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Autobahn

~ Kraftwerk

4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Audio CD (22 Jun 1987)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: EMI
ASIN: B000007U6V
Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 39,804 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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"All pop music begins with Kraftwerk", it has been said--and, indeed, the 1970s experiments in minimalist electronics on the part of these four reclusive and bourgeois-looking young Dusseldorf men were directly responsible for the electrified landscape of subsequent decades of rock, pop and dance music. The album is dominated by its 22-minute title track, a beautiful electronic simulation of a motorway journey, from cranking up the engine to bowling along grey lanes cutting a swathe through the countryside, swerving and hooting the horn. Kraftwerk were prefiguring music's next step into the machine age but the antipathy they aroused in 1974 exposed the deluded Luddite tendencies of the pre-punk critical establishment who felt that music could only remain "real" by remaining as close to "nature" as possible. Kraftwerk slyly undermined this notion. After Kraftwerk, pop music would echo, not reject the sounds and rhythms of modern life. --David Stubbs

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Germanic in approach and delivery, this record gets under the skin and infuriates as you find yourself compelled to humthe melodies. A significant record in the development of electronic music, and not to be confused with other "kraut rock" efforts from the school of mid-70s prog, this is the album from which countless bands borrowed riffs--passages of theCure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, and New Order are to be found among the five lengthy tracks. Don't be fooled: Kraftwerk were there at least five years in advance. Great for driving on the motorway in Europe, incidentally!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, 19 Jul 2003

By	big_lads "big_lads" (England) - See all my reviews

I find the title track of this album to be the most intensely moving piece of music - bar none. A small nod backwards with Florian's flute, but a sign of things to come from Kraftwerk with the use of the Vocoder and the precise rhythmical qualities.

Don't listen to Autobahn when stuck on the M25, but if you're driving long distance at night, put this track on repeat and go into a trance and feel yourself at one with your car - ManMachine indeed!

If the other more 'experimental' tracks from the album appeal, you could do worse than searching out some early (pre-1975) Can albums.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Like a Fine Wine - it improves with age ......!!, 14 Aug 2005

By	Mr. A. R. Banyer "Tony Banyer" (Gt. Yarmouth , UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I remember a time when every Party I went to had to have this album (alongside Rubycon , Phaedra , Oxygene etc...)

It was a great album then , but a Milestone now.(2005)

Released at the time of "Album Bands" who were less interested in the singles charts ( Staying Power as opposed to 1 hit wonders). This has to be the Ultimate KW "Theme" Album .

For younger listeners they may have forgotten that you used to have to actually flip an album to hear the 2nd side. So the title track (whole 1st side of the album) is totally absorbing whether as Ambient Background Music , or on headphones "UP LOUD".

Not a Pop album , more like a Vintage wine for connosieurs , and as superb today as it was 20 years ago , if not better.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer Bliss !, 6 Jul 2002

By	M. FAVER "mickfaver" (Leicestoh) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What were you doing in 1974 ? Whilst the rest of the world were glamming it up and hippies were fast disappearing, Kraftwerk were sitting in a studio in Dussledorf making music. Not only were they writing songs but they were creating the instruments on which to play them. You have to consider what the world was listening to in 1974 to truly appreciate the importance and the innovation represented by this lp.

With its release Kraftwerk had created an electronic prototype for a style of music which would take the world by storm and remains a major influence today. Thats a lot for album to live up to, but Autobahn is equal to the task.

Turn the hi fi on, sit back, close your eyes and drift away with possibly the finest popular music lp ever made. It has everything - art ('A simply perefect musical painting of a drive down the motorway''), tune and beauty. Its a masterpiece, if you don't own it already your music collection is not complete.

The tunes are timeless and it has aged so much better than most lps released at the time. No lp comes with a guarantee that you'll like it, but this is about as close as one gets to having one. Brilliant.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb
Brilliant,and in its day ground breaking.Everyone should have a copy of this in their music colection.

Published 2 months ago by Brynley D. Warren

4.0 out of 5 stars A timeless, superior release
The current available Kraftwerk catalogue represents only a portion of Krafwerk's ouevre : "Autobahn" is the first album where Kraftwerk hit maturity - a central, and thematic... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Mr. M. A. Reed

5.0 out of 5 stars Great 70s classic
To me this is a classic album from the mid 70s and it was great to hear it again after losing my cassette version years ago. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Mr. D. Mawby

4.0 out of 5 stars Dense, evocative, ambient and atmospheric.
Autobahn is one of Kraftwerk's more conceptual offerings, attempting to capture the essence of a drive along the titular motorway system, in a way that predates the similarly... Read more

Published on 31 Jan 2006 by Jonathan James Romley

5.0 out of 5 stars 30 Years on, and it still sounds great.
The year was 1974 and a saturday afternoon. I went to see a friend of mine, and he told me that he had just brought a new album by a band called Kraftwerk. Read more

Published on 3 Sep 2005

4.0 out of 5 stars What a trip!
Boy, did this album take me back!

I owned a vinyl copy when I was at school, but someone liberated me of its ownership (I live in South Africa) many years ago. Read more

Published on 17 Mar 2004 by Aj Viljoen

4.0 out of 5 stars Krafwerk's first step to greatness
This album is very good if not slightly overated. A lot of people believe this to be Kraftwerk's best album, but in my opinion Trans-Europe Express and The Man Machine are far... Read more

Published on 7 Jul 2002

2.0 out of 5 stars Overrated, although Morgenspaziergang is exceptional
This album has been overhyped and it is far more commercial than their other albums. I have to say though Morgenspaziergang is an inspired track. Read more

Published on 18 Feb 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Driving on the motorway has never been such fun!
Coming from Great Britain, and having to suffer the motorway network every working day, I believe that the concept of a musical peice which celebrates the motorway, albeit the... Read more

Published on 5 Jan 2002 by Mr. J. E. B. Anness

5.0 out of 5 stars The synthesizer goes pop...
This album was originally released in the mid-Seventies. The single "Autobahn" was extremely successful in the UK and for many people was the first piece of electronic... Read more

Published on 4 April 2000

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