WEIRD ALBUMS SERIES

Here In This Tomb, We Found ‘The Faust Tapes’

You asked for the Beatles, and you received something else entirely

Alexander Razin
The Riff
Published in
4 min readNov 12, 2022

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Trippy. Image Credit: Virgin.

Sheer confidence Polydor Germany had towards Faust. They thought they had found the next Beatles. So, they invested countless Deutsche marks so Faust could write Abbey Road. And, of course, Faust let Polydor Germany down, as Faust’s albums had disappointing sales.

Polydor Germany wasted their efforts, but it was all for naught.

Faust wasn’t the fab four, but their experimental music resonated. As a result, they became krautrock influencers and one of the go-to bands to hear excellent krautrock.

Welcome to the tenth (woot woot!) monthly installment of the weird album series. Where I discuss the albums that go beyond the typical music structure.

Today’s album is Faust’s 1973 LP, The Faust Tapes.

I break down the album by its background, my thoughts, and the legacy of each installment. Then, I’ll rate the album using the Beefheartian scale. A rating system I used to describe albums on par with Captain Beefheart. For example, in the rating system, a Ten is “holy shit, that’s weird!”

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Alexander Razin
The Riff

Aficionado and connoisseur of obscure and experimental music, movies, and TV. Fictional and nonfictional pieces have their place here, too