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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The LP of this was played to death by me in my bedroom, as a teenager. It took me on a journey - an electro trip into the future, the past and through the other side. My angst and worries melted away...
It was the way the whole of side 2 of the LP seemlessly moved with the pulsating rhythm of the train and chugged its way right through. The romantic narrative of travel, station by station whisked me off to places only seen in black and white films. Running through Metal on Metal was some of the best SFX, certainly in their day as the percussive pounding was added in ever ascending layers. Finally, the Trans Europe Express, after hurtling across the Siberian wastes slows to a halt....
Other Kraftwerk albums are more commercial. Man Machine is an album full of singles, Computer World is about gizmos and bitty synth hooks and others are just more uneven in both listenability and sheer quality.
It was the way the whole of side 2 of the LP seemlessly moved with the pulsating rhythm of the train and chugged its way right through. The romantic narrative of travel, station by station whisked me off to places only seen in black and white films. Running through Metal on Metal was some of the best SFX, certainly in their day as the percussive pounding was added in ever ascending layers. Finally, the Trans Europe Express, after hurtling across the Siberian wastes slows to a halt....
Other Kraftwerk albums are more commercial. Man Machine is an album full of singles, Computer World is about gizmos and bitty synth hooks and others are just more uneven in both listenability and sheer quality.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Tschoo-tschtsch-tschooo-tsch...the Europe Express rolls in and straight into your brain, and there's no escape, never ever more. Yeah,actually, this is the prototype synthie-pop album. Cool, clear and reduced to its raw core, this elaborate work of skillfully conceived computer music will creep and stick into your mind.
Apart from other Kraftwerk masterpieces, this electronic sound landscape was frame and foundation for almost every synth-pop music to come. It's a must for each and every fan of this musical genre. Never ever was electronic pop music so dense and direct, ascending to a compelling acoustic force in delivering only striking essentials of bonding beats and mighty melodies.
Definitely, this work of modern art is the catchiest and most danceable sound wonder the German wunderkinder in the 1970s.
Apart from other Kraftwerk masterpieces, this electronic sound landscape was frame and foundation for almost every synth-pop music to come. It's a must for each and every fan of this musical genre. Never ever was electronic pop music so dense and direct, ascending to a compelling acoustic force in delivering only striking essentials of bonding beats and mighty melodies.
Definitely, this work of modern art is the catchiest and most danceable sound wonder the German wunderkinder in the 1970s.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this for my sister for xmas. She had the LP over 25 years ago. It sounds amazing on CD and we enjoyed the journey,recognising all those hypnotic tunes we had forgotten! They outclass a lot of todays melodies.If you liked Kraftwerk back in the early 80s and liked Man Machine, you will LOVE Trans Europe Express. You will wake up with the melodies playing away in your head!Buy it!
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im a kraftwerk fan. but i must say. few tracks on this aint that good. the ones that are u will find on the mix cd
Published 22 days ago by tango
Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier
If you believed polls in papers and magazines whereby they list the "greatest" or "definitive" albums of all time, they tend to be "of the moment". Read more
Published 4 months ago by Coincidence Vs Fate
Journey through space and time
The theme of this enchanting work from 1977 is travel, giving the impression of a continental train ride with constantly changing scenery. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Pieter
Electronic
Along with Autobahn (1974), the best album from Kraftwerk!!!
"is often cited as perhaps the archetypal (and most accessible) Kraftwerk album ... Read more
"is often cited as perhaps the archetypal (and most accessible) Kraftwerk album ... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by Jose Soares
the first absolutely unquestionable masterpiece of their career
The theory that a band makes all it's best music in the first decade is clearly disproven. The decade ushered in here covers the bulk of The Catalogue : in ten years, Kraftwerk... Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2009 by Mr. M. A. Reed
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