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Number 73 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th CenturySynth-Pop / Electronic Pop

Computer World

Kraftwerk

1981 · electronic pop · electro · synth-pop

EMI · EMC 3370

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№ 73 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

Numbers is the record Detroit and Miami both stole; the most sampled Kraftwerk

Computer World is Kraftwerk at their tightest, funnier and funkier than their reputation sometimes allows. 'Numbers' reduces the idea almost to pure counting rhythm, while 'Computer Love' and the rest keep finding hooks inside systems. Its fingerprints are everywhere downstream, but the pleasure starts with how efficiently every mechanism doubles as a tune. Trans-Europe Express is the larger statement; this may be the better-made record.

№ 17 on The 10 Best Synth-Pop Albums

Kraftwerk seeing the whole thing coming: data, surveillance, pocket calculators. Ranks high on the 20th-century canon.

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Tracklist

  1. A1Computerworld5:05
  2. A2Pocket Calculator4:55
  3. A3Numbers3:19
  4. A4Computerworld 23:21
  5. B1Computer Love7:15
  6. B2Homecomputer6:17
  7. B3It's More Fun To Compute4:13