It seems to me though (and I suspect I'm hardly the first person to have said this) that kraftwerk's strongest subject areas have always been things around us and that we interact with, maybe sometimes without being aware of any dimensions beyond their practical everyday roles. Space, while it's awfully gee-whiz, is a bit too far outside the average experience and kraftwerk have always seemingly been better at holding up a mirror to society than saying "hey, look over here!" Mind you, this is coming from a guy who's currently plowing through "This New Ocean" by Bill Burrows so, it's not that I don't find space interesting. : ) So what can we come up with that's better? I dunno... somehow I suspect they don't either? though of course that'd be a big guess on my part. hmm... my cogwheels are turning... -martin oh and incidentally, senor coconut's version of The Man Machine is too fucking cool... At 08:55 PM 2/1/2002 +0000, Rob Evans wrote:
Space? A little cliché, don't you think? KW's old titles talked about newer concepts, things not used much for albums at that time.
No, I do not think it is a cliche, otherwise I would not have suggested it. The Autobahn was hardly a new concept, neither were trains, radios, machines or computers. How much do we understand about Space? Kraftwerk have explored it before with two songs, Kometenmelodie and Spacelab, so I am sure they are pretty interested in it!
Can you suggest anything better?
Rob.
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