Track Listing

1. Autobahn
2. Kometenmelodie 1
3. Kometenmelodie 2
4. Mitternacht
5. Morgenspaziergang

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25448 in Music
• Released on: 1987-06-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

CD Description
Germanic in approach and delivery, this record gets under the skin and infuriates as you find yourself compelled to humthe melodies. A significant record in the development of electronic music, and not to be confused with other "kraut rock" efforts from the school of mid-70s prog, this is the album from which countless bands borrowed riffs--passages of theCure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, and New Order are to be found among the five lengthy tracks. Don't be fooled: Kraftwerk were there at least five years in advance. Great for driving on the motorway in Europe, incidentally!

Customer Reviews

Perfect
I find the title track of this album to be the most intensely moving piece of music - bar none. A small nod backwards with Florian's flute, but a sign of things to come from Kraftwerk with the use of the Vocoder and the precise rhythmical qualities.

Don't listen to Autobahn when stuck on the M25, but if you're driving long distance at night, put this track on repeat and go into a trance and feel yourself at one with your car - ManMachine indeed!

If the other more 'experimental' tracks from the album appeal, you could do worse than searching out some early (pre-1975) Can albums.

Like a Fine Wine - it improves with age ......!!
I remember a time when every Party I went to had to have this album (alongside Rubycon , Phaedra , Oxygene etc...)

It was a great album then , but a Milestone now.(2005)

Released at the time of "Album Bands" who were less interested in the singles charts ( Staying Power as opposed to 1 hit wonders). This has to be the Ultimate KW "Theme" Album .

For younger listeners they may have forgotten that you used to have to actually flip an album to hear the 2nd side. So the title track (whole 1st side of the album) is totally absorbing whether as Ambient Background Music , or on headphones "UP LOUD".

Not a Pop album , more like a Vintage wine for connosieurs , and as superb today as it was 20 years ago , if not better.

Sheer Bliss !
What were you doing in 1974 ? Whilst the rest of the world were glamming it up and hippies were fast disappearing, Kraftwerk were sitting in a studio in Dussledorf making music. Not only were they writing songs but they were creating the instruments on which to play them. You have to consider what the world was listening to in 1974 to truly appreciate the importance and the innovation represented by this lp.

With its release Kraftwerk had created an electronic prototype for a style of music which would take the world by storm and remains a major influence today. Thats a lot for album to live up to, but Autobahn is equal to the task.

Turn the hi fi on, sit back, close your eyes and drift away with possibly the finest popular music lp ever made. It has everything - art ('A simply perefect musical painting of a drive down the motorway''), tune and beauty. Its a masterpiece, if you don't own it already your music collection is not complete.

The tunes are timeless and it has aged so much better than most lps released at the time. No lp comes with a guarantee that you'll like it, but this is about as close as one gets to having one. Brilliant.