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Your support makes all the difference.Ground-breaking German bands of the mid-Seventies are making a comeback. Compilations featuring bands like Can, Kraftwerk and Amon Duul II are back on the rack...
THE SONG REMAINS INSANE
A backwash from a keyboard
A metronomic tock
The sound of people drilling
Upon a concrete block
Collectively, Kraut Rock
Its fans were sixth-form eggheads
In places like Herne Bay
Who walked around in greatcoats
And couldn't bear to play
The pop hits of the day
The songs went on forever
Hypnotic and profound
Klaus Dinger, Faust and Kraftwork
Were names to bandy round
If only for the sound
And legendary spaceheads
Like Amon Duul II
Turned up, turned on, got cosmic
Then quietly went askew
As all the best bands do
A credit to their homeland
The science lab of pop
They noodled to the summit
And knew not how to stop
Then went right off the top
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