OFF: Neu! 2

[William Stone]

You wrote:
>
>Hail, Krautrockers! I know I can always get an answer here. No,
>it's not the usual "Should I buy?" question this time -- I
>already bought it (Neu! 2). I've bought a lot of records, but
>this is a first. The first side plays just fine, no troubles.
>Side 2 is another story. Now this is a regular 33 1/3 record.
>And yet there is "Neuschnee 78", "Super 16" and "Super 78". The
>"78"s play at hyper-speed and my phonograph does not have a 78
>setting. "Super 16" is extremely slow. This is all on the
>regular 33 speed. From what I can gather from the German liner
>notes (though it's a British release), these are single
>versions of these songs. But why put them on a 33 record?? I'm
>totally confused. And then there's "Cassetto" and "Hallo
>Excentrico" that also play at wrong speeds, but are not
>labelled such. I'm really disappointed, as this sounds like a
>good album otherwise.
>

  Ha! They gotcha there. Those pesky Germans are screwing with your
mind. Nothing wrong with that vinyl, lad, except that IMO it ain't too
good. The first was vastly superior.

Wylie