Editorial Reviews
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Music Review
Pierné: Piano Quintet, Op. 41 / Violin Sonata, Op. 36
Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2/Melodies (5)
Music: Dip It Low, Pt. 2 [CD-single] [Enhanced]
Musica Para Acampamento [Import]
Shamrocks & Shenanigans [CD-single]
Naumann: Masses in D minor & C minor
Strauss: Don Quixote; Schumann: Cello Concerto / Rostropovich, Karajan, et al
Amazon.com essential recording
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" (not an ode to one-hand typing!). 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: numbers one to eight--period) 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 lovable bundle of contradictions: at once its most technologically obsessed album and its most human. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
1997 Japanese reissue of the German electronic/ techno icon's landmark 1981 album with 'Dentaku' added as a bonus track. Eight tracks total. EMI release. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.