With the possible exception of the 1983 single, "Tour de France", "Computer World" represents Kraftwerk's swan-song from the cutting edge. As the rest of the world caught up with their electro-pop antics, that which made the Düsseldorf group so pioneering to begin with would, in its failure to move forward, bury the godfathers of the genre. 1986's "Electric Café" managed, shockingly, to sound dated *on release* thus drawing a solemn line under ...
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