Electric Cafe: Kraftwerk: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Boing Boom Tschak

2. Techno Pop

3. Musique Non Stop

4. The Telephone Call

5. Sex Object

6. Electric Cafe

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The byproduct of a much anticipated, long-delayed, and ultimately scrapped album to have been called Technopop (and to have contained Kraftwerk's great dance single "Tour de France"), 1986's Electric Cafe suffers only slightly from lacking the thematic focus of previous Kraftwerk albums. Ironically, the '80s techno-pop wave had passed by band founders Florian Schneider and Ralf Hutter at this point, but their sly wit ("Boing Boom Tschak," "Telephone," "Sex Object") and melodic inventiveness still stand the test of time. Its segues virtually seamless, Electric Cafe plays like one mega-dance-mix, but with the tasteful restraint that has long been a Kraftwerk hallmark. This is club music for thinking men and women. --Jerry McCulley

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Follow Up To Computer World!, May 1 2004

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Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric Cafe (Audio CD)

Very much the son of it's father for Kraftwerk,except that
the foresome have now chosen to add sampling to their list of
music achievments-most notable on "Telephone Call".The closing title song (known to Saturday Night Live viewers as the theme
song to "Sprockets") takes Afrika Bambatta's electrofunk to new
heights of minimalism and starkness.The year is 1986 and THIS
could be a technological innovation today.Will these guys EVER
be beind the times?

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4.0 out of 5 stars You call could not be completed as dialed..., April 23 2004

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Barbara Streisands Love Slave (MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electric Cafe (Audio CD)

This album isn't too bad. Sure they had way better moments such as Computer World and The Man-Machine but Electric Cafe doesn't have too many disappointments. It's worth the price just for "The Telephone Call" alone.

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3.0 out of 5 stars non-essential, Mar 26 2004

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J. Brady (PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric Cafe (Audio CD)

Aside from the side-long suite ( I say side-long, as when this was released I had it on LP ) of Boing Boom Tschak, Musique Non Stop and Techno Pop, this is a collection of really lame mid-eighties syth pop. At a time in music history when many great bands were turning out terrific synth based music, Kraftwerk offered this up, and it seemed at the time ( as it still does to me ) uninspired, and ultimately, uninspiring. By the time this was released, a four year period had passed since their last album, and the synth pop boom they had created had already passsed Kraftwerk by. I can remember playing the first side over and over, alone or even at parties. Some people thought ( as I did ) it was a weird and wonderful combination of hip-hop and synth-pop, which it really is. But everytime I would try to play the second side for a group of people, I would invariably be asked to turn it off. These Germans have never been particularly adept at writing lyrics in English, and most of the lyrics here are no exception. At times, they are just plain embarressing. " I don't want to be your sex object" indeed....As for a recommendation for the purchase of this cd, I really can't offer one. It is non-essential for casual fans, and even rabid fans of Kraftwerk ( as I am ) will find it less than rewarding.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Short review
I usually try to write thorough reviews of the albums I really love, but as even Kraftwerk fans will probably acknowlege, this is sort of a novelty album, one that I doubt arouses... Read more

Published on Mar 25 2004 by Daniel Staton

2.0 out of 5 stars "Noise...Nonstop"
Most of this album, to me, is just a lot of noise with nothing very memorable. Once the track ends, I cannot remember how it goes. Read more

Published on Dec 17 2003 by mwreview