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This is one of my favorite Kraftwerk concert videos.
Also, Can played that show too!
I also really dig this Kraftwerk video from 1971; It’s just Florian Schneider, Klaus Dinger, and Michael Rother, so the band at that point is actually more NEU! than Kraftwerk (though it’s still Kraftwerk’s song):
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I can’t say I am a big Kraftwerk fan, per se. But, I am a huge fan of some of the music inspired by and the genres who evolved from it.
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You must at least enjoy “Pocket Calculator”—if not for the catchiness, then certainly for the goofiness!
English lyrics:
I’m the operator
With my pocket calculator
I am adding
And subtracting
I’m controlling
And composing
By pressing down a special key
It plays a little melody
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OH I certainly appreciate both their inventiveness and their ground breaking sound.
With a lot of early trend setters, they originators sort of started the rough mold, but later iterations “perfected” it. In the genres I like, some rap, techno/electronica, and industrial there are many clear examples. With a group like KMFDM who has spanned decades, their early stuff is a lot less polished than their later stuff.
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I’ve been lucky enough to see Kraftwerk play live 3 times – including their 3D show at the Hollywood Bowl. I’ve always loved them.
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Getting a Marty McFly vibe
also isn’t that a young Angela Merkel with the short blonde hair and glasses?
These men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
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looks like they had fun fun fun
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I saw those guys.
Man I was bored.
They got better! 
(Seriously better)
wow…how good was that!
I thought this was the typical audience reaction to Kraftwerk:
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She was born in East Germany, so probably not our Angela…
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Wore out Europe Endless on my cassette tape. 
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Merkel was born in 1954 in Hamburg (West Germany) and moved to East Germany as an infant when her father, a Lutheran clergyman, received a pastorate in Perleberg.
But no, as the FDJ usually didn’t organise outings to decadent capitalistic pop concerts, thats probably not young Angela Dorothea Kasner in the video.
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never seen this, great live version of Oh Yeah - one of my faves, fantastic thanks - I got so used to this re-mix I almost forgot the original
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That’s pretty close to how I feel about the Parappa The Rapper remix of Can’s b-side “Turtles Have Short Legs”
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