list by fans from a Kraut rock Facebook group who were asked to list the top 10 Kraut rock albums. I need to listen to more of this so I found it useful . What do you think ?

Top 10 Kraut Rock lists (compilation )

1. Tangerine Dream - Zeit
2. Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
3. Faust - S/t
4. Can - Tago Mago
5. Cluster - Cluster '71
6. Ash Ra Tempel - S/t
7. Dom - Edge of Time
8. Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
9. Tangerine Dream - Atem
10. Popol Vuh - Letze Tage/Letze Nächte

Neu – Neu!
Neu – Neu! ‘75
Can – Tago Mago
Amon Duul II – Phallus Dei
Cluster – Zuckerzeit
Kraftwerk – Ralf & Florian
Guru Guru – Kanguru
La Dusseldorf – La Dusseldorf
Can – Soon Over Babaluma
Michael Rother - Katzenmusik


1 Tago Mago CAN
2 The Pharoahs Garden POPOL VUH
3 Yeti AMON DUUL 2
4 Ege Bamyasi CAN
5 Faust FAUST
6 Ash Ra Tempel FIRST
7 So Far FAUST
8/9 Atem/Zeit TANGERINE DREAM
10 Future Days CAN

Viva - La Dusseldorf
Zuckerzeit - Cluster
Future Days - Can
Movies - Holger Czukay
Hosianna Mantra - Popol Vuh
Cha Cha 2000 Live in Tokyo - la!NEU?
Selbstportrait - Roedelius
Musik von Harmonia - Harmonia
Ralf & Florian - Kraftwerk
Faust Tapes - Faust

Amon Düül II: Yeti
Ash Ra Tempel: Ash Ra Tempel
Can: Tago Mago
Can: Ege Bamyasi
Faust: Faust
Kraftwerk: Autobahn
Popol Vuh: In den Gärten Pharaos
Klaus Schulze: Timewind
Tangerine Dream: Alpha Centauri
Tangerine Dream: Zeit

GURU GURU -LIVE 1978 Doppelalbum
EMBRYO - Embryos Reise
CAN -Flow Motion
CAN -Tago Mago
CAN - Monstermovie
GURU GURU -Känguru
GROBSCHNITT -LIVE Solarmusic
KRAAN -Fly Day
EMBRYO -Live
GURU GURU -Globetrotter

Can - Future Days
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Faust - Faust IV
Neu! - Neu!
Can - Tago Mago
Amon Duul II - Wolf City
Popol Vuh - In den Garten Pharaos
Embryo - Embryos Reise
Ash Ra Temple - Ash Ra Temple

Conrad Schnitzler: Rot
Cluster: Sowiesoso
Moebius: Rastakraut
Roedelius: Self portrait 1
Conrad Schnitzler: Silver
Manual Gottsching: Blackout
Faust: Faust
Tangerine Dream: Ruby on
Kraftwerk: Autobahn
Manual Gottsching: E2-E4

Can Monster Movie
Virus Revelation
Parternoster
Mcchurch Soundroom
Amon Duul Collapsing
Kraftwerk Ralf & Florian
Kin pin meh Dame
Spermüll
Out of Focus Wake up
Grave same

M. Gottsching - Blackouts
M. Gottsching - New Age of Earth
Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
Guru Guru - Kanguru
M. Rother - Katzenmusik
CAN -Ege Bamyasi
NEU - NEU!
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Ash Ra Tempel - Starring Rosi
La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf

1. Ash Ra Tempel -First
2. Can - Tago Mago
3. Ar & Machines - Echo
4.Neu - Neu
5. Cosmic Jokers - Sci Fi Party
6.Amon Duul 2 - Phallas Dei
7.Tangerine Dream -Electronic Meditation
8.Faust - Faust
9. Walter Wegmuller - Tarot
10.Popol Vuh - In den Garten Pharos

-Neu 75
-Phallus Del
-Malesch
-Tago Mago
-Ash Ra Temple (first Lp)
-Musik von Harmonia
-So Far
- Cluster II
- La Düsseldorf
- Seven Up

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1 Amon Düül II - Tanz Der Lemminge
2 Popul Vuh - Einsjäger & Siebenjäger
3 Mobeius, Plank, Neumeier - Zero Set
4 Michael Rother - Sterntaler
5 Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity
6 Neu - Neu
7 Hans Reichel - The Death Of The Rare Bird Ymir
8 Faust - So Far
9 Cluster - Zuckerzeit
10 Cassiber - Beauty and the Beast
11 Can - Future Days

1 CAN Tago Mago
2 Tangerine Dream Zeit
3 Cluster 71
4 Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri
5 CAN Ege Bamyasi
6 NEU! NEU!
7 Popol Vuh Affenstunde
8 Ash Ra tempel Ash Ra Tempel
9 Birth Control Operation
10 Out of Focus Wake up!


1. Achim Reichel & Machines - Echo
2. Popol Vuh - On the Way to a Little Way (though really, absolutely any and all of their 1970s LPs are essential)
3. Ash Ra Tempel - First LP
4. Amon Duul II - Yeti
5. Gila - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
6. Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
7. Kraan - Live
8. Sergius Golowin - Lord Krishna von Goloka
9. Walter Wegmuller - Tarot
10. Nico - The Marble Index (is it krautrock? I think so)

1. Muzik von Harmonia1974
2. Neu! 2 1973
3. Kraftwerk 1970
4. Harmonia & Eno Track and Traces
5. Michael Rother Flammende Herzen 1977
6. Manuel Göttsching Inventions for Electric Guitar 1975
7. Cosmic Jokers Planeten Sit-in 1974
8. Faust IV 1973
9. Neu! 75 1975
10. Streetmark Dreams 1977

Can - Future Days
Amon Duul - Psychedelic Underground
Neu! - Neu!
Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Can - Tago Mago
Kraftwerk- Autobahn

Can - Tago Mago
Amon Duul II - Wolf City
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
Cluster - Grosses Wasser
Holger Czukay - Movies
Peter Frohmader - Macrocosm
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Popol Vuh - Seligpreisung
Peter Baumann - Romance 76

Grobschnitt, 1st album
Guru Guru, Dance of the Flames
Eloy, Inside
Novalis, Sommerabend
Amon Duul II, Yeti
Can, Tago Mago
Faust, So Far
Kraan, Andy Nogger
Tangerine Dream, Rubycon
Kraftwerk, 1st album

Honorable mention:
Satin Whale, Desert Places
Scorpions, Lonesome Crow
Lucifer's Friend, 1st album
Nektar, Remember the Future

1. Can - Tago Mago
2. Can - Ege Bamyasi
3. Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia
4. Wolfgang Dauner - Et Cetera
5. Kraftwerk- Computer World
6. Amon Düül - Yeti
7. NEU! S/T
8. Cluster - Zuckerzeit
9. Ash Ra Temple - s/t
10. Faust IV

[per anporth]

One album I'd add to these lists, by Harmonia, is Harmonia - Live 1974; I think it's an astonishing achievement, a remarkable document of what these visionaries were able to achieve in a live setting.

I'm surprised not to see more recommendations for Klaus Schulze. X and Cyborg are both excellent, but the first side of Irrlicht is, for me, the most stunning piece of work.

[Progmatic]

If nobody recommended Out of Focus - FLMA then those Krautrock fans have some way to go !


BTW if you do Gnosis (list based on the statistical inference of multiple fans) and select Germany this is your top 15

Agitation Free : Malesch
Amon Düül II : Yeti
Embryo : Steig Aus
Tortilla Flat : Fur ein 3/4 Stündchen
Eiliff : Eiliff
Twenty Sixty Six and Then : Reflections! (Second Battle CD reissue)
Agitation Free : Second
Can : The Peel Sessions
Embryo : Rocksession
Agitation Free : At the Cliffs of River Rhine (aka Live '74)
Kollektiv : Kollektiv
Out of Focus : Four Letter Monday Afternoon
Popol Vuh : Einsjager & Siebenjager
Amon Düül II : Tanz der Lemminge
Ash Ra Tempel : Ash Ra Tempel

[Poisoned Youth]

If nobody recommended Out of Focus - FLMA then those Krautrock fans have some way to go !


BTW if you do Gnosis (list based on the statistical inference of multiple fans) and select Germany this is your top 15

Yeah, that more closely resembles my list. I can't relate to Zeit being a composite #1.

1. Embryo - Steig Aus
2. Embryo - Rocksession
3. Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
4. Can - Tago Mago
5. Kollektiv - SWF Sessions Volume 5
6. Agitation Free - Malesch
7. Brainstorm - Smile a While
8. Can - Future Days
9. Out of Focus - Four Letter Monday Afternoon
10. Agitation Free - Second
11. Eloy - Floating
12. Klaus Schulze - Timewind
13. Eiliff - s/t
14. Hoenig / Göttsching - Early Water
15. Ibliss - Supernova

(I did remove additional Embryo albums...heh, as well as some more obvious symph albums)

[strawberrybrick]

I had to sum up what I've read so far the majority would fall into the "big five" of krautrock:

Can
Amon Duul/II
Tangerine Dream/Ashra/Schulze arc
Kraftwerk/Neu!/Cluster/Harmonia/Rother arc
Popol Vuh

Looks like Julian Copes book! There's a lot of music in there, and a lot of very different types of music. Most if not all are covered in my book as well

[Zeuhlmate]

How is Klaus Schulze - Timewind Kraut?

Yeah, that more closely resembles my list. I can't relate to Zeit being a composite #1.

1. Embryo - Steig Aus
2. Embryo - Rocksession
3. Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
4. Can - Tago Mago
5. Kollektiv - SWF Sessions Volume 5
6. Agitation Free - Malesch
7. Brainstorm - Smile a While
8. Can - Future Days
9. Out of Focus - Four Letter Monday Afternoon
10. Agitation Free - Second
11. Eloy - Floating
12. Klaus Schulze - Timewind
13. Eiliff - s/t
14. Hoenig / Göttsching - Early Water
15. Ibliss - Supernova

(I did remove additional Embryo albums...heh, as well as some more obvious symph albums)

[strawberrybrick]

The same way Eloy Floating is? or Ibliss?

[Progmatic]

The same way Eloy Floating is? or Ibliss?

Are we heading for the discussion of krautrock is?


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[chalkpie]

Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Stockhausen, and Hildegard Von Bingen are all Krautrock too.

[smcfee]

Pretty good list here:

https://rateyourmusic.com/customchar...one&countries=

Of course you'll run into questions of classification; I don't think any Berlin school music is considered here.

Top 10:
1. Can - Tago Mago
2. Can - Future Days
3. Can - Ege Bamyasi
4. Faust - IV
5. NEU! - S/T
6. NEU! - 75
7. Amon Duul II - Yeti
8. Faust - S/T
9. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
10. Can - Monster Movie

[Progmatic]

Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Stockhausen, and Hildegard Von Bingen are all Krautrock too.

Only kraut part !


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[Zeuhlmate]

Everything considered here, its all proggish music made within the West-German borders?

Are we heading for the discussion of krautrock is?


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