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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

P.P.P.P.S. Really though, I could be here all night correcting the mistakes in that post.

Allow me:

Guru Guru is such an underrated band. A Krautrock band that, like other Krautrock bands, sounds like no other band other than Guru Guru (krautrock pretty much is the best genre, it's not even a genre really, it just pretty much means experimental German music in the 70s, no common thread in any of the sounds). Guru Guru seems to have taken their sound directly from Hendrix and Blue Cheer and the heavy Psych sound. They have nothing to do with the synths of Tangerine Dream or the comps <??? of Kraftwerk or the instruments sounding like electronics of Ash Ra Tempel (all bands I love consequently).

Guru Guru is like abstract Skronk Blues that is totally distorto(?) guitar driven, "Immer Lustig" on "Kanguru" is the best example of this. A 15 minute noisy guitar and drum freakout, that alternates between loud and quiet through the whole song untill the mid way point, where it reaches absolutely manic, then settles down again. There's plenty of great laid back jamming parts too, in which guitar is played clean, and the music just builds. Great drumming. I can't help but feel that this is up there with "Sister Ray" and Patti Smith's "Land" as one of the most important long freak rock songs of all time. This is also a band I thought would be more appreciated by Sonic Youth fans, as we are all lovers of the guitar. Out of all my many favorite Kraut bands (1. Can 2. Ash Ta 3. Faust 4. German Oak 5. Neu 6. Guru Guru 7. Amon Duul 2 8. Cosmic Psychos 9. Tangerine Dream 10. Gong), Guru is the only one that strikes me as a guitar band.

Did I miss any?