{"id":6600,"date":"2015-07-08T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2015-07-19T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:49:03","slug":"while-americans-were-busy-buying-simon-and-garfunkel-records-west-germany-was-tripping-the-f%e2%80%a0ck-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/08\/while-americans-were-busy-buying-simon-and-garfunkel-records-west-germany-was-tripping-the-f%e2%80%a0ck-out\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;While Americans were busy buying Simon and Garfunkel records, West Germany was tripping the f\u2020ck out.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/07\/8-krautrock-artists-you-need-to-hear-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Observer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>8 Krautrock Artists You Need to Hear Right Now<\/h1>\n<p>By <a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View All Posts by Tim Sommer\" href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/author\/tim-sommer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Tim Sommer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w_wFiP_HE1s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine if the legendary rock leviathans of the late 1960s and early 1970s didn\u2019t have the Gollum of pop radio whispering hoarsely in their ear, \u201cMake it around three or four minutes long, repeat the chorus three times, and how \u2018bout a nice bridge in E-minor?\u201d What <em>magic<\/em> would the Stooges, the Doors, the Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Pretty Things, and others have achieved if there had been no awareness that radio was a destination?<\/p>\n<p>During the first half of the 1970s, a pile of West German musicians escaped from pop\u2019s three-minute veal cage, and the results were fantastic. This movement\u2014not just a branch, but a whole forest of rock fashioned without the radio in mind\u2014came to be known as Krautrock (a vaguely offensive but generally accepted label). Its progenitors created eminently logical magic: They took the fierce, feral essence of the old gods of rock and roll\u2014Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, the Troggs, anyone capable of playing two chords while having a firecracker up their ass\u2014and imbibed it with a truly progressive and revolutionary spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Krautrock is an entire secret history of rock unto itself, and we don\u2019t have the space here to trace its origins, ephemera and trajectory. (I\u2019ll leave that to Julian Cope, who is to this subject what Doris Kearns Goodwin is to L.B.J.) Instead, let\u2019s focus on a few of the absolutely essential artists and tracks in this gorgeously mesmeric movement.<\/p>\n<p>Here are eight Krautrock artists you really need to know about.<\/p>\n<p>Two songs that utterly personify Krautrock are \u201cAutobahn\u201d by Kraftwerk and \u201cHallogallo\u201d by Neu! (please note that Neu! are the only band permitted to use punctuation in their name without being mercilessly ridiculed). Kraftwerk were a blueprint for the future; Neu!, an outline for a future that hasn\u2019t arrived quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/07\/8-krautrock-artists-you-need-to-hear-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Observer.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer 8 Krautrock Artists You Need to Hear Right Now By Tim Sommer Imagine if the legendary rock leviathans of the late 1960s and early 1970s didn\u2019t have the Gollum of pop radio whispering hoarsely in their ear, \u201cMake it around three or four minutes long, repeat the chorus three times, and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}