KRAFTWERK "AUTOBAHN" (reaction)
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Autobahn is from 1974 and represents the starting of electropop. And there were no Casios, no samplers at all, only analog synthesizers, a minimoog and an EMS synth, accompanied by a Farfisa e-piano or organ and some assorted and self soldered stuff.
please listen to the original 23min version by all means!
Oh my dears, this is quite the rabbit hole. Kraftwerk were soo influential. They were largely responsible, inadvertently, for the the advent of the electronic pop of the 80's and the House/Techno club dance scenes into the 90's. It's difficult to underestimate how impactful they were. They traversed the dark industrial sound that was de rigeur then, but were also very successful as a pop/dance act. This album was as original, and out there, as popular music gets at this time. Listen to Computer World next, which was the motherlode.
This is the 1991 remix, aimed specifically at dance clubs, and as such is a somewhat cartoonish dumbed-down representation of Kraftwerk's sound. Anyone delving into this band, or even Krautrock in general, is doing themselves a disservice by starting here.
The original from 1974 was released in two slightly different single versions of a little over three minutes each, as well as a nearly 23 minute album cut. None of them employed the vocorder.
Agreed
This isn’t the original version. It’s been remixed and edited. The original took up the entire first side of the album and had a more low tech sound. This version is pretty good, but the original 20 minute version is better. They went on to make better albums after this. Check out Trans Europe Express, The Man Machine and Computer World. Those are their best.
The original track is like the naked version of this one, and captures the era of that time. This one is mutulated like crazy.
The problem with the original version is that it is quite thin. I actually like the reworked version from The Mix album. And since Kraftwerk actually updated the track I consider it equally original as the release from the 70's. Of course, your taste differs from mine and that is fine, we don't have to agree.
I like it more now than when it came out. I was heavily into Tangerine Dream at the time, and this was too much like Pop Music to my ears.
Kraftwerk, the band that married mass pop with electronica, triggering the advent of a new dominant musical genre.
You get it guys. This is 1974!!! Perspective. The best was yet to come.
I have tried various times over the years to listen to this and find what everybody else seems to like. I just can't find anything redeeming here. It's like looking at a blank wall. Nothing there. That said I do think that Kraftwerk were a more intelligent band in the very beginning when they had a guitarist and most importantly, a drummer. But what happened is the two talented guys with the guitar and drums left and formed the wonderful band called Neu. The other dickhead went in this direction and recruited other like minded dickheads and became the inspiration for the SNL skit Sprockets. In short, this was the precursor to synthpop. There are great Krautrock bands that you folks need to hear like Neu and Can and Guru Guru. But this ain't my cuppa tea. Real talent is on the way folks. The next two songs this week will make you forget this drivel!
well said Chaz
@@paulfenwick8767 The Kraftwerk fans are about to hear some real musicians with your next couple picks Paul!
@@chazblitz Thanks Chaz but they won't hear it. They'll be like the Chicago and Zappa fans with their heads so far up their own ass, they won't hear them, lol
To be fair, Krautrock is a pretty broad genre, and Kraftwerk ultimately forged a much different path than the other bands you cite. The band has always revolved around Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider (two "dickheads", not one). Klaus Dinger (drums for the uninitiated) only appeared on the first album, and Michael Rother (guitar) was with the band only for a relatively small number of live shows between the first two LPs. I think they were more hired hands than bona fide band members. In any event the music world is better off that they struck out on their own.
Their first three LPs were pretty experimental, and while some of the songs on "Autobahn" prominently feature drum machines, only the title cut (for both the German double LP and US single LP, which weirdly only have two songs in common) is in what could be considered their signature robotic style. It isn't until "Trans-Europe Express, their 6th release, that they fully embrace the style.
I personally like Kraftwerk, though I am a much bigger fan of Neu, Can and Guru Guru. Ironically though, Kraftwerk ended up being far more influential than them due to being, as you point out, the precursor to synthpop.
@@HisboiLRoi Close but no cigar for me on the dickheads count. I believe I once knew that. I believe Florian actually used to play flute too.
We were 3, driving in an old Beetle, attend to Krupp Steel for working, listening to shit like this, at 5.30 am, but also f.e. eno moebius roedelius, after the heat! Zappa, weather report, Rush were too much at early mornings!
Music from "Duesseldorfer Schule" .Hart wie Kruppstahl.
Music from "Berliner Schule"
Soft like New Age
Thanks for sharing Thomas!
Mit drei darf man nicht mehr bei Krupp arbeiten, denke ich mir? Nicht mal als Azubi.
This is not the version that I know and love. This version is EVEN more robotic. hahahahaha lol🤣
This is the 1991 remix that was made for dance clubs.
@@HisboiLRoi Oh, wow, that is interesting.
If you are going down an elecro rabbit hole then how about David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours as sadly Ryuichi Sakamoto has recently passed away?
I recommend ‘Ralf and Florian’
Such a great song. ❤
I enjoyed listening to this when I was doing acid
There was Rock-n-Roll & then came The Beatles
There was Electronic & then came Kraftwerk
I think what we have here is (failure to communicate) no sorry, what we have here is a remix/edit of the original album track minus the subtleties and hypnotic effect. I think it was meant to replicate a 22-minute slice of a drive on the Autobahn. My best childhood friend was of direct German descent and would talk about going to visit Germany when he was older and driving on this roadway. He would have been right at home since he liked to drive FAST.
To do Autobahn justice, you really need to listen to the full 1974 version as it is this original album version that had the impact. Kraftwerk are so ahead their time and the track is now 50 years old (give or take a few months) yet still stands up to the music of today. The version you listened to is from their The Mix album in the 90's when they reworked some of their earlier work, so this version has a diffferent rhythmic feel with more of a swing beat than the original. Kraftwerk blew me away as I was only 9 when I heard Autobahn at a time when it was mostly guitar bands or prog rockers singing about lurve. As Joachim says they used a Minimoog, ARP Odyssey, EMS VCS3 and Farfisa organ, this is before polyphonic synthesisers, samplers, Fairlights, Emulators, Computers or MIDI began appearing on the music scene. I can also remember seeing Kraftwerk's Autobahn featured on a BBC science/futurist program called Tomorrow's World in 1975. I had to wait another 2 years for Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene and Space's Magic Fly.
A reviewer on Swedish TV stood flabbergasted for a long time. Then he just said, “Well, I guess this is the future of music now”
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Try more German music stuff... 🤔
:"Jennifer Rostock - Tauben aus Porzellan" /or/
:"Aligatoah - Nachbeben" (about impression their destroy Our souls..).. *enjoy without understanding
Ahhhhh my pocket calculator!
Pleasingly weird, but, that is what Kraftwerk does
Very nice - since you mentioned Daft Punk, could you react to "Giorgio by Moroder"?
Third leg of "German Electronic Music"
Moroder's Donna summer
im 38 when i was 5 i heard this i was blown away then enya and synth pop came along ive always been obsessed by synthesizers and own my own roland and vst experimenting with sounds and tones i see why kraftwerk influenced me
Not bad an interesting version but not like listening to the original which really takes you on a magnificent journey.This one is made more for the night clubs,whatever ? The sound is superb on this !
Should have done the Original 22 min version instead this is not the original Autobahn from 1972
You've NEVER listened to Kraftwerk before?!? Shame on you!
This is NOT the autobahn I know! I got the 7” single from 1973 and that is original( cut down from LP). This is just rubbish. Listen to the original version guys . Peace
KRAFTWERK... non avanti , di più. Ascoltatevi bene The Man Machine e Computer World ... 🌌
Never got this piece. One Man’s TRASH is another Man’s treasure………?
Some of the first pioneers of robotic electronic stuff;great choice
Kraftwerk is very influential in a lot of genre's. They were from Germany and part of the Krautrock genre of the late 60s/early 70s. Not only pioneers o electronic music, their songs have been covered many times and heavily sampled in the hip hop world.
Dude's heads gonna unscrew, lol.... Welcome to this
this is a remix. The original 22 minutes long from 1974 is so much better.
The Drachenlord version is much better 🤣
This sucks! Play the original masterpiece.
Minds were certainly blown when this came out. Some FM deejays played the entire side one of the LP, while others played the single 45 edited version. Trans Europe Express (the title tune) was played in clubs/discos. If you like this, check out the other albums by them that came out after this.
Listen to the 1974 original
Big big song here love it love you
This Version Is From 1991!
Hello again, guys ! Best wishes from Scotland. Kraftwerk are amazing. I would have started though with The Model or Tour de France, a much more poppier and commercial sound from the German geniuses.
Hey there, shout out to Scotland! We’re looking forward to exploring more Kraftwerk!
Fake reactors 😂😂😂
Music Non Stop
Another pioneer in electronic music you should try is Silver Apples.
and there where before kraftwerk.
1974
1974...when MY HOMETOWN DÜSSELDORF Heroes changed the Music Scene FOREVER !!!! STILL the MOST SAMPLED BAND EVER IN MUSIC HISTORY !!!!
Delia Derbyshire was even earlier and clearly set up Kraftwerk! She did the original Dr Who theme!
there is a band formed in new york in the late 60th called 'silver apples' and they are the real pioners of elektro pop. that said by a die hard kraftwerk fan. you can find the band on youtube and maybe you like to react to it. it's new york.
I remember seeing interviews with some of the early New York rappers, and they were listening to Kraftwerk and saying " who are these funky white dudes". I don't know what they were thinking - there's a link there between the two styles of electronic music - but Krarftwerk being funky? I guess they were, but Iit's not immediately clear to me...
it was definitely a sit at home and immerse yourself in the atmosphere type of album
Fell in love with song when it came out in the 1970s and it immediately changed the kind of music I wanted to listen to.
The original vinyl is standing right next to me in my LP-shelf - but it´s different from your version. Btw mine goes on for roundabout twenty minutes, a whole LP-side.
Kraftwerk were part of the very diverse german "Krautrock-scene" - you know, us munching sauerkraut all day long until the sun explodes if not probably a little longer. Some bands of this scene were pretty bad, some pretty good like "Can" for example, many were experimental and musically open-minded. All in all differing from another.
Kraftwerk were just one of them and to me they sounded good, but too monotone at the same time. Then suddenly they came up with that techno-prototype "Autobahn". Out of nowhere so to speak. It was absolutely new, no one´s ever heard something like this. That was their recipe for attention and success in these times. I liked it for that reason too, but never became a real fan of them or the whole techno--thing.
Still it took some ten to twenty years until Kraftwerk became the archetypes of techno internationally, mainly in the US I think.
Thanks for the info!
Awesome! How you two fins the obscure bands I grew uo with in the 60s and 70s is amazing; look for Ginger Baker's Air Force (he played with Cream originally); and do not forget West, Bruce and Laing
Leo Kotke anyone?
Hello dear friends in the Big Apple, from your country cousin in North Carolina. When this song was released, I was dating a girl whose mom was German. We'd sit around the table, guzzling beer, night after night, and she'd translate to English. This song always sounded so strange, even then (early 1980's). It just seemed so uptight, rigid, mechanical... no soul. I always think of Dieter from Sprockets of SNL whenever I hear it. Friends, thanks for all you do and who you are! Enjoy some great New York comedy... it's the best!! ruclips.net/video/7xs_rDNufmY/видео.html
Thanks for sharing with us Mark!
wowie zowie !!!
REALLY BORING MUSIC, SIMPS FALL FOR FAMOUS NAMES
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@@SightAfterDark and disliking and ruining your algorithm recommending to others! youre welcome!
You can never ruin anything for us. The algorithm is the algorithm no matter what. Take care!
@@SightAfterDark pride goes before the fall
@@username4441 I'm sorry, what pride are you exactly talking about? I didn't see this RUclips channel on the Grammy awards? American Music Awards? Billborad Music Awards? Neither the band i think.
"Now's the time on sprockets when we dance" !
They really should be called Krapwerk.
Yeah….still sounds like crap compared to say….Tangerine Dream….actually saw them open for Hawkwind in Cleveland….they were even worse live.
agree, Tangerine Dream I like a lot, Kraftwerk were fence sitters copying off the like of T D in my opinion