Kraftwerk - Oh you lucky New Yorkers

Jamie,

I have been watching from my pit on one three times a day 500 mgCo-amoxiclav our Girls and Guys this weekend in London doing what they do best and thinking god they need some Kraftwerk playing in that wonderful 2012 V drome.

Stu.

Maybe I'll just put on my copy of 'Autobahn' and skip the concert. Now if they played something new I'd never heard...

Great band, anyways..

On a plus for UK sport and music, Essex's finest electronic artists Underworld are going to be musical directors for the Olympic opening ceremony.

As for Kraftwerk, new music or not, they are quite spectacular live. The new 3D animations at Manchester a couple of years ago were stunning. Strange how four men stood almost still, can be so charismatic on stage, even if Ralph is the only original member left.

That is great news.

Playing one disc from this set now.

Gregg,

If you see this thread?

Get tickets man.

You saw Talking heads in a small room and the Clash in NY.

This has to be on your list.

Stu.

ENVY (this emoticon should be GRRREEEEEN).

Although I did go to a Copenhagen concert with the Clash in Copenhagen, I never managed to see Talking Heads. I wish ...

Kraftwerk is also one favorite band that I would like to have watched live. + a lot of other bands - such as Rammstein, U2 (that were performing while I was setting up my tent at the Roskilde Festival in 1983) and ...

I will have to check out Underworld, it seems.

Best wishes,

Peter

Peter,

You can buy this great album on cd for £1.49 from amazon seller zoverstocks.

If you need to give your system a work out?

You need a copy of their track Born Slippy that was made famous  in the film Trainspotting.

Lots of other good music on the album.

Stu.

First two Underworld albums (and anything before that) were great at the time, but haven't aged well. The rest will be pish.

Loads of pish to look forward to in London this summmmer then?

I take it CC you have never seen them live??

Stu

I saw them at the Bataclan in Paris the summer after Second Toughest was released, and they were better than excellent. After that, Beaucoup Fish was a bit ropy, and I gave up on them once Darren Emerson left.

First thing I thought when I heard about them doing the Olympics was that London's finest, Skream and Benga, must've said no.

First thing I thought when I heard about the Kraftwerk MoMA residency was "Hmmm, I haven't been to NYC for ages"... then reality set in!

Stop playing golf and go and see the Germans in NYC.

It will be worth it.

Stu.

I couldn't disagree more. I still regularly listen to the first four Underworld studio albums (discounting the pre-Emmerson version of the band) - "Dubnosbasswithmyheadman", "Second Toughest..", "Beacoup Fish", and "A Hundred Days Off".

"A Hundred Days Off" took a while to grow on me, but is now one of my most played albums.

Admittedly "Oblivion With Bells" was very patchy, and "Barking" was utter junk, but their other output alongside those albums such as "The Riverrun" series, and Rick Smith's "Bungalow with Stairs" has been outstanding.

Live they are almost always excellent, the only bad gig I saw was one with a very posey crowd in London in 1999, but they more than made up for that at Glastonbury that year, and despite "Oblivion With Bells" being patchy the tour was anything but. The "LiveHereNow" releases proove that. I think I have seen them well over a dozen times now, and hope to do so many times more.

The one area I would avoid is their soundtrack albums like "Breaking and Entering" and "Sunshine", but they are soundtracks to back film, and not music to stand alone.

The one track by them I am not keen on, which is the one most people know is "Born Slippy NUXX" from Trainspotting, I just don't think it is as strong as their other material, but I know alot of other love it, so each to their own.

Jamie,

I am 100% with you on every point.

But if there was no Trainspotting and born slippy?

I would never heard of the band.

I am sitting here playing some tunes while reading my old official programme of the Glastonbury performing arts festival 23rd-25th June 2000

£6.00 from vendor.

Free with purchased ticket.

Good name for a band vendor

Stu

Not surprised it has sold out. When they played The Royal Festival Hall in London on their 2004 tour, it sold out in minutes. That is probably a 2000 seat venue.

Luckily the Brixton Academy (London again) gig the same week was much bigger, and was the only time I have ever heard good sound at that venue.

Stu, I agree about Trainspotting and "Born Slippy NUXX" getting the band to a wide audience, and sometimes live it has such a great atmosphere when they play it that it is a highlight of the show. Trainspotting did also have another Underworld track, and one of my very favourites in it, "Dark Train" (during the very disturbing 'cold turkey' sequence), which is on the second soundtrack album from the film.

Like many of Underworld's best tracks, "Dark Train" didn't appear on an album, but was a b-side, or single release. That really is one of their live highlights.

Jamie

lol

Brilliant. Not often I find my self agreeing with Hitler.

I do love those Hitler clips on YoutTube, you can easily pass an hour there giggling your way through them.