The Faust Tapes: Faust

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Faust signed to Virgin. Faust gave Virgin their backlog of recordings to whip an LP out of. One adventurous engineer at Virgin decides to string a bunch of snippets of those tapes together in a concrete-esque fashion. Virgin prices it as a single upon release. Faust and Virgin get to watch Britain burn.
What do you think of this gut-punching record? And am I right to think that most people never made it past the free jazz frenzy at about the nine minute mark?

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LearsFool Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: November 09 2014 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 8618	Topic: The Faust Tapes: Faust Posted: April 02 2015 at 20:27
	Faust signed to Virgin. Faust gave Virgin their backlog of recordings to whip an LP out of. One adventurous engineer at Virgin decides to string a bunch of snippets of those tapes together in a concrete-esque fashion. Virgin prices it as a single upon release. Faust and Virgin get to watch Britain burn. What do you think of this gut-punching record? And am I right to think that most people never made it past the free jazz frenzy at about the nine minute mark?


hellogoodbye Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP member Joined: August 29 2011 Location: Troy Status: Offline Points: 7251	Posted: April 03 2015 at 01:53
	That's my favorite album by them. For me it's some kind of german Zappa's Lumpy Gravy. At the beginning, that can seem vague, then according to the listening, the chaos gets organized to become music.

AZF Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 17 2012 Location: Wirral Status: Offline Points: 1079	Posted: April 03 2015 at 08:10
	Curse under your breath and gasp what the hell am I actually doing on this forum but- Faust were always one of those bands I've heard of, but as much as I loved "The Sad Skinhead" I haven't really given them serious attention. This thread changes everything and on Spotify I am loving Patchwork 1971-2002!

Flight123 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 01 2010 Location: Sohar, Oman Status: Offline Points: 1399	Posted: April 15 2015 at 07:03
	Fantastic album although I was too young to catch the initial release (I bought the ReR version around '81 for a heftier price of around £5). If these were cuttings, the weird thing is that the album almost has a logic to it. Faust went on to abuse Virgin (some might say rightly so) and this version of the band disintegrated when their families had to foot a bill for a half-wrecked hotel that the band tried to escape from.