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Post by Dubsounds on Aug 8, 2005 22:29:31 GMT
In the spirit of Gavin's somewhat justified request that we stop talking about Gary "bloody" Numan, here's a thread dedicated to my thirds favourite electro album of all time. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine 1978. Stuck the needle down and out came the Moroder like sequencer pattern of The Robots. Tell you what, as a kid I practically wet myself. How fucking awesome is that track even now? I must have played it non-stop for something like six months. Still say Neon Lights is total genius to this very day Anyone else got any thoughts on this album?
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Post by flipmartian on Aug 8, 2005 22:45:23 GMT
Neon Lights bored me tbh - thought it was too long at the time but I loved the rest of the album. My mate came back from an exchange trip to Germany with a German language copy. Sounds much better than the sung in English version - more "threatening and robotic" I guess.
I still have the luminous vinyl 12" of Neon Lights though - we used to hold it under the lightbulb and then switch the light off and wave it around in the dark...
er...the RECORD got waved around in the dark...
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Post by Minimoog on Aug 8, 2005 22:49:24 GMT
Neon Lights is just uber cool. If ever there was a soundtrack to cruise round Berlin to in the back of a black '66 Mercedes 300SE convertible after dark...
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Post by Gavin on Aug 8, 2005 22:49:35 GMT
Man machine is awesome (coming over all american now). What i love is the way they manage to combine a robotic beats with melody lines which are totally at odds. Computer world is prolly my fave.In fact they are all essential albums. Apart from electric cafe of course.
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Post by Synth Man on Aug 9, 2005 0:23:17 GMT
I love Spacelab!
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Post by flipmartian on Aug 9, 2005 6:18:13 GMT
Neon Lights is just uber cool. If ever there was a soundtrack to cruise round Berlin to in the back of a black '66 Mercedes 300SE convertible after dark... Mercedes convertibles are SLs I'll have you know (the 60s jobbies are my favourite cars) Unless you sawed off the roof of an SE...brrr...doesn't bear thinking about...
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Post by Minimoog on Aug 9, 2005 7:54:18 GMT
Mercedes convertibles are SLs I'll have you know (the 60s jobbies are my favourite cars) Au contraire Blackadder Just to be a total smartarse this is in a magazine on my desk Back on topic(ish) that black saloon on that website looks familiar though eh? "Wir fahrn fahrn fahrn auf der Autobahn"...
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Post by Dubsounds on Aug 9, 2005 9:33:40 GMT
Somehow "we drive, dive, drive, down the motorway" doesn't have the same ring does it? Ja tvoi sluga, ja tvoi rabotnik ;D
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Post by rpb1966 on Aug 9, 2005 16:58:03 GMT
Or we fart,fart,fart on the autobahn..........
I think that The Man Machine was and still is a total masterpiece, Kraftwerk at their best, and Neon Lights is STILL my fav after all these years.
Russ
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Post by spoonz on Aug 9, 2005 17:22:01 GMT
I have Man Machine. My only Kraftwerk Album.
It is great and I purchased it on the strength of the Model being in the Charts at the time.
I can't listen to it too much or for to long though as it is a bit too clinical for me.
What do people think of Ultravox pre Midge Ure days when Foxxy did the vocals.
Some of that early stuff was great. Slow motion being a fave.
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Post by Dubsounds on Aug 9, 2005 17:31:57 GMT
Ultravox 1 as I call 'em could be a bit hit and miss. The Wild The Beautiful & The Damned being particularly dire but when they were on form they were amazing. Dislocation, Quiet Men, Slow Motion, Just For a Moment (always get a tear in my eye with that), Hiroshima Mon Amour, Cross Fade... oh hell loads. I must be more of a fan than I thought - or is it I'm just a MASSIVE John Foxx fan? Can't Stand Midge though! Sings well beyond his range. "Ohh Vienna" (give it a rest mate, you'll burst your larynx or someone will mistake you for a squealing pig ) sorry any Midge fans reading
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Post by spoonz on Aug 9, 2005 17:43:45 GMT
Midge is my best mate. Only Joking.
The later Foxx era stuff was their best for sure. I always thought they must have been smoking something very illegal when lyric writing though.
A song title like "Someone Elses Clothes." now that is not an unfuddled mind coming up with that is it.
Speaking of Kraftwerk earlier have you seen their live setup is all Sony Laptops and VSTI.
Someone on AH saw a concert in the Us and said the show stopped for 20 mins because windows went tits up on their machines.
Makes a change from Analogs from getting the blame for being flakey.
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Post by flipmartian on Aug 9, 2005 20:35:41 GMT
I do indeed apologise. And you've given me another 60s car to lust after...curses...
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Post by flipmartian on Aug 9, 2005 20:41:13 GMT
Why can't I see any smilies in any posts? I haven't disabled them or anything... I love Ultravox Mk 1 and The Wild The Beautiful and The Damned is one of my favourites, so there! A few tracks I can't bear to listen to but not many... I like Midge's voice and Ultravox Mk 2 also. 2 quite different bands. I have some recordings of the 1979 Midge led Mk 2 playing Mk1's songs and he really doesn't pull it off though... They were better on their own new material.
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Post by monger2 on Aug 10, 2005 5:03:29 GMT
Man Machine is one of the best electronic LP's of them all...i havent really been let down by any kraftwerk stuff,really...when i was about 8,some older doper guy gave me a 8 track of Authobahn,and played it to death for a long time...until i got DEVO's "are we not men?" 8 track for a princely $4.88....i saw Kraftwerk again a few months ago here at the Greek in LA...outdoor venue and the sound was flawless...security was constantly after you for smoking cigs and the place stank like many years of hosed down sour beer and vomit...i have a stack of Kraftwerk DVD's from various live shows if anybody has to have some copys....
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Post by vortex on Aug 10, 2005 5:12:19 GMT
What was going on with alan partridge and "the model" Obscure homage perhaps? Any way can't hear it now without thinking of alan in his leather underpants...not cool. Neon lights not thus tainted and remains fantastic. I was a little underwhelmed by the OMD cover version though
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Post by nervejam on Aug 18, 2005 9:32:46 GMT
KRAFTWERK: I'd go for Computer World. And it's better in German, too.
ULTRAVOX! / Ultravox: Either. I bought an odd single of Slow Motion/ Quiet Men/ Hiroshima, released by their old label when MK2 released Vienna, and was blown away. Two different bands. Both great.
One of my fave albums HAS to be Thomas Dolby: Astronauts and Heretics. His last, I think..? (Anyhow, he sold a load of his gear on eBay a couple of years back..) This album is freaky, but good. Eastern Bloc is Europa - part II..
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Post by Dubsounds on Aug 20, 2005 7:28:18 GMT
Dolby's Golden Age Of Wireless is his immortal classic IMO. I'm currently re-enthused with it as I randomly stuck it on last week for the first time in years and thoroughly enjoyed the re-visit Sadly marred by the CD release which dropped "The Wreck Of The Fairchild" in favour of "She Blinded Me With Science", I guess the record company were looking for a "hit" to flog the CD but "Science" doesn't sit with the other tracks at all, being so different stylistically and productionwise. I was glad to get that CD of 12" mixes too because I absolutely love "Flying North" (the B-Side to the awesome "Windpower") and the extended versions of Europa/Windpower/Submarines are sublime to say the least. Add those in as bonus tracks, drop "Science", put "Fairchild" back and include the early tracks "Urges", "Leipzig" and "Therapy Growth" and that to me is the perfect "Wireless" album.
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Post by labouch on Aug 20, 2005 11:13:42 GMT
My favourite TD track is without a doubt "Urban Tribal", which he used to perform live during the Golden Age period. It's not strictly speaking a TD track at all, but the B-side of a colaboration he did with Matthew Seligman et al. I think the band was called Low Noise. Whatever, it is a BLINDING tune.
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Post by Dubsounds on Aug 20, 2005 11:33:10 GMT
I haven't heard "Urban Tribal" before Andy. Is it similar to "Jungle Line", the awesome live flip-side to "Science"?
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