 | Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express
4.2
excellent
| Ranking: #16 for 1977 | |
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| 4.5 superb | gothwalrus | November 20th 16 |
This came out nearly 40 years ago. Imagine that. Good tunes.
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| 0.0 | George Browne | May 3rd 19 |
Great electronic music. The way its all put together makes me hard. Check it out
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| 4.5 superb | Alabaster Jones | September 1st 16 |
One could say so many things about the influence and importance of Trans Europa Express that one measly soundoff would never be enough to suffice for Kraftwerk's genius. For my part, the album sounds a bit like this: You're riding on a train, one of those high-end ones that are only ridden by those rich enough and arrogant enough to have no societal perspective based in reality. All of their faces, voices, names, and clothes become indistinguishable from one another, and the same mundane phrases and conversations bleed into each other one day after the next. Meanwhile, the train races onward at thousands of miles per hour, passing the entire world by. Maybe that's a pretentious load of crap but you get my point: this album rules.
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| 4.5 superb | Friday13th | August 3rd 15 |
LISTEN TO THE GERMAN VERSION BECAUSE THE PHRASING MAKES SO MUCH MORE RHYTHMIC SENSE! MOTORIK!
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| 0.0 | Dotcommy | June 2nd 10 |
The best part of this is the lyrics. Nobody argue this.
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| 4.5 superb | Iai EMERITUS | June 26th 06 |
After the ill-recieved Radioactivity, Kraftwerk must surely have known that their next album needed to be brilliant, lest the band become curious one-hit wonders, lost to time. So they went and made a brilliant album. Simple, really. Revisiting the transportation theme of Autobahn, Trans-Europa Express attempted to bridge the conceptualism of their earlier work with a new outlook - futuristic, robotic pop, showcased on the classic "Showroom Dummies". They even find time to pay tribute to Franz Schubert on, um, "Franz Schubert", and invent industrial music with "Metal On Metal". Trans-Europe Express isn't Kraftwerk's best album, but nothing else they did captures everything that made the band so great quite like this.
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| 3.5 great | Jalapeno CONTRIBUTOR | March 30th 24 |
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