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Kraftwerk Computer World - Yellow Vinyl - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record)
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| Tracklisting / Additional Info: |
Computer World captured the band right at the moment when its pioneering approach fully broke through in popular music, thanks to the rise of synth pop, hip-hop, and electro. As Arthur Baker sampled "Trans-Europe Express" for "Planet Rock" and disciples like Depeche Mode, OMD, and Gary Numan scored major hits, Computer World demonstrated that the old masters still had some last tricks up their collective sleeves. Compared to earlier albums, it fell readily in line with The Man-Machine, eschewing side-long efforts but with even more of an emphasis on shorter tracks mixed with longer but not epic compositions. While the well-established tropes of the band were used again -- electronically treated vocals, some provided by Speak and Spell toys; crisp rhythm blips; basslines and beats; haunting, quirky melodies -- there's a ready liveliness to the songs, like the addictive "Pocket Calculator," with its perfectly deadpan portrait of "the operator" and his favourite tool, and the almost winsome "Computer Love." Cannily, the lyrical focus on newly accessible technology instead of cryptic futurism and vanished pasts matched this new of-the-now stance, and the result was a perfect balance between the new world of the album title and a withdrawn, bemused consideration of that world. The title track itself, with its lists detailing major organisations presumably all wired up, echoes the flow of Trans-Europe Express, serene and pondering. "Pocket Calculator" itself is more outrageously fun, thanks to the technical observation that "by pressing down a special key it plays a little melody." Others would take the band's advances and run with them, but with Computer World Kraftwerk -- over a decade on from their start -- demonstrated how they had stayed not merely relevant, but prescient, when nearly all their contemporaries had long since burned out.
Side A
1. Computer World 5:06
2. Pocket Calculator 4:57
3. Numbers 3:20
4. Computer World 2 3:25
Side B
1. Computer Love 7:19
2. Homecomputer 6:21
3. It's More Fun To Compute 4:16
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
| Availability: |
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| Year of Release: |
2020 |
| Artist: |
Kraftwerk (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Computer World (click here for more of the same title) |
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| Format: |
vinyl LP album (LP record) |
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| Record Label: |
Parlophone |
| Catalogue No: |
5099996602317 |
| Country of Origin: |
UK
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
09 October 2020
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
KRALPCO753969 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
190295272302 |
| Genres: |
Electronica, 80s/90s German artists
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| Related Artists: |
Aarchaeologists, Elektric Music, Karl Bartos, Kraftwelt, Mobile Homes (Karl Bartos), Organisation, Our Heaven, Senor Coconut, Superior, Wolfgang Flür, Wolfgang Riechmann, Yamo |
| Complete Stock List: |
Kraftwerk |
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| Alternative Names: |
KRAFTWORK |
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7-track remastered LP pressed on <FONT COLOR
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- their eighth studio album first released in 1981, including
the single Computer World. Picture sleeve with 16-page
booklet inside, German language hype sticker & factory
sealed) )
