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| 1. Why Don't You Eat Carrots? - Faust |
| 2. Meadow Meal - Faust |
| 3. Miss Fortune - Faust |
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The sound alone is exceptional - hardly any bass and loads of screeching top end. A real ear and brain bender. It's a bit like taking drugs using only your ears, it certainly takes me to the place I want to go to.
The layered collage of sound sounds quite unlike anything else I've heard from the period and Meadow Meal contains the riff to die for played on a French horn or trumpet and is like nothing else on Earth. Still one of my faves after 35 years. A Masterpiece. Buy it (I've bought it 4 times in various incarnations).
I had read enthusiastic reviews by the likes of Julian Cope and John Peel, proclaiming about the transparent vinyl and sleeve(though the Rer re-issue is reduced to the X-ray fist on a white background) as well as the whole forward thinking, ahead of its time, revolutionary vibe of the music. When I came to listen again, my previous impressions were totally transformed; here was a strange mix of bizarre instrumentation, concrete sounds, choral effects and Dadaist lyrics.
The first track "Why don't you eat carrots?", is a kind of deranged fuzzed out Bavarian dance band with reversed vocals and effects overlaid with a massive gurgling synth. "Meadow Meal" which follows, is a more standard Faust freak out, sandwiched between an abstract chant, a thunderstorm (real) and rainy day organ. What would have been side 2 of the LP is "Miss Fortune", a mid-tempo Velvet Underground style cruiser with wah apparently on at least three instruments, incorporating along the way more strange singing and much weirdness. Suddenly, just before the end, the whole album is pulled into sharp focus, crystallising what the music has been trying to put across all the way through, with a short acoustic guitar and spoken piece by Jean -Herve Peron.
This album is certainly unconventional, but each segment never outstays its welcome. Everything you could want from this band is here, unless of course You Don't Know Faust!!
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