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Artist: Amon Düül II
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4016342000796
ASIN: B00008YJBP

Release Date: 2003-03-20

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Tracks:

I Can't Wait, Pt. 1 & 2
Mirror
Traveller
You're Not Alone
Explode Like a Star
Guadeloop
Lonely Woman
Liquid Whisper
Archy the Robot

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Album Description

Reissue of the Krautrock pioneers 1974 album originally released on Lollipop. Includes 32-page booklet with sleevenotes & lyrics in both English & German. Garden Of Delights. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

The last real Amon Duul II album ?.......2006-06-25

Ok so Amon Duul II reformed a few years back but I consider this the last real Amon Duul II album .Just about anything released after this album is god awful and not worth your money .You can tell the band is bored and falling apart by the time this album hit the shelves .It's a run of the mill pop rock album but you can still here the Psychedelic Kraut rock coming through in places especially on the last half of the album .It's easy listening Duul before they got really bad.Other Classic Amon Duul II albums to consider are Yeti,Live in London,Tanz Der Lemmings , Vive le Trance,Carnival of Babylon or Wolf City all classic albums and must haves for your collection.

some genius songs.......2005-09-22

The record varies greatly in style. Side 2 is the best, being the most psychedelic. The dreamy "Liquid whisper" is worth the whole record, being one of the best songs of the seventies.

Has a Couple Good Moments But Hardly The Place to Start.......2004-10-11

This was a rather abrupt shift in direction for the band, it would seem. Gone are the many colorful, psychedelic washes of brilliance and in their place is a more commercial, streamlined sound that still has some fragments of their previous brilliance and wit.

"I Can't Wait Pt I & II" opens things on a promising note with its bizarre and funny lyrics and insistent cellos. "Mirror" however lapses into some rather pedestrian rock with a few horns, nothing very remarkable as could be said for the remainder of the disc, despite the fact it tried to cover a lot of musical styles.

"Da Guadeloop" could be called the obligatory/gratuitous disco track (it was 1975 after all). "Explode Like A Star" threatens to light a fire (again, some really funny/bizarre lyrics like "Is it the "J" in their names that gets them killed?/Like Janice or J Jones or just another public relations thrill?"). It's not until the album's closing track "Archy The Robot" with its insistent marching band pulse and over-the-top brass arrangement at the end that the brilliance of the previous ADII albums like Wolf City and Vive' La Trance seems to peek out again.

Not a bad disc but hardly the first place to start with this band. For completeists only.

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