Kraftwerk - Numbers + Computer World (live Sheffield 1991)

[lobsterbox20]

1:15, someone (likely fernando) forgot to turn the numbers on, Karl reaches over and does it for them.

[Astbruchgefahr]

@lobsterbox20 Nah, Karl is next to Ralf. Fernando is turning it on.

[bocchi2008]

most aggressive computer world!

[Metamusik]

There's this wonderful interview where they talk about how they used to go to clubs and when their songs would play they'd "dance our robot dance"... and they where always disappointed, 'cause nobody would join them and the floor would die instantly. Three decades later this is the core of what keeps a floor going.

[Metamusik]

I can never quite get over how good they are. It's almost eerie. The most cutting edge electronic dance music I hear today, some 30 years after they developed Numbers, sounds... well, it sounds almost exactly like this. And it's not in any nostalgic, "Back in the day", "Remember the 80's" kinda way. It's in a "This is the new progressive shit and half of you won't even get it" kinda way.

[minnajima]

最高！！

[mobynick99]

I was at this Sheffield gig all those years ago and if i remember correctly, 95% of the audience were glued to their seats for the whole gig !!! was a strange venue for them to play !!!

[mobynick99]

I was at this Sheffield gig all those years ago and if i remember correctly, 95% of the audience were glued to their seats for the whole gig !!! was a strange venue for them to play !!!

[badtracking]

@mobynick99 I was there too!

[yootoobah1]

look! at 6:47 they spelt medicine wrong!

[CThompson151]

@yootoobah1 good eye i did not see that lol

[yootoobah1]

Rockin!

[russo0068]

OMG.....this still sounds....GREAT! my skin tingles at all the memories of this...just genius!

[JabbaTheJus]

Long live the power plant!!!

[JabbaTheJus]

I was lucky enough to see them earlier this month in Manchester and these tracks were part of their 3D visual show in the 2nd half of the gig.

It doesn't matter when you've seen them, in whatever decade, it will always be a privilege to see the legends of electronica in my opinion.

[technik56]

It's no privelege any more to see Kraftwerk live today!

I had to be a previlege to see them in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Kraftwerk Concerts today are nothing special anymore.

[jozsefhorogh]

I was lucky, I was there in 1991 in Budapest :) I was only 15 years old. Amazing!

[technik56]

it was never better than back in 1991.

[KeepWerking]

Oh yes it was ... back in 1981!

;o)

If you were lucky you were there! :oD

[technik56]

I have bootlegs from both tours and I prefer these more house-flavoured 1991 gigs.

[KeepWerking]

But, for me, being at concerts in the 80's 90's and 00's the 80's concerts were more "alive" .. more "atmosphere" .. more "real" then the others .. and now .. I do not think that those will be beaten nor repeated.

[Metamusik]

@KeepWerking It's a consequence of the technologic development, which Kraftwerk is conceptually bound to. They spent all that time pioneering digital music with sampling in tracks like Boing Boom Tschak and use of plug-ins in Soundtracks, but by the time they'd digitalized their material and sold off their old gear, the world had realized that digital wasn't the end-all-solve-all of music production. There's been a substantial move BACK to the gear they used in the 70's and hybrids thereof.

[Harcix]

amazing live drums

[elohead]

@Harcix I think they should bring the live drums back - at least for some tracks

[neonelectro]

The best band in the world.... PERIOD....