yacsfc (July 9, 2008 at 3:27 am)

Is that Joe Namath on the left at 3:26?

dcbf87 (July 8, 2008 at 6:49 am)

i agree with nutster9000...we were exposed(if lucky) to forms of music which are now used as lego pieces and taken for granted

KronprinzAdam (July 7, 2008 at 3:08 pm)

Märklin, a german producer of miniature trains, still produces the TEE model. I saw the Schienenzeppelin in one Märklin catalog. In fact, Germany has produced very advanced electric trains since long time ago.

DudeLove6221 (July 7, 2008 at 9:42 am)

Actually there has been a network called Trans Europ Express (TEE), which has been 20 years in operation at the time of the Kraftwerk album. The network covered Western Europe and provides mainly 1st class service.The train in the video is a Schienenzeppelin (rail zeppelin), an experimental railcar developed in 1929 which has been propelled by an airplane propeller at the rear.

nutster9000 (July 7, 2008 at 12:30 am)

I will never forget the time at school (I was 16 during 86 when Electric Cafe had been released) and I took a copy of Computer World into music class since we usually had the chance to share our tastes in music. Every one else was into either new romantic, Euro soft rock or heavy metal. Well I put this on and and I dont think that any-one in the room could understand what they where hearing. They all thought I was nuts! Now look at the state of modern music. Nothing now has the same effect!

chiselhammer (July 6, 2008 at 10:24 pm)

anybody who knows anything about hip hop , knows Kraftwerk. I despise/hate modern day hip hop Soulja Boy ( however the fuck you spell it) I dig these cats . check out (Nautilus) by Bob James .

A86 (July 6, 2008 at 2:21 pm)

I think Kraftwerk was really ahead of their time as well for creating a song about a rail service that goes across all of Europe. This was released back in 1977 during the Cold War when a Trans-Europe railway would have been damn near impossible to make and out of the question. Now that Europe is uniting, such a thing might be possible today. :)

onparole21 (July 5, 2008 at 9:02 am)

kraftwerk not really givin credit.very influential in early hip hop music.

DudeLove6221 (July 4, 2008 at 10:42 pm)

Just one thing: If you want to look up the "Netkous", you should add "Den Haag" in your query, because the name is actually the Dutch word for fish-net stockings...The citizens came up with the name, because the viaduct looks like that, you know?

DudeLove6221 (July 4, 2008 at 10:35 pm)

I´ve been recently several times in The Hague in the Netherlands. I mention that because the city is looking more and more just like the futuristic city in this video (0:42-1:00 and from 3:47 to the end), right to the elevated railways (for instance the viaduct "Netkous"). This is astonishing because the video is 30 years old and skyscrapers in the Netherlands were just since 1990 built on a grand scale.