I hope Kraftwerk received royalties from Coldplay doing a cover of Computer Love on their 2nd album. The song is called Talk by Coldplay they took the melody from Computer Love and wrote their own lyrics to it.
Rest in peace Florian Schneider. You and the rest of Kraftwerk have been of a major influence on my choice to go into IT beginning of the 80's . Thanks for your beautiful, and legendary, creativity .
Kraftwerk's best song. Despite its highly synthetic nature and simplistic lyrics, this song conveys through its melody so much more--all of it unspoken... Simply put: Brilliant!
Yes this is a great song. My eyes lit up when I heard this song the first time and fell in love with it. Kraftwerk taught me a lot of about writing beautiful unique songs.
I am at a loss for words as to just how good this truly is. As another poster stated below me: "You are seeing and hearing one of the five or six best groups EVER in the history of the world operating at their staggering, visionary peak."
Word! The only other band you can even remotely compare this with is the Beatles, and anyone who says that THAT band is the most influential of all time is 100% wrong. They wrote songs that everybody loved and changed rock music, but Kraftwerk changed the way we think about and produce ALL genres of popular music. Peace.
This live performance is just brilliant! Man and machine working together in perfect harmony. That synth bass is so perfect. The lead synth, before and during chorus, is so fragile and beautiful it hurts. Immortal stuff.
agree!. And I always played along as a teenager on my synths to this fantastic song. There is also a great tribute for this song from the group "Komputer" which is called "komputer pop", which is also great (since its so close to Computer love :) (you can play computer love part over the song)
On this tour Kraftwerk took such much equipment with them they might as well had taken a whole recording studio on the road with them (they practically did)! They truly were pioneers.
i saw them live in about 1982 in Edinburgh and they were so funky live, everyone was up dancing the whole night, you wouldn't believe how these guys boogied
This song is in my top ten all time favourites, I first heard it as the B side to the Model and I fell in love with it instantly, same as when I first heard The Model...even after 30 odd years I never tire of hearing it and this version is just amazing!!
Thank you so much for posting this amazing piece of musical history. Kraftwerk, like Pink Floyd were too ahead of their time to be understood by the majority of the masses until many years later. It appears many still fail to understand the great power they transmit.
This is very cutting edge for it's time and that is what really made the 1980s exciting musically. Music with these techno grooves didn't really exist before the late 1970s
Thats simply because this video is a fake. Its just a collage of scenes of other clips from this concert. Most scenes are from "Home Computer": ruclips.net/video/3AmMnFk3imI/видео.html
This is what makes uTube rock... Real live audio of Kraftwerk (or any fave artist) from back in the day. Think i hear someone .... jamming. Kick ass...
It is just so innovative, and seeing the video makes me sooooo nostalgic............even though I wasn't even around then. It really must have been an exciting time for those alive at the time. One of the most important artists, along with lead belly and co. Hail to Kraftwerk!!!
Hammersmith Odeon 1981 , was my first Kraftwerk gig , fantastic , saw toyah Willcox had to leave after about the second song as people kept coming up to her for an autograph !!
The most purist realisation of a musical vision ever from shunning publicity to running their own studio kraftwerk were so far ahead of their time that we are still discovering things they predicted decades ago. Their vision will be complete when the technology makes its own music. I'm privileged to have seen them live at a young enough age to influence everything I have done musically since
I first heard Kraftwerk via their Man Machine album when I was 6 years old (thanks Uncle!), and I know a lot of their music, but somehow this track has passed me by for 25 years. Which is ironic since its' the one everyone talks about thanks to Coldplay. This song is beautiful.
Love this song, album, group. The sound was so ahead of its time- considering what was being played on the radio in 1980/1981 - considering pop, rock, even new wave etc. Give me Kraftwerk, and any other experimental any day.
yeah, I remember when I heard Kraftwerk for the first time in that time. I was listening to Iron Maiden etc, and then The Robots came on the radio and I was blown away by it :D since then I loved electronic music ( as well as Hard rock, :)
Sin duda una obra de arte.Los sintes con sonido nostalgico a modo de flautas y violines.Improvisacion sobre el tema.Desarrollo de la armonia a modo de sonata clasica...
Wow! This album COMPUTER WORLD was brand new at this performance in 1981! Amazing! ( From wiki) KRAFTWERK means "power station" and they are a German electronic music band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970 in Düsseldorf. The band was fronted by both Hütter and Schneider until Schneider's departure in 2008. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western classical style of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. Kraftwerk was one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are considered to be pioneers. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary; the band has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music.[6][7][8] According to The Observer, "no other band since the Beatles has given so much to pop culture" and a wide range of artists have been influenced by their music and imagery.[9] In January 2014, the Grammy Academy honored Kraftwerk with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
I was 14 when i first heard Numbers. That was in 1982. I'm 44 now and still listening Kraftwerk, especially older albums. Last album in Kraftwerk's style was Electric cafe... All after is that - that...
No this song was very relevant to the time,many people had "micro computers" in the 80's. I used to sit in front of the TV screen till early hours on my speccy.
i really wish i had lived back then. but then i also weren't at their concerts, because i'm born in the gdr... :'( but yeah, this is the definitive version of computer love. period. also kraftwerk are somewhat responsible of me working in it.
If you can imagine what the eighties felt like-robots were hot and people were barely learning about computers. You can imagine how this could have felt very new and exciting. Then it stops being vintage, it stops being old. Then you can really enjoy it. I'm losing my mind to this!!!
barely new what a computer was when this came out i was 18 seems young ones nowdays wouldnt know how to start a date with someone if not for an electronic device of some kind this kraftwerk masterpiece is timeless and never gets old always come back to it saw them at brixton some years ago in concert in the early hours of sunday morning well worth the journey from newcastle
Finally saw them in Antwerp in May. Fantastic experience, but there is a lot or warmth lost in the move from analogue to digital, something this track in particular really brings home. A beautiful version.
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Funny you should say that. I saw them a few years ago headlining an open-air concert near Dublin. I was down at the back waiting for them to start when four middle-aged guys walked out and started setting up the computers and checking a few things here and there. Not a squeak from the crowd. Roadies, everyone thought. Then they walked off and a few minutes later reappeared in the skeleton suits. Talk about letting the music do the talking.
This video is not from "Computer Love" its from "Home Computer". Simply compare a few scenes with this clip (for example this clip at 02:24 and in the other clip 01:43 .. exactly the same or take 03:36 and 01:10 from the other clip. At 03:52 Wolfgang already left the stage ...same with Karl at 04:07 but then suddenly at 04:11 he is again playing...Wolfgang at 04:26 ): ruclips.net/video/3AmMnFk3imI/видео.html This clip here is just a collage from different scenes of other songs at the concert. If you look closely enough you can even see that Ralf is definetely is not playing the correct keys for "Computer Love"
Saw the 81 Computerworld tour at Southampton. I was 14. It was incredible, I dont think I realised just how privileged I was at the time.
This song has haunted my brain since I was 12 years old and I'm 54, what great music they made.
Kraftwerk's 1981 concert venue sets a precedent and is unmatched in electronic aesthetics.
Analog electronics in all their glory.
I hope Kraftwerk received royalties from Coldplay doing a cover of Computer Love on their 2nd album.
The song is called Talk by Coldplay they took the melody from Computer Love and wrote their own lyrics to it.
@@brittscott4673 I don't think Kraftwerk got royalties, but Coldplay did ask for and receive permission to use the riff :) They did it right
Rest in peace Florian Schneider. You and the rest of Kraftwerk have been of a major influence on my choice to go into IT beginning of the 80's . Thanks for your beautiful, and legendary, creativity .
now India runs IT and we get paid peanuts for entry level jobs in North America...wish I was from your generation.
Amen
Same. First I got the Computerwelt album, then a Commodore 64 and then signed up for CS.
i would sell my firstborn to have a version of this in high definition.
mnchls What the firstborn say about it?
one day he would understand.
mnchls lol
Best comment ever! :-)
ruclips.net/video/txBVgPkbWM8/видео.html 7:00
This song is so far ahead of it's time.
Kraftwerk's best song. Despite its highly synthetic nature and simplistic lyrics, this song conveys through its melody so much more--all of it unspoken... Simply put: Brilliant!
Bottom line, it's a beautiful melody
This video gives me 80s atmosphere🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it, beautiful.
Absolutely. Which is why i prefer listening to this song alone.
don't you just love this 1981 live version?
There's something magic about this song for sure.
the same emotion here, magic
Yes this is a great song. My eyes lit up when I heard this song the first time and fell in love with it. Kraftwerk taught me a lot of about writing beautiful unique songs.
Here in 2024 yep it's still a masterpiece.
🤘☮️❤️🎵
the most beautiful song that kraftwerk has ever made
Fantastic! The jam that begins at 3:30 is simply legendary.
Best transition I know of, in all music.
I would kill to have a copy of this on my drive
I am at a loss for words as to just how good this truly is.
As another poster stated below me: "You are seeing and hearing one of the five or six best groups EVER in the history of the world operating at their staggering, visionary peak."
One of the TWO, actually. The other being Depeche Mode.
Word! The only other band you can even remotely compare this with is the Beatles, and anyone who says that THAT band is the most influential of all time is 100% wrong. They wrote songs that everybody loved and changed rock music, but Kraftwerk changed the way we think about and produce ALL genres of popular music. Peace.
Decades Ahead of Electronic Music for Sure. Anyone heard of The Art of Noise? They are Way Ahead As Well!
Performed in 1981, uploaded in 2007, watching in 2025
I was there too. It was so beautiful.
just had a synthgasm
This live performance is just brilliant! Man and machine working together in perfect harmony. That synth bass is so perfect. The lead synth, before and during chorus, is so fragile and beautiful it hurts. Immortal stuff.
+Torbjorn Persson I feel it to.
It's nice to know that someone else shares the passion!
That Synth Bass. To die for.
Dusty Pink Epic!
クラフトワークを中学生ね時はじめて聴いた時は音楽に未来があると感じました、自分今54歳です
It never ceases to turn me into a puddle. So sad and melancholy. Peace.
When the 'chops' come in around 3:30 it's magical
Yes!!!!!
I so agree! It's sublime. Pure perfection. Takes the song to a higher dimension.
Best transition in music that I know of.
agree!. And I always played along as a teenager on my synths to this fantastic song. There is also a great tribute for this song from the group "Komputer" which is called "komputer pop", which is also great (since its so close to Computer love :) (you can play computer love part over the song)
One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in my life.
On this tour Kraftwerk took such much equipment with them they might as well had taken a whole recording studio on the road with them (they practically did)! They truly were pioneers.
i saw them live in about 1982 in Edinburgh and they were so funky live, everyone was up dancing the whole night, you wouldn't believe how these guys boogied
Are you sure it's 1982?
Шедевр электронной музыки!!!
RIP Florian
One of the most beautiful songs ever made here
RIP Florian! Thank you for the music!
何だか涙が出そうなくらい感動的ですね。一聴すると無機質なエレクトロポップですが真摯にエレクトロニクスに向き合い完全にコントロールしながらも洗練された感性とテクニックで演奏してみせる。神ですね。大袈裟かもしれませんが同じ時代に生きれて良かった。
中学の頃大好きな曲でした。
学校の体育館のステージでこの曲を演奏する夢想ばかりしていました。
Nice rhythm, melody and harmony!
This version is beautiful in the beginning but gets down right funky as they step it up!
This song is in my top ten all time favourites, I first heard it as the B side to the Model and I fell in love with it instantly, same as when I first heard The Model...even after 30 odd years I never tire of hearing it and this version is just amazing!!
Thank you so much for posting this amazing piece of musical history. Kraftwerk, like Pink Floyd were too ahead of their time to be understood by the majority of the masses until many years later. It appears many still fail to understand the great power they transmit.
This is very cutting edge for it's time and that is what really made the 1980s exciting musically.
Music with these techno grooves didn't really exist before the late 1970s
30 years old and truly magnificent... and made even more impressive by the fact that one of the guys manages to stop for a leak at 2:25.
Thats simply because this video is a fake. Its just a collage of scenes of other clips from this concert. Most scenes are from "Home Computer":
ruclips.net/video/3AmMnFk3imI/видео.html
This is what makes uTube rock...
Real live audio of Kraftwerk (or any fave artist) from back in the day.
Think i hear someone .... jamming.
Kick ass...
Its quite lovely...must have been wonderful to see and hear in person!
Absolutely Fantastic...I saw them at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1981. What a Show !!!
Kraftwerk ihr die besten deutsche klassik elektronische musik. Fan aus Polen:)
Descanse em paz Florian Schneider. Obrigado por sua criatividade e beleza !
It is just so innovative, and seeing the video makes me sooooo nostalgic............even though I wasn't even around then. It really must have been an exciting time for those alive at the time. One of the most important artists, along with lead belly and co. Hail to Kraftwerk!!!
Hammersmith Odeon 1981 , was my first Kraftwerk gig , fantastic , saw toyah Willcox had to leave after about the second song as people kept coming up to her for an autograph !!
The most purist realisation of a musical vision ever from shunning publicity to running their own studio kraftwerk were so far ahead of their time that we are still discovering things they predicted decades ago. Their vision will be complete when the technology makes its own music. I'm privileged to have seen them live at a young enough age to influence everything I have done musically since
RIP Florian. What a loss.
I saw them at Hammersmith Odeon in 1981 - aaahhh...
That gig is available on youtube, you should be able to search for it :)
Lucid Lupin ... me too ... can’t believe it’s almost 40 years !
i have a tape of that very concert, i was only 9 in 81 i'm afraid saw them in 91 and 04 though in glasgows barrowlands and o2 arena though
Best version of this song
Legendary 1981 tour...
Warm lush melodies and affectionate rhythm's from the master's, electronic music never sounded so loving or catchy.
What a Beautiful Song, Lovely
I first heard Kraftwerk via their Man Machine album when I was 6 years old (thanks Uncle!), and I know a lot of their music, but somehow this track has passed me by for 25 years. Which is ironic since its' the one everyone talks about thanks to Coldplay. This song is beautiful.
This is what makes uTube rock...
Real live audio of Kraftwerk (or any fave artist) from back in the day.
Kick ass...
This has always been my favorite Kraftwerk song. Nice upload.
1981. I need a Rendezvous = computer-love? Bingo.... 30 years later it is there,. Great music. Great band. Great anticapation.
Best version of this I have ever heard ❤❤❤
歌詞とメロディが最高です！
中学ですが、今の歌より好きです！
Love this song, album, group. The sound was so ahead of its time- considering what was being played on the radio in 1980/1981 - considering pop, rock, even new wave etc. Give me Kraftwerk, and any other experimental any day.
yeah, I remember when I heard Kraftwerk for the first time in that time. I was listening to Iron Maiden etc, and then The Robots came on the radio and I was blown away by it :D since then I loved electronic music ( as well as Hard rock, :)
I'm so emotional watching this 😭. Love 'em to bit xxx
This fantastic song is transcendental their is a ,great energy and vibe to their inspired performance here.
This song in this LIVE is the most beautiful performance I think.
Sin duda una obra de arte.Los sintes con sonido nostalgico a modo de flautas y violines.Improvisacion sobre el tema.Desarrollo de la armonia a modo de sonata clasica...
Had a massive goosebumps experience when I heard this on radio 6 the other day - what a great tune!
3:30 onwards is perfection
Love the heavy bass on this. If only I’d gone to see them back then!
Strange to see the full banks of ‘traditional’ keyboards!
So advanced! Love them
How could they put such groove and emotion in a « Maschinen Musik « ?! I love them for 40 years they are simply the greatest
This the Numbers and Heimcomputer video cut together, but I like it!
omg, this is a 1981 song but now ... seems i can still loop it forever
I saw them in Liverpool on that 1981 tour - awesome
Wow! This album COMPUTER WORLD was brand new at this performance in 1981! Amazing!
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From wiki) KRAFTWERK means "power station" and they are a German electronic music band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970 in Düsseldorf. The band was fronted by both Hütter and Schneider until Schneider's departure in 2008.
The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western classical style of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. Kraftwerk was one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are considered to be pioneers.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary; the band has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music.[6][7][8] According to The Observer, "no other band since the Beatles has given so much to pop culture" and a wide range of artists have been influenced by their music and imagery.[9] In January 2014, the Grammy Academy honored Kraftwerk with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
この時代のクラフトは神！涙が出そうな位に神。
I was 14 when i first heard Numbers. That was in 1982. I'm 44 now and still listening Kraftwerk, especially older albums. Last album in Kraftwerk's style was Electric cafe... All after is that - that...
OMG this is SOOO epic cant stop listening to this song
Rare as a Kraftwerk interview!!!!cheers for posting :)
Beautiful.
Danke Florian, Danke! XO
No this song was very relevant to the time,many people had "micro computers" in the 80's. I used to sit in front of the TV screen till early hours on my speccy.
Best live version
i really wish i had lived back then. but then i also weren't at their concerts, because i'm born in the gdr... :'(
but yeah, this is the definitive version of computer love. period.
also kraftwerk are somewhat responsible of me working in it.
My fave song. Love these guys sooooo much.
Magnificent
This robots has more love than many humans.
If you can imagine what the eighties felt like-robots were hot and people were barely learning about computers. You can imagine how this could have felt very new and exciting. Then it stops being vintage, it stops being old. Then you can really enjoy it. I'm losing my mind to this!!!
Wondering where this is,was lucky enough to see these guys live in Sydney 1981.
Absolutely brilliant.
nice cut´s....love it! Thanks
Just amazing and raw .
Computer liebe!
How I so wanted to see them back then around this time but they didn't tour Boston :-(
barely new what a computer was when this came out i was 18 seems young ones nowdays wouldnt know how to start a date with someone if not for an electronic device of some kind this kraftwerk masterpiece is timeless and never gets old always come back to it saw them at brixton some years ago in concert in the early hours of sunday morning well worth the journey from newcastle
You are right. This is absolutely timeless. Long drive down from "up north" but as you say, well worth it!
i swear i have this on dvd,,
Upload it please
God, this song just gets better with age...
This song is full of naturalistic harmony , even if it made in synthetizator. It proofs not the tool is the essential but the talent!
Finally saw them in Antwerp in May. Fantastic experience, but there is a lot or warmth lost in the move from analogue to digital, something this track in particular really brings home. A beautiful version.
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So many times I've sang to myself, "I don't know what to do, what to do - I need a rendezvous, rendezvous..."
Saw them in New York this tour.Venue held about 50 people and Florian was standing outside as we queued to get in.Nobody recognised him!
Funny you should say that. I saw them a few years ago headlining an open-air concert near Dublin. I was down at the back waiting for them to start when four middle-aged guys walked out and started setting up the computers and checking a few things here and there. Not a squeak from the crowd. Roadies, everyone thought. Then they walked off and a few minutes later reappeared in the skeleton suits. Talk about letting the music do the talking.
great version...the mashine sounds sooooo warm..
THANK YOU!
This video is not from "Computer Love" its from "Home Computer". Simply compare a few scenes with this clip (for example this clip at 02:24 and in the other clip 01:43 .. exactly the same or take 03:36 and 01:10 from the other clip. At 03:52 Wolfgang already left the stage ...same with Karl at 04:07 but then suddenly at 04:11 he is again playing...Wolfgang at 04:26 ):
ruclips.net/video/3AmMnFk3imI/видео.html
This clip here is just a collage from different scenes of other songs at the concert. If you look closely enough you can even see that Ralf is definetely is not playing the correct keys for "Computer Love"
Wonderfull!!
wow rare vid to see and so great live :)
Graduated from UCLA that year, now hope to see them in the bay area in a few weeks.
+Stéphane Flauder It's just amazing anti-ageing cream :)
Ralf's voice sounds so deep here.