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mark kraken 
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Posted: November 21 2009 at 13:55 |
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autobahn is last good , i can just about handle man machine.
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A Person
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Posted: November 08 2009 at 19:55 |
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I would like Computer World a little more if they didn't count or sing about calculators. Die Mensch-Maschine for me. I also really like the album cover for it too.
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horsewithteeth11
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Posted: November 08 2009 at 19:52 |
 MovingPictures07 wrote:
How did I not see this poll before?!!
AHHHHHH, I CAN'T DECIDE! I'll give it to Computer World since it only has 3 votes and deserves more, but honestly I don't even know! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! There are so many good albums here.
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Bolded and edited for effect.  But yeah, I went with Computer World too due to it's lack of votes.
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: November 08 2009 at 11:56 |
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How did I not see this poll before?!!
AHHHHHH, I CAN'T DECIDE! I'll give it to Computer World since it only has 3 votes and deserves more, but honestly I don't even know. There are so many good albums here.
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splyu
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Posted: November 08 2009 at 10:41 |
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That's difficult! It's not Autobahn or anything before that for me... but after that, it could be almost any album, including Tour de France Soundtracks which is splendid. Computerwelt is marvellous... so is Radio-Aktivität, though I am tempted to vote Die Mensch-Maschine after all. But actually I think I'll just refrain from voting.
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Posted: November 08 2009 at 09:18 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Why Radio-Aktivität?
It was called Radoac Aictivity in my day.
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"Radoac Aictivity"? Is it Welsh for "radioactivity"? Anyway, "Radio Aktivität" is the original German title. My favourite Kraftwerk record had always been "Trans-Europe Express": "Autobahn" is a bit too "soft" for me (I mean that the B-side sounds like any other kosmische German band of these times), while the experimental tracks on "Radio-Activity" lack the direction and the force of the "normal" songs. I also think that the sound on "The Man-Machine" screams: "1978!!!" a bit too loud to me. In the contrary, the sound of "Trans-Europe Express" seems intemporal, very modern.
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Pekka
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Posted: November 08 2009 at 08:52 |
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I'm a beginner on this subject and only familiar with their work from Autobahn onwards, but I think it's still okay to vote. My favourite is Autobahn barely before The Man Machine. The Minimum-Maximum live album is great as well.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 19 2009 at 06:52 |
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I went for the first album (red cone) where there isn't a glimpse of a synth.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Snow Dog
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Posted: August 18 2009 at 14:25 |
Why Radio-Aktivität?
It was called Radoac Aictivity in my day.
Edited by Snow Dog - August 18 2009 at 14:27
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Posted: August 18 2009 at 14:17 |
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Nobody else has voted for Radio-Aktivität so I'll have to be the first. The band is moving towards their classic style with this album but it feels darker than the albums which follow (and I like that!).
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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Posted: August 18 2009 at 09:20 |
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I've long been curious about this group, plan to investigate some albums eventually. Thanks for the thread - this helps sort things out a bit for me.
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Posted: August 18 2009 at 03:09 |
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Ralf und Florian for me.
but I can see Radio Aktitat, Die Mensch Maschine and Trans-Europe Express in my rear view mirrors following close behind
Kraftwerk's best performance,IMHO, is the live performance,'K4',when for a brief moment, Michael Rother and an(other) member(s) of what was to become Neu! were in the line-up. It really is fantastic.Rother's guitars and Dinger's percussion mixed with Ralf and Florian's rhythms and electronics...Wonderful stuff.
Edited by Man Erg - August 18 2009 at 03:52
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 Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Posted: August 18 2009 at 02:55 |
I like a few of these. Autobahn is an old classic and TEE was great too.
I'm voting for Computer World (Welt).
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Posted: August 17 2009 at 17:38 |
Neu!mann wrote:
Trans-Europa Express..! a few reasons why:
1) the cover photo is a classic (although the design of Die Mensch-Maschine is nifty too)
2) the relentless groove of the title track, filling all of Side Two on the original vinyl
3) gratuitous namechecks of Iggy Pop and David Bowie
4) Showroom Dummies: the most hilarious and scary song every written about dancefloor culture |
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Neu!mann
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Posted: August 17 2009 at 15:13 |
Trans-Europa Express..! a few reasons why:
1) the cover photo is a classic (although the design of Die Mensch-Maschine is nifty too)
2) the relentless groove of the title track, filling all of Side Two on the original vinyl
3) gratuitous namechecks of Iggy Pop and David Bowie
4) Showroom Dummies: the most hilarious and scary song every written about dancefloor culture
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"we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini
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Hercules
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Posted: August 06 2009 at 07:22 |
Ricochet wrote:
Grandfathers of crappy robotic music, that fails to transcend beyond its swedish buffet of artificiality and computer clinging mojo. Sorry, the early krautrock doesn't warm me up.
No vote, since I utterly hate them.
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I agree with you 100%. The only German bands I've heard that do anything for me are Eloy and Rammstein.
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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Posted: August 06 2009 at 00:27 |
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everything i've heard from them leaves me cold, the early stuff a bit less
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Now is all there is. Be before you think!
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Kazuhiro
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Posted: August 05 2009 at 19:31 |
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I voted on Autobahn.
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Progosopher
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Posted: August 05 2009 at 16:53 |
Computerwelt - Computerworld is my favorite, even though I generally describe computers as tools of the devil.  I don't take it too serously, though, I just find it more entertaining than the others (and though Die Mensch-Maschine is good, it seems to take itself too serously for me.)
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: August 05 2009 at 14:18 |
Kraftwerk are fab !!
I do like Bill Baileys version though histerical if youve not seen it
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