directly to him
― i am a horse girl (map), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
idk it's just kind of stuck in my head but w/e. i'll always love kraftwerk and don't think the impressiveness of their project has to have anything to do with liking reggae or not.
― i am a horse girl (map), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
I just read an admittedly pretty gossipy book about the Dusseldorf music scene and Kraftwerk come in for a fair amount of stick in that!
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
Wolfgang Flur getting kicked up the arse, more than once, by some punks was quite amusing though. He could see the funny side.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
Kraftwerk probably one of the few bands that made it out of the 70s and 80s without trying a single reggae tune
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
is there a "failed reggae diversions" thread?
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
Geir left us with this, which probably counts:
White boy does reggae music
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Except it's not just white guys who can't do reggae. Also this:
A reggae song by a person or band that has no business playing a reggae song
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
oh dear @ that first one
the second one, yes, that's what I mean
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
I was just interested to know if they actually used the word 'hate', is all.
People often tend to use it instead of simply 'dislike', the former obviously being much more robust.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
Hall Of Mirrors would work quite well as a reggae song, thinking about it
― all things must pasteurize (Matt #2), Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
this vancouver show rules ...
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
Somebody should do an album of reggae Kraftwerk covers just to piss off Ralf.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
Not reggae obvs, but this album used to entertain me for hours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGnFF5w5sro
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
... called "Reggaeoactivity". Can totally hear "Radioland" as a reggae track.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
sounds interesting, what's the book?
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
Willing to bet it's this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/31753116-electri-city
Have a copy myself, quite good.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
That's it. As I say it's very gossipy but full of interesting anecdotes.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
Here's a reggae Model, and there's a moderate smattering of reggae in the 8+ hours of DJ Food Kev's Kraftwerk Kovers Kollections
― donald failson (sic), Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
Not reggae obvs, but this album used to entertain me for hours:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGnFF5w5sro
always liked this too but I'm still irritated it was all done with synthesizers
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
what why?
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
idk the idea of a real mariachi band doing Kraftwerk is funny to me, some German dude setting his Casio to "Spanish Trumpet" less so
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
I saw him perform live with a full horn section about 15 years ago. was fun
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
xp aw i s'pose. i like these on their own outside of the idea of this as comedy. TEE as cumbia was p inspired.
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
anyone watch this krautrock documentary on Nite Flight app? my friend did, it's 3 hours and is apparently super great despite being kind of amateur.
― akm, Thursday, 30 April 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
Not reggae but another cover with Caribbean roots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLEk7Xcz1B4
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 30 April 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
That cheered me right up
― Soundslike, Thursday, 30 April 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
that song was made for steel drum, lovely
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Thursday, 30 April 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
Re the "Green" interview, he'd written to them suggesting they pair up with Gregory Isaacs. To which Ralf replied that Kraftwerk didn't like Reggae. Not Ralph himself, kraftwerk as a unit. A band that have never used guest artists, and don't move into other music styles.
That's how I understood it anyway.
― Mark G, Friday, 1 May 2020 06:41 (four years ago) link
this whole "does kraftwerk dislike or hate reggae" issue is pretty funny
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 May 2020 06:59 (four years ago) link
“It was meant to be a duet between Kraftwerk and Gregory Isaacs,” recalls Green. “We got a positive response from Gregory Isaacs’ management, but nothing from Kraftwerk. A few years later, I met Kraftwerk. I went to see Tito Puente with Ralf [Hutter] and Florian [Schneider]. I think I brought it up, and I remember them saying that they hated reggae.” --
I wrote a song called "The 'Sweetest Girl'", and I went to [Rough Trade's] Geoff Travis and told him I wanted to get Gregory Isaacs to do it with Kraftwerk. I don't really know how that would have worked. We did get a response from Gregory's management saying that he would be up for it. We didn't get a response from Kraftwerk, though. I did meet [Kraftwerk's] Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider a few years later in New York at a Tito Puente gig. They were kind of vague about whether or not they knew that I had approached them, but they did say that they didn't like reggae.
we may never know.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Friday, 1 May 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link
everyone should be free to dislike anything. it's not like musicians are sage, super-human creatures - we all have limitations, many of them self-imposed, at any moment in time.
I close can't stand reggae either, because it's been ruined for me as a signifier for bored bourgeouis youth trying hard to let their hair down. although I have accrued lots of reggae albums myself, I still have this pain inside when thinking of college parties. I love dub though, and I also like whenever my favourite white musicians dabble in reggae (for example, Duran Duran with "The Reflex" live in '87).
I'm sure if KW said they can't stand country music (as many musicians have gone on record saying it) no one would have but flipped an eyelid.
― Max Florian, Friday, 1 May 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
I read in the recently published book 'Kraftwerk: Future Music From Germany' by Uwe Schutte that Michael Jackson was up for collaborating in the 80s but they were having none of it
― paolo, Friday, 1 May 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
Green would've been better off approaching YMO if he wanted an electronic act, they'd collaborate with pretty much anyone and everyone.
― all things must pasteurize (Matt #2), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
Hearing a reggae version of Kometenmelodie 2 in my head now thx thread
― nashwan, Friday, 1 May 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
I'm sure you know this already but MJ did record a version of "Behind the Mask" for Thriller, not sure why it was axed
― frogbs, Friday, 1 May 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link
Apparently YMO's management dithered for too long about the proposed royalty rates and the Jackson camp lost patience. A real shame, as its inclusion would have (a) made Thriller even better and (b) made Sakamoto a very wealthy man.Jackson was made aware of BtM by his keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, who subsequently released his own version of it, using Jackson's rewritten lyrics. That arrangement was then adopted by, of all people, Eric Clapton.
― The multiplying villainies of nature / Do swarm upon him (Vast Halo), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
YMO (well, Ryuichi Sakamoto) even collaborated with Kraftwerk! They got him to write new lyrics in Japanese for Radioactivity after the Fukushima disaster
日本でも 放射能きょうも いつまでもフクシマ 放射能空気 水 すべて日本でも 放射能いますぐ やめろ
There’s radioactivity also in JapanToday and ForeverFukushima RadioactivityAir Water EverythingThere’s radioactivity also in JapanStop Right Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWsQgmq-fNs
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 1 May 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
I did meet [Kraftwerk's] Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider a few years later in New York at a Tito Puente gig.
this is amazing
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 1 May 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
I read somewhere that Jimi Hendrix hated surf music...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
That's it, I don't like Jimi Hendrix anymore.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 1 May 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
thats when jimi hendrix became...james hendricks to me
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
Unconfirmed rumours that Florian Schneider has passed away.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
According to a close associate of the group, Schneider left Kraftwerk on 21 November 2008, due to a dispute over a bicycle pump.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link
Xp fucking hell. Pls no
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
Ahhh man.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
really hoping this is some Kim Jong Un situation
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
I used to have the albums from Autobahn to Computer World framed in my basement, just recently I replaced them just cuz it's been a while. My wife's reaction..."awww, I miss the guys"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
Rumour seems to be gathering pace but no confirmation as yet.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
Coming here to see if anyone's found confirmation, just heard the rumour through the grapevine so far.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link