I'm playing Kraftwerk on my iTunes - ask me anything.

[devilgrrl]

[mainegreen]

1. What's your favorite Kraftwerk Album and Song?

Mine is computer world: Pocket Calculator!

[devilgrrl]

2. Computer World is my fave record

Computer Love, my fave song.

I like all their stuff really. Right now I'm listening to Tour De France Soundtracks

[driver8]

5. One of my favorites, devilgrrl!

When I was a college radio dj, I played Kraftwerk all the time. I love Tour de France and Numbers.

[devilgrrl]

6. The Model is good too :-)

The Man Machine was played often back in the day as well. :-)

[kedrys]

13. Dentaku is pretty hilarious

Japanese version of Pocket Calculator sung by our German friends...it's very dance-y. I like it as much as the original.

[wain]

3. Autobahn

That's from a long time ago.

:)

[hellbound-liberal]

4. Autobahn was my favorite Kraftwerk song. Anybody remember Nektar?

I got Remember the Future a couple of years ago. Great stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl3lEdikrZU

[devilgrrl]

8. From youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y

[Richard Steele]

9. I found that one on 8-track the other year. For a quarter. Just had to buy that!

[Redstone]

7. Are they still fahrend auf dem Autobahn?

Greatest late-night driving tune, EVER. Followed closely by "Radar Love." They've both sustained me through many a 3 AM barreling-up-I-91 run.

Honorable mention: "Time Has Come Today."

Redstone

[mondo joe]

10. Is it TOUR DE FRANCE?

If so, is it the extended version?

[devilgrrl]

14. It's the soundtracks CD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_Soundtracks

I've got the 7" single of 'Tour de France" back in '83 - still have it. :-)

[Montauk6]

11. Interpol or Deutschebank?

[smtpgirl]

12. Trans Eurpoe Express

Ahh Yes, early electronia

From Germany

From a Frohlich girl



Trans-Europe Express

Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express

Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees
Leave Paris in the morning on T.E.E.
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express


Kraftwerk
When Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider put together Kraftwerk (german for 'Power Station') in 1968, they were in search of a sound that could be considered uniquely German. Eschewing the American and British pop music of the day, Kraftwerk experimented with new technologies and looked to the industrial world immediately around them for inspiration. By 1977, when Kraftwerk released Trans-Europe Express , attentions were being drawn away from London and toward Germany. David Bowie was already calling Berlin home, and it was there that he and producer Eno would record several Kraftwerk-inspired experimental albums of his own (the adventures of Bowie and Iggy Pop in Berlin were documented in Pop's classic track "The Passenger"). One of the flagship bands of the British new romantics, Ultravox, had made a pilgrimage to Germany and were recording their music in Cologne. Just about every new wave/synth act of the early '80s has sited Kraftwerk as one of their chief influences. The Eurosynth sound crafted by "krautrock" bands such as Kraftwerk was present in the dance music of the '80s , and has made a huge comeback in the '90s as "electronica." Kraftwerk themselves have also embarked on a comeback of their own, and are currently touring

Trans-Europe Express

In Vienna we sit in a late-night cafe
Straight connection, T.E.E.
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express

From station to station
back to Dusseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express