I've got Hallogallo (spelling?) and Can's Tago Mago. Despite repeated listenings, I've never managed to get into these albums as much as I've wanted to..... But they're great as background music while doing laundry or the dishes. The same goes to Branca's symphonies, it's not the kind of thing I'd listen to through headphones for very long.

I've never seen Neu! cited as a band that informed or influenced Sonic Youth. Which is not to say it couldn't be true, it's just that I've never read or heard that anywhere.

That said, the first Neu! album is awesome. But it's not much like SY at all, at any point in SY's career. It's great krautrock, and it was extremely "out there" experimental when the first LP was released in 1971. Way ahead of its time.

I have the recent reissue on white vinyl. Although it's nothing like SY, I'd still call it an essential album for anyone who likes rock music, alternative rock, or just music in general. It's good stuff.

i agree w/ gmku, neu! may have had a slight influence on SY but they aren't the only or the most prominent influence on the group at that time (near the end of the no-wave era). neu! were good and very interesting band i think they were more interesting than Can though but hardly that out there as compared to the other krautrock bands during that time like Brainticket, Guru Guru, Amon Duul II, Organisation (pre-Kraftwerk), or Ashra Tempel... etc etc.

I think Harmonia (which feat. some Neu members w/ Cluster) is more "experimental" than Neu!

btw, i always felt Neu! should've steered away from those awful vocals they had on their last album '75...

yes! that public enemy cd is about as good as rap gets!

I cant really here Neu in Sonic Youth, Neu are too precise and mechanical. Stereolab and Electrelane sound like they've been listening to Neu, but not really SY.

Saying that ive only heard the first Neu album.

Oh wait maybe its the last album I heard cause it had bad vocals on it.

[quote=Kegmama]Thurston's Throbbing 13:

Funhouse - Stooges
White Light / White Heat - Velvet Underground
Marquee Moon - Television
Blank Generation - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Ramones - Ramones
Radio Ethiopia - Patti Smith
Damaged - Black Flag
Bug - Dinosaur Jr
It Takes A Nation Of Millions
To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Impressions - John Coltrane
Ege Bamyasi - CAN
Bleach - Nirvana
Killer - Alice Cooper



Nice list of Thurston, and interesting to see Public Enemy in the line up

i guess i'll have to pick this up one of these days...

Me too.... I never listen to anything else then Rock and psychadelic music and Bluegrass and Hank Williams and Beck and some singer songwriters and whatever if there is a guitar involved. So I go check em out soon

neu1 are incredible. their 3 albums are utterly havetohavable! they are stereolab 30 years before stereolab started........

Mildred Pierce, did you know that the song Mildred Pierce got it's a name from the film of the same name? People might think your band are referencing, in their name, the film.

Neu! is a great band...
I need some more material of it though I only have one downloaded song..

Neu! and Sonic Youth bear very few similarities to my ears.
Stereolab, on the other hand, sound EXACTLY like Neu! Exactly. Well, with a little of Faust IV thrown in.

I hear some Robert Fripp of King Crimson influence in SY. I'm not sure if Thurston and gang would agree....but I hear stuff. Fripp can certainly crank the noise...with interesting as hell note selection, then go to simplistic beauty instantly.....hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Yeah, but Fripp is an uber-disciplined tightass who sits on a stool in performance.

Damn...that's right.

Scratch Fripp :rolleyes:

Stodgy fuck !!!!

Neu! aren't that bad. Some of their stuff sounds pretty good. But it all sounds kind of the same. I like Hallogallo and Negatvland the best. Those are my two favorite Neu! songs. And I can see the influence they had on SY a bit, the drvivng rhythms and such, but I have to say that The Stooges and Velvet Underground were a stronger influence on SY's sound as well as Glenn Branca.