For those Americans who just don´t get it:
[quote]orion wrote:
For those Americans who just don´t get it:
Surreal…The germanic music world in those years was redeemed by Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream.
[quote]orion wrote:
For those Americans who just don´t get it:
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A culture capable of producing this is capable of anything.
thats a disturbing video.
[quote]entheogens wrote:
orion wrote:
For those Americans who just don´t get it:
Surreal…The germanic music world in those years was redeemed by Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream.
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There were many redeemers, most notable was Can, in my opinion.
The horror…
This is the Austrian version of Hee Haw and the Lawrence Welk Show all rolled into one.
I honestly don’t get it. What was the point of posting this? Help me understand, cus i surely dont.
[quote]kaaleppi wrote:
There were many redeemers, most notable was Can, in my opinion.
Wow. I listened to that video. Hell, I had never even heard of Can before. Definitely a precursor to Punk!
I was in Berlin in 1976 (I was 16 at the time) and I heard some really cool music, though I don’t remember any names.
I see Can did some soundtracks for Wim Wender’s movies and, indeed, their sound reminds of another who has done Wender’s soundtracks, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Kraftwerk was also very influential and a precursor to, well, much of everything that there is today. I listened to Authobahn the other day for the first time in years, and I realized what a piece of genius it was.
BTW, since you are from Finland, that same Summer I was in Berlin, I also went to Finland (Helsinki and Joensuu) chasing after a girl.
I propose that the U.S. invades Austria, and installs a pop-culture more agreeable to America than what is currently there.
[quote]entheogens wrote:
Kraftwerk was also very influential and a precursor to, well, much of everything that there is today. I listened to Authobahn the other day for the first time in years, and I realized what a piece of genius it was.
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Autobahn changed my life when I was 12. Great album.
[quote]orion wrote:
For those Americans who just don´t get it:
Let the Muslims have Europe. And, yeah, enlighten us as to wtf that had to do with anything. Are you trying to tell us you’re trapped in a country full of loonys?
Move to America. And listen to …
Now THERE’S some fucking music!!!
[quote]entheogens wrote:
Kraftwerk was also very influential and a precursor to, well, much of everything that there is today. I listened to Authobahn the other day for the first time in years, and I realized what a piece of genius it was.
BTW, since you are from Finland, that same Summer I was in Berlin, I also went to Finland (Helsinki and Joensuu) chasing after a girl.
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Oh, in the summer of '76 I was 13, no girls for me, I was more interested in shooting small birds with an airgun.
I listened just a couple of days ago on an BBC radio documentary, that I downloaded from the net, about the importance of Kraftwerk for todays music. They wondered why Kraftwerk hasn’t made new music since 1986, and came to the conclusion that Kraftwerks vision had been too accurate, they couldn’t develop their vision further, since it had become reality around them. Or something like that. Those rock journalists sure like to talk.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
orion wrote:
For those Americans who just don´t get it:
Let the Muslims have Europe. And, yeah, enlighten us as to wtf that had to do with anything. Are you trying to tell us you’re trapped in a country full of loonys?
Move to America. And listen to …
Now THERE’S some fucking music!!!
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You should have picked something from the 70’s to represent america, like the Carpenters for example 
That was quite disturbing.
And there I was thinking the Moroccan Eurovision entry was so awful it couldn’t be beat.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Move to America. And listen to …
Now THERE’S some fucking music!!!
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I don’t know if that was supposed to be sarcasm but damn, I’m moving to Detroit!!
Here, this is some Atmosphere from MN to calm people down after that.
[quote]kaaleppi wrote:
You should have picked something from the 70’s to represent america, like the Carpenters for example ;)[/quote]
Yeah, among American groups, Carpenters are among those on the bottom of the pile. The Osmond Brothers have to be down there, too. Not to mention such abortions as the Partridge Family.
That same Summer of 1976 when I was in Finland, I also spent some time in Sweden. Unfortunately, Abba was pretty much at their peak, and their music was ubiquitous in Sweden.
Among English groups, for some reason, I find it embarassing to mention that I used to listen to Peter Frampton. Whenever I hear his songs nowadays, I wonder how I could have had such poor taste.
The Bee Gees have to be at the top of the shit list for Australian groups (although I guess they were originally English).
[quote]kaaleppi wrote:
They wondered why Kraftwerk hasn’t made new music since 1986, and came to the conclusion that Kraftwerks vision had been too accurate, they couldn’t develop their vision further, since it had become reality around them. Or something like that. Those rock journalists sure like to talk.[/quote]
Yes, but I think they have a point. You can only be so far ahead of your time and then you have to wait for others to catch up. I can remember people listening to Kraftwerk in the mid 70s and a lot of them hated it. It was too advanced. Of course, the same things were said about Gothic Cathedrals, like Notre Dame de Paris, when it was first built. With that kind of negative feedback from so many, it’s easy to become disheartened. Also once you have exploded so many paradigms, its hard to find a course to follow.
As I’ve written before, when I first heard Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” at the age of 13, I seriously thought that it was so good that it was the end of music…that, everything would be a descrescendo after that album. I imagined that musicians would just throw out their electric guitars and you would see them on trash day lining the streets like disposed Christmas Trees the week after Christmas.