Apyuxjj.151 net.music utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!pyuxjj!rlr Mon Apr 19 09:57:33 1982 Germany spells cheese K-R-A-F-T(-W-E-R-K) Thanx to my friend Greg Evans (with his collection of 1000 records six of which he listens to) for this info: Kraftwerk Ralf & Florian Autobahn ---very early period (to ~1972); for fans of early electronic noodling only (e.g; Tangerine Dream BEFORE Phaedra) Exceller 8 ---(Best (?) of Kraftwerk compilation up to this point, when they moved to Capitol. Contains strangely edited "Autobahn") Radio-Activity ---(contains "Airwaves", a song (really) you will recognize from somewhere the moment you hear it, whether you've heard it or not) Trans Europe Express ---(it was here that disco was invented... well, not really, but this was where they got their first big disco hit (TEE); actually, Kraftwerk had invented disco long before this.) The Man-Machine ---([We Are] The Robots, The Model, Neon Lights, Spacelab, Metropolis, title track; there is not a bad track on this record, but there sure are some great ones) (rocky2!dennis was right about the name being just "The Robots" but I'm somehow stuck on using the whole line as the title.) *******(the favorite album of one of the Residents!!!!!!!) (let cool for three years then shake) Computer World --- I don't think there's anyone reading this who hasn't heard a piece of this album yet, between the poppy "Pocket Calculator" and the disco hit "Numbers" (Ein, Zwei, Drei, Fir, Funf, Sich, Sieben, Acht ---please forgive my spelling). I strongly recommend the last four (any or all of them), but my fave is Man-Machine. Mind you, these guys are not above criticism in my book. Their new album sounds a little too settled in, too easy. And their image sure could use some work. Their robotic "uniform"-ity which inspired the likes of Gary Numan tends to make people think of Nazi storm troopers (Is this only because they're German? Numan doesn't seem to evoke that, or does he?). When I saw them at the Ritz last summer (NYC) some creep standing behind me was shouting "Hail the fuehrer!!!". But don't let that dissaude you from the fact that these guys were real pioneers in the music world, years ahead of their time, with a sound whose time has perhaps arrived. Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr (sorry for the lecture) p.s. anyone who had seen them BEFORE the 1981 tour, please drop me a line about what it was like. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.