Vinyl Album - Kraftwerk - Autobahn - Vertigo

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Kraftwerk
Title:	Autobahn
Label:	Vertigo
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	6360 620
Date:	Nov 1974
Format:	LP
Genre:	Electronic, Synth, Progressive
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	32 Own, 2 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Kraftwerk	Autobahn	R. Huetter, F. Schneider	10.0 Rate
B1	Kraftwerk	Kometenmelodie 1	R. Huetter, F. Schneider	7.0 Rate
B2	Kraftwerk	Kometenmelodie 2	R. Huetter, F. Schneider	10.0 Rate
B3	Kraftwerk	Mitternacht	R. Huetter, F. Schneider	8.0 Rate
B4	Kraftwerk	Morgenspaziergang	R. Huetter, F. Schneider	8.0 Rate

Notes

UK Chart Entry: 17 May 1975
Highest Position: 4
Total Weeks on Chart: 18
Produced by Ralf Huetter & Florian Schneider.

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TheJudge 25th Jan 2022		Possibly worth noting that, although the labels and the track listing on the sleeve show the composers as just Hütter & Schneider, the quote from the lyrics of Autobahn credits Emil Schult as well.



TheJudge 6th May 2020		Auf wiederhören, Florian. :-(



albert 15th Oct 2018		Vertigo did some great work replacing the designs of Kraftwerk's covers, compare them to the German originals. Early pressings of the LP have a slightly embossed cover, by the way. When I had access to a fabric printer, Autobahn was one image I made into a cushion cover, other classic sleeves included Trout Mask Replica, Never Mind the Bollocks, Piper at the Gates Of Dawn, and the first Raincoats LP.



Dr Doom SUBS 25th Jan 2017		Yes that sounds like the best idea.



Lee Wrecker 🍰 25th Jan 2017		Just picked a copy of this only to find it's a bootleg according to Dicwrongs "Counterfeit / pirate issue on blue vinyl. Label, catalogue number, cover etc replicate the original UK issue." Shall I enter it as a new entry under the pirate flag?



Record Collector 29th Mar 2015		A1 got me into the synthesiser craze



Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Spaziergang is the usual way to write that word, rather than Spazier Gang. And when unable to use an umlaut, place an 'e'(upper or lower case as required) after the letter which is to be so-affected, these are the 'a', 'o' and 'u'.



TheJudge 1st Feb 2015		Neither Kometenmelodie has lyrics. The B-side tracks translate as: Comet Melody 1, Comet Melody 2, Midnight, and Morning Walk.



Magic Marmalade 1st Feb 2015		Having searched online, Kometenmelodie, it would appear, means something like: Sun Song. (with German Komet being comet, but the lyrics translation talk about the sun moving through it's course, so I assume any celestial body is, when spoken of a "Komet")



Magic Marmalade 1st Feb 2015		and, um Midnight is the name of one, and (something-or-other) melody or song for two of them.



Record Collector 1st Feb 2015		Ahhh thanks judge



Magic Marmalade 1st Feb 2015		I believe Morgen (Morning), Spazier Gang (walk) is the track.



Record Collector 1st Feb 2015		Is morning walk on this album me not much into german



TheJudge 1st Feb 2015		It was their breakthrough LP, although it was probably another two or three years before they really started being taken notice of. I won't clog up the comments thread here (hint, hint! ;-)), but just refer the assembly to the blog post I made on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of its release.



Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Okay, not so much "minority appeal", then, but hardly "mass appeal" - everyone going ga-ga over it! As Magic Marmalade said to his friend, "That's, um... super!"! trying to be polite, I guess. Just like Motown and Stax R. & B. never really caught on in Australia except for keen interest from a small cadre of people(like this little black duck - i.e. "me" quack, quack!) who can't get enough of it, 'specially Motown - Ooh, gimme, gimme!



Magic Marmalade 1st Feb 2015		I used to know someone who loved Kraftwerk, when my friends and I were doin' the whole Britpop thing, and he made us listen to their werk whenever we went to his house... "That's, um... super!" Was the kind of thing we would say, not getting it at all. But there have been many things I've had to wait till I was ready to hear and really appreciate that meant nothing to me at the time. I think, sometimes it's about having to catch up to the past.



gregs45s SUBS 1st Feb 2015		Their influence on early electronic English bands was massive!,bands like New Order/Human Leauge/O.M.D. and many many more,hardly a minority!!!



Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		The album was first issued 8 years before the advent of the Compact Disc. I don't see any record company, let alone Phonogram GmbH, BV, Pty, Ltd. Inc.(or any other corporate make-up) sitting on an album in anticipation of a technological advance that might never have come along, no, they'd be wanting to get the album out to an eager(?) audience as soon as possible! Why the "?" after eager? Kraftwerk's output would be an "acquired taste", appreciated by a minority audience, I would think.



Magic Marmalade 1st Feb 2015		This is one of the few albums where I wonder if the nature of the music might be better suited to CD (Although if I see it on vinyl, of course I'll grab it). What do you guys think? As for the cover, once you start seeing other things in the design, it's very difficult thereafter *not* to see them... like the big blue crucifix in the centre of the cover.



TheJudge 1st Feb 2015		It's just the standard sign indicating a motorway. Very cleverly used, creating - as I said - an iconic sleeve design. Other territories had a rather boring painting and a retouched photograph (Wolfgang Flür's head grafted on to Emil Schult's shoulders).



Record Collector 1st Feb 2015		This could be classed as early techno



Trainman 1st Feb 2015		That's the Autobahn. The crosspiece in the middle is bridge



TheJudge 8th Nov 2014		Now uploaded one of the all-time iconic sleeve designs (discuss...).



TheJudge 6th Oct 2013		The umlauts must have been on strike when they printed the labels (they're there on the sleeve)!

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Linked Releases

Germany - Philips - 1974

Canada - Philips - 1974

USA - Vertigo - 1974

USA - Mercury - 1977

Germany - Kling Klang - 1985

Greece - Parlophone - 1985

USA - Warner Bros. - 1985

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