I always get mixed up between Amon Düül and Ash Ra Tempel. I mean, doesn't everyone? As for the difference between Amon Düül and Amon Düül II, well, I've no doubt Julian Cope could soliloquise on that, but not me. One thing to try and remember, based on this experience: I think I prefer Ash Ra Tempel (and they had Klaus Schulze as a member for a while).
Yes, I got this because it was cheap (judging from the price tag, I'd say it was from Forever Changes on Ecclesall Road). Needless to say — isn't it? — I don't have any other Amon Düül, and I don't much like the songs here, except possibly for the almost indie-pop song Die Losung. The Hawkwind stuff is the best on offer here. I don't have any other Hawkwind either. Orgone Accumulator is a good wigged-out laugh with lines about cerebral vibrators mixed in with its Wilhem Reich references.
I don't know Van der Graaf Generator well enough to know where the tracks on these two CDs originate. The VdGG pieces on the first CD are instrumentals and Peter Hammill is not included in the writing credits, whereas all the VdGG tracks on the second CD are credited to Hammill alone.
Altogether it seems to be volume rather than quality, and not cosmic enough for me.
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