Sorry, I should have said that too! That's awesome you get to go, and especially to that particular show!
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, thanks! Really didn't expect to win. I'm actually a little worried that the tickets will be revoked because they said they might ask me to sign a release for the .gif, which I don't really have any right to do since I made it with the NYPL Stereogranimator thing with NYPL archive images. I should have thought about for 2 seconds before idly entering the contest, but since they encouraged using generator sites, and most of the images they displayed were obviously in violation of copyright, it didn't occur to me. So we'll see.
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
just sign it and smile
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
It appears, from my ticket confirmation I rec'd yesterdaythat there's be some nice merch on sale @ these shows. Must remember to bring some extra $.
― kwhitehead, Saturday, 24 March 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
highly recommended: the "nippon numbers" bootleg. well-recorded document from the Computerworld tour with a surprisingly fast version of "It's More Fun to Compute"
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Thursday, 5 April 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
Kraftwerk POX
Heavy Metal Kids 7:53 K4 (live june 12, 1971) K1 15:38 K4 (live june 12, 1971) K2 (Ruckzuck) 19:20 K4 (live june 12, 1971) Ruckstoss-Gondoliere 11:18 Kraftwerk !/2 Autobahn 21:54 Concert Classics (19750520 Denver, Ebbets' Fields) Mitternacht (Rdioactiv/Showroom) 12:04 19750917 - Live At The Dome, Brighton, Uk Faust intro - Kometenmelodie 1 & 2 11:39 19760228 - Machine: l´Olympia, Paris It's more fun to compute 8:02 19810907 - Virtu ex Machina (Live in Tokyo) Numbers 5:25 19980607 - Live at the Warfield, SF Airwaves / New Song 11:19 19980607 - Live at the Warfield, SF
― Milton Parker, Monday, March 17, 2008 9:48 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
trying to figure out which two I'd bump for:
The voice of energy / Uranium / Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne - 3:51 - 19810703 - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, LondonPocket Calculator - 9:12 - 19810703 - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London
― Milton Parker, Friday, December 19, 2008 7:39 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
& the car-breakdown in the 42 minute long version of Autobahn from Leverkusen 1974 is them at their weirdest
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
did I say "YSI?" after that three years ago?
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
Easier to find online now than ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNjwJLDic3o
Or the Amsterdam 76 'Europe Endless' when it was a less syncopated techno stomper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjKWN1Vzgao
Or the 75 version of 'Midnight' which still sounds like 'Kristallo' but turns into an early version of 'Showroom Dummies'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSeTZ5JymSM
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
The last 10 minutes of the Leverkusen gig are a completely unreleased piece which sounds like a collapsing Irish jig, it is hilarious and wonderful
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
I meant to post this version of 'midnight'! Leverkusen again. I like that Leverkusen gig, parts almost sound like Conny is still in the band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovWbn3f6U4
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
1998 tour was much better than the 2004 tour they put on the DVD
The digital pitchfeedback version of Numbers, much better than the recent live versions where they've reverted to samples from the 81 studio recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-61JCxSLQ4
One of their 3 new songs, I can see why they didn't put them out but live, they sounded great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXbDHK_6Z9Q
About 6:10 into this one it became clear how much basic channel they'd been taking in, Would have been a much better thing to put out instead of expo2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxpWCO6EqCU
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
mp, it's just so easy to buy a ticket to NYC
― Dominique, Thursday, 5 April 2012 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
wow, looks like I got a lot of searching to do. I did quite like the 1975 "Concert Classics" (!?) album, which had something called "Klingklang" which sounded a lot more like the land they use on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood when they go into Make-Believe land, it's really goood
still listening to "Nippon Numbers", I just remembered that Ralf kind of starts rapping two-thirds through Autobahn, all the places you can go "Auf Leon auf Madrid auf der Autobahn"...then to "Auf Hongkong auf Tokyo auf der Aero-plane", ha!!
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
oof that 42-minute Autobahn is Autobahn-tastic! thx for posting.
― tylerw, Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/08460-kraftwerk-jls
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
(from right to left)Aston = RalfMarvin = FlorianJB = WolfgangOritsé = Karl
― beanz meanz lulz (snoball), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
Aston has that worried look that Ralf sometimes has, while Marvin seems more confident. Oritsé looks the youngest, so he's Karl, which leaves JB as Wolfgang.
― beanz meanz lulz (snoball), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
already? jeez. from Pithfork:
As part of Kraftwerk's eight-night retrospective New York museum residency this month, the band will release a limited-edition box set of all eight of their albums. 2,000 copies of the set will be sold on the Museum of Modern Art's website, and at gift shops in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and MoMA/PS1 in Queens. It'll include remastered versions of the set released in 2009 (the massive reissue The Catalogue).
are they already dated sounding or something?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
I love Kraftwerk but this stuff doesn't surprise me. They're in this for the $$ now it seems - much like any other self-respecting band looking to milk their back catalogue with a "reunion tour".
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
Pitchfork's phrasing is kinda unclear - it's a limited edition, 2000 copies, numbered edition of the Catalogue box in a black sleeve (original was white). I'm a MOMA member, so I bought one - $175 after taxes and shipping.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 7 April 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this really doesn't look like anything other than the 2009 version
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Saturday, 7 April 2012 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
Can't believe that a band 3/4 comprised of decades-long non-creative employees of Kling Klang Corp are now "in it for the money" *shakes head sadly*
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 7 April 2012 07:49 (twelve years ago) link
Appalled that the ruthless director of Kling Klang is doing such grossly mercantile things as: diligently learning and rehearsing multiple arrangements of dozens of songs, to be performed once each, for a hugely remunerative audience of approx 10000 payers over a week
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 7 April 2012 07:53 (twelve years ago) link
The MoMA set is going up now in the museum
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
My guess is tha number is far far less than 10,000. I would the number is prolly around 3500.
― kwhitehead, Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
**guess the number is***
― kwhitehead, Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Looks small:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7m5lyld
― So Efficient! (doo dah), Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
i'd think if they wanted more money they'd just do more shows, these guys sell out everywhere
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
don't really think they need more money exactly, do think that they and their fans are obsessive audiophiles
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
The exhibitions at PS1 and not MoMA, right? I think I'll be up to see it next week
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 7 April 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Set List: "We Are the Robots""Autobahn""Kometenmelodie 1 & 2""Mitternacht" / "Morgenspaziergang""Radioactivity""Trans-Europe Express""The Model""Man-Machine""Numbers" / "Computer World""Computer Love" (The Mix version) "Home Computer" (The Mix version) "Tour de France" / "Aerodynamik""Expo 2000""Boing Boom Tschak" / "Techno Pop" / "Musique Non-Stop"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/music/kraftwerk-retrospective-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-review.htmlhttp://www.spin.com/articles/kraftwerk-invade-moma-residency-byte-museum
Kraftwerk revisited the “Autobahn” album rather than reproducing its exact timbres and proportions. It held on to its instrumental passages and the generally somber melodic lines of the album’s other tracks but played them from a changed perspective — for instance, trading the album’s upbeat hints of 1950s and ’60s rock for something more steady-state. The most transformed track was “Morgenspaziergang” (“Morning Walk”), which in 1974 juxtaposed synthesized burbles and tweets — oscillator birdsong — with its tune played on a wooden flute. Now the tune came from a keyboard, true to the latter-day Kraftwerk.
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I really, really hope someone is recording these
― Xerox of Fate, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
my ex is going tonight; i am not the plus one:/
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Got my copy of the box in today's mail. #0052 of 2000.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN44hS1_AmU
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
Whoops this one is much better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2V8bng6Zs
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm so curious as to what they'll do to Radio-Activity tonight... It's such a strange and singular record in their catalog. I still cannot believe I'm going!
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
autobahn & radioactivity were the two I was most interested in going to precisely because they're the ones likely to sound the most different
seriously you guys, if any of you get a lead on even the most sawed-off room recording, drop me a line
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome couple of videos, but the first one demonstrates what it would be like to have a burst eardrum at a Kraftwerk gig.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
milt, if you get one, hook up your old pal Xerox
― Xerox of Fate, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
so, my gf won tickets and I'm going to TEE... :-D
― original bgm, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently VW hung onto 25% of the tickets, wtf
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
Hung onto? That's sponsorship. MoMa and Kraftwerk and VW must have agreed on that, so your wtf should be aimed at all parties.
― willem, Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Went last night. Very well done by the MOMA. Ticket pick up was easy, the room wasn't crowded in the least (could have fit at least 100 more folks in there, if they wanted.) Radio-Activity pasrt of the shwo was the highlight (naturally) and they followed it up with a nice lengthy version of Autobahn where, I think, they mixed things up a bit from the original. Trans Europe Express was a standout as well.
Even though it was a great event I can't help thinking that there will probably be an SNL skit making fun of these shows. The teutonic seriousness in which they were presented could easily be seen as comic by some.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
sorta been done
http://www.popscreen.com/assets/thumbs/v/original/5661102ngO_o.jpg
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah but if any of the SNL writers were there they have some new material to work with.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
The teutonic seriousness in which they were presented could easily be seen as comic by some.
yeah but Kraftwerk have always had a sly comic element to them. "The Robots" is really funny especially when the robots themselves appear onstage
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5P7RsC9TI
― koogs, Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K2bdJb_ewY
― Brakhage, Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link