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Points: 8614 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2015 at 13:03
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

The term Krautrock and what it refers to and how people feel about it and react to it, has evolved over the years, as people in this thread have pointed out. I think today, the term can be used with a straight face, but I can still understand the negative connotations the term has evoked in the past. And even the term "teutonic" doesn't have the same "bite" as it once did. 
I think I am wrong. Krautrock is still a derogatory term, and a lazy one, and we can do much better than that, in referencing the complex German music scene. And I should know better, really, as my best friend of many years is German, and we have had many talks about what it means to be German.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2015 at 13:41
No offence meant lads but I'm going to use the term as long as I've got ears. I have still to meet a single person who's seen it as a derogatory name. Sure, we've got a few peeps on here who feel differently, but, and correct me if I'm wrong, they all seem to be of an older generation, which probably has a few connotations going back to ze war.
The German fans I've met in real life, also the old ones, have never once uttered anything substantially negative about 'Krautrock'. 
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Points: 13467 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2015 at 16:42
It's the older generation for sure David which includes me of course. Interesting that the German band Electric Orange have an album called Krautrock From Hell.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2015 at 16:48
Yeah I thought of that too. As I mentioned earlier, most bands seem to think of the moniker Krautrock as something positive: 'Wow did we really sound that far out!! YES!!!! YES!!! Come on dude, we did it!' *small backstage bit from somewhere in Berlin*
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Points: 20604 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2015 at 15:17
I just looked in the mirror. This just might be a generational thing after all!
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Points: 17497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2015 at 09:28
Hi,
 
Three times I have gone to get this ... and three times I walked away without it!
 
I do not like the title at all!
 
And I do not want to read a book that comes off like Peter Michael Hamel's book From Music to the Self ... which got boring with the commentary about every band in the world being a total stink! Heck, most of the world was built out of stink, and then some ... after wars and what not!
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