Amon Düül

OK, I know Amon Düül II is in the archives, and I don't know much about the first Amon Düül and how it's different than II. but, I just heard Para Dieswarts Düül and how come the pre-1969 albums by Amon Düül are not in the archives?

I could refer to an earlier post of me but would have to find it first, so I'll write it again. Amon Düül were a music collective that were founded in 1967.They split before they recorded an album, one half kept the original name, the other named themselves Amon Düül 2. Amon Düül published one original album only, "Psychedelic Underground", which was the first ever krautrock album. All other albums of Amon Düül "Paradieswärts Düül", "Singvögel Rückwärts" and the likes) were published after they had ceased to exist (they all contain material from a 1968 session). Amon Düül 2 published a lot of albums, starting with "Phallus Dei", they are the only band of the three Amon Düüls that are listed in the archives. Yes, you read right, three! In the 80s John Weinzierl of Amon Düül 2 and Dave Anderson of Amon Düül 2 and Hawkwind created a British version of Amon Düül, who published 4 regular albums ("Hawk Meets Penguin", "Meetings With-Men Machines - Unremarkable Heroes of the Past", "Die Lösung" and "Fool Moon"); also a sampler named "Airs On a Shoestring". Hence there should be three entries for Amon Düül in the database: Amon Düül (German), Amon Düül (British) and Amon Düül 2 (German).
Amon Düül 2 also split up once due to a quarrel shortly before Amon Düül 2 recorded "Wolf City", and some of the musicans formed a band named Utopia, which produced one self-titled album. In typical Amon Düül 2 though the musicans made peace again during the recording of "Wolf City" and "Utopia", and so the same musicians appear on both albums, and one track, "Deutsch Nepal", exists on both albums, albeit in slightly different version (most notably different vocals), because both bands liked that song and wanted to have it on their albums. Utopia's self-titled album is listed under Amon Düül 2 in the database, but historically this is wrong.


Edited by BaldFriede