Amon Düül I & II

Amon Düül II

Hijack

As late as their 1975 LP Hijack, Amon Düül i were still playing “Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles” with a glitterguitar over a glitterbeat (on “Da Guadaloup”), after which their bass player Lothar Meid left to form J ackboot!

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Made in Germany

Later albums like Made In Ger many and Hijack oftentimes fell into a dreaded Euro-sound bu even at their worst, Amon Düül II always displayed more th just vestiges of their former outrage.

Amon Düül I

Psychedelic Underground

Get this 1969 sleeve credit their Psychedelic Underground debut: Rainer-12-string, is/Ulrich — bass & doublebass/Helge — conga/Krische — & piano/ENa — drum & vocals/Angelika — drum & Jschi — maracas!!!

Amon Düül II

Phallus Dei

Amon II’s first album was 1969’s Phallus Dei. It was hard, and very innovative.

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Yeti

This epic double-album was to change everything for them And in Britain, they were soon to become heroes of the under ground.

Amon Düül I

Paradieswärts Düül

Deautiful song is very reminiscent of the sound of Amon I's then current Paradieswärts Diiiil LP. It may be because the eerie-beautiful rock’n’roll fake English that Rainer sings.

Amon Düül II

Dance of the Lemmings

But th Falk-U Rogner sleeve was another mystifying classic, and th impenetrability of Dance of the Lemmings meant that it toe quite a while to suss that, by Amon Düül’s standards, record was a pile of pedestrian shit.

Amon Düül II

Carnival in Babylon

Anda of nowhere came the most beautiful Teutonic folkrock albur Carnival In Babylon. No wonder Amon Düül Il announce their rebirth on the record label, where they wrote

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Wolf City

Indeed, only seven months after previous LP, Wolf City was a revelation.

Utopia

Utopia

Even as Wolf City was being recorded, a ltaneous sister project called Utopia was being formulated

Amon Düül II

Live in London

But United Artists released an average cheapo £1.99 concert LP called “Live in London” (really recorded at the Croydos Greyhound), whose improvisations and multiple titled space rock pieces were quite at odds with current Diitil songwriting For the young fan it was a confusing time, and I can we! remember having no idea what to spend my minuscule resources on in the Amon Düül II department.

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Viva La Trance

And then, just one month later came their glampop album Viva La Trance!