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Computer World [CASSETTE] | ![Computer World [CASSETTE]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21W6V0ZWWNL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Artist: Kraftwerk
Label: Warner Bros.
Category: Music
Buy Used: £39.85
Used (3) from £39.85
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 510102
Format: Import
Media: Audio Cassette
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075596078948
EAN: 0075596078948
ASIN: B000002GYJ
Release Date: August 8, 1989
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| Tracks:
| • | Computer World | | • | Pocket Calculator | | • | Numbers | | • | Computer World, Pt. 2 | | • | Computer Love | | • | Home Computer | | • | It's More Fun to Compute | | • | Dentaku [*] |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This is the album pundits like to point to when they accuse Kraftwerk of being digital-age visionaries; an all-too-easy assessment to make in the face of tracks such as "Home Computer" and "Computer Love". But to saddle the band with the reputation of sages is to completely miss the low-key wit and all-too-human playfulness of this album. "Pocket Calculator" and "Numbers" (the lyrics are the numbers one to eight) could be read as tongue-in-cheek ripostes to too much bad "educational" programming, but that would smack of creeping punditry. Computer World is Kraftwerk's most loveable bundle of contradictions: at once its most technologically obsessed album and its most human. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
The Greatest Album of All Time December 8, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is easily Kraftwerk's best album, and I have been returning to it regularly for the past 20 years-it really is that good. Do yourself a favour and buy this album NOW!
Greatest ever electronic album January 2, 2003
Robert Evans (Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset United Kingdom)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
With "Computer World", Kraftwerk produced the last great album of their entire catalogue, and certainly the finest of their illustrious career. The album builds on the pioneering experiments of earlier albums such as "Radioactivity" and "The Man-Machine", in which newly advanced technology produces spectaular analogue melodies, bleeps and fulminating special effects. The playful "Pocket Calculator", devastating electro track "Numbers" (one to eight in different languages) and charming love song "Computer Love" are the cornerstones of this milestone in electronic music. You won't get better. Kraftwerk know this as well.
A milestone in music August 18, 2002
Thomas Petersson (Linkoeping/Sweden)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I first heard this record back in summer -83, only fourteen years old. I was at a training camp in football and one of the guys had a recorder and this tape in it. We listened to it the whole week.
In spite of my young age I found this record out of this world. And I have since that not been able to point any other record that has been this extraordinary.
It is truly uncompromising. I think this is definately Kraftwerks finest work. It is a classic. It will stand the test of time.
My favourites are:
"Pocket calculator"- so cool
"Numbers"- a perversion in simplicity and funk!
"It,s more fun to compute"- hypnotizing
It's nice to see so many new artists still using the sound that first emerged through this record. For example "catch" with Kosheen.
A clear buy- no doubt.
From Deutchland to Detroit May 12, 2002
Bruce Percy
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
It seems incredible to think that a bunch of white guys from Industrial Germany could make such an impression on Black american music culture with a bunch of calculators and a perverse sense of humour. Hiphop, Detroit techno, it all stemmed from this album, as too did the modern dance scene. We all have Kraftwerk to thank for this, even if, by producing this album they signalled their own musical demise. Computer world was Krafwerks finest (half) hour. A blend of pop melodies that will drive you mad and innovative electronica. You should buy it if you have even the slightest appreciation for modern dance music and a good tune.
a must for all synth loving music fanatics February 4, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
i remember having this, first time around and it blew my mind then as it still does now.tracks like :computer love[excellent electronics,ahead of their time],this is a must in any electro collecters c.d. cabinet. every track a musical must
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