History Music / Neu

Among the people influenced by them, there were: Music/DavidBowie, Music/IggyPop, Music/BrianEno, Music/OrchestralManoeuvresInTheDark, John Lydon (of the Music/SexPistols and Music/PublicImageLtd), Music/JoyDivision, Music/GaryNuman, Music/{{Ultravox}}, Boredoms, Music/{{Stereolab}} (who are the most blatant case of FollowTheLeader, by basically exploiting the Neu! sound), Music/{{Radiohead}}, and also many auteurs in the latest electronic music scenes. Additionally, Music/{{Negativland}} named themselves and their label Seeland after two of their songs.

* TropeMaker:
** Of the 4/4 "Motorik" beat. Artists that use the beat pattern are almost exclusively referencing Neu!.
** Side two of ''Neu! 2'' was the prototype for what would become the remix album.

Neu! [[ExcitedShowTitle (yes, with an exclamation mark)]] was a German band formed in 1971 by Klaus Dinger (mainly drums, also guitar and other instruments) and Michael Rother (guitar, bass, keyboards, other instruments) after they left Music/{{Kraftwerk}}. They are one of the major bands of what was dubbed by UK music journalists and critics as {{Krautrock}}.

* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Klaus Dinger's songs are the most aggressive.

* EpicRocking: Every track of the debut album with the exception of "Sonderangebot"; "Für Immer" from ''Neu! 2''; four of the six tracks from ''Neu! '75'' (namely: "Seeland", "Leb' Wohl", "Hero", and "E-Musik").
* ExcitedShowTitle: Their band name has an exclamation mark behind it.
* FakeOutFadeOut: "Für immer" has one toward the middle.
* {{Krautrock}}: They are one of the most well known German bands from the 1970's.
* LastNoteNightmare: "Spitzenqualitat".
* MinimalisticCoverArt: Often just the band name written in bold, a la Pop Art.
* NoiseRock: "Negativland" is an early example.

* {{Protopunk}}: A noted UrExample of PunkRock, particularly with side 2 of ''Neu! 75''.

* StartMyOwn: Rother and Dinger were originally members of Music/{{Kraftwerk}}.
* StudioChatter: "Hallo Excentrico".

With help from Conny Plank, they recorded their ground breaking debut album, which opened with "Hallogallo". This track is crucial because it defined, right there and then, Neu!'s important trademark sound, which was based on Dinger's "motorik beat" (sometimes also called the "Apache beat"). The rest of the album was, for the most part, incredibly different and experimental, although they seemed already defined (even by visual standards. [[IconicLogo Their logo was basically their name painted with a red marker over a white cover in a pop-art style]]).

Their temperaments clashed and Dinger and Rother separated, and then reunited a couple of years later for their third and final album in the '70s, ''Neu!'75'', which was a two headed beast. On side one, there were Rother's ambient explorations, very focused on keyboards and his guitar playing, which was very fluid and devoid of stuff like chordal progression and blues scales [[note]] in fact, right from the beginnings of the group, like some of the best Krautrock groups, they didn't want to emulate English or American music in any way, shape or form [[/note]]. On side two, Dinger basically set the template for UK {{Punk|Rock}} music, at least two years (or three, if you count the A-side of single "Super") before the first singles by the Music/SexPistols and Music/TheDamned, with relentless single chord guitar pounding, distorted "motorik" beats bashed simultaneously by his brother Thomas and Hans Lampe, and Dinger's sneering, unintelligible vocals. They split and went separate ways (Klaus, Thomas and Hans went to form Music/LaDusseldorf, who took that second side of the record up to eleven, and Rother went to form ''Harmonia'' with Cluster and beginning his solo career).

Their temperaments clashed and Dinger and Rother separated, and then reunited a couple of years later for their third and final album in the '70s, ''Neu!'75'', which was a two headed beast. On side one, there were Rother's ambient explorations, very focused on keyboards and his guitar playing, which was very fluid and devoid of stuff like chordal progression and blues scales [[note]] in fact, right from the beginnings of the group, like some of the best Krautrock groups, they didn't want to emulate English or American music in any way, shape or form [[/note]]. On side two, Dinger basically set the template for UK {{Punk|Rock}} music, at least two years (or three, if you count the A-side of single "Super") before the first singles by the Music/SexPistols and Music/TheDamned, with relentless single chord guitar pounding, distorted "motorik" beats bashed simultaneously by his brother Thomas and Hans Lampe, and Dinger's sneering, unintelligible vocals. They split and went separate ways (Klaus, Thomas and Hans went to form Music/LaDusseldorf, who took that second side of the record UpToEleven, and Rother went to form ''Harmonia'' with Cluster and beginning his solo career).