Album Rating: 4.0

nice, and bummer about the pops, man :/

this album was probably the first explicitly electronic album i jammed, it'll probably always have some place in my heart. i've mostly been focusing on this, autobahn, and computer world, i should jam that one more often as well.

Album Rating: 4.5

It irks me that this has the most ratings of any Kraftwerk and it hasn't reached 500. Even if you didn't like the music, aren't people curious enough about the history of popular electronic music to hear the band that started it all? It's just nuts.

Album Rating: 4.0

dude, jam silver apples :]

Album Rating: 4.5

Already done man. I'm no pleb lol OSCILLATIOOOOONS

Album Rating: 4.0

oscillations oscillations



E LEC TRON IC

E VO CA TIONS

Album Rating: 4.5

how about some stockhausen "gesang der jünglinge"

Album Rating: 4.5

tbh Silver Apples are like a bridge between something like "Tomorrow Never Knows" and Kraftwerk but I wouldn't say they started EDM or anything like that

Album Rating: 4.0

SA are pretty much just kraftwerk 10 years before kraftwerk

Album Rating: 4.0

lol i remember trying out stockhausen before i even dug any form of edm

HUGE mistake tbh

Album Rating: 4.5

How about this mind-blower from '73: https://youtu.be/YZyVCPNSKAw?t=3m26s

Album Rating: 4.0

wtf electronic bangers weren't supposed to exist back then

Album Rating: 4.5

ikr?! my dad showed me that lol

Album Rating: 4.0

hopefully he didn't show you silver penis

Album Rating: 4.5

lol nah fooled myself into that one. Tony Mcphee is the real deal though

Really weird how this album can sound so dated and so timeless at the exact same time

Album Rating: 3.5

tru

Album Rating: 4.0

^on-point af.

It's extra weird that simplicity is both the reason for its timelessness as well as its datedness

It sounds extremely barebones and underdeveloped technologically but the band was smart enough to focus solely on its melodies and songwriting instead of flashyness and they're both rock solid, so its dated sound palette doesn't really work against it in any significant way and if anything only adds a more unique flavor to it.

Great record, Neon Lights is one of the most lovely songs I've heard

Album Rating: 5.0

While I agree with you assessment, however obvious it might be, since that's pretty much what defines the appeal of Kraftwerk, I think Kraftwerk was very aware of what they were doing. This album lacks a bit of texture which I think was on purpose to strengthen the robotic theme. Pretty much the perfect electronic record.

Surprisingly good stoner jam as well.

It's obvious now but part of the appeal of them at the time was the novelty factor of them doing and exploring things that were basically uncharted at the time. The sort of stuff these guys were doing was unlike anything else before save for maybe Silver Apples (maybe), and their semi-futuristic aesthetic was completely unheard of in the mainstream.

This appeal doesn't really exist anymore, but they were levelheaded enough to keep in mind that that wouldn't sell their music forever so they made some rock solid melodies and rhythms to back it all up, which I admire them for. In the end the dated novelty factor actually enhances the album for me because unlike other novelties, it's not intrusive, it's integrated flawlessly with the music, and it makes it feel unique even 40+ years on.