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Who are the best bands/artists who claim to be inspired by Kraftwerk?

― d, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

This is going to be a loooong thread.

― Captain Typo (kenan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

every band with a synthesizer to thread

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Goldfrapp admit it openly here...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

808 State, esp. '808080808', 'Lift' and 'Nephatiti' where the hooks are really stark but wonderful and mysterious

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Public Enemy

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

They aren't inspired by Kraftwerk.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

uh, anybody who was ever on Def Jam pre-1990 was inspired by Kraftwerk. At least by way of Afrika Bambaataa

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

nickalicious circa 1999 - 2001

― not nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Ladytron is the most obvious one for me.... How about Senor Coconut? I know it's heresy but I enjoy his albums of Kraftwerk covers better than the original (that doesn't mean I think they are better though...)

― Jacobo, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i'll meet "every band with a synthesizer to thread" and "anybody who was ever on Def Jam pre-1990" and raise you Texas Instruments

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

read Russell Simmons autobiog

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Afrika Bambaataa

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Komputer, Elektroids, Kraftwelt ... oh, you did say best. never mind.

Bambaataa OTM.

― summerslastsound, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

lets cut it short.

You cannot make electronic music in the west without being influenced by Kraftwerk. Avoiding their influence is like trying to speak English for a year without ever using the word "the".

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

SI BEGG 'EUROSTAR' and all the S.I. Futures stuff

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

But who WITHOUT electronic instruments is inspired by Kraftwerk? (And I don't mean covering their songs. I mean, like, has Kraftwerk's influence changed the way any guitar rock bands -- ones who don't use synthesizers -- *sound*? I honestly don't know the answer to this question. At least not right now.) (And I'm thinking that being influenced by that early album or two when Kraftwerk were a guitar rock band THEMSELVES -- if I'm remembering German history correctly, which I may well not be, and if so say so -- shouldn't really count. Though I'm not sure if any rock bands are influenced by that stuff, either. I'M DEFINITELY not, since I've never heard those albums.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

influenced by Kraftwerk's first record = Neu!

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Scorpions

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

david hasselhoff

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Killing Joke, maybe? Joy Division? Early '80 Neu Deutsche Welle stuff like Malaria and Der Plan and Palais Schaumberg and Mekanik Destrutiw Komandoh and Ja Ja Ja* (all of whom may or may not have used electronic instruments; I forget)? (And by the way, does anybody know where I can GET some Mekanik Destructiw Komandoh music? I lost mine.)

* - actually, I might have this band's name wrong. It's been a while.

And what about those first couple UFO albums?

― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Scorpions did "Robot Man"!

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh wait, how about ESG? I wouldn't be at all surprised if they heard "Trans Europe Express" on NY r&b stations in the late '70s.

― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

chemical brothers

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

And...duh, Devo!!!! Boy, I guess THAT one's obvious.

And MX-80 Sound, probably. Maybe some other mid'70s midwestern stuff.
And maybe Talking Heads, too, for that matter. Okay, this is TOO easy.

― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

big black?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Big Black "Fish Fry" vs Scorpions "Another Piece of Meat"

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Not to mention funk bands like BT Express and the Gap Band (at least their "TEE"-rooted train songs), who I think generally opted for guitars and basses over synths. (Plus mid-'80s ZZ Top, obviously.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"Winds of Change" vs "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

And Bohannnon really really really really SOUNDS like he would've been inspired by Kraftwerk, though I'm guessing maybe he wasn't.

― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

OMotherfuckin'D

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Their first album is incredible, psychotic rock and roll. Much closer to Faust than anything else. also check the bootleg of Koln 71 (featuring dinger and rother). They sound like Black Sabbath playing one chord for 30 minutes.

― jl (Jon L), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

(my only point being that the first album inspires me, I guess, and I doubt I'm alone... just as much as the later stuff, sometimes more depending on mood... okay back to the list)

― jl (Jon L), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Stereolab...by way of Neu!...YE-AAH!...k, nevamind

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Telmutherfuckin'ex

hey, that works. it makes telex seem much much tougher.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

David Bowie - "Low"/"Heroes" period

― steve, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Telmutherfuckin'ex
hey, that works. it makes telex seem much much tougher.

-- scott seward (skotro...), August 6th, 2003.

It sounds like something Flav might shout - 'Yo Chuck, telmutherfuckin' ex G! Haha! Yeeeah boy!!!"

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

read in an interview that BJORK listens to 'em

― whoever, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)

N.O.I.A.

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 06:33 (twenty-three years ago)

And oh yeah, last night I remembered Roxy Music, and the Cars, and Voivod (the latter of whom covered "Radioactivity," I think.)

― chuck, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

You cannot make electronic music in the west without being influenced by Kraftwerk. Avoiding their influence is like trying to speak English
for a year without ever using the word "the".
Naw. I'm sure there are about a million artists (give or take) making electronic music who think Kraftwerk is the place where they make Miracle Whip.
No doubt they're influence by artists who were influenced by Kraftwerk but that ain't really the same. That's like saying, uh, Matchbox 20 is influenced by, uh, Alex Chilton because Rob Thomas owns a copy of Automatic For the People.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Queen Latifah:

"I probably fell in love with [hip-hop] the first time I heard it, although I can't remember what the first record was. I'd say in the late '70s or early '80s. Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was "Planet Rock," and the other had no lyrics—it was called "Numbers," from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that the creepy track from Computer World where they're just counting in German?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Naw. I'm sure there are about a million artists (give or take) making electronic music who think Kraftwerk is the place where they make Miracle Whip.

It doesn't matter. I am sure there are a million kids playing rock and roll who don't give a shit about Chuck Berry. Like Chuck Berry, Kraftwerk are so ingrained in the vernacular of electronic music that you really cannot speak the language with out invoking their presence. You don't have to know or like Chuck Berry to play rock, but you can never escape his influence.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

is carl craig's landcruising worth tracking down?

― d, Sunday, 10 August 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

It is decent but I would recommend picking up Elements or Programmed before you get Landcrusing.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 10 August 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

seventeen years pass...

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― soref, Saturday, 15 August 2020 07:44 (six years ago)

of course I would never, ever advocate for the guilotining of Jared, but if that were to come to pass somehow, his long, sturdy neck would make the executioner's job that much easier.

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 August 2020 09:01 (six years ago)

posh boy lemon,if that's a man machine I vote luddite.

Anyway I didn't see Einstruzende Neubauten in the list of bands taht were influenced by Kraftwerk and they told me they were.

Also did Troublefunk cover trans Europe Express

― Stevolende, Saturday, 15 August 2020 09:21 (six years ago)

thinking about negative synonyms for machine earlier and i land on Lemon before tool. I think lemon may be specifically cars and may be a little archaic

― Stevolende, Saturday, 15 August 2020 10:57 (six years ago)

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— mike watt (@wattfrompedro) May 21, 2020

― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Saturday, 15 August 2020 16:10 (six years ago)

Also did Troublefunk cover trans Europe Express

Yes they did:

― Boring, Maryland, Saturday, 15 August 2020 20:11 (six years ago)

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