Kraftwerk - Metropolis

[alexnordh]

@trotta... how true, its the 70ies thats their golden era, then they have become like the rolling stones of electronica : still best, but aaaaalllllwayyys the same.

[Jarren202]

meeee-tooooo-pollisss

[hiimbrady]

ooooh I miss Europe.

*American

Although we were born from Europe, we have so much to learn from the sense of order and efficiency... try finding a nice WC in an American train station!

[katrastrophy]

@hiimbrady I feel the same , I miss the old world ways . Assimilating back into American 'culture' (for lack of better term) was ultra difficult. And some of the people here....sigh. I agree when Americans say "if'n ya don't like er' then LEAVE!" They are right and I plan on taking their advice soon enough.

[lowproductions92]

Steampunk before Steampunk was cool.

[Bandido698]

Always loved that siren with echo on the left side 3.42.

It's humming right next to my left ear.

[franckygoestomagudas]

where is Trans Europe Express ???

[gmj2012]

I always love how their songs start, but then they get monotonous with their vocals & sound after the build up. I wish they did more of these unusual percussion sounds throughout the songs, not just at the beginning. I've been importing their music over 20 years, but these days rarely buy them anymore because they have never matured in style, too much of the same sound song after song. :-( They were the innovators too, not anymore tho.

[TrottaVonSipolje]

@gmj2012 This is...true. There ist only stagnation since the man machine 1979. Kraftwerk were innovative in their Krautrock years and then in the transmission from rock into electronica in the second half of the 70s. However, since they started their robot image, they became boring. R+F know that, but they like the money too, so they continue being robots. Unfortuneately they call their best early 70s music "stone age" and distance from it. Maybe a reason for their recent split up.

[gmj2012]

@TrottaVonSipolje No wonder they don't get as much play anymore either, it's just not passionate or creative enough to grab attention anymore. This happens often in groups who try to become more mainstream, or even pop-ish, instead of holding on to what made them such a unique group & a success in the 1st place. Giving in to pressure to sound more generic should never be an option, unfortunately it too often is.

[v73k1]

This song is so Blade Runner. (1:39)

[SuperSteelydanfan]

@v73k1 NO ITS NOT-----

[needstoregister]

The hammering man with the skyscrapers in the background is sublime profundity.

[sabu85]

1:50 is that berlin hauptbahnhof?

[johnstearne]

Listen who gives a fuck about the hammering FUCKING MAN????? just listen to the best band of our time and shut the fuck up .Respect to the teutonic Knights.

[ludicer]

this was released 1978!!!! I can't believe it

[PowerCrumb45]

@ludicer

wow really revolutionary!!

[kojikisho]

the hammering man is not from dusseldorf my friend, that's Seattle frigin Washington State In America!

[PowerCrumb45]

@kojikisho

I thought that's the hammering man in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. But after some reserach I saw that the same sculpture was installed in various cities all over the world

[mrv65]

Awesome

[sokomokomo]

seiner zeit weit weit voraus...fast 20 jahre..respekt kraftwerk

[chelito19play]

Esto es música electrónica...!!!

[Jens010761]

It is nice

[Guenter077]

thats not a german band ..they are from swiss :-)

[IONCannon82]

These guys sound more like they came from a test tube on a space station than from Düsseldorf.

[graing]

anyone know of a kraftwork track that had the words mench natur technic in it???

heard on mtv chill out zone years and years ago!

been searching for ages... :-(

[Nagelbrett]

@graing

The words "Mensch", "Natur", "Technik" are in Kraftwerk`s song "Expo 2000"

[digitalmasterdata]

GERMANY HAS ALOT OF INTERESTING DATA ! :) ITS JUST SEEING AROUND THING AND SEE WHATS UP ON THEIR DIGITAL NETWORK

[gilmourish]

This track has, what,more than 15 years? It still sounds very modern, perfect to drop on a techno set.

[McLarenMercedes]

@gilmourish

32 years. Made in 1978. Back then it was practically sci-fi music.

[XXplaythegamesXX]

wir waren in der nähe von düsseldorfer kling-klang-studio,wenn kraftwerk neue lieder aufgenommen haben....alles live,alles so neu,wir waren immer die ersten...das war ne geile zeit.mit dem cassettenrecorder draussen aufgenommen,so laut war es.alle aufnahmen habe ich noch !!!!!..die sind unbezahlbar,glaubt es mir.,

[elevenstar]

@XXplaythegamesXX

WOW! Tolle Erfahrung/Geschichte! Für einen KRAFTWERK-Fan ein unermessliches Glück!

[zmansporscheboxster]

This video reminds me of my time in Germany (Spangdahlem, Air Base) July 1998-Oct 2000. I was in the Air Force, I had a little Porsche 924. Germany is Awesome so much to do and excellent climate all year round. Octoberfest in Munich 1999 I did not drink beer until Octoberfest. Kraftwerk rules!!

-Zman.

[olliekor]

@zmansporscheboxster you fag i can't believe your a german, you fag your such a fag ball you are fagtastic ball of fag this is the music that i ride your ma too.... FAG

[2001Randomkid]

AWSOME

[70arancia]

Grandissimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiCENTRALE ELETTRICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[agusravegdl]

best track of them. very nice to trip with shrooms

[Trigo091]

Metro polis fokin cabrones te piden el ticket

[digitalmasterdata]

@Trigo091 LOL por lo menos ahi es de pasajeros ! yo tengo un tren casi a lado de mi casa pero es de carga y solo trae indocumentados de centroamerica que pasan por la ciudad de zacatecas para llegar a usa ! :)

[EA78751]

the bassline in this song appears to have been re-used by Saveur Mallia for 'Robot Avenue' (1980)

[16mmDJ]

SEATTLE!

[utyiortungheiske]

Germans are strange.

[309335503]

this song makes me go insaine when im high

[vucko558]

The final stage of a mortal combat between mankind and capitalism is in progress. A specificity of capitalism is that, in contrast to "classical" barbarism (which is of destructive, murderous and plundering nature), it annihilates life by creating a "new world" - a "technical civilization" and an adequate, dehumanized and denaturalized man. Capitalism has eradicated man from his (natural) environment and has cut off the roots through which he had drawn life-creating force.

[TrottaVonSipolje]

@vucko558

Nonsense.

If you connect Kraftwerk with politics, you will never understand their music.

[vucko558]

@TrottaVonSipolje

Kraftwerk criticizing "technical civilisation" with their music. It is not politics, it is philosophy.

[bearbeitungsgebuehr]

@vucko558

if thats true they are victim of their self and that's why we love them...hmmm, yes, thats possible :)

sorry for my bad english

[speeedskater]

I love the video shots of Köln, I am always ready to go back and drink more kölsh

[BoyArgentina]

Das finde ich geil! Danke für das Video!

[epics7]

when i hear this, favors, giorgio moroder's "i feel love" with donna summer.

[plastikshit]

timeless-

[Technicolor909]

this song seriously makes me think I'm walking around a metropolitan supercity where man and machine commute routinely, no one is free and everyone works from first light to last light. Yeah.

[antiRigoSurferStar]

kraftwerk!!!

es lo mejor!

[Rainsynth415]

Very nice track...

[Plexpara]

everytime i listen to kraftwerk i must think about the old super nintendo games from japan with a sound like that.

sound like the "yellow magic orchestra".

love that music

[crashmen]

War ne echt coole sache bevor ich 1983 Meteors entdeckt hatte.

[viktbiro]

kraftwerk legjobb száma

[JaimeJavierAD]

KRAFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTWERRRRRRRRK

[olliekor]

@JaimeJavierAD fagFAGfagFAGfagFAGfag... FAG

[olliekor]

GERMANY WAS BETTER BACK IN THE DAY BEFORE 1945... FAG

[singoking]

Metropolis / The Man Machine album / 1978

Vangelis / Blade Runner Soundtrack / 1982

[phlogiston08]

Yes. Search the Vangelis' end theme to Blade Runner. YOu will definitely hear the similarities. They were obviously influenced. Since Ridley Scott et al said thats what they were going for in the film, too--the Metropolis influence.

[badreligionbomb]

@phlogiston08 hahaha he was talking about the MOVIE Metropolis hahahaha Jesus Christ

[kukenimunnen]

@phlogiston08 LOL. Read a book.

[zx10bez]

this is one of my fav kraftwerk tracks!!...excellent!!

[Tittlekopf]

The hammering Man at the beginning is also standing in Basel in Switzerland..

[TekFreak86]

Thanks for your help. I didn´t know it´s actually called "Hammering Man".

According to wikipedia it´s a statue by Jonathan Borofsky and there are also duplicates in Seattle, Seoul, Dallas & New York. The one in the beginning seems to be from Frankfurt.

Enjoy Kraftwerk!

[TekFreak86]

Hey trichoone!

Great vid! It suits the atmosphere of the song perfectly! Just a question: The statue in the beginning swinging the hammer (awesome picture btw), where is it from? Düsseldorf like it says on the poster afterwards? It just stuns me ^^

Thanks a lot for uploading! Keep it up!

[trichoone]

thankyou , not sure where it came from it was just at random picked from the internet .

[CosbyKid]

@trichoone It's the "Hammering Man". I didn't realize there was more than the one we have in Seattle in front of the Seattle Art Museum.

[CosbyKid]

@trichoone It's the "Hammering Man". I didn't realize there was more than the one we have in Seattle in front of the Seattle Art Museum but apparently they're all over the world.

[Lootshi]

@trichoone Frankfurt..

[DanteAIighieri]

@TekFreak86

one of theses statues is in frankfurt, look up wikipedia for "hammering man"

[abinjojo]

@TekFreak86 the moving statue in the begining is from outside the seattle art museum.

[zyclonb6]

@abinjojo also found in Korea

[johorridoh]

@TekFreak86 That is in front of the Frankfurt ( Main) trade fair

lookforgoogle.de/maps?f=q&sour­ce=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Frankf­urt+Messe&aq=&sll=51.2441,6.85­948&sspn=0.01221,0.033023&ie=U­TF8&hq=&hnear=Messe&z=16&iwloc­=A

[Dzotshen]

@TekFreak86 The sculpture is Hammering Man located in Seattle.

[Fradiavolo67]

@TekFreak86

The statue is in Frankfurt (see wiki "Hammering Man")

[peephole2008]

@TekFreak86 the statue swinging the hammer is in frankfurt am main in front of the messe-turm at the international fair exhibitions center (friedrich-ebert-anlage). :)

[MyJano97]

@TekFreak86 , I think, it's the Hammering Man, he stands in Frankfurt am Main, Basel, Seattel, Seoul.

[petar0500]

@TekFreak86 The statue in the beginning is in Frankfurt am main. This is the big one,but there is also smaller statue like this.

[sbstnkhlr]

@TekFreak86

That's the "Hammering Man" in Frankfurt by Jonathan Borofsky. It's the first of a series of statues installed in various cities around the world.

[sbstnkhlr]

@TekFreak86

That's the "Hammering Man" in Frankfurt by Jonathan Borofsky. It's the first of a series of statues installed in various cities around the world.

[mccail9]

Nice film, enjoyed the tour and it makes me want to visit Germany again. Danke; Matt aus

Edinbourg. Reminded me how different

your architecture is.

[kalsikum]

wow it really feels like metropolis

[actron]

excellent job making this video, cool all the way through. I liked the stills at the beginng and then the video starting when the beat comes in. great job. 5 stars

[Miilevskaya]

4711?? eu tenho uma!!!!

[fehercsongor]

This is really cyberpunk.

[chingonote]

pre bladerunner.great stuff , before its time.

[epics7]

More like Fritz Lange influence. Both.

[McLarenMercedes]

this song would have been great in Bladerunner

although Vangelis probably was very influenced by Kraftwerk in this period

[shockinglybad]

Wow, now that you mention it, the end credits music sounds very similar to this track.

[ady10001]

Something hypnotic about looking through a train window!

[n4120p]

Very nice video of Germany with Kraftwerk music goes along with the train ride. thank you .

E.B.

[malkata06]

They are the BEST!!!

[Chernuschka]

Yes, yes best music ever. What a great number. To bad Karl Bartos and Wolfgang leaved Kraftwerk. Afther that i never heard that song again live. Florian also left now but never the less Kraftwerk 4 ever

[maskedmovieman]

Florian has left? Oh no! Where did you get this info from?

[jaisinator]

Kraftwerk-ish music would be so fitting for a non-linear adventure game...

[mondx]

das mit den kölner impressionnen kann man ja durchgehen lassen.... wirklich super-schön gemacht

[okoskutya35]

wow..the best trans music ever

[vtrdgs]

Será que esta musica tem algo a ver com o filme Metropolis

[JackMcKnight]

I think one of the reasons I adore Kraftwerk so much is that many of their songs remind of an epic NES soundtrack that never was. A bit of nostalgia for dreams. This may just be the way my media-soaked minded processes things, but I assure you, I rank Kraftwerk right up there with oxygen and the Sun.

[Bitchylad]

Spot-on ;)

[kraftwerk3801]

@JackMcKnight wow! great coment!!

[Antillektuell]

also wirklich bein nem lied von ner düsseldorfer band den kölner bahnhof zeigen nee nee nee ;)

[ipiob]

hahaha. a mix of tee + metroplis.

a mini tour into germany

beatiful country

nice sound

[mrv65]

Amazing classic.

[softwareater]

masterpiece

[ericvanderheijden]

From what year was this....?

Love the build up and sequence!

[4methyst]

1978

[WolfgangAmadeusF]

Incredible

[inreanre]

The real Rheingold !

[Hakamoto]

This song has an incredible live version from 1981. You can find it here on youtube, but does anyone know if you can download it anywhere (the live version)?

[SeaDevilLagoon]

I have it on mp3. If you give me your msn i will be happy to send. :)

[navyboydjray]

With out Kraftwerk there would be no Trance, House or hip-hop as we know it. Give it up for the god fathers of techno!

[POUKXO]

DO: FULL SCREEN

[OlafTorkland]

use Game Cam!!! Х)

[themizaru]

the pioneers of techno

[marutij]

kraftwerk are gifted and i dont think there will ever be music that surpases them in future

[20051115]

agree!

[philokiko]

puta que pariu que viagem , estou alucinadooooooooooooo

[Tuemckey]

only Kraftwerk could've come up with such incredible music for that time(and still remaining a lot better than most of the nowadays output of music we see in stores)...........too bad they only had fewer albums than the other pioneers in electronic music.....

[shiki5876]

But this is tempered by the fact that virtually every piece they did was a gem.

The fact they are relatively few makes each one of them priceless!

[Tuemckey]

well, there's nothing better than listening on replay Neon Lights, so simple , yet so complex and grabbing....damn geniuses these people. when are we gonna witness anything like them anytime soon? cheers

[ruth7784]

have you heard of Daft Punk?

[rainbowtroutbrown]

one of their best,and i have had loads of to choose from

[WarpLover]

What a tune!

Kraftwerk For Life!

[Worsthoofd]

Amen to that!

[tps607]

JA!