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Note: This is a review for the German, original version of the album.

While I have been fascinated with the idea of Kraftwerk for a while, I somehow have never really engaged with their music until now, except a couple songs. 'Trans Europa Express', the band's sixth effort, was my entry, and boy, what an entry it is!
To best explain this record i'll say that there are basically two cycles: 'Europa Endlos' and 'Trans Europa Express'. These two songs are ... read more

You've seriously gotta be a mad man to think of this as a mediocre record. Sure, this is the first album of the infamous J/Mike Dinosaur Jr. duo, as Murph left, but by God what a great duo it is! J just confirms himself to be a great ass songwriter, perhaps even more so than the previous albums because this is more hard hitting and less abstract, and even though I didn't expect it, he's also a beast on the drums. And on the guitar, of course.
It's their best selling album, ... read more

Aren't you all a little mean to this little album? It's no Blue or Pinkerton, sure - what is? - but you'd be dumb to say this is that much of a downfall in quality. (My biggest fans will recognize this same introduction line from my Pablo Honey review...this album is pretty much that, except it's not their debut)
It's certainly way more positive than the previous two, and has Matt Sharp leave to do one more album with The Rentals, but in exchange you've got Mikey ... read more

Well, Common People and Disco 2000 are some of the masterpieces of the entire pop genre, let's get that out of the way - What's left?
A collection of 10 other great songs, I tell ya. While only occasionally reaching those highs, they never fall behind: from the opener 'Mis-Shapes', a rocky song about feeling left out from society, to the closer 'Bar Italia', a ballad about the aftermath of a drug-filled party, Pulp present us with a plethora of different styles of ... read more