TOP 50 70’s German Prog

Yeah, I don't know which to cut, I do know some which I would like to add:

Rousseau- Retreat

Rousseau - Square The Circle

Neuschwanstein - Battlement

Epidaurus - Earthly Paradise

Novalis - Brandung

Chandelier - Facing Gravity

I would have chosen "Wolf City" by Amon Duul II - although "Phallus Dei" remains my favourite, the former is definitely the more accessible!

I would have been tempted towards "Ege Bamyasi" by Can - "Tago Mago" can be a bit over-long, and the former just seems more representative to me.

Apart from that, not a bad list.

I obtained some samples of the Necronomicon album "Tips Zum Selbstmord", as a result of my enquiries into the rarer stuff. From what I've heard (30-second samples of each track), it's fantastic! Much of it is accessible and really rocks, although there's no doubt that overall this is an album for people who "get" Kraturock. It's a bit gloomy - the first "doom" rock band proper, perhaps? At the very least, a "gloom" rock band!

I found this review;

"At last, again, reissued: a masterpiece of suicidal, political Krautrock heaviosity from 1972. NECRONOMICON. Freaky then, freaky now. Psychedelic hard rock that was about as 'extreme' as it got at the time...definitely if Terrorizer magazine had existed back then, these Germans would have made the cover. Not that this extreme by today's blackened metal standards, as there's enough pretty and melodic elements included amongst the fuzz riffage to satisfy the mellower hippie types in the Necronomicon freak-scene. And, they're no Black Sabbath. Still, pretty far gone for '72. The title: How To Kill Yourself. Now that's a bad trip. The very first track, the seven-minute "Prolog", almost makes the remainder of this album superflous, as it's a full, epic encapsulation Necronomicon's heavy prog excess. Theirs is an album replete with stinging acid guitar, heady Hammond organ, and monkish chanting. Ecclisastical choirs wail over trudging, yearning guitar and organ -- shades of Magma and J.A. Caesar. It's like Amon Duul II murdering Pink Floyd and riding their animated corpses all the way to hell. Again, not in any way metal, but what you might call Wagnerian garage-psych. (...) what band ever lives up to an H.P. Lovecraft inspired name like Necronomicon? Well, Shub Niggurath did, and so do these guys. (...) Definitely an obscure but A-list kraut/psych album for those with occult tastes..."

forgive me all, Im not trying to dominate or be a know it all. I am trying to supply direction from my knowledge of places to look for pioneering, melodic and not to avant garde(out there) that one could get into that is not accustomed to the genre, without having to sit in your closet to listen to it by yourself.

Anyway I enjoy it!

thanks for the tips fellows!

Hi there.

I love Kraan,so I am happy to see them on the list.

Very nice list .I only know some of your list.

I love kraut.