FAUST The Faust Tapes LP VIRGIN RECORDS 1973 UK orig VC 501 KRAUTROCK
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FAUST
Pioneering and influential German rock outfit that blended avant-garde electronics
and trippy psychedelia to create a radical musical collage
"THE FAUST TAPES"
1973 LP VIRGIN RECORDS VC 501
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE COVER
This version: Black & white 'twins' Virgin labels indicate Side One and Side Two without any track titles,
some parts were specified on later reissues. Musicians are uncredited.
The cover has a 'fluted spine' (pinched at both edges).
Barcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: none
LABEL: VIRGIN - B/W TWO VIRGINS on WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (front) VC 5o1 (spine) VC501
Catalog on labels: VC501
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): VC 501 A-1U
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): VC 501 B-1U
On labels: THE FAUST TAPES
Stereo ? 1973 VC501
Copyright Control
On Front Cover: Text panel at the top reads: "The music on this album, drawn from Faust's own library of private tapes, was recorded informally and not originally intended for release. However, since British interest in the group has been unusually great, it has been decided to make some of this unofficial material available to the public in this country. These tapes have been left exactly as they were recorded - frequently live - and no post-production work has been imposed on them..."
On Back Cover: Painting "Crest" by Bridget Riley
tracklisting
Side A: UNTITLED
Side C: UNTITLED
grading
RECORDS VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
This was the release that "broke" Faust to a British audience, mostly because of a marketing gimmick whereby the
then-infant Virgin label sold it in shops for half a pound. Still, it's no mean feat to sell 50,000 copies of rock this
avant-garde, no matter what the cost. A continuous 43-minute piece with about 26 discrete passages,
it roams from crash'n'mash drums and fierce art rock jamming to rather pretty, if inscrutable, bits of
folk-rock and spoken word, with odd shards of melody sticking out like glass in a tire. There are rough
reference points to Zappa in the torrid editing and British Canterbury bands in the goofier, more rock-driven parts,
but this is even less immediately accessible, taking a few plays to get a grip on,
though most pop-oriented listeners won't get that far...(AllMusic)
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