Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

Tag: kraftwerk

Schtuf

Listen to this. Billy was playing with Kingfish(?) in ’85 and the van got snuck in a snowstorm, so–naturally–Billy took the opportunity to do his stand-up.

Read this. Why? Cuz it contains this graf:

But there is more to the Cybernetic Inevitable than this sont of methanasia. There are, in the words of the Poet, “machines of loving grace.” There is, hovering dean far from the burnt metal reek of exploded stars, the intricate balm of Kraftwerk….

Stop drinking cough syrup, Lester.

Read this, too. It’s Lost Live Dead. If you need me to tell you why you should be reading Lost Live Dead, then you’re fucked, Jim.

Watch this:

Life On Mars, Perfect Day, Madman Across The Water, Get It On, and Hey Jude: all the same Bechstein piano.

And watch this man:

Krafty, And Just My Type

Florian Schnitzel–

Schneider.

–died today; the great Jesse Jarnow hips us all to this pristine SBD of their 5/7/75 show at the P.N.E. Garden Auditorium in Vancouver, BC. Kraftwerk’s music is both relaxing and unsettling, like taking a nap on a couch made of human skin. Kraftwerk’s music also won, at least in terms of influence. Every deejay sounds like this nowadays. Zeppelin was much bigger in ’75 than Der Werk, but only one band sounds like Zeppelin now and we all make fun of them for it. You could release this on Spotify under the name DJ Klaus von Bulow and no one would know it was 45 years old. It is au courant, or however you say au courant in German.

Questions do arise, though. Look at this bullshit:

How fucking popular were Kraftwerk in North America? Was Kraftwerk really drawing as many kids as the Dead? (And, yes, I know the Dead technically wasn’t drawing anyone in 1975; don’t be pedantic.) They’re playing the same venues, so they must have drawn around the same amount of fans. How many Kraftwerk fans could there have possibly been in Nebraska in 1975? Was their midwestern popularity, somehow, fallout from Watergate? Why hasn’t Werner Herzog done a documentary about Kraftwerk like Scorsese did about Dylan? Ooh, or Can. I DEMAND WERNER HERZOG MAKE A CAN MOVIE.

Stop yelling into the void.

I’d rather yell at the servants, but I ate them.

As is your right.

As is my right.