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Computer World (Music)
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Computer World (original German title: Computerwelt) is a 1981 album by Kraftwerk, the eighth studio album in their catalogue. Released through Kling Klang in Germany, Warner (Bros.) Records in North America, and EMI internationally, it had hit singles such as "Pocket Calculator" and "Computer Love"The record is a Concept Album about the rise of computers within society, and is arguably their most stripped-back and mechanical album to date, anticipating the Techno and Electro scenes that would emerge during the decade. Coincidentally, this was released the same year IBM released their first personal computer.Tracklist:Side One "Computer World" (5:05) "Pocket Calculator" (4:55) "Numbers" (3:19) "Computer World 2" (3:21)Side Two "Computer Love" (7:15) "Home Computer" (6:17) "It's More Fun To Compute" (4:13)Personnel: Ralf Hütter: electronics, keyboards, mixing, synthesizer, vocoder, voice Florian Schneider: electronics, mixing, recording, speech synthesis, synthesizer, vocoder Karl Bartos: electronic drums | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: The faces of the band members on a computer screen. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Someone counts off in German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian and other languages during "Numbers". | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: The album deals with computers taking over the world. | |
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Time Marches On | |
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Time Marches On: Partially avoided, as their vision of a world dominated by computers has practically come true today. But the video terminal on the cover is obviously very outdated. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: "It's More Fun To Compute" is a pun on the pinball machine slogan: "It's more fun to compete!" | |
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Cradle of Loneliness | |
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Cradle of Loneliness: "Computer Love" | |
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Counting to Three | |
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Counting to Three: "Numbers" starts off with someone counting off in German. | |
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Beeping Computers | |
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Beeping Computers: "Pocket Calculator." | |
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Cyber Green | |
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Cyber Green: The album cover depicts a PC monitor displaying yellow-green outlines of the band members' heads, fitting the album's name and focus on the rise of computers in society. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: The 5:05 "Computer World", which gets a reprise with the 3:21 "Computer World 2". | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: The word "computer" appears in almost every track. | |
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Translated Cover Version | |
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Translated Cover Version: Different language versions of "Pocket Calculator" were recorded, including "Taschenrechner" (German), "Mini Calculateur" (French), "Mini Calcolatore" (Italian; originally created for a performance on the show Discoring) and "Dentaku" (Japanese). | |
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Siamese Twin Songs | |
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Siamese Twin Songs: "Numbers" and "Computer World" are played together in later live performances. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: "Numbers" ends with somebody saying several numbers very quickly. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: "Computer Love" is a love song among all the more technical songs. | |
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Inside a Computer System | |
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Inside a Computer System: The voices used on this album sound like this most of the time. | |
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Machine Monotone | |
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Machine Monotone: The vocoder used in several of the songs. | |
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Lost in Translation | |
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Lost in Translation: The chorus of the German version of the title track has the line "Denn zeit ist geld" ("Because time is money"), while the English version just repeats the title again. The English version also drops German lyrics about the BKA (Bundeskriminalamt), the German equivalent of the FBI, and Flensburgh, which is home to the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, a national database of traffic tickets. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Home Computer": | |
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Floating Head Syndrome | |
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Floating Head Syndrome: The band on the computer screen on the album cover. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Numbers". | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: "Pocket Calculator", a song where a man ("the operator") talks about the various things he can do with his pocket calculator. | |
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Limited Lyrics Song | |
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Limited Lyrics Song: As with most of Kraftwerk's songs. The shortest is "It's More Fun To Compute", which is basically this one line reappearing at various moments throughout the song. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Everything Is an Instrument: Among the instruments used on this album were a Texas Instruments Language Translator and a Mattel Bee Gees Rhythm Machine toy. | |
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Design Student's Orgasm | |
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Design Student's Orgasm: The album cover was designed by Emil Schult. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: The computerized voice on several of the tracks. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: In "Computer World": Subverted by the version on The Mix, which completes the endorsement-y chant. "Computerliebe" mentions the Bildschirmtext, an online videotext system developed by Deutsche Bundespost whose first trial was conducted in the band's hometown of Düsseldorf earlier that year. | |
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