YouTube: Wir fahn fahn fahn auf der Autobahn...yes, boys & girls, it's Kraftwerk time.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68C-r9kSLNE

[MountainLaurel]

1. Hee I did that last week

Fahrned on der Autobahn, that is. While listening to this song at one point.

[graywarrior]

2. Oh man, how I love that band

I used to get shit faced and stoned and then listen to them over and over.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD6Gtinvbc&feature=rela...

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. I bought this album around 1976

after seeing Kraftwerk on "In Concert," or maybe "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert." I've always had an odd fascination with "machine" music, even as a kid watching Bugs Bunny and other WB cartoons, like the Goofy Gophers, Mac and Tosh, who seemed to always be riding conveyor belts and whatnot in a vegetable-processing plant. The music in those, too, sounded like what it was about, and that fascinates me for some reason — the merger of visual and aural. It takes someone with heightened sensory awareness to create it.

"Autobahn" is great to fall asleep to, btw.

[Call Me Wesley]

5. Please, please, please

don't tell me you have some vinyl reckords of Jean Michel Jarre ... :ushdder: My childhood nemesis!

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Of course not!

He is French type!

[Call Me Wesley]

8. Thank you!

The memories of having this played in my dad's car (which was a Volvo) *all the time* is just nothing I want to be ever reminded of. Like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOex8Xpq6-U&feature=Play...

And I loved Vangelis! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_qGMRmJAw Thats what I was listening to when I had my first, errm, heated up THC inhaled. Of course, I puked later and never had it again until being way older.

And hey, my mom loved Renault cars! That's what I grew up with, and I'm happy to be still alive to tell you the story.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. When I was little, my uncle had two Dauphines

A '59, I think, and then a '62. He worked in Monterey for awhile, and on his commute there's a bit of a hill just this side of Monterey Airport. He once told me that the Dauphines were straining to make 35 mph going up the hill (Wha'd they have, like 40 horsepower?) and a line of cars would form behind him every morning, tooting their horns.

[Call Me Wesley]

4. Great!

Next to 'Fahrn fahrn auf der Autobahn' here's what really made them famous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ&feature=rela...

And a bonus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgS252XT_Ts&feature=rela...

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Mein Gott!

I'd forgotten all about "The Robots." :kopfschmacken:

[kentauros]

10. Das Model

Here is a blog page of nothing but Das Model covers

I only know the Polkaholix one (just finished listening to that one, in fact.) I'll have to go through this list tonight

[kentauros]

11. Kraftwerk. 1971. Live.

Heavy Metal Kids (11mb download/mp3)

from WFMU's Beware of the Blog - Can & Kraftwerk Rarities