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Radio-Activity | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kraftwerk
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 12315
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 581684
UPC: 724358168426
EAN: 0724358168426
ASIN: B000087HXM
Release Date: January 17, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Geiger Counter | | • | Radio-activity | | • | Radioland | | • | Airwaves | | • | Intermission | | • | News | | • | Voice Of Energy | | • | Antenna | | • | Radio Stars | | • | Uranium | | • | Transistor | | • | Ohm Sweet Ohm |
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 Amazing May 11, 2008
Freddie Savenger (N. Ireland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A most wonderful album. The simple sound of radioactivity beats the live version by miles. My favourite song is definately Airwaves. A great album with that unmistakeable Kraftwerk sound
Masterpiece June 18, 2005
Pieter (Johannesburg)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This experimental album with its electronic sighs and bleeps and atmospheric crackles is such a timeless masterpiece not because of the electronics but because of the heavenly melodies and the engaging rhythms. The whooshes, the bleeps and the disembodied voices are just the icing on the cake although they give the music an other-worldly atmosphere. The title track is mesmerising in its ebb and flow, while Radioland and Airwaves get progressively more weird. The more I listen to it, the more I think that Radio Activity is by far Kraftwerk's most varied and innovative album. What set Kraftwerk's electronics apart from most of the other synth pioneers, is the sense of classical structure that underlies the music. True, Klaus Nomi also used classic and operatic structures but he came much later. Songs like Antenna and Ohm Sweet Ohm with their beautiful melodic hooks are as accessible and addictive as their huge hit Autobahn. I recommend this album to all fans of synthesizer artists like OMD, Eurythmics, Yazoo, Suicide, Gary Numan and Sparks, to enjoy the source that most of these artists drew from to some extent.
Probably the purest Kraftwerk album April 7, 2005
D. S. Smith (London England)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
What can you say? Kraftwerk are among the most original and incredible bands of musicians in the 20th Century. This is one of their best albums. Leaving the competition standing, and massively influential to bands throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s (can you imagine any of the 80's pop bands like Yazoo, Depeche Mode, et al. without Kraftwerk?) Kraftwerk produced beautiful minimal melodic electronic music for the age of the transistor. Theirs is a music that is both sublime and simple, emotional and mechanical, electronic and surgingly euphoric. How do you do that? We can only guess and stand back in wonder. Radioactivity, the title track is characteristic - a haunting melody, a simple vocal track and a rhythm backing to die for.
Alles ist gut January 28, 2005
Andrew Bailey (london)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Ignore the "disappointed" review. He is obviously someone who came to Kraftwerk late, heard the re-worked Radiocativity in concert and on the "Mix" album, and felt the warm analogue 1975 version not to his taste. The truth is both versions are truly excellent and the rest of the Radiocativity album is brilliant too, especially Antenna which is sonically amazing for a 1975 recording. Kraftwerk's sly humour is in evidence hear on "ohmm sweet ohmm - (who said our teutonic cousins have no sense of humour!.) Admitedley, Radioactiity is not "up there" with with Trans Europe Express & Computer World , but if you have good taste you will want to own all of Kraftwek's (from autobahn onwards) albums anyway!
 Some balance is needed here... December 5, 2004
M. Aranda (planet earth, dimension 4)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wedged in between Autobahn and Trans-Europe Express, this album has been largely ignored by Kraftwerk's 'pop' fans. This album was hastily created by the band to follow up their huge Autobahn, and anybody who knows Kraftwerk knows that they NEVER rush themselves (ha ha...how long did it take to release TDFSoundtracks...12 years??)Radioactivity is also of of KW's most conceptual albums, maybe too conceptual as sometimes you're not listening to music at all, but aural paintings meant to signify the air/gamma waves themselves. This is definitely worth a listen. It's the last album KW made in a strictly avant-garde mode, though it still has plenty of poppy tracks (Ohm Sweet Ohm is my particular favorite.)
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