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    Posted: Yesterday at 07:35
Out of Focus made four or so records [well, some released much later] each with a different sound however I wish to focus on their Wake Up LP. Just like Gila's second record which had political aspirations to begin with; this too seems to have a political edge to it's lyrics [ the opening track should give anyone enough clue even though that track doesn't have much by way of lyrics].

Beneath the beautiful playing[flute?] on songs like World's End,  there are references to US President Nixon as well.The singing can be tough to catch sometimes, made tougher considering that lyrics aren't available anywhere on the web to pour over.

Did anymore west German/krautrock bands also make political music as well and does this album in particular also reference anything deep/specific that I am overlooking?
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there was a whole slew of political bands in West Germany back then... For a while, there was a Polit Rock a frequent tag, but it disappeared
Ihre Kinder , Amon Duul (not 2) are the ones I remember present in the PA DB.

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BTW, the Swedish Progg movement was also very politically slanted.






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Edited by Sean Trane - 22 hours 18 minutes ago at 09:18
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Ton Steine Scherben were a leading political band in Germany, and strangely they are on PA. I don't think they are very proggy but there you go. Actually some think they were Germany's first punk band. Tongue

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

there was a whole slew of political bands in West Germany back then... For a while, there was a Polit Rock a frequent tag, but it disappeared
Ihre Kinder , Amon Duul (not 2) are the ones I remember present in the PA DB.


Ammon Duul II came out of the ashes of the original Ammon Duu collective, right? I have heard couple of works I think from the former; they were more prolific, I think. Ihre Kinder I will need to look for.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Ton Steine Scherben were a leading political band in Germany, and strangely they are on PA. I don't think they are very proggy but there you go. Actually some think they were Germany's first punk band. Tongue


Thanks to your recommendation, I am listening to them right now. Their timeline puts them circa 1970, right after MC5 and alongside the Stooges. Whilst I can't speak for the lyrics [it's all Greek to me LOL]; the sound definitely is far away from prog. It's much closer in realm to what would later become classic punk in US and of course, UK with even more de constructed sound.
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Originally posted by kirk782 kirk782 wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

there was a whole slew of political bands in West Germany back then... For a while, there was a Polit Rock a frequent tag, but it disappeared
Ihre Kinder , Amon Duul (not 2) are the ones I remember present in the PA DB.


Ammon Duul II came out of the ashes of the original Ammon Duul collective, right? I have heard couple of works I think from the former; they were more prolific, I think. Ihre Kinder I will need to look for.
Amon Düül was originally based in Berlin West, but when the Great Schism arrived, AD2 moved to Munich and became a hippie/psych/prog faction, whereas those that stayed in Berlin recorded a few albums until 73. Definitely their musical best (but maybe not most political one) was ParadiesWärt, which was folk-influenced. The only one I bothered keeping around for a while, though I still have four AD2 albums.

There was also a faction that relocated to London during the 80's, but I never investidated.

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Don't expect AD or IK to sound anything close top OOF, though.


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Edited by Sean Trane - 5 hours 5 minutes ago at 02:31
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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