Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Scott M. Kozel
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"Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band"
> Kraftwerk - Autobahn
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68C-r9kSLNE&feature=related
>
>
I remember going nuts about this when I first heard it back in 1974.
I've owned probably 10 copies of the album-On vinyl they had to split
'Autobahn' since 26 minutes wouldn't fit on one side. I worked for a
progressive rock station in '78 on the overnight shift, and always
dreaded getting a request for this; because you really had to pay
attention to the segue-so as to make it sound continuous. Yes, we had
two copies of the album. No way was I going to turn it over on the air
:) I did a mixtape where when they sing about turning the radio on, I
dubbed in the the Beach Boys 'Fun Fun Fun'.
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Oscar Voss
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Yeah, I remember feeling the compulsion to buy the CD during a stop in Butte
MT, during the days of the "Montanabahn" (reasonable and prudent speed limit
for autos in the daytime).
Later, a German-speaking colleague listening to the song in my car assured
me that the German lyrics for "Autobahn" are just as insipid as the ones for
the songs Kraftwerk does in English.
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"Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band"
Well, it's not a song ya listen to for it's lyrical profundity, no :)
Scott M. Kozel
>
> Oscar Voss wrote:
>
> > Later, a German-speaking colleague listening to the song in my car
> > assured me that the German lyrics for "Autobahn" are just as insipid as
> > the ones for the songs Kraftwerk does in English.
>
The idea was for the lyrics to have a 'mechanical' sound to them.
This video describes the electronic instruments that were used to make
piece --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y
Rich Piehl
> Oscar Voss wrote:
>> "Scott M. Kozel" <koz...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:482E5F23...@comcast.net...
>>> Kraftwerk - Autobahn
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68C-r9kSLNE&feature=related
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I remember feeling the compulsion to buy the CD during a stop in
>> Butte MT, during the days of the "Montanabahn" (reasonable and prudent
>> speed limit for autos in the daytime).
>>
>> Later, a German-speaking colleague listening to the song in my car
>> assured me that the German lyrics for "Autobahn" are just as insipid
>> as the ones for the songs Kraftwerk does in English.
>>
>> --
>> Oscar Voss - oscar...@comcast.net - Arlington VA
>>
>> my Hot Springs and Highways pages: http://home.comcast.net/~oscar.voss/
>> Hawaii Highways: http://www.hawaiihighways.com/
>
> Well, it's not a song ya listen to for it's lyrical profundity, no :)
>
That may rank near the top of the list of the greatest understatements
in history. 8^)
Take care,
Rich
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Concrete Bob
loved that song. I specifically remember hearing an edited version of
"Autobahn" on an AM Top 40/Progressive Rock hybrid known as KJOY
(1280) from Stockton. They played a six minute version. It wasn't
quite the same as the full-length version, but it did drive the point
home. In December 1976. I finally immersed myself into the local
Progressive Album Rock of "KSFM, Woodland....Earthradio for Northern
California." 102.5 FM, can ya dig it?
I finally went out and bought this damn album on vinyl in the early
1980s after Progressive Rock went away in Northern California. This
thread caused me to turn off my PC and put that damn piece of vinyl
on. I may have to follow that song with some Chris Spedding ("Get
Outta My Pagoda") or some 10cc ("Feel the Benefit-Medeley.").
Ahhhh...Listening to Progressive Rock Radio while driving on a
freeway. Is there any better pleasure? Yes there is, but this is
MTR !!!
"Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band"
> "Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band" <raash...@ndki.rk> wrote:
>> Oscar Voss wrote:
>>
>>> Later, a German-speaking colleague listening to the song in my car
>>> assured me that the German lyrics for "Autobahn" are just as insipid as
>>> the ones for the songs Kraftwerk does in English.
>> Well, it's not a song ya listen to for it's lyrical profundity, no :)
>
> The idea was for the lyrics to have a 'mechanical' sound to them.
>
> This video describes the electronic instruments that were used to make
> piece --
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y
>
In '74 it was the cat's meow, and even now, Kraftwerk still sounds
original, never mind that they were likely the grandfathers of a variety
of music(Techno, Ambient, House-to an extent).
BSMack
converted it to an Mp3 so that I can listen to it more often without wearing
out my tapes. This is a classic.
PatOConnell
> Scott M. Kozel wrote:
>> "Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band" <raash...@ndki.rk> wrote:
>>> Oscar Voss wrote:
>>>
>>>> Later, a German-speaking colleague listening to the song in my car
>>>> assured me that the German lyrics for "Autobahn" are just as insipid as
>>>> the ones for the songs Kraftwerk does in English.
>>> Well, it's not a song ya listen to for it's lyrical profundity, no :)
>>
>> The idea was for the lyrics to have a 'mechanical' sound to them.
>>
>> This video describes the electronic instruments that were used to make
>> piece --
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y
>>
>
> In '74 it was the cat's meow, and even now, Kraftwerk still sounds
> original, never mind that they were likely the grandfathers of a variety
> of music(Techno, Ambient, House-to an extent).
>
Autobahn CD or an MP3. Amazon sells an MP3, but I dunno if it's iPod
compatible or not.
To Oscar Voss, who made the comment that the lyrics are pretty banal in
German: they were intended to be banal, stream of consciousness stuff
that you might think about (like turning on the radio) as you fahren auf
der Autobahn.
Matt J. McCullar
gave me a copy on a cassette tape when we were in high school. This was in
the mid-1980s. Always interested in electronic music, I started collecting
Kraftwerk's stuff -- on LPs. (CDs were still too expensive for me at the
time.) I spent many nights at the workbench in my garage in Fort Worth
experimenting with electronic circuits, and I even built my own vocoder from
scratch using the schematics from Paia Electronics. I wanted to duplicate
that robotic harmonizing voice Kraftwerk used. It worked, too.
I still listen to a lot of Kraftwerk's music, particularly "Franz Schubert"
from _Trans-Europe Express_. "Numbers" from _Computerworld_ can, IMHO, be
called one of the ancestors of today's techno.
Another friend gave me an LP copy of _Rolf and Florian_, an album that two
of the original members of Kraftwerk recorded in the early 1970s. It's not
very good music, but it does have a good picture of the two of them taking a
break in their recording "studio" -- which looks for all the world like a
factory basement.
There have been several remixes and covers of Kraftwerk's songs over the
years, and in some cases they're pretty good. I have a couple of CDs full
of "tributes" to Kraftwerk, and the one of "Autobahn" (sorry I can't
remember the name of the group that performed it) did it very, very well.
Even Kraftwerk's newest original recordings are still good. Great traveling
music!
Craig Zeni
> Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band wrote:
>> Scott M. Kozel wrote:
>>> "Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band" <raash...@ndki.rk> wrote:
>>>> Oscar Voss wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Later, a German-speaking colleague listening to the song in my car
>>>>> assured me that the German lyrics for "Autobahn" are just as
>>>>> insipid as
>>>>> the ones for the songs Kraftwerk does in English.
>>>> Well, it's not a song ya listen to for it's lyrical profundity, no :)
>>>
>>> The idea was for the lyrics to have a 'mechanical' sound to them.
>>>
>>> This video describes the electronic instruments that were used to make
>>> piece --
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y
>>>
>>
>> In '74 it was the cat's meow, and even now, Kraftwerk still sounds
>> original, never mind that they were likely the grandfathers of a
>> variety of music(Techno, Ambient, House-to an extent).
>>
> I used to have the LP and listened to it a lot. I don't have the
> Autobahn CD or an MP3. Amazon sells an MP3, but I dunno if it's iPod
> compatible or not.
Buy it from iTunes...it's there :)
Jack May
"BSMack" <wom...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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I am making eight CDs that will fit in place designed for them in my new
car. I put Autobahn on one of the disks to use in the car. It seemed a
good place for it.
The CD player in the car plays WMA file which allows me to put about a 120
regular CDs on the eight disks the car can hold in it special disk slot next
to the iPod plug.
I wanted high quality sound so I did not crank up the compression very much.
I hear no degradation in the sound after compression.