World album of the day (#281): Faust by Faust - Music

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Faust by Faust (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1971.
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Overall rank: 576
Average rating: 80/100 (from 105 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Why Don't You Eat Carrots?
2. Meadow Meal
3. Miss Fortune

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Basically its psych-rock meets musique concrete via crazy sound collage song structures...

...and it is absolutely brilliant, easily my favourite Faust album.

I find there are a lot of proto nurse with wound/throbbing gristle industrial-esque sound effects on this that aren't used to the same extent in other Faust records. Also the sound collage stuff seems executed absolutely perfectly; we get sections with completely different moods constantly put right against or on top of each other. Like Meadow Meal goes from this ugly mine-cart ride through hell opening section, to the cryptic nonsense vocal bit, to that really catchy psych-rock jam. Or the out of tune loony drunk marching band in Why don't you eat carrots ends up with really electronic sounds splattered on top of it.....

Its an album that sounds totally ridiculous, but weirdly meaningful, dark and creepy, but also absurd. The fact that it came out in 1971 is really incredible.

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I used to adore it. Now I just like it. It has got some really great moments, but it can get tiring at certain points.

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yourself wrote:

Basically its psych-rock meets musique concrete via crazy sound collage song structures...

...and it is absolutely brilliant, easily my favourite Faust album.

I find there are a lot of proto nurse with wound/throbbing gristle industrial-esque sound effects on this that aren't used to the same extent in other Faust records. Also the sound collage stuff seems executed absolutely perfectly; we get sections with completely different moods constantly put right against or on top of each other. Like Meadow Meal goes from this ugly mine-cart ride through hell opening section, to the cryptic nonsense vocal bit, to that really catchy psych-rock jam. Or the out of tune loony drunk marching band in Why don't you eat carrots ends up with really electronic sounds splattered on top of it.....

Its an album that sounds totally ridiculous, but weirdly meaningful, dark and creepy, but also absurd. The fact that it came out in 1971 is really incredible.

Everything he just said, though I enjoy Faust IV better. This album is a truly unique experience that blurs the lines between experimental and rock music while opening up a world up possibilities for future music.
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meccalecca wrote:

Everything he just said, though I enjoy Faust IV better. This album is a truly unique experience that blurs the lines between experimental and rock music while opening up a world up possibilities for future music.

I know Faust IV overall catchier, but I never like the second last track on it (the one with the long title, lauft something or other). I guess weird proto industrial sound effects appeal to me more than say the weird proto-shoegaze sound affects on say krautrock (the song).

Though I should note it isn't fair of me to say Faust came out of a complete void, obviously Zappa's lumpy gravy, Ammmusic, Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer ect. predated this album. Faust were expanding on ideas as much as they were inventing new ones. The actual abstract a-musical bits aren't what makes this album innovative, its the way they combined them with very primitive rock music that matters.

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yourself wrote:

I know Faust IV overall catchier, but I never like the second last track on it (the one with the long title, lauft something or other). I guess weird proto industrial sound effects appeal to me more than say the weird proto-shoegaze sound affects on say krautrock (the song).

Though I should note it isn't fair of me to say Faust came out of a complete void, obviously Zappa's lumpy gravy, Ammmusic, Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer ect. predated this album. Faust were expanding on ideas as much as they were inventing new ones. The actual abstract a-musical bits aren't what makes this album innovative, its the way they combined them with very primitive rock music that matters.

Very true. No one's ever truly original. well, except the inventor. But all art that follows is influenced by what came before, unless the creator is 100% oblivious of everything which came before.
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