Kraftwerk - Computer World [Japan Bonus Track]
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- Computer WorldDownload & Buy
- Pocket CalculatorDownload & Buy
- NumbersDownload & Buy
- Computer World .. 2Download & Buy
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- Home ComputerDownload & Buy
- It's More Fun To ComputeDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Computer World [Japan Bonus Track]
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1981
- Label:
- Wea International
- UPC:
- 075596078924
User Reviews: Computer World [Japan Bonus Track]
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True pioneers of techno
, December 7, 2001Reviewer: uriel m - See all uriel m's reviews1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this Computer World [Japan Bonus Track] review helpful I've had the album since 85 (just recently brought the cd) and it never ceases to amaze me that this album came out in the early 80's. The music on this album was way ahead of its time. Whats more amazing is the lyrics in computer love (track 1), about the future uses of computer techology, who would have known all that back in the early 80's? -
influence of kraftwerk in the 21st cent
, December 10, 2002Reviewer: claudio - See all claudio's reviewsThis album ,computer world ,it is the base for all electronic music that came afterwards,it is far beyond in wich themselves got inspired, electronic music from the 20's up to the 50's.They mannage not only to put feelings and vibrations as well as creating a virtual and real world on each of the synthetic beat they perform. No, this are not common people, the sound they create or perform or channel from who knows what source on this universe, equal in time and existence to the shoemaker commet that struckt jupiter in 1994...how can you describe that???...well same thing ...
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Pro Reviews: Computer World [Japan Bonus Track]
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews The last great Kraftwerk album, Computer World captured the band right at the moment when its pioneering approach fully broke through in popular music, thanks to the rise of synth pop, hiphop, and electro. As Arthur Baker sampled "TransEurope Express" for "Planet Rock" and disciples like Depeche Mode, OMD, and Gary Numan scored major hits, Computer World demonstrated that the old masters still had some last tricks up their collective sleeves. Compared to earlier albums, it fell readily in line with The ManMachine, eschewing sidelong efforts but with even more of an emphasis on shorter tracks mixed with longer but not epic compositions. While the wellestablished tropes of the band were used again electronically treated vocals, some provided by Speak and Spell toys; crisp rhythm blips; basslines and beats; haunting, quirky melodies there's a ready liveliness to the songs, like the addictive "Pocket Calculator," with its perfectly deadpan portrait of "the operator" and his favorite tool, and the almost winsome "Computer Love." Cannily, the lyrical focus on newly accessible technology instead of cryptic futurism and vanished pasts matched this new ofthenow stance, and the result was a perfect balance between the new world of the album title and a withdrawn, bemused consideration of that world. The title track itself, with its lists detailing major organizations presumably all wired up, echoes the flow of TransEurope Express, serene and pondering. "Pocket Calculator" itself is more outrageously fun, thanks to the technical observation that "by pressing down a special key it plays a little melody." Others would take the band's advances and run with them, but with Computer World Kraftwerk over a decade on from their start demonstrated how they had stayed not merely relevant, but prescient, when nearly all their contemporaries had long since burned out. [The Japanese edition features a bonus track, "Dentaku."] - Ned Raggett, All Music Guide |
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