![]() ![]() ![]() I ventured the opinion that Earthquake Weather, Joe's first solo album from 1989, was a great album. Typical Germans eh?Ī week ago Davy H from The Ghost Of Electricity posted Joe playing Glastonbury. This has more in common with the production of disco, the attitude of punk and the feel and anything goes spirit of acid house and dance music. This is perfection spread over seven minutes thirty eight seconds. Attention krautrock sceptics- this does not sound like your idea of krautrock. If only more of the music of the 80s had turned out like this. Formed by one half of Neu! Klaus Dinger and released in 1978, David Bowie called them 'the sound of the Eighties'. This is La Dusseldorf's Rheinita, one of the most gorgeous pieces of music I've heard. The German media seem to have accepted our obsession with them, the war and football, and can smile benignly, especially as they usually hold the upper hand on the pitch when it counts. Most of it seems to be in fairly good humour now, especially since England's travelling support go to watch football and have a good time, rather than take part in racist/anti-Irish songs and seeing who can fling plastic chairs furthest across foreign plazas at riot police while being sprayed with the water cannon, and half murdering anyone foreign. This opens several can of worms, from Twentieth Century history to always losing at penalties. ![]()
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