Favourite (official) Kraftwerk Studio Album

Fave Official Kraftwerk album...?


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massrock

Well-known member
Yes that's a great recording. Heavy as and excellent sound quality. Haven't listened to it for a while.

Seems like the first three LPs might be getting the reissue treatment btw.
 

subvert47

I don't fight, I run away
Reading through this thread I thought some people might be interested to hear this.

It's a bootleg from from Kraftwerk's quite poorly documented krautrock era. Essentially it's Florian Schneider with the Neu duo Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother on drums and guitar - and the three of them grind out some of the best industrial hard-rock and heavy metal you're ever likely to hear.

nice one :)

on this topic, can their later stuff also be called "krautrock"?
(it was included in the krautrock documentary on BBC4 last night)

:slanted:
 

craner

Beast of Burden
Sounds good, I like those early progy ones - hence my vote for R & F (for personal reasons, as much as anything: it's a beautiful, atmospheric record, and soundtracked some cherished early morning romantic encounters...) (I can dispute the idea that Kraftwerk and sex don't mix!).
 

Lewis

Wild Horses
nice one :)

on this topic, can their later stuff also be called "krautrock"?
(it was included in the krautrock documentary on BBC4 last night)

:slanted:

I suppose you could but it's perhaps a bit misleading because the rest of the world will recognise it as pop electronica/techno. But for me "Krautrock" is more of an era and a network of people than an actual genre with stylistic boundaries, so in that sense it's completely fair enough. Many others like Cluster, Klaus Schulze etc were full-on electronica so the 'rock' part really is a misnomer.

Having said that I think on Trans-Europe Express they achieved a certain sophistication in their sound/aesthetic so that it seems almost to damn it with faint praise to label it krautrock, which has got a proggy, provincial feel to it. If they'd packed it in after Autobahn then maybe they'd be remembered as a Krautrock band who had a massive novelty single.
 

massrock

Well-known member
Yeah they've hired Kevin Shields to work on the remasters.

Not really, Ralf Hutter in interview with Mojo magazine. Although I did read this on another forum so maybe it's made up.
They are coming. We are working on them with more drawings, more paintings, more photographs. We are working on the old tapes, they are very dusty.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
wow, haven't listened to kraftwerk in many years. it's like rediscovering (and discovering a lot for the first time) something so utterly perfect and crystalline...you can't say much music exists outside its time, but they really do*.

(Massive influence on italo too, and you can't say better than that.)

So that's Kraftwerk and hendrix I've rediscovered this evening thanks to that BBC4 docu...

*I'd say the same for Neu! too - pure magic.

Edit: I forgot Neon Lights is one of the most spellbinding songs ever written.
 
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hucks

Your Message Here
ah, deutschebay

I was just wondering if they were at large in the UK, cos I can't find them. I'll hit amazon.de I think. Ta!
 

paolo

Mechanical phantoms
I got 'Computer World' at the weekend - my first Kraftwerk album (I'm 26 :slanted:)

It's A LOT
 

Loki

Well-known member
have to be The Man Machine... Neon Lights is one of the songs my head sings to itself to keep me calm in times of,er, sturm and drang....and also because this really sluty girl i knew at school would play The Model while showing me her knickers...

then maybe Trans Europe Express, just because Europe Endless is utterly transporting....
 

viktorvaughn

Well-known member
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/05/kraftwerk-eight-albums-tate-modern

Am I unrealistic in being pissed off that tickets for these are £60? I'm sure, even a few years ago, tickets for these kind of gigs would've been much closer to £30. It's a joke.

Totally agree. Within a few hours of that being in the Grauniad I had 3 friends email about it but I was like SIXTY pounds? I saw them at Bestival and they were really good but I can't bring myself to pay that even tho I can afford it. Rip off. Should be 30 now, 40 at absolute max.
 

hucks

Your Message Here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/05/kraftwerk-eight-albums-tate-modern

Am I unrealistic in being pissed off that tickets for these are £60? I'm sure, even a few years ago, tickets for these kind of gigs would've been much closer to £30. It's a joke.

Absolutely. I went to see them in Manchester Velodrome in 2009 and that was similarly "event"-y and was £35. It'll still sell out, though, and Computer World/ TEE/ Man Machine will sell out almost instantly. What's the capacity of the turbine hall for things such as this, I wonder?
 
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