Kraftwerk Computer World - Yellow Vinyl UK Vinyl LP
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KRAFTWERK Computer World (2020 UK/EU limited edition 7-track remastered LP pressed on Translucent Neon Yellow Vinyl - their eighth studio album first released in 1981, including the single Computer World. Picture sleeve with 16-page booklet inside. The sleeve and contents all remainin Nesr Mint condition. A great copy!)
TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
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matched this new of-the-now stance, and the result was a perfect balance between the new world of the album title and a withdrawn, bemused consideration of that world.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
Artist - Kraftwerk (click link for complete listing)
Title - Computer World (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2020
Original Year of Release - 1981
Format - vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label - Parlophone
Catalogue No - 5099996602317 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Deleted, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 190295272302
Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - KRALPCO869879
Alternative Names - Kraftwork.
Related Artists - Aarchaeologists, Elektric Music, Karl Bartos, Kraftwelt, Mobile Homes (Karl Bartos), Organisation, Our Heaven, Senor Coconut, Superior, Wolfgang FlΓΌr, Wolfgang Riechmann, Yamo.
GENRES
Electronica, 80s/90s German artists.
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RareVinyl.com Reference Number - KRALPCO869879
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TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
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
Artist - Kraftwerk (click link for complete listing)
Title - Computer World (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2020
Original Year of Release - 1981
Format - vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label - Parlophone
Catalogue No - 5099996602317 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Deleted, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 190295272302
Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - KRALPCO869879
Alternative Names - Kraftwork.
Related Artists - Aarchaeologists, Elektric Music, Karl Bartos, Kraftwelt, Mobile Homes (Karl Bartos), Organisation, Our Heaven, Senor Coconut, Superior, Wolfgang FlΓΌr, Wolfgang Riechmann, Yamo.
GENRES
Electronica, 80s/90s German artists.
REFERENCE
Email - sales@rarevinyl.com to contact our sales team.
RareVinyl.com Reference Number - KRALPCO869879
SELL TO US
Got vinyl records, CDs or music memorabilia to sell? β Sell to us at our buying site https://vinyl-wanted.com