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  • a lot of people say

    that Man Machine is, i think that Radioactive is also as brilliant, with 'ohm sweet ohm' being my personal highlight.

    but its all great, so you should probably just buy it all.

  • Buy them all!

    I think the best is Computer world. Man machine is also great!

  • Trans-Europe Express

  • Trans-Europe Express

    or Computer World

  • i'd say

    man machine, if only for the perfection of the robots and the model.

    • The Man Machine

      best overall, but the TEE 'suite' on Trans Europe Express is the best bit of any of their albums

      • a bit contro but I really love Radioactivity

        even though there are a lot of 'random' transient soundbursts (insert smug 'lab reference - one they nicked anyway)

        Also Kraftwerk 1 and 2 should have a modest mention - making mechanical music on trad instruments whilst 'Autobahn' is making trad classical arrangements on 'mechanical' instruments.

        No one said Electric Cafe - funny that. Man Machine is too clinical, so erm, after all that I have to say TEE (after Radioactivity)

  • pedant

    ...

  • Man Machine

    Word.

    • Trans-

      Europe Express.

    • agreed

      Man Machine is a very influential album too.

      • Nah

        Man Machine is too easy though a great cover and like all Kraftwerk albums there's an element of contexuality at play when discussing inflence.

        sorry I sounded like a right cunt then.

        • wut? nah you didn't...

        • Don't worry about it..

          How many electronica artists would have a copy of this in their collection,though?

          Imagine what music would be like now if Kraftwerk had never formed.

          side note off topic: Forward Russia were fucking brilliant on Friday.

          • YES - but Zappa was doing his bit as well long before Kraftwerk

            which is what a lotta peeps don't realise... thus the term 'electronic' music is well, rather overused.. and well, not accurate.. and well, superflous.. in some ways.

            • Kraftwerk

              were doing other things before Autobahn; they decided to compose using home-built synthesisers and drum machines. For them, it was simply different instruments.

              Pre-Kraftwerk electronic pop music includes the wonderful 'Popcorn' by Hot Butter.

              Music composed and performed using electronic instruments started in thelate nineteenth century/.

  • trans

    • europe

      • exrpess

        • Planet Rock!

          classic old skool hip-hop electro funk or something.

          • 'Classic'

            is an insufficient word for 'Planet Rock'

            'Planet Rock' should be in the OED as one of the definitions of 'awesome'.

            I have the 12". It is nine minutes of heaven. In 1982, it was as if aliens had landed and showed all the music lovers what they had been missing.

            • ^ indeed

            • you my friend

              can be such an utterly annoying tosser in one post and completely right in another. All in the same thread. But you love that don't you?

  • trans-europe express

  • Man Machine

    Man Machine

  • M

  • COMPUTER

    WORLD

    for me.