Kraftwerk

They were pretty awesome when I saw them a few years back, too. Great light show, great sound. Want to say I saw Massive Attack the same year at the same venue, and the shows were oddly analogous in terms of quality and surprise entertainment value.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 12:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

They were pretty awesome when I saw them a few years back, too. Great light show, great sound.

saw them in '07 - don't remember anything about the light show but I have never and I mean never heard better live sound

― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 16 February 2012 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

just wanna +1 all these comments

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

God, I'm really really worried there will be absolutely no way for me to get tickets to these

― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

('08 I mean, having re-read the thread - xp to me)

― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

New song up on youtube under the klingklang account. Sounds an awful lot like the last album. Maybe there will be another night at nyc, to debut the new album? *jozz in my pants*

― Xerox of Fate, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

link plz!!

― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

A friend told me he read tweets suggesting they'd do a similar run at Tate Modern/London. Does anyone know more?

― willem, Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lots of people are requesting it. The source of the rumours seems to be this tweet by these guys, who I've never heard of.

It's some serious getting-hopes-up stuff though.

― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

think I'm gonna take a shot at Man-Machine and maybe Computer World (on the theory that Trans-Europe Express will be the most popular ticket)

― dmr, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^man machine is their best anyway.

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

but i'll be out of town for that one :-/

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Really re: TEE being most popular? It seems like it'd be CW and Man Machine by a long shot, followed by TEE and Autobahn, and then Radioactivity, Techno Pop, The Mix, and TDF being way behind

― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

TEE is the first one I bought bc of its heavy status w critics. but I'm not sure if that proves much of anything.

holding out for ralf & florian night btw.

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'd see 3-way tie between CW, M-M and TEE, then the rest. I would kill to attend ANY of these shows btw

― tmi but (Z S), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

xposts
Lots of people are requesting it. The source of the rumours seems to be this tweet by these guys, who I've never heard of.

Guy from KW mailing list. There were noises about the Tate back at the time of the Munich Lenbachhaus Kunstbau show/concert at Alten Kongresshalle.

― Mayan Calendar Deren (doo dah), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^man machine is their best anyway.

yeah I agree

Really re: TEE being most popular?

I have no idea, just thinking that's their most widely known track because of "Planet Rock" (see post above about black, white, young, old, hip-hop, techno)

― dmr, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

i really want to get man-machine but think it will be the most popular/quickest to sell out. it's on my birthday!!! i think techno pop will be my second choice.

― bene_gesserit, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

also i dearly wish they were doing ralf und florian, because it's my favorite.

― bene_gesserit, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

man, i'm so jealous of the techno pop lovers. try as i might i just can't get into it as heavily as the others

― tmi but (Z S), Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Would love to see them at Tate Modern or similar in London. I saw them at Tribal Gathering '97. I was in the 'Detroit' tent most of the day but they shut that down for an hour or so because none of the acts (Terrence Parker, Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson etc.) would play during Kraftwerk. They were late coming on and then.. BOOM!

― mmmm, Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

xpost I dunno, I can 'get behind' people thinking "we wait all that time, and it's pretty much what we'd expect", but apart from that I can't detect a massive drop in quality.

The kids were doing the 'B-boom-TCK!' after I'd had a KWork splurge in the car, a few years ago.

― Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 09:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Again - as I said upthread - I cannot imagine this would be the only performance of these shows - it does not seem to make any kind of business sense to rehearse and do the programming for all these songs for just a one-off in a smallish venue.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 February 2012 10:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

the entirety of their "business sense" over the last 30 years has been "it interested Ralf at the time" though

― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

hmmm, see, no disrespect to Ralf (and Florian) but I have the feeling that most of their activity in the last 10 years has been somewhat financially driven (which doesn't take anything away to how awesome it's all been)

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

I remember someone once saying that the accent they use on "Autobahn" is 'strong dusseldorf' which is their version of 'brummie'

Which means, to their home nation,

sounds like

― Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

>A friend told me he read tweets suggesting they'd do a similar run at Tate Modern/London.

Wld kiw KW in the turbine hall 4REAL.

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

― geeta, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

hitler otm

― tylerw, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol @ JW

― dmr, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

it is hilarious - good work jw

my one pedantic note: there should be an umlaut over the 'u' in 'führer'

― geeta, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Fuck in already getting way upset about not getting tickets

― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm

― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha i posted the video to twitter

250 new hits in the last hour

― geeta, Friday, 17 February 2012 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Haha that video is awesome

― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 17 February 2012 18:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

the whitney declares war on kraftwerk at moma - they're bringing the red krayola april 14

http://whitney.org/Events/TheRedKrayolaPerformance2

― geeta, Friday, 17 February 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hm.
http://www.brandingmagazine.com/2012/02/17/volkswagen-america-sponsors-kraftwerk-performance/
"...They will perform selected songs from all of their albums in chronological order featuring 3-D visualization, dubbed Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8..."

― Mayan Calendar Deren (doo dah), Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

i am going to make a serious attempt to go to one or two of the TEE/M-M/CW shows, hope i get one!

― tmi but (Z S), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

I hadn't realized they'd been touring a 3D show for a bit now

― Brakhage, Sunday, 19 February 2012 07:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

So wait - "selected songs" = not doing ENTIRE album each night? Why did I think they were doing full albums?

― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

None of the albums are that long, they can't possibly be taking stuff out.

― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'd be more inclined to believe the MoMA website.

Each evening consists of a live performance and 3-D visualization of one of Kraftwerk's studio albums—Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003)—in the order of their release. Kraftwerk will follow each evening’s album performance with additional compositions from their catalog, all adapted specifically for this exhibition.

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

I remember someone once saying that the accent they use on "Autobahn" is 'strong dusseldorf' which is their version of 'brummie'

They were posh boys tho, esp. Florian, he's virtually upper class

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

I remember someone once saying that the accent they use on "Autobahn" is 'strong dusseldorf'

Yes, that was Billie Ray Martin, who is from Hamburg. She said that Ralf's strong accent makes the song slightly comical to many Germans.

― Vast Halo, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

jw's 'hitler reacts' video on youtube has gone from 600 hits to nearly 15,000 in the past 72 hours

wow

― geeta, Monday, 20 February 2012 21:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

the whitney declares war on kraftwerk at moma - they're bringing the red krayola april 14

http://whitney.org/Events/TheRedKrayolaPerformance2

― Can You Please POLL Out Your Window? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 February 2012 21:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

more info on the Kraftwerk concerts at MoMA: i'm told that the capacity of the space is under 1000 people

― geeta, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm going to be at a computer come noon tomorrow hoping to score tickets, though I won't be surprised if I don't. Worth a try, though.

― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

hv had complaints that Hitler shd be complaining about them not doing first 3 albums

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well, he was an Organisation fan

― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 07:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

a Red Krayola that only has Mayo Thompson might be more worth seeing than a Kraftwerk that only has Ralf Hütter.

― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 07:25 (1 year ago) Permalink