How influential was Faust?
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Topic: How influential was Faust?
Posted By: kirk782
Subject: How influential was Faust?
Date Posted: January 08 2025 at 07:53
I have heard most albums by this band from their more accessible album Faust IV [also their 2017 album Fresh Air is very good] to archival releases in the Momentaufnahme series [which I heavily disliked]. Some of their works is quite avant garde and barely music in the traditional sense. For me, their work can be quite over the place and while having atleast three great albums, they have multiple downslopes as well. How do you view them?
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 08 2025 at 09:05
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Love IV, but I think So Far is their strongest effort. The Faust Tapes actually sold 60 000 units in the UK (where it was sold for the price of a #7 through Virgin Records), so they were more known outside of Germany than most other Krautrockers. But I think their influence was on the DIY movement and underground noise musicians. Nothing much resembling Prog. My impression is that among listeners, Faust are mostly for the freaks - who love them - and hipsters - that pretend they do.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 08 2025 at 09:22
I know that The Legendary Pink Dots have claimed Faust and other Krautrock bands as an influence. A lot of my fave 90s up bands were very influenced by Krautrock (often by Can, Neu! and Harmonia).
My first Faust was the debut, but the albums I have returned to the most over the years are So Far and IV.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 08 2025 at 09:57
Hear their name cited quite a bit, So Far and IV are my favorites
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 08 2025 at 10:00
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Regarding influence, Faust's Jean-Herve Peron would organise a much loved avantgarde festival on his estate in Schiphorst (Northern Germany) for many years with hardly any budget and for free if I remember correctly. Faust would play there as one of very many (maybe 20 each time) bands/artists. This certainly had an influence, even though more on the experimental/avantgarde scene than on prog. (Actually when I went, Faust was the most conventional rock band I saw there, even with some distance, believe it or not. That was around 2010.)
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: January 08 2025 at 12:27
A band I was in once opened for Faust at the American Music Hall in San Francisco. They had some of the most interesting music equipment I have ever seen. Much of it was hand made, including a big pipe organ. They constructed a massive steel structure on stage. Even most of their electronics were unrecognizable except for a Moog Moogerfooger.
Were they influential, original one of a kind bands usually are.
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