Autobahn i was on it in europe and witnessed a car crash and it was from the tour bus. also i read about this song-somebody ...was this a top 40 hit? also what 10 incher did they release that was chucked out in the middle of the street when i was a child in the 1980's?
longest album version of a top 40 hit-now where is the edited 45 rpm?
Awesome track, who cares how old it is, I was 12 when this was released and my dad came home with this record, there simply was nothing like it at the time ... he had these amazing Kef speakers which could shake the windows from this track and I used to lay next to them for a bass fix lol
Needless to say I have the album in vinyl and was the first CD I even bought, I had to import it from Germany too, for you oldies of course the vinyl sounds a lot better on a good deck :D
Saw these guys at the Paramount in Seattle in '74. They have to be the inventors of "the wall of sound" concept! I felt that concert in my chest for about 2 days after!
When people bring up there age when they mention music from the past, i never hear people say stuff like, im in grade 4 and i listen to mozart...........and another thing, its always the same bands younger people mention, the beatles, the stones, the doors, pink floyd, and of zeppelin......heyy kid, whats ur fav song from each of the bands you mentioned
Have always loved this track. It has to be played on a good hi-fi quite loud in the dark with your eyes shut, what am I doing now? Im actually listening to it through some good ole fashioned Sennheisers :) absolutely brilliant many thanks.
@TruckRacingNut Try driving this through a classic 4 channel receiver (vis a vis Sansui QRX-6500) into a set of Wharfdale E Series speakers. Enough to make you pee yourself in ectasy. Seriously, listened to this while blasting down I-80 across the Salt Lake Flats in Utah. Speeding ticket waiting to happen. In the day of the dreaded 55 speed limit. In a Porsche 914/6. And yes, I was committing hebicide.
@Farmlandsfallfan Well, perhaps not crap, Ill take that back. To be honest I found them a bit too 'poppy' for my liking. Nowhere near as good as Autobahn.
Kraftwerk are brilliant. They're a really nice bunch of guys too. I remember when they took me to see The Three Amigos at the cinema. They paid for the ticket, 7up and the popcorn. They're a really nice, genuine bunch of German blokes.
I say in general "Autobahn" is Kraftwerk's greatest achievement from them. I just love how there's more melodic structures than their first three albums altogether.
There are echoes of this piece in nearly every synthesizer composition I create. I also loved early Tomita and Larry Fast (Synergy) and learned from them. But this is the piece that planted the seed. This is the one that not only sounded new, but actually went someplace new. This wasn't "switched-on old music." This was "future music."
@Aejotz I had a thought for a video-take Holst the Planets, Mars the Bringer of War and show B&W clips of 20th century warfare with the final crescendo showing the Hiroshima A-Bomb. Then start up with Tomita's Mars the Bringer of War showing cold war clips of the modern weapons-jets, submarines, ICBM's then leading into future war concepts. Just a thought.
There is a beautiful scene in 'Control', the 2007 movie about the life and death of Ian Curtis when snippets of Autobahn are played. Joy Division are going on tour and Curtis is falling for a black haired Belgian rock journalist who offers an escape from dreary northern England
A 20th century classic. It has aged well, in that it doesn't sound "modern", but you can tell how other great electronica bands have listened and learned from this masterful piece. That middle flutey bit is so 70s library music for schools (UK style).. You can tell the Ghostbox bands have tuned in! Wonderful! Only thing, the closest we have to proper autobahnen in the UK is the M4 as it passes Heston Services. Not quite the same music/road ethic :-)
I'm a kid. I don't listen to the pure crap that everyone listens today. I listen to: Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and principally, KRAFTWERK, that I hear since when I was 4 year old. I'm the only guy of my SCHOOL that listens a lot of classic songs.
It's great that your listening to classic music but I highly doubt your the only guy in your school that listens to it. Your probably making assumptions because a good majority don't dress or act like they listen to classic songs.
@HaloSpice I'm Not Even Sure That I'm The Only One. I Have A Proof. When They Drop Rock Music In My School Radio, Everyone Says That It's Bad. They Drop "Moves Like Jagger", "I Gotta Feeling" And Other Stuff Everyone Go And Start Cheering. A REAL Radio Show Is When You Play Unknown Music, Not Music That You Hear All The Time.
Sure, those bands (Kraftwerk, Neu, Can, Faust) were amazing but there are other German bands that were as good if not better! = Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze, Amon Duul II, Harmonia, Guru Guru, etc.
Another German band that was ahead of the curve was Necronomicon. Check out "Tips zum Selbstmord" from 1972
Any German should be rightly proud of this. Like much of Kraftwerk's output, it conveys a sense of Germanic pride and identity that isn't encumbered by racist, totalitarian baggage. The vision is one of optimism and confidence on the part of a culture that has learned from its past mistakes and is reinventing itself in a modern hi tech world
@ik127 ...Greetings from the U.S.A.!!! -and thank you very much for the sublime upload of this FULL VERSION!!! --I simply cannot say enough...of what hearing this wonderful song -truly means to me... =) [...from the very first moment of discovery --it was absolutely, LOVE -at first listen!]...
~This record remains for me --the absolute stardard and precident...for which to appreciate audio purity *(...phonographs in particular)...as well as an excellent resource to calibrate sound quality. THX
Unfortunetaly, we don't have autobahn in Lithuania. If we had one, i definately listend to this :(. P.S. Who else thinks this is somehow similar to DaftPunk?
Apa arti Rainer Werner Fassbinder bagi sinema Jerman dan Joseph Beuys bagi seni rupa, adalah Kraftwerk bagi musik Jerman setelah PD II. Ketika tahun 1969 syair lagu dengan melodi tak bermutu menentang perang Vietnam dan menyerukan lebih banyak „Heidschi Bumbeidschi“, Ralf Hütter dan Florian Schneider memutuskan untuk memprakarsai musik rakyat Jerman sendiri, menjauh dari pengaruh musik anglo Amerika. (Deutsche Welle)
@PrankZabba This record was released, re-released, bootlegged and whatnot about 66 times. That's a lot for a record, and it attests to the legend of it. Search youtube for "discogs kraftwerk autobahn" if you want to see many of them.
I first heard this record in jr. high. I was a sole appreciation society for this record! My friends didn't get it but I'm glad i did! Thanks for posting this masterpiece!
My God, I havent heard this musical work in its entirety in over 30 years ago! Thank you for posting! Very hypnotic and trance-like! I have this record on vinyl somewhere in my collection!
Excerpts from this (3.53) are used to great effect in the 2007 'Control' when Ian Curtis goes on tour with Joy Division and begins to fall for a beautiful black haired girl called Annick
@TomthatiscalledTom Agreed, in just a few bars it perfectly captures the contrast between life in gritty northern England held back by its past, vs a vision of optimism in a reborn, modern Europe. Masterfully done.
@jammerlaan thanks for the information. i just like these European bands. not sure what i was trying to say. small english lesson. then not than. you're not your. but i say this with friendship. thank you!
This album was first... :) In electronica and the trancemusic, and D'N'Bass.... and other types of new electronic music.... Without Krafterk might would be nothing...... Techno would be not a techno...at all.... or other electric music....
Sorry for my English language, I'm not Englishman......
But Kraftwerk was beggining....... And live forever
To me this is a symphony in three movements for Moog synthesizer and flute. The three movements as I hear them are: Afternoon/Dusk, Evening/Night, and Dawn/Morning. Listen to the big trucks passing by in the night, bringing goods to various parts of West Germany. Hear the analog radio - Blaupunkt? - being tuned. Be cheered by the positive, uplifting feeling. Thank you, Kraftwerk, for recording this, and thank you "ik127" for posting this classic on YouTube!
Apparently for the sound effects in this, they drove down the road while Ralf held a microphone out the window. That must've been an interesting sight. "Yeah, don't mind us, we're just making musical history. Nbd"
@ik127 Brings back memories of the eight-track tapes back in the mid 70s and early 80s. I’m still blown away with this recording. Fantastic piece. Thanks for posting! SHAME.. my wife is 100% Kraut and doesn’t appreciate this piece of music…YET! The Germans had excellent recordings in those days. I guess you have to put on a pair of headphones and turn it up to enjoy this type of music… like in the 70s..
Thank you so much for posting the full 1974 version, it's hard to find it. You've made a great contribution to YouTube. I love this sound...it's so cheerful yet calming at times.
Autobahn i was on it in europe and witnessed a car crash and it was from the tour bus. also i read about this song-somebody ...was this a top 40 hit? also what 10 incher did they release that was chucked out in the middle of the street when i was a child in the 1980's?
longest album version of a top 40 hit-now where is the edited 45 rpm?
MichaelHansenFUN 3 days ago
5 people took the wrong exit
gomro 1 week ago
great with headphones!
nomiclas 2 weeks ago
I have the vinyl, transferred it onto CD. Listened to the edited single on radio back in '74. This is groundbreaking music. Timeless.
rebob0 2 weeks ago
I'm 13 and i love kraftwerk!!
modgemtb 2 weeks ago
Awesome track, who cares how old it is, I was 12 when this was released and my dad came home with this record, there simply was nothing like it at the time ... he had these amazing Kef speakers which could shake the windows from this track and I used to lay next to them for a bass fix lol
Needless to say I have the album in vinyl and was the first CD I even bought, I had to import it from Germany too, for you oldies of course the vinyl sounds a lot better on a good deck :D
IsaacAsimovFan 3 weeks ago 2
懐かしい！
高校の頃聞いてました。
feelsokid2000 1 month ago
this transcends age time thought sooo f'ng grooving
jpgrace22 1 month ago
this transcends age time thought sooo f'ng grooving
jpgrace22 1 month ago
Thanks for posting the full version xx
Mschristinalouise 1 month ago
Nadie quiere desperdiciar 22 minutos de su vida en esto, excepto nosotros, los melomaniacos.
Alabanzaygracia 1 month ago
@Alabanzaygracia Nos no desperdiciamos 22 minutos, nos encantan esos 22 minutos. Spanish class pays off! :D
spartansfan1026 1 month ago
This is more a work of art than it is a song.
Msdistarr 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar Lol Everything except for Kraftwerk sucks balls
CryotoxinDubstep 1 month ago
@CryotoxinDubstep Go Back To Your Brostep Then!
Lenguagestar 1 month ago
Saw these guys at the Paramount in Seattle in '74. They have to be the inventors of "the wall of sound" concept! I felt that concert in my chest for about 2 days after!
LHopper106 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar ME TOO! try the beach boys.
love this song!
hoptop090 1 month ago
When people bring up there age when they mention music from the past, i never hear people say stuff like, im in grade 4 and i listen to mozart...........and another thing, its always the same bands younger people mention, the beatles, the stones, the doors, pink floyd, and of zeppelin......heyy kid, whats ur fav song from each of the bands you mentioned
MrJayvard 1 month ago
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Argamocrypt 1 month ago
The second greatest thing about Kraftwerk is meeting people and friends and committing computer fraud at various bus stops.
Argamocrypt 1 month ago
The greatest thing about Kraftwerk is the free fibbies!
Argamocrypt 1 month ago
zie er weer een reclame in.,.......
vladimier12345 1 month ago
Your video went viral on Lusaka
ickieestes12r 1 month ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Is 0:50 - 1:00 in one of the Tron Legacy trailers?! I swear I heard it! Does anyone know if it is? ^-^ Heehee! ^-^
♥ Annusya ♥
Anousenka 1 month ago
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Anousenka 1 month ago
A classic masterpiece.
liberalmind 1 month ago
The program is called "Out of Bounds" I think, it was about gymnasts and had this track as its theme.
TruckRacingNut 2 months ago
Have always loved this track. It has to be played on a good hi-fi quite loud in the dark with your eyes shut, what am I doing now? Im actually listening to it through some good ole fashioned Sennheisers :) absolutely brilliant many thanks.
TruckRacingNut 2 months ago
@TruckRacingNut Try driving this through a classic 4 channel receiver (vis a vis Sansui QRX-6500) into a set of Wharfdale E Series speakers. Enough to make you pee yourself in ectasy. Seriously, listened to this while blasting down I-80 across the Salt Lake Flats in Utah. Speeding ticket waiting to happen. In the day of the dreaded 55 speed limit. In a Porsche 914/6. And yes, I was committing hebicide.
83rrsou 1 month ago 2
Can anybody remember the kids tea-time TV Programme part of this track was used for the sound-track to the end credits?
palletpress 2 months ago
@palletpress Was it a bit like John Cravens Newsround sort of thing?
headintheshedable 2 months ago
Rare! Fine! Amazing full track!
Gordao44 2 months ago
trololol
Solidusnl 2 months ago
My first LP, was allowed to occasionally play it in school common room. Also slightly broadened my German vocabulary
Farmlandsfallfan 2 months ago
Brilliant. Totally ahead of their time. After saying that, - the stuff they did after this is crap.
headintheshedable 2 months ago
@headintheshedable Tour de France, Transeurope Express, The Model are all crap ?
Farmlandsfallfan 2 months ago
@Farmlandsfallfan Well, perhaps not crap, Ill take that back. To be honest I found them a bit too 'poppy' for my liking. Nowhere near as good as Autobahn.
headintheshedable 2 months ago
A masterpiece.
asherixie 2 months ago
This was the first music I have put on a metal tape cassette when I was an audiophile teenager. Just fills one side of a C-46 tape.
berndpfe 2 months ago
よい旅でした！
dgfhl581 2 months ago
よい旅でした！
dgfhl581 2 months ago
Love this song...in fact all of Kraftwork when I have to drive long distances.
lironess 2 months ago
Kraftwerk are brilliant. They're a really nice bunch of guys too. I remember when they took me to see The Three Amigos at the cinema. They paid for the ticket, 7up and the popcorn. They're a really nice, genuine bunch of German blokes.
judgenutmeg1977 2 months ago
I say in general "Autobahn" is Kraftwerk's greatest achievement from them. I just love how there's more melodic structures than their first three albums altogether.
Ringvireot 2 months ago
There are echoes of this piece in nearly every synthesizer composition I create. I also loved early Tomita and Larry Fast (Synergy) and learned from them. But this is the piece that planted the seed. This is the one that not only sounded new, but actually went someplace new. This wasn't "switched-on old music." This was "future music."
Aejotz 2 months ago
@Aejotz I had a thought for a video-take Holst the Planets, Mars the Bringer of War and show B&W clips of 20th century warfare with the final crescendo showing the Hiroshima A-Bomb. Then start up with Tomita's Mars the Bringer of War showing cold war clips of the modern weapons-jets, submarines, ICBM's then leading into future war concepts. Just a thought.
83rrsou 1 month ago
the people who hit 'dislike' were shifting the gearbox and hit 'dislike' by mistake! so don't feel anger, wish them safe journey :D
GGiblet 3 months ago
Awesome thing in the beginning with the car!
turtle24den 3 months ago
it is classic music,like mozart and hándel
MrFredhache 3 months ago
takes me back 1976.....just turned 19 :)
Floydfan717 3 months ago 7
@Floydfan717 : the same !
SuperRinghio92 2 months ago
3 people crashed on autobahn
obviouslyivan 3 months ago 38
@obviouslyivan 3 people are pedestrians on the autobahn have them arrested for jay walking :)
chanc8r38 2 months ago
@obviouslyivan make it four!! haha Kraftwerk crashed
diamondcraftia 3 weeks ago
There is a beautiful scene in 'Control', the 2007 movie about the life and death of Ian Curtis when snippets of Autobahn are played. Joy Division are going on tour and Curtis is falling for a black haired Belgian rock journalist who offers an escape from dreary northern England
TomthatiscalledTom 3 months ago
A 20th century classic. It has aged well, in that it doesn't sound "modern", but you can tell how other great electronica bands have listened and learned from this masterful piece. That middle flutey bit is so 70s library music for schools (UK style).. You can tell the Ghostbox bands have tuned in! Wonderful! Only thing, the closest we have to proper autobahnen in the UK is the M4 as it passes Heston Services. Not quite the same music/road ethic :-)
daggersdukc 3 months ago
College days.....Sprawled out on the couch. Harmon-Kardon on. Headphones on. Lights off. Doobie lit. Off on a cross-country trip with Kraftwerk!
silverestor 3 months ago 2
@silverestor Why Headphones? Aren't speakers better?
iannickCZ 3 months ago
@iannickCZ well they are better for your ears
SuperPatrick777 3 months ago
"Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der autobahn. Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der autobahn."
We drive drive drive on the Autoban. So happy and peaceful.
MasterYumyums 3 months ago 2
ICH LIEBE DICH!
sabbathfreak1 3 months ago
pure class
TheMinxy76 3 months ago
I'm pretty sure that this is forever the greatest song in the world.
swanceva 4 months ago
I love this as much today as i did as a kid in 1974
mikejh100 4 months ago
das ist gut! That,s all i remember from Fraulein Benke in Lewis Girls school Ystrad Mynach! Loved Kraftwerk to lighten the day! stezyrezy
stezyrezy 4 months ago
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RoEdAnLa 4 months ago
this needs/deserves way more views
cruzholland 4 months ago
love and devotion
stevosomebizzare 4 months ago
I'm a kid. I don't listen to the pure crap that everyone listens today. I listen to: Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and principally, KRAFTWERK, that I hear since when I was 4 year old. I'm the only guy of my SCHOOL that listens a lot of classic songs.
Lenguagestar 4 months ago 8
@Lenguagestar Who the fuck cares? I mean, nice tastes, but shut the fuck up and listen to the music, nobody cares how old you are.
GuillermoPFloyd 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar switch schools
PrestonDowMusic 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar same as me
Wesley683 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar wow. You´re a special flower.
unjusdorange 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar Good man! Always set your own standards and goals in life! Never follow others just to be with the in crowd...you be the in crowd.
jomammasplace 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar me 2 especialy pinkfloyd
subterracollecter 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar
"Classic" doesn't mean anything. Good music is always good music.
arseropes 1 month ago 2
@Lenguagestar
It's great that your listening to classic music but I highly doubt your the only guy in your school that listens to it. Your probably making assumptions because a good majority don't dress or act like they listen to classic songs.
HaloSpice 1 month ago
@HaloSpice I'm Not Even Sure That I'm The Only One. I Have A Proof. When They Drop Rock Music In My School Radio, Everyone Says That It's Bad. They Drop "Moves Like Jagger", "I Gotta Feeling" And Other Stuff Everyone Go And Start Cheering. A REAL Radio Show Is When You Play Unknown Music, Not Music That You Hear All The Time.
Lenguagestar 1 month ago
@Lenguagestar Your school sounds like a bunch of pussies, by the way don't put caps on each word, it's irritating as shit to read. lol, peace!
Johnnywhamo 2 weeks ago
@Lenguagestar you're so special
rowanewiets 1 month ago
almost 40 years after, and always so good, the quality is timeless
madclint49 4 months ago 3
Genius, just genius. Kraftwerk, Neu!, Can, Faust. Germany was owning music so hard back in the days.
Jornaquin 4 months ago
@Jornaquin
Sure, those bands (Kraftwerk, Neu, Can, Faust) were amazing but there are other German bands that were as good if not better! = Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze, Amon Duul II, Harmonia, Guru Guru, etc.
Another German band that was ahead of the curve was Necronomicon. Check out "Tips zum Selbstmord" from 1972
foxdie1013 4 months ago
Any German should be rightly proud of this. Like much of Kraftwerk's output, it conveys a sense of Germanic pride and identity that isn't encumbered by racist, totalitarian baggage. The vision is one of optimism and confidence on the part of a culture that has learned from its past mistakes and is reinventing itself in a modern hi tech world
TomthatiscalledTom 4 months ago
@ik127 ...Greetings from the U.S.A.!!! -and thank you very much for the sublime upload of this FULL VERSION!!! --I simply cannot say enough...of what hearing this wonderful song -truly means to me... =) [...from the very first moment of discovery --it was absolutely, LOVE -at first listen!]...
~This record remains for me --the absolute stardard and precident...for which to appreciate audio purity *(...phonographs in particular)...as well as an excellent resource to calibrate sound quality. THX
leshawn71 4 months ago
Unfortunetaly, we don't have autobahn in Lithuania. If we had one, i definately listend to this :(. P.S. Who else thinks this is somehow similar to DaftPunk?
meskisz 5 months ago
The German Pink Floyd.......
philster611 5 months ago
More awesome than can be said!
subshrub 5 months ago
Apa arti Rainer Werner Fassbinder bagi sinema Jerman dan Joseph Beuys bagi seni rupa, adalah Kraftwerk bagi musik Jerman setelah PD II. Ketika tahun 1969 syair lagu dengan melodi tak bermutu menentang perang Vietnam dan menyerukan lebih banyak „Heidschi Bumbeidschi“, Ralf Hütter dan Florian Schneider memutuskan untuk memprakarsai musik rakyat Jerman sendiri, menjauh dari pengaruh musik anglo Amerika. (Deutsche Welle)
MARCHBALI 5 months ago
Typical Germans - precision automobiles to listen to perfect music. Great memories!!! Thanks for posting.
RICH6073 5 months ago
Gawd, I have this record is someone wants it.
cap12206 5 months ago
why is this a different cover of the album?
mine's got a dashboard and a mirror across the bottom
and yes you can see them sitting in the back seat
PrankZabba 5 months ago
@PrankZabba This record was released, re-released, bootlegged and whatnot about 66 times. That's a lot for a record, and it attests to the legend of it. Search youtube for "discogs kraftwerk autobahn" if you want to see many of them.
punosqnp 5 months ago
I thought porn was forbidden on youtube ^^
nargarothfreak666 5 months ago
Fucking Beyond Amazing..
jostube06 5 months ago
22 minutes of pure sex.
Glowb0t 5 months ago
yes a masterpiece these dudes are great if this lp was released today in 2011
it would be a million seller no question time less thank you you tube
leoretrosi 5 months ago
Europe will allways be the home of great thoughts!
SimonRaahauge1973 5 months ago
Thanks a million!! Brilliant....
tanpiltanpil 5 months ago
a magnificint representation of the unfolding future!
heliot58 6 months ago
I first heard this record in jr. high. I was a sole appreciation society for this record! My friends didn't get it but I'm glad i did! Thanks for posting this masterpiece!
heliot58 6 months ago
Superb!
Saludos desde México!
jos53cor 6 months ago
Magnificent! Thankyou, I was 13....memories!
nopwoc 6 months ago
My God, I havent heard this musical work in its entirety in over 30 years ago! Thank you for posting! Very hypnotic and trance-like! I have this record on vinyl somewhere in my collection!
friscolver 6 months ago 2
Modern Symphony!
karbon712 6 months ago
aah! this album + "oxygene" by jarre influenced me (probably like thousands of others!) to take up synthesizer playing!!! absolute classic !
MothershipOracle 6 months ago 2
This song still gives me goosebumps! :)
Aquarius176 6 months ago
today being driving on the A1 in Germany ( I love the Autobahn, no speed limit ) and! with my CD with Kraftwerk Autobahn on.
ik127 7 months ago 22
@ik127
I agree with you, it must be very interesting
83022900465 3 months ago
This is great music, even now in 2011. That's why there are 0 dislikes!
reinbertio 7 months ago 7
@reinbertio Make that 2 TROLOLOL
lozaomg 3 months ago
@reinbertio 3 people never drive on "Autobahn"
iannickCZ 3 months ago
hi,i remember when i first heard kraftwerk they r great i love the electronic techno sound of this band
i used to get in mycar and drive for hours listing to autobahn and europe endless radio activity trans europe express
wow it was nice made me calm and peaceful
in my heart
computer love and computer world was way ahead of its time... franz shubert
eat ur heart out the boys from g land is hot
i even got lost once listining to autobahn
hahhaha
TheSeventy777 7 months ago
hi,i remember when i first heard kraftwerk they r great i love the electronic techno sound of this band
i used to get in mycar and drive for hours listing to autobahn and europe endless radio activitytrans europe express
wow it was nice made me calm and peaceful
in my heart
computer love and computer world was way ahead of its time... franz shubert
eat ur heart out the boys from g land is hot
i even ot lost once
hahhaha
TheSeventy777 7 months ago
Excerpts from this (3.53) are used to great effect in the 2007 'Control' when Ian Curtis goes on tour with Joy Division and begins to fall for a beautiful black haired girl called Annick
TomthatiscalledTom 7 months ago
@TomthatiscalledTom Agreed, in just a few bars it perfectly captures the contrast between life in gritty northern England held back by its past, vs a vision of optimism in a reborn, modern Europe. Masterfully done.
tigersim303 6 months ago
Can I find somewhere only parts of this song? I really like the second melody.
dorcik93 7 months ago
I have two copies of this album, used to put on my headphones, close my eyes and imagine driving along the autobahn.
jtspock 7 months ago
Thanks!
I can't find the album in my city!
Alphahumphrey2011 8 months ago
golden earring, kraftwerk, tangerine dream, triumvirate, scorpians, ufo, and rammstein!
jmaxcamp 8 months ago
@jmaxcamp if your trying to name German bands than fail, golden earring is from the Netherlands :P
jammerlaan 8 months ago
@jammerlaan thanks for the information. i just like these European bands. not sure what i was trying to say. small english lesson. then not than. you're not your. but i say this with friendship. thank you!
jmaxcamp 8 months ago
These guys really were far ahead in time
baldfire 8 months ago
Omg imagine what the reaction to this was in 74', listen to those cars! that's some of the coolest musical interpretation I have ever heard.
Brianvanpatten 8 months ago
Should be in a VW commercial.
skooter72 8 months ago
@skooter72 lo, they are lot wanking in this time on vw beetles and mercedes W112 lol
tonijn1969 8 months ago
i swear im passing the lil white vw. the black saab goes by my left.
jmaxcamp 8 months ago
perfect
jmaxcamp 8 months ago
This album was first... :) In electronica and the trancemusic, and D'N'Bass.... and other types of new electronic music.... Without Krafterk might would be nothing...... Techno would be not a techno...at all.... or other electric music....
Sorry for my English language, I'm not Englishman......
But Kraftwerk was beggining....... And live forever
darkaav 8 months ago
So essentially this album was the birth of electronica? Might be a good idea to purchase it.
Chaossangel 9 months ago
thats why i love moog sound
tonijn1969 9 months ago
To me this is a symphony in three movements for Moog synthesizer and flute. The three movements as I hear them are: Afternoon/Dusk, Evening/Night, and Dawn/Morning. Listen to the big trucks passing by in the night, bringing goods to various parts of West Germany. Hear the analog radio - Blaupunkt? - being tuned. Be cheered by the positive, uplifting feeling. Thank you, Kraftwerk, for recording this, and thank you "ik127" for posting this classic on YouTube!
Exuma1985 9 months ago
i love the doppler sound and the talkbox effect
tonijn1969 9 months ago
i love the dopplers in this song,and the part nun wir schaltet der radio an aus die speaker kling es dann
tonijn1969 9 months ago
lautsprecher
tonijn1969 9 months ago
Apparently for the sound effects in this, they drove down the road while Ralf held a microphone out the window. That must've been an interesting sight. "Yeah, don't mind us, we're just making musical history. Nbd"
btmacie 9 months ago
and you hear on 14:26 RTTY (telex) in amplitude modulation
tonijn1969 9 months ago
the best album ever
tonijn1969 10 months ago
Congratulations, buddy. You've made a very good work. The sound is amazing.
voxdeorum 11 months ago
How did you get to upload the entire song? I thought Youtube had a time limit?
luvrman2009 11 months ago
@luvrman2009 you thought wrong
jakethesnake10000 11 months ago
My 78 rpm Autobahn went on a trip long ago and left me "thumbing". Thanks for the ride.
howedesign 11 months ago
You might want to correct your description. It says the song was released in 1947, lol.
Shadowtechnique 1 year ago 14
@Shadowtechnique
Thanks!
ik127 1 year ago 13
@ik127 badass song.great if your driving across country,thanks.i thought i wouldn't find this version.
ITALY1953 10 months ago
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ThePromovideo 7 months ago
@ik127 Brings back memories of the eight-track tapes back in the mid 70s and early 80s. I’m still blown away with this recording. Fantastic piece. Thanks for posting! SHAME.. my wife is 100% Kraut and doesn’t appreciate this piece of music…YET! The Germans had excellent recordings in those days. I guess you have to put on a pair of headphones and turn it up to enjoy this type of music… like in the 70s..
ThePromovideo 7 months ago 3
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@Shadowtechnique i dont get it 1947? you are out of your @$#%^*& mind. i will never believe anything you say.
jmaxcamp 7 months ago
@Shadowtechnique They're just that innovative.
MrEvanbooker 7 months ago
Thank you so much for posting the full 1974 version, it's hard to find it. You've made a great contribution to YouTube. I love this sound...it's so cheerful yet calming at times.
NIQNick 1 year ago 20