Chapter Three
Wümme, and the clear album
Polydor hands a group of unknowns a converted schoolhouse and an open budget. What comes back is the clear LP, The Faust Tapes at 49p, and a legend.
The records — In the order the chapter names them, each with the sentence that names it.
8 releases on this page
01
Faust
Faust (the clear album)
Some sources quote under one thousand records sold in the first months of Faust being released.
02
Faust
So Far
So Far opens with my favourite ever Faust song.
03
Tony Conrad with Faust
Outside the Dream Syndicate
They played epic unchanging chamber dirges with intellectual perfection combined with lots of pre-Hippy Fucko Outside the Dream Syndicate was a heavenly marriage.
04
Faust
The Faust Tapes
Steve Lewis at Virgin had worked out that they could sell The Faust Tapes for 49p, and not lose money.
05
Faust
Faust IV
Faust IV, certainly as great as all but The Faust Tapes, was given the thumbs down.
06
Faust
Munic & Elsewhere
New albums of old songs have surfaced from time to time, Munic & Elsewhere, The Last LP, and 71 Minute of Faust all contain unreleased songs in various configurations.
07
Faust
The Last LP
New albums of old songs have surfaced from time to time, Munic & Elsewhere, The Last LP, and 71 Minute of Faust all contain unreleased songs in various configurations.
08
Faust
71 Minutes of Faust
New albums of old songs have surfaced from time to time, Munic & Elsewhere, The Last LP, and 71 Minute of Faust all contain unreleased songs in various configurations.
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