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Track Listings
| 1. Soap Shop Rock: Burning Sister / Halluzination Guillotine / Gulp A Sonata / Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm 13:42 |
| 2. She Came Through The Chimney 3:02 |
| 3. Archangels Thunderbird 3:33 |
| 4. Cerberus 4:21 |
| 5. The Return Of Rübezahl 1:41 |
| 6. Eye-Shaking King 5:40 |
| 7. Pale Gallery 2:18 |
| 8. Yeti (improvisation) 18:14 |
| 9. Yeti Talks To Yogi (improvisation) 6:18 |
| 10. Sandoz In The Rain (improvisation) 8:59 |
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Remastered edition of Amon Duul II's second album from 1970, one of the defining albums of the kruatrock genre
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
i dont know about this version but i just obtained the jap import shmcd version on belle antique and it's the full lenght version containing th full version of pale gallery only previously avalible on the captain trip release the inner sleeve credits are for the edited version but the playing side are as originaly intended
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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The camel, it is said, eats thorns because it enjoys the taste of blood. It is equally easy to mistake the source of pleasure when listening again to music I first heard when I was as the same age my children now are. Adolescence is an intoxicating time, prone to improvisation and replete with a heightened sense of expectancy. Amon Duul II were one of the groups who continued these late 1960's musical themes into the 70's - but listening to "Yetti", in large part, serves as a powerful antidote to attacks of nostalgia. At least half of the original vinyl (Yeti, Yeti talks to Yogi, Sandoz in the Rain) can only be enjoyed by glimpsing lost sensations rather than re-discovering lost masterpieces.
But those masterpieces are there, and worth finding. Of them, "Cerberus" is perhaps the best, although the version on the retrospective "Best of" disguises this all too well. In fact, all of what was originally side two of the etched-black-plastic version remains amongst the best Amon Duul II produced, ie amongst the best music washed up in the wake of 1960's psychedelia experimentation. "Archangels Thunderbird" begins the superlative sequence, albeit a little leadenly, leading into the sharp-as-shards "Cerberus", and culminating in "Pale Gallery" (which, it is hoped, is reproduced in its full rather than 2:11 truncated version on CD).
One day, a university course entitled "Twentieth Century Music" will race through the "Dylan-Beatles era" lecture and the lecturer will address the nodding heads with "some groups took these ideas further" and cue "Cerberus". The class will wake up.
Until then, or at least until a truly "Best Of" is released, "Yetti" is worth it for its timeless visionary glimpses. If you were there you might not remember, if you weren't you might still find the music unforgettable.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The first time I encountered Amon Duul II was sometime
in 1969 when their debut album 'Phallus Dei' was championed
by the late, great, Mr Peel on his inestimably great Saturday
afternoon radio programme.
The release of 'Yeti' a year later endeared them to a wider UK audience.
The amalgam of hard edged, guitar-led rock,
spirited eastern-tinged accoustic improvisation
and dark teutonic drug-induced mayhem has
an almost charming quality in retrospect (although I remember my peers
and I being terribly serious about it at the time !)
The almost free-form electric ramblings of 'Yeti', 'Yeti Talks To Yogi'
(just loving that title !) and the more gentle flute-tinged accoustic
trip 'Sandoz In The Rain' are worthy of attention.
Ms Knaup's wailing vocal on 'Archangels Thunderbird' and parodic (I hope) operatic
interlude on the 4-Part opening "suite"(?) 'Soap Shop Rock' are deliciously loopy.
Whenever it appears Mr Karrer's violin is also to be savoured, particularly in the almost beautiful 'She Came Through The Chimney'.
In a week which saw the passing, at the ripe old age of 102, of LSD
inventor Albert Hofmann it seems somehow fitting that Amon Duul should
be remembered affectionately as a part of that generation for whom, however erroneously,
"turning on" bore hope of a brighter and more enlightened future.
in 1969 when their debut album 'Phallus Dei' was championed
by the late, great, Mr Peel on his inestimably great Saturday
afternoon radio programme.
The release of 'Yeti' a year later endeared them to a wider UK audience.
The amalgam of hard edged, guitar-led rock,
spirited eastern-tinged accoustic improvisation
and dark teutonic drug-induced mayhem has
an almost charming quality in retrospect (although I remember my peers
and I being terribly serious about it at the time !)
The almost free-form electric ramblings of 'Yeti', 'Yeti Talks To Yogi'
(just loving that title !) and the more gentle flute-tinged accoustic
trip 'Sandoz In The Rain' are worthy of attention.
Ms Knaup's wailing vocal on 'Archangels Thunderbird' and parodic (I hope) operatic
interlude on the 4-Part opening "suite"(?) 'Soap Shop Rock' are deliciously loopy.
Whenever it appears Mr Karrer's violin is also to be savoured, particularly in the almost beautiful 'She Came Through The Chimney'.
In a week which saw the passing, at the ripe old age of 102, of LSD
inventor Albert Hofmann it seems somehow fitting that Amon Duul should
be remembered affectionately as a part of that generation for whom, however erroneously,
"turning on" bore hope of a brighter and more enlightened future.
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