Ash Ra Tempel  (D)  -  Ash Ra Tempel   (1971)

CAN - Tago Mago

Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra

Agitation Free - Malesch

Ash Ra Tempel - s/t

Tony Conrad & Faust - Outside The Dream Syndicate

Neu! - s/t

Dzyan - Electric Silence

Faust - IV

Gila - s/t

Guru Guru - UFO

Aallriight, Nogbad, I didn't imagine that our favourites ever could be so much the same - even I'm in fact fond of about the half of the albums, you've listed as your Heavy Prog favourites.

Glad to see!

I really have no "favorites". It's hard for me to say that I love this or that, and then I put on Sebastium en Truam, and I fall apart and away so fast just like I did with all the others. I can still cry when I hear Mother Sky. I still fly and float when I hear the Yeti title piece. And I absolutely love a lot of the Ash Ra Tempel material including the stuff that was "bad" or "stolen". And then, all I have to do is put on one of the DVD's or shows from the toob, on with Tangerine Dream from 1995 to 2015 ... and it just takes me away so fast. And I still am nowhere I know where when I hear Stratosfear.

"It's all too much" ... and now ... some Edgar for me! The English version of "krautrock".

For those who might be interested I can recommend the book Krautrock. Cosmic Rock and its legacy edited by Nikolaos Kotsopoulos. 

 2007: Agitation Free - Shibuya Nights: Live in Tokyo -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nmV8b19Ez9Eom6a4y8efkxy2BWpGpSKb4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nmV8b19Ez9Eom6a4y8efkxy2BWpGpSKb4

 1974: Between - Dharana -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieoiO46LCtI" rel="nofollow -  1974: The Cosmic Jokers - The Cosmic Jokers -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzJhoAXLmjM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzJhoAXLmjM

Then you have already joined what may show to be a close circle of "Krautrock" friends. 

Luckily, I had just enough albums in my list to make it a Top 10. 

great!

...please close this thread now...

dude, that's a little bit rude!

Long live Can! 

My reply in http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127257&KW=can+faust+popol+vuh&PID=5929552#5929552" rel="nofollow - Your Top 12 German Prog Albums last September will have to do.

Saperlipopette! wrote: Can - Ege Bamyasi (but anything from their debut up to and including Soon over Babulama would make the list) Popol Vuh - Nosferatu: On the Way to a Little Way / Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Embryo - Stieg Aus (but they've got like six equally strong contenders) Klaus Schulze - Mirage Amon Düül II - Yeti Faust - So Far Kraan - Kraan Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine Cluster - Zuckerzeit Dzyan - Electric Silence Loads more I would have like to include: Frankie Dymon Jr (just doesn't really feel german), Dom, Harmonia, Deuter, Brave New World, Kalacackra, A.R + Machines, Tortilla Flat mm...

Amon Düül 2 - Tanz der Lemminge

Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel

Between - And the Waters Opened

Can - Future Days

Dzyan - Electric Silence

Faust - Faust

Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live

Guru Guru - Känguru

Hoelderlin - Clowns & Clouds

Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass

These might be ten other albums at any other time.

Would anybody else like to tell about favourite Krautrock albums?

But there are some albums I've enjoyed:

Agitation Free Malesch

Grobschnitt Solar Musick Live!

Popol Vuh Hosiannah Mantra andTantric Songs 

Electric Orange Morbus and Volume 10

Wserbergland Am Ende der Welt and Sehr Kismisch, Ganz Progisch

Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel

Amon Düül II Yeti

Øresund Space Collective The Black Tomato

Vespero The Waters of Tomorow and The Four Zaos

Brainticket Cottonwood Hill and Celestial Ocean

Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP

The Spacelords Liquid Sun

I certainly find the definition a challenge, as well, but I haven't let it stop me, either. 
 

Amon Dull II- Yeti and Tanz

Agitation Free-Malesch and 2nd

...though I also like,

Brainticket-Celestial Ocean

Ash ra temple-st

Going for what PA classifies as Krautrock only:

Holger Czukay - Movies

Can - Soon Over Babaluma

Amon Düül II - Yeti

Now I guess I'd get to the best 15 if not more by listing albums of Holger, Can, and ADII only (and it goes even further including associated solo albums that aren't in this category or not even on PA... Irmin Schmidt!!! But also Jaki and Chris Karrer), but in order to bring in diversity:

Agitation Free - Malesch

Faust - s/t (and IV)

Neu! - s/t

Deuter - D

Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra

Ton Steine Scherben - Scherben

Actually, despite being a big fan of the top 3, otherwise most German stuff I love is not in this category.

Tangerine Dream -Force Majeure (yes, this one rocks)

I'd pick:

Can: Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi

Faust: So Far and IV

Neu!: Neu

Cluster: Zuckerzeit

"one of my favourite categories"

I'm happy to have you here with us others, Logan, an to give you this possibility.

"a lot of the sort of art pop and art rock music of the 90s up that I love has a Krautrock influence"

I'd say, certainly yes, as well.

They're not Neu! They're Old! They've been around since 1971. 

this is such a lame joke... 

Oh well. C'est La Vie. I tried my best and failed miserably, again. 

Tried your best to do what? That is the question. 

I was talking about an album I enjoy a lot.

What were you talking about? 

Why did you think it was necessary to explain the joke? 

Paul could not resist the urge to try and mock me. It's like a bad itch for him at this point. 

It can make me loughing, though  

But I don't think, I'll comment on this one. 

you've just done that. 

Okay, that doesn't make me laughing.  

so Paul making fun of me was funny though, eh? 

All i wanted to post here was that I like Neu!

Mockery is what I deserve it seems... 

Ok then... I'll close the door on my way out. 

What I was trying to say was that I had another view of it, or at least I wasn't sure about the correctness of your view, Cristi. 

correctness? The guy made fun of me for three days. What correctness are we talking about? What is it that I don't understand here? Basically I should always turn the other cheek, when I defend myself I'm rude or inappropriate, or what? 

I was hoping we discuss our misunderstandings by PM, not in the open forum. 

These are Space Rock albums I Dream and Desire of the most. 

So constructive you can be, Paul, even I could feel a bit insulted by:

"All four albums are notable for featuring the combined talents of guitarist Manuel Goettsching, although I'm sure any aficionados of Krautrock will know that already. "  

Let's better say, we don't talk in PMs about anything concerning PA. 

That would have been the only place where we could have discussed our misunderstanding, but if you don't want to discuss anywhere, so be it.

So strange how i ended up as the bad guy in this circumstance. I have no idea how I have upset you though. 

I bet the person who provoked all this situation is rolling on the floor laughing. 

You're too far out now, Cristi, and in fact I've written to you already everything, I can say about the present problems between us. Or more rightly speaking, I don't think, we can have further honest and more clarifying dialogue due to your position. 

(Edit: Or at least it didn't seem so - even as I see it, it should be possible.)

So, I certainly want to better the situation between us, but it can only happen in the forum.

My position? I honestly don't know what you think "my position" is here. 

I got mocked continuously by another user for three days. And it upset me. That is my only position. 

Somehow in all of this, you ended up being upset with me. I got no problem with you, how and why you ended up in the middle of this? I do not know. 

David_D wrote: So, I certainly want to better the situation between us, but it can only happen in the forum.

And I can tell you here that much as what you wrote to me in the last to PMs is not the right direction. 

I'm very sorry about the way it went, Cristi, and I'd like very much to come back to the good relationship from before,

but you have to compromise.

Again, I don't have a problem with you in any way, never did.

Let's leave it at that (you can still PM me), enough off-topic-ness. Let's get back to Krautrock and German prog. 

Well, I can tell you that much, Jake, as I've had a period of being very fond of Autobahn, but that was many years ago - and yet I hope, it was peacefull enough. 

I used to like Faust, Amon Düül (both), Guru Guru, Agitation Free and such in the past, but can't really stand them anymore. 

edit: oh, while I'm at it, I'd like to mention a few (relatively) new Finnish bands very much influenced by different variants of Krautrock: Circle, Ektroverde, Verde, Eturivi and Avarus. They're all quite varied and to me very much hit and miss, but you might want to check them out. They're all in PA database so go from there or google or whatever. 

I'm sorry to hear that, Hiram. 

I didn't just for the formalist reason that they're not listed under Krautrock here. Their first albums should qualify for sure (and are in fact listworthy), but Mensch Maschine, which is my favourite, is rather correctly classified as electronic.

Thanks for your charming, warm and friendly Private Message yesterday. I'll add you to my Buddy List. 

or you could have replied, that would have been the right thing to do, but you confirm what i was thinking, you do not want to work things out, you want the mockery to continue. Otherwise why would you bring the discussion back in the open forum. You are not the victim here, you never were, you are the aggressor.

PM me if you want to work things out, otherwise the off-topic-ness is ruining this otherwise nice thread. 

I'm particularly fond of this one, Dark Elf. 

And by the way, I liked your idea about  "I think I'll call my next band Spurnakanning."