Does anyone know what was going on with the Mystic + Voiceprint + Repertoire Amon Duul 2 CDs?

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Mostly the bonus tracks - what the hell? "Live in London" has "Bavarian Soap Shop Rock" and "Improvisation on Gulp a Sonata", which seem to be an amalgamation of the studio version of the first 4 pieces from "Yeti", indexed as one track and including an intrusive, overdubbed synthesizer / processed loop sound and two brief excerpts of overdubbed applause, ending with what sounds like a collage of reverby bits from "Dance of the Lemmings" (I have to check to make sure that's what it is). Three of the bonus tracks on the "Utopia" CD are not by Amon Duul 2 or Utopia, but songs from the 18 Karat Gold album - I don't know what the rest of the bonus tracks are supposed to be from, because I don't own that one, but when I heard it, they sounded familiar. I got "Flawless", too, which is supposed to be re-recorded versions of their popular songs - I'm guessing if I had "Nada Moonshine #", I would find that it contained most of the material here that wasn't just taken from the old albums. I'm not sure. Does anyone know what "Eternal Flashback" and "Kobe: Reconstructions" consist of? Is there any honest unreleased material on any of these reissues / compilations? They seem deliberately misleading.

Oh - also, I heard the extra material from "Phallus Dei", and it sounded like it was just bits edited from "Dance of the Lemmings". Thanks, guys! And the "Live in Concert" album features just the drum track from "Marilyn Monroe Memorial Church" as a bonus track, but at least they're straightforward about what it is. I'm hoping that somewhere I can find a CD of theirs that includes a retitled second minute of "Chewing Gum Telegram" with fades at the beginning and end, and maybe, if I'm lucky, the first AND second minute of "Chewing Gum Telegram" again, only and with a fade 10 seconds into the beginning and then a straight cut with reverb at the 2 minute mark. I'd buy THAT for 16 dollars.

Pangolino 2, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

There's the Lemmingmania CD issue which makes some of these bonus tracks obsolete... but as to explain why the bonus tracks are what they are... *shrug*.. welcome to the weird world of Repertoire Records. I like the label because they happen to release a lot of great 70s rock stuff that's mastered well enough; and they don't fuck up the proper albums at least (from what I can tell so far), so I can't complain about oddly placed bonus tracks really.

Da Na Not! (donut), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Weird. The Repertoire version of Yeti has a contemporaneous single as the bonus tracks, totally consistent and works well. It also restores a few seconds of "Pale Gallery" that the Mantra edition left off. I'm totally happy with it.

These tracks referenced above, however, sound pretty sketchy.

sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

i remember forced exposure getting a bunch of AD2 reissues a few years back, all on some label i had never heard of. and they made a point of mentioning that the bonus tracks were dodgy at best.

is the japanese pressing of yeti the only one with the full six minute version of "pale gallery"?

baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

FUCK! Yes, it must be. How annoying.

sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

very annoying, cause i've never even seen a copy (mine is on mantra).

i do have an mp3, though:

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1VTMXZJXMQ8UF014CRIH70IYWV

baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Um, maybe the lesson here is: don't bother with any AD2 beyond Tanz Der Lemminge? You're probably best off that way...

*runs*

Da Na Not! (donut), Thursday, 2 March 2006 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link

but then you'd miss wolf city, lamer.

baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

And Live In London!

Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think there's an album of theirs I don't like, at least a bit - "Only Human" is my least favourite, followed by "Pyragony X", but there are still some good songs on both of those. Also, I haven't heard "Nada Moonshine #", so I can't say about that, except for the parts I'm assuming are on "Flawless", which just seems like a mess. I am in the process of replacing as many of my LPs for CDs as I can, though, and I get particularly interested in music I haven't heard. The "Carnival in Babylon" extra tracks on the Repertoire reissue look sensible to me, now that I've looked them up, and I'm really interested in the recent Inside/Out versions of "Almost Alive", "Vortex" and "Only Human".

Pangolino 2, Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks for that long version of "Pale Gallery", been searching for that for a while!

Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 March 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

My "yeti" is on Gammarock. I think it's in the car.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 March 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

So's mine... on Gammarock... not in your car... at least I don't think it is

Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 March 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

new vinyl version of Yeti STILL doesn't have the full version of "Pale Gallery"

oh cruel world

sleeve, Friday, 31 July 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link


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