The 40 Greatest Krautrock Albums

[@danehlers9989]

I have at least halfof what you've shown here, even more. There's a couple that you shown that had in my hands in Rasputins on Telegraph Ave but sadly, they were some of my put backs ,thinking I'd pick em' up laterand.... well, you know how it goes lol. I ❤ my collection and its massive. 😮 Thanks for sharing yours. 👍

[@iainneville7137]

I'm glad Gomorrha made your list. One of the earliest examples of Krautrock and its a great record. There are some excellent choises here and definately a few I've not come across before. Thanks for the post.

[@drewk1955]

Man! this is fun!! I was very, very fortuante to become friends with Hogler Czukay of CAN.... Interesting thing he told me once about Future Days in an e-mail that he had a fight with the band over the recording because he felt the percussion was way to loud. When they went back to re-mix the albums for Super Audio, whic I was very fortunate that he sent me all copies of, they agreed so many years later. I told him it was one of my favorite CAN albums and he said his too... BUt, believe or not, he told me his favorire was the very first one, that was released actually later was Delay 1968. Uphill is a killer song.....

[@dimitrispapadimitriou5622]

There are some great albums ( even masterpieces) missing from this list: Kanguru ( Guru Guru ), Cluster '71, Wolf City ( ADII), Join Inn ( Ash Ra Tempel), Hoelderlin - Traum, Kraftwerk- Autobahn, 1st... Tangerine dream - Atem , Phaedra... Out of Focus, Gila, Dzyan- Electric Silence Brainticket - Psychonaut..

[@Arminchen]

Braintickets members are mixed from Switzerland and the Netherlands, if i remember right. if switzerland qualifies here, they deserve defenitely to be here on this list with Psychonaut and Cottonwoodhill - one of the best albums ever, for my taste ;-)

[@J.R.Psych74]

Sergius Golowin - Lord Krishna Von Goloka is a must . You will hallucinate without partaking, if you know what I mean. ✌😊

[@CygnusX-fd8pp]

Omg i have for several years a tune in my head and it did not want to leave😅 Did not know the artist😢 You helped me out: Neu! 75 (Isi) Thank you so much !!!

[@Zoo8966]

Très , très belle liste . J ' aurai peut-être ajouté un petit " Dzyan " mais c' est du jazz rock . ( hors sujet ) . Et j' aime beaucoup " Echo " ( 1972 ) d' A.R ( Achim Reichel ) et Machines.

[@daskleinegluck4553]

I feel ashamed, but I have to admit, that I only knew six of the bands and artists and loved *all* of them 😊. Thank you very much.

[@oliver-4711]

relax, I didn't know any of these groups. 😅

[@yanncarduner4516]

Cool list and nice video I could give other examples but already very fine ,I will see Agitation Free in Paris next november

[@JoseMartinezcampos-c5f]

Gran chulada de discos obras de arte mis favoritos

[@philippebyrnes1213]

I love this list plus the additions from comments. I’d add Hoelderlin’s Traum, Grbschnitt Solar Music Live, Klaus Schulz double lp Live in Paris as well his reunion albums w Manuel Gottsching, Manuel’s E2-E4, anything Popul Vuh even when Florian had hand problems and programmed his parts I’ll come back and add more another time. Cheers

[@paulmchugh1430]

I have a few of these albums, but the vast majority are new to me. Oh, i have jeard of the names like Neu! and Amon Düül butost of the rest are completely unk own and certainly worth investigating. I personally thought Popol Vuh Aguirre should haveade the list.

[@jackdaw6182]

'Can't Get Through' - Hairy Chapter (1971) Should be here at number 1

[@rexfreeman4981]

RIP Damo 😖

[@JohnWolfgang-fx5pv]

Great job!!!

[@joeysendzik9166]

a nice reminder of those bands, you missed some few :)

[@timholden3436]

I saw this video very late. Great collection. I wish I still had my copy of "Golem" by SAND. Sold it about 20 years ago for some stupid reason.

[@mickcharles1224]

Wie immer - alles Geschmackssache !!! aber natürlich eine trotzdem tolle Zusammenstellung.

[@Cosmicprog2012]

You could stay at FAUST, KRAFTWERK, AMON DUUL I+II, CAN, CLUSTER, SCHNITZLER, TD & POPOL VUH, for a life-long ubermusik experience!

[@rubenfernandocarrillolopez1682]

Buena selección pero me imagino que la música rock alemana ha evolucionado como para tener en cuenta trabajos más actuales.

[@vicvicvic70]

Virus,Zarathustra,Dies Irae,Hilderlin,Dschinn,Siddharta,Siloah,Erlkoenig,Lily,Minotaurus,Lava,Hell Preachers,Kalacakra,Lord Krishna von Goloka,Thirsty Moon,Gryphon,German Oak,Bullfrog,Cluster,Arktis,Vinegar,Nine Day's Wonder,Pancake,Saffran,Out of Focus,Emtidi,Langsyne,Cosmic Circus Music,Tritonus,Faithful Breath,Sitting Bull,Trikolon,Friedhof,Baumstam,Necronomicon,Nein Pearl,Sub,Sperrmull,John Bassman Group,Royal Servantes,Yatha Sidhra,Try,Hairy Chapter,Frumpy,Janus,Blackwater Park,Jane,Dull Knife,Think,Gila,Reaction,2066 and Then,Nosferatu,Petards,Murphy Blend,Out of Focus,Black Spirit,Silberbart,Birth Control,Night Sun,Lightshine,Wind,Chicken Bones,Epitaph,Cravinkel,Frame,Tomorrow's Gift,etccccc............😘

[@xavierduraffourg499]

Où sont Cosmic century et Blitzkrieg de Wallenstein ?

[@Semprini537]

Germany is a big country with many bands. I love "Krautrock", but i know only the most known bands CAN, FAUST, ASH RA TEMPLE, KRAFTWERK, KLAUS SCHULTZE....impossible to know and listen through so much musik. Just try to go through the TANGERINE DREAMs discography, from first to the last, you will need a year

[@marioserna3564]

Sorprendente!!!!

[@andreasvitz1091]

17 out of 40 :)

[@p6v665]

listen to laurie spiegel the expanding universe! patchwork, a folk study, and east river dawn are some of my favorite krautrock songs

[@p6v665]

i should mention she is not german but that shouldnt matter. she pioneered early synth use in the 70s that is reminiscent of and in krautrock

[@musiclists-mk3kk]

I'll check her out 👍.

[@RayZappa]

@@p6v665 The Expanding Universe is a wonderful piece of electronic music indeed and well worth a shout out, thankyou. To be pedantic I would say that she pioneered the use of computer algorithms in electronic music composition.

[@predragtopic7874]

I never heard only for Between. Good. But many of them left, it is short list.

[@marceloramos4386]

Álbuns incríveis.... muito... muito bom

[@noelsalisbury7448]

The 'thing' with lists is that anyone can make them . Great 'jumping-off' places, but don't stick to them rigidly.

[@gregordiezemann-io6zd]

Sand,1974

[@johnkx2484]

Magnum Opus - Sinestesia

[@8333JD]

Some good ones there, but i think Amon Duul 2 best albums were- WOLF CITY & HIJACK, plus some Moebius & Plank albums were terrific. cheers.

[@JoseMartinezcampos-c5f]

El phallus del me enloquece me emociona mucho saludos

[@gregordiezemann-io6zd]

Erlkönig,1973

[@musiclists-mk3kk]

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[@finaldestination5847]

Rufus Zuphall were from Aachen and not from Wiesbaden !! Cheers from Aachen

[@ceomedintorg6147]

Great list! BUT... Where is Brainticket, Jane, Birth Control?? Thanx))

[@Helmut229]

Das sind wirklich sehr kurze Ausschnitte; man hatte nicht die Möglichkeit, sich mal 30 Sekunden einzugrooven pro Song

[@charlesjung2049]

Why not 'Out of Focus'??

[@iainneville7137]

Yes, I have an l.p. by Out Of Focus called Rat Roads and its very good.

[@Wolle-fs2mf]

Es fehlt das erste Album der Mannheimer Gruppe Kin Ping Meh von 1971 !!!

[@xavierduraffourg499]

Wallenstein : Blitzkrieg und Cosmic Century ?

[@TimJackson-eq6iy]

What happened to Kaipa?

[@ericsagne8446]

A great album list indeed… but only half are krautrock. The other part is prog.

[@guillermolizardi6321]

Isn't progresive Krautrock? What do You understand as kraut?

[@robertrobertsakarogerslemer]

​@@guillermolizardi6321You're wrong. Rock progressivo it's not Krautrock.

[@JoseMartinezcampos-c5f]

Code 3 planet of man

[@kennethengstrm3105]

Great list, but I think Eloy and Grobschnitt are not considered Krautrock.

[@musiclists-mk3kk]

It's early Eloy, for the later, more well-known albums I agree with you.

[@MikeFlood-oe3tu]

..why not? Please explain.

[@Marillion1978]

I agree with some favourite kraut rock albums Guru Guru is not in my taste. I would Prefer Carol of Harvest, Epidaurus those two gems of Symphonic Prog folk

[@mari1809ify]

I am not agree of this list..Both Amon Duuls "Yeti" and Cans "Tago Mago" should be on top here..

[@robertrobertsakarogerslemer]

Half of this list are progressive rock artists, not exactly krautrock. Krautrock is a genre also played by Austrian and Swiss groups. Not everything German is krautrock. Birth Control is a German rock band that fuses progressive rock and hard rock, but the fact of being German does not mean being krautrock. Krautrock (also called "Kosmische musik") is a German avant-garde/experimental rock movement that emerged at the end of the 1960's. It was intended to go beyond the eccentricities developed by the wild psychedelic rock universe of the US, by giving a special emphasis to electronic treatments, sound manipulation and minimal hypnotic motifs (continuing the style of "musique concrete" and minimalist repetitive music but within a more accessible environment). Krautrock put the emphasis on extended and ecstatic instrumental epics, neglecting the format of conventional psych-pop songs. The term Krautrock was first used by the British music press in a very derogatory way. The term quickly found a better reputation in underground music circles and finally gained a certain popularity (thanks to the Brain-Festival Essen...) The Krautrock movement is widely associated with notorious bands such as Popol Vuh, Amon Duul, Faust, Neu!, Ash Ra Tempel, Agitation Free, Guru Guru, etc. With their own particular artistic expression, these musical collectives provided rocking psychedelic incantations, mantra like drones, melancholic lugubrious atmospheres, long and convoluted collective improvisations, binary repetitive drum pulses, fuzz guitars, feedback, primitive electronic noises, hallucinatory ballads, and garage blues rock trips. Krautrock can be described as an anarchic, intense, acid, tellurian, nocturnal, spacey, dark and oneiric "adventure" through rock music.

[@carstenhohmann2955]

Mannheim: KIN PING MEH = 5 - 6 Alben

[@philippemordrel9160]

J’aurais rajouté WALLENSTEIN…..

[@SerafinRubato]

Kollektiv es KrautRock ??

[@vadimkorobicyn]

Амон Дюл только знаю🎉 И CAN конечно же🎉

[@alexanderokhotnikov8121]

Очень вам завидую, что теперь сможете всё это послушать в первый раз. А я вот уже не смогу. 😂 Все эти альбомы уже кучу лет как переслушаны до дыр. На компе лежат полные дискографии всех этих групп во флаке. Добавил бы в этот список ещё альбомов 40. (думал найти тут чего-нибудь для себя новенькое, чего не знаю, а вот фигушки. ппц какой я старый и нудный 😢)

[@alastairhughan7882]

NO NOVALIS

[@michaelstoeckel178]

Birth Control, Nektar?

[@AntoineVanGeyseghem]

=o

[@jesusmarmolejoaguilar3100]

Electric Sandwich......😂

[@phak74]

Not even 10 seconds per piece, it's not even worth listening to. It would have been more interesting to present only 20 greatest in 15 minutes to discover the groups.

[@narasimha7187]

Dude, just check them out independently!

[@FraVazRos]

Buena selección,,aunque faltan al menos diez grupos tan buenos o mas que esos,,"birch control """etc...

[@robertrobertsakarogerslemer]

Birth Control is a German rock band that fuses progressive rock and hard rock, but the fact of being German does not mean being krautrock. Krautrock (also called "Kosmische musik") is a German avant-garde / experimental rock movement that emerged at the end of the 1960's. It was intended to go beyond the eccentricities developed by the wild psychedelic rock universe of the US, by giving a special emphasis to electronic treatments, sound manipulation and minimal hypnotic motifs (continuing the style of "musique concrete" and minimalist repetitive music but within a more accessible environment). Krautrock put the emphasis on extended and ecstatic instrumental epics, neglecting the format of conventional psych-pop songs. The term Krautrock was first used by the British music press in a very derogatory way. The term rapidly found a better reputation in underground music circles and finally gained a certain popularity (thanks to the Brain-Festival Essen...) The Krautrock movement is widely associated with notorious bands such as Popol Vuh, Amon Duul, Faust, Neu!, Ash Ra Tempel, Agitation Free, Guru Guru, etc. With their own particular artistic expression, these musical collectives provided rocking psychedelic incantations, mantra like drones, melancholic lugubrious atmospheres, long and convoluted collective improvisations, binary repetitive drum pulses, fuzz guitars, feedback, primitive electronic noises, hallucinatory ballads, and garage blues rock trips. Krautrock can be described as an anarchic, intense, acid, tellurian, nocturnal, spacey, dark and oniric "adventure" through rock music.