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Amon Duul II: Made In Germany (Atco)

Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1976

NO ONE BUT this X-th generation German-American seems to have remarked on the profound ironies of Kraftwerk's recent boast that they're the first German pop group to actually sing in German. Der Fuhrer's ashes must be doing cartwheels in some Berlin garbage can, to know that his blond-haired, blue-eyed kinder have been singing their hearts out in the "Negroid doggerel" of the American language thus far in the history of pop.

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