What were these guys inventing? Well where to begin? When you listen to this album you can hear their thumbprint on everything from Tears for Fears to Kanye West. Kraftwerk may be the most important band of the 70's. You take Kraftwerk and David Bowie and mix them together and you get people like The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees. You get the driving electronic loops that will be the backbone to hip-hop and electronica.
Now all of that being said, I'm not the biggest Kraftwerk fan in the world. I like their stuff, but I'm not going to spend my day listening to them. If you have any interest in understanding pop music history then give this a listen and just remember it was made in 1977, that's 34 years ago.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 3 out of 5 stars for Pretty Good.
I was amazed at how much this sounded like the Doors.
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