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There's something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973. Faust's second-and-a-half album hit the shops to celebrate their signing to the nascent Virgin Records, who were looking to take advantage of the zeitgeist for German music at that time.
Undeterred by the fact the band's unwillingness to engage with the commercial landscape had seen them dropped from Polydor, Branson and co cooked up a suitably spectacular marketing strategy, selling the LP for 49p, the bargain price of a single. Shoppers flocked in their thousands to grab a copy, raced home and then spent the next forty five minutes checking their tracking, banging the speakers and blowing the needle, all to no avail.
Do not adjust your set - This is Faust. What was lurking within the grooves was a condensed collage of outtakes, oddities, sketches and samples previously known to the band's nearest and dearest as The Faust Party Tapes - and how you wish you'd been to those parties.
Tracklist
1 Several Hands On Our Piano
2 Don't
3 Flashback Caruso
4 Voices And Trumpet And All
5 J'ai Mal Aux Dents
6 Beim nächsten Ton ist es...
7 Two Drums, Bass, Organ
8 Dr. Schwitters Intro
9 Several Hands On Our Piano (Continued)
10 Beam Me Up, Scotty
11 Elerimomuvid
12 Dr. Schwitters (Continued)
13 Have A Good Time, Everybody
14 Above And Under Our Piano
15 Hermanns Lament
16 Donnerwetter
17 Was ist hier los?
18 Rudolf der Pianist
19 Ricochets
20 I've Heard That One Before
21 Watch Your Step
22 Under Our Piano Again
23 Fluid Chorus
24 Stretch Out Time
25 Der Baum
26 Chère Chambre