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From: PatOConnell <gypkap.figureit...@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 22:03:30 -0500

Local: Sat, May 17 2008 11:03 pm

Subject: Re: Kraftwerk - Autobahn

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Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band wrote:

> Scott M. Kozel wrote:
>> "Schrödinger's Cat Surprise! Jazz Band" <raashan...@ndki.rk> wrote:
>>> Oscar Voss wrote:

>>>> Later, a German-speaking colleague listening to the song in my car
>>>> assured me that the German lyrics for "Autobahn" are just as insipid as
>>>> the ones for the songs Kraftwerk does in English.
>>> Well, it's not a song ya listen to for it's lyrical profundity, no :)

>> The idea was for the lyrics to have a 'mechanical' sound to them.

>> This video describes the electronic instruments that were used to make
>> piece --
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y

> In '74 it was the cat's meow, and even now, Kraftwerk still sounds
> original, never mind that they were likely the grandfathers of a variety
> of music(Techno, Ambient, House-to an extent).

I used to have the LP and listened to it a lot. I don't have the
Autobahn CD or an MP3. Amazon sells an MP3, but I dunno if it's iPod
compatible or not.

To Oscar Voss, who made the comment that the lyrics are pretty banal in
German: they were intended to be banal, stream of consciousness stuff
that you might think about (like turning on the radio) as you fahren auf
der Autobahn.

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