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"Ride to Norway, ride to Norway
And you're just another hero riding through the night
Riding through the city."
Since its release, “Hero” has become one, if not the most influential song in Neu!’s oeuvre. It directly inspired David Bowie 1977 song “Heroes” and listening to Klaus Dinger’s sneering and barely comprehensible vocals, one knows where Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols got some inspiration from. The ostinato drum pattern, mostly described as Motorik by music journalists, and the aggressive guitar sound also inspired the UK punk rock scene.
Hero starts off the Side B of Neu!’s third album, Neu ‘75. While Side A rather explores Krautrock and Ambient sounds, Hero’s proto-punk suddenly paces out of the nothing. Or as Pitchfork’s Brent S. Sirota describes it in his subsequent review:
And just when you’ve resigned yourself to this new ethereal Neu, the industro-punk “Hero” snarls in with all the dirt and blues of the early Stones. Dinger growls out indecipherables somewhere between Jagger and Rotten, while Rother’s burning guitar is finally emancipated from the benign oppression of the synths. It’s the motorik of the world on the verge of a fuel crisis.
Iraqi fae tin skoni mou re KSEROLA tis plakas!
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