Talk (does anybody know the song of Kraftwerk...)

[apagario]

Hallo I'm new in this room and I wanna know from which song from Kraftwerk comes the song TALK from Coldplay. Does anybody know it?

 

weisst jemanden welches Lied ist Talk von Kraftwerk?

 

Bueno, y en mi idioma ¿de que canción del grupo alemán Kraftwerk viene Talk de Coldplay?

 

Thank u so much. Danke schön.

[*Justine*]

Computer Love?

 

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17529&highlight=kraftwerk

[Professor Peedston]

I wonder how many people are being exposed to Kraftwerk for the first time thanks to Coldplay?

 

That's something I wouldn't have predicted in a thousand years. :confused:

[Insimbi]

I've never heard of Kraftwerk till this forum. Hehe... :)

[sika]

noob :P

 

:D

[gentleparachute]

I wonder how many people are being exposed to Kraftwerk for the first time thanks to Coldplay?

 

That's something I wouldn't have predicted in a thousand years. :confused:

 

Me for one.

 

I'd heard of them before but never felt compelled to know more...

 

Does anyone have Computer Love?

[Professor Peedston]

I have the album Computer World that Computer Love is on, but it's on vinyl, sooo... I can't really send you an mp3 or anything. :P

 

Anyway, Kraftwerk are/were a great group, so I'm glad for any exposure they get. :cool: (although I don't know if I would recommend them to the average Coldplay fan...)

[who cares?]

my GOD!

 

you people dont know who Kraftwerk is?

 

i was a Kraftwerk fan before i was a coldplay fan....

 

 

kraftwerk is probably one of the most important bands in the world... without them, electronic music would not exist today.... you should give them a try.....

[Professor Peedston]

Not just electronic either... I'd say pretty much all of pop music in the 1980's would have been vastly different without the influence of Kraftwerk. Not to mention hip hop (oddly enough... four pasty Germans weren't exactly the most likely to change that genre).

[TimeIsOnYourSide]

its on iTunes

[Anam]

I think Kraftwerk are having a bit of revival. U2 have done Neon Lights also. I always would have said that U2 and Coldplay were a million miles from Kraftwerk!

[who cares?]

Not just electronic either... I'd say pretty much all of pop music in the 1980's would have been vastly different without the influence of Kraftwerk. Not to mention hip hop (oddly enough... four pasty Germans weren't exactly the most likely to change that genre).

 

yeah, i agree....

 

in some ways, they were just as influential as The Beatles.......

[gentleparachute]

Not just electronic either... I'd say pretty much all of pop music in the 1980's would have been vastly different without the influence of Kraftwerk. Not to mention hip hop (oddly enough... four pasty Germans weren't exactly the most likely to change that genre).

 

yeah, i agree....

 

in some ways, they were just as influential as The Beatles.......

 

Why then doesn't anyone mention them in the same breath as all the influential groups mentioned above, lets say The Beatles, U2, the Police etc? I mean, I've never seen them named as influential, not even in non-pop mag references (e.g. music textbooks) that DO mention people like the Police & even (gasp!) Phil Collins... :o

[Professor Peedston]

Because half the people who steal from Kraftwerk don't know they're stealing from Kraftwerk. When people heard Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock," for instance, everybody thought it was the coolest thing ever, and revolutionized rap music, and all that, and set out imitating it, not knowing that he'd taken the "melody" from Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" and the rhythm track from "Numbers," and THAT was what they were actually imitating.

 

The other reason is that most people only know a lot about rock or pop music, and Kraftwerk couldn't have been farther from rock, and barely counted as pop most of the time. Electronic music still seems to be regarded by a lot of people as just repetetive trance music for people in raves or something, essentially a mild distraction from "real" music (and this is a generalization, but I think that's especially true among the type of people who would buy Phil Collins records). And I think that carries over in music magazines and music textbooks (I just looked in my popular music history textbook out of curiosity, and Kraftwerk are mentioned twice, both very briefly, once for their influence in hip hop, and once for their influence in the disco movement).

 

To me the suggestion that Phil Collins is somehow more influential than Kraftwerk is hilarious and insulting. :lol:

 

Just listen to them yourself, you might be surprised at how familiar it sounds.

 

That was way longer than it should have been. :rolleyes:

[gentleparachute]

Hey... long's no prob (for me anyway), I love stuff like this... Way too few such discussions :D

 

Yeah I know, the thought of Phil Collins (no disrespect to him / his music) being called influential and ground-breaking is hillarious :lol:

 

Thanks for all this info, it's nice to get to know other viewpoints apart from the "textbooks", which though they try, are by no means complete. Neways, as far as music genres go, I've to admit I'm a bit confused by the electronica movement... Going a bit away from the topic of this thread, but I mean how's it supposed to sound like or what characterises a piece of music as electronica? I've heard the repetitive trance music part, but then VH1 (or was that MTV)'s review of X&Y called it an electronica album... What's with that? Of all the things that have been used to describe Coldplay, I'd never have dreamed electronica would be one... :huh: I still don't understand but I've to admit its pretty cool though: Coldplay = Electronica :cool: