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- Date Released: January 1, 1986
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Progressive Rock
- Label: Plastic Head Records / IODA
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Even with only five tracks, Airs on a Shoestring is one of the best avenues to investigate Amon Duul's sometimes irritable, sometimes unlistenable brand of fragmented rock and jazz fusion. Before the band split into two, with many of the members becoming the more fruitful and rhythmically inclined Amon Duul II, the four albums that Amon Duul made were instrumentally austere to say the least, but still bred some interesting and appealingly splintered progressive music. Two of the tracks, "Hymn for the Hardcore" and the humorous "Olaf (Where's My $20,000?)" represent the band's musical sloppiness the best, but, at the same time, offer a foreshadowing into Amon Duul II's upcoming Krautrock prominence. The jams are unraveled and fountain-like, while the guitar rhythms are half-built, melding into the thrashing of the drums and cymbals. The lyrics, often indecipherable, are drowned out by clashes of percussion and the splattering of guitar improvisation anyway, but there is still some positive energy felt within the rawness of the music. Airs on a Shoestring may be brief, but this, in itself, is welcoming, and it's much easier to find than most of their albums.
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| 01. |  |
Hymn For The Hardcore |
4:18 |
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| 02. | |
Pioneer |
4:10 |
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| 03. | |
One Moment's Anger Is Two Pints Of Blood |
12:40 |
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| 04. | |
Marcus Leid |
9:43 |
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| 05. | |
Olaf (Where's My $20,000?) |
13:26 |
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05 Total Tracks, 44:17 Total Length
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