Roygbiv

Care to share the wealth?

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Barabajagal

Kraftwerk covers are always airbrushed to a frightening degree.

Molecules

I think you'll find that's part of the aesthetic, rather than to cover blemishes. It's meant to look artificial, almost painted, like a 50's billboard or something. In their suits they look like corporate management basking in the success of the Trans-Europe Express

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lucifer_sam

I've never enjoyed Kraftwerk. Possibly because their landmark album Autobahn was a blatant ripoff of Neu!'s 1972 self-titled (ironically after they left Kraftwerk themselves due to "creative differences"), and everything after that isn't so much kosmische musik as it is techno-pop, including TEX. I'm sorry but I've never had a place in my heart for that.

But eh, to each their own. There are worse albums on this list already.

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Molecules

I'm sure the fact that both 'Autobahn' and 'Neu!' were produced and tremendously influenced by Conny Plank had something to do with the albums sounding similar. The 'motorik' beat was developed in those early sessions by Rother, Schneider etc, I think they were all entitled to take away what they learned with them.

I love both albums, and there's no reason to posit that Autobahn 'rips off' Neu!... by the time of it's release (as you said yourself) Kraftwerk had gone off in a completely different direction with their use of drum machines and synthesizers, leaving acoustic instruments behind (except the odd treated voice) and going on to lay the foundations for electronic music to come.
Neu! went on doing the motorik/ambient thing (with great success, obviously).

And dismissing Kraftwerk as techno-pop, when techno had not been invented yet? The originators of techno itself in early 80s middle-class suburban Detroit got the idea for it staying up listening to Kraftwerk records and combining it with the danceability of funk and disco.

I see where you're coming from I think, Neu! offers a much more 'kosmiche' and cerebral experience (although 'Autobahn' to me still retains the hypnotic quality of their earlier 'Krautrock' work)... But, ya know. Different strokes for different Kraut-luvvin' folks!

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lucifer_sam

Whether or not Ralf and Florian ripped Rother and Schneider off doesn't matter to me, but it's really disturbing when they sound so similar. Autobahn really just sounds out of place in the long haul of Kraftwerk's discography.

And I don't mind dismissing Kraftwerk as techno-pop when I absolutely loathe everything else with that nomenclature (they called it that themselves, btw). Fuck do I care if they started it. I'm not gonna champion whoever created smooth fucking jazz because "they did it first" when the entire genre amounts to as much creativity as you'll find in the average Sunday sermon.

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Molecules

It's not really comparable to who invented smooth jazz, we're talking about the whole gamut of electronic music here. And I wonder if you've listened to Autobahn recently because it sounds like nothing else before it, I believe there's one track with a motorik rhythm on synths... Well I like that f*cking record.

this is sheer lunacy LS, i'm disappointed in you. oh well, on with the stupid list

edit: AND I LIKE TECHNO POP

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boo boo

Sam, I'll promise to shut up about you trolling other threads as long as you stop trolling mine.

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Terrible Lizard

Nice list so far Boo, I'm interested to see how it turns out.
I promise not to spam too much.

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Yukon Cornelius

I dont know terrible but your avatar will surely give me nightmares...

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