Everyone had this didn't they? It was cheap on the Virgin Records budget Caroline imprint(Just look at that fucking outrageous label!?...bloody hippies!), but Faust were on Virgin proper,with their loss-leader 49p album the 'Faust Tapes', which failed to break them in the UK.All anyone ever needs is one Faust record anyway,so get the cheap ones, right?So that's how I ended up with two albums with Faust on.The first one was a rather irritating mix-up of cutting room floor material in two side long tracks. It sounded like they were trying to be weird,which is always a turn off.
Now with Conrad doing his trademark monotonous violin scraping over Faust's rhythm section,cleverly underplaying, this is Fausts best album of the 70's.I bet Fripp ,Eno,and Bowie were livid that Tony never came to them for his rock crossover album. It might have had something to do with the fact that none of them were on Virgin at the time.
This is as close as Conrad came to selling out.If it wasn't such a slow burner it may have entered the lower reaches of the British charts.
This is the expanded,unedited version from 2002, and an argument that all albums shouldn't be longer than 40 minutes.
Tracklist:
1.1 From The Side Of Man And Womankind 27:16
1.2 From The Side Of The Machine 26:21
2.1 The Pyre Of Angus Was In Kathmandu 3:38
2.2 The Death Of The Composer Was In 1962 3:16
2.3 From The Side Of Woman And Mankind (Complete Version) 31:11
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I was working in a small independent record shop when this first appeared. I came close to getting fired for playing it over the shop speaker system at deafening volume. Once the manager had calmed down, he gave me a copy gratis on the proviso that I never play it again in the shop. But I neatly got round that by recommending it to punters and insisting on giving them a listen. The result: I shifted quite a few. It's a timeless classic.
One thing more annoying than someone trying to be weird is someone trying to be edgy.
The download link is dead... thanks mediafire!!
DOWNLOAD not dead.....with mediafire you have try at least twice to download anything, because they have to sarisfy their sponsors,so try again..it works fine....even has a 'Turbo Download' option.
JZ
THX!
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