Autobahn

4.5 My favorite Kraftwerk album I think? At least of the ones I’ve gotten for this project. Only they can make a 20 minute song about a German highway fun!

ich fahre kein auto :(

From my review of the other Kraftwerk album I've heard in this project (The Man Machine): "I have not heard much Kraftwerk - the only song of theirs I would say I'm familiar with was "Tour de France" because it was featured in a great scene in Breakin'... I don't hate this but couldn't imagine listening to it a lot. It sounds like the soundtrack for an old arcade game. The lyrics are unintentionally hilarious but I'll give them a pass on that because English isn't their first language." That basically holds true for this album too, though I think this is a better album and I recognized its name as a very classic/influential album. That recurring melody in "Morgenspaziergang" sounds familiar but I am not sure where I would have heard it.

intersting but not for me

eugh. no thanks

Super goofy. Liked it. Not everyday listen, great music for some activity.

I know it's iconic, but it's boring and weird.

I went into Autobahn with a terrible attitude. Another electronic album? And the opening track is 22 minutes long? No thanks. Then something unexpected happened: I changed the way I was listening. This isn't an album to sample for singles. It's an experience, a complete work of art. Once I stopped waiting for conventional songs and listened to it as a soundscape, it came alive. The title track felt like driving through changing terrains. Later, the album took me somewhere eerie, then into what sounded like a dark cavern with dripping water, before the final track emerged into what I imagined as a beautiful spring morning. Listening to Autobahn reminded me of looking at an abstract painting and finding your own meaning in it. And for something released in 1974, it's remarkable how clearly you can hear the future of electronic music and synth-heavy pop taking shape. I immediately listened to the whole thing again. Eighteen minutes into that 22-minute opening track, I couldn't believe how quickly the time had passed. I started out thinking I was waiting in line for the ride. Turns out I was already on it.

Interesting album. It does get hypnotic at times. But is it something I enjoyed and wanted to relisten to? Not really. Might make good work music. 3 out of 5.

I love the Autobahn as much as the next guy, but this wasn't for me.

First of its kind.

I love this record. Perhaps it’s because it was the first Kraftwerk lp I owned. Perhaps I fell in love with it because it was the time I also fell in love with the Beach Boys and Stereolab. The second hand 70’s vinyl version of this lp is better than the Spotify remastered version by the way. Not always the case with Kraftwerk whose tinkering with their catalogue often refreshes but not here.

Mit ihrem vierten Album vollzogen die Düsseldorfer um Ralf Hütter und Florian Schneider den entscheidenden Schritt vom experimentellen Krautrock zu einer eigenständigen elektronischen Popsprache, die fortan als Blaupause eines ganzen Genres gelten sollte. Aufgenommen wurde das Album zunächst im bandeigenen Kling-Klang-Studio, überwiegend jedoch in Conny Planks neu bezogenem Landhausstudio in Wolperath bei Köln – eine Zusammenarbeit, die dem Klangbild seine unverwechselbare Klarheit verlieh. Veröffentlicht wurde „Autobahn" im November 1974 bei Philips/Vertigo, dem letzten Label vor Gründung des eigenen Kling-Klang-Imprints. Das über zwanzigminütige Titelstück, das die gesamte erste Seite der Original-LP einnahm, simuliert mit hypnotischer Präzision eine Autofahrt – vom Motorstart über gleichmäßig pulsierende Synthesizerflächen bis zum imaginären Radioeinschalten. Diese kompositorische Geduld, gepaart mit dem neu erworbenen Minimoog und selbstgebauten Rhythmusgeräten, markiert den Moment, in dem Kraftwerk aufhörten, eine Band im klassischen Sinne zu sein, und begannen, Klangarchitekten zu werden. Songs wie „Kometenmelodie 1" und „2" sowie „Mitternacht" zeigen, dass neben aller technischen Neuerung noch ein Rest der alten, kosmischen Verträumtheit mitschwingt. Rückblickend wirkt „Autobahn" fast wie ein Übergangswerk – und genau darin liegt sein besonderer Reiz: Man hört eine Band, die sich selbst neu erfindet, ohne bereits die kühle Distanziertheit späterer Alben wie „Trans Europe Express" anzunehmen. Es ist ein Album mit spürbar menschlichem Atem in einer zunehmend maschinellen Klangwelt. Ein Album, das den Verkehrslärm zur Meditation erhob und damit den Grundstein für die elektronische Musik legte, wie wir sie heute kennen. Ach, die 70er – da konnte man auf den Autobahnen noch richtig dahinfahren! Der Liter Benzin kostete 83 Pfennig, für ein Bier zahlte man 80 Pfennig die Halbe, und ein Kilo Brot gab's für 1,67 Mark. Im Radio lief "Autobahn" von Kraftwerk, und wer ein Kassettenabspielgerät im Auto hatte, konnte sich die ganze Platte in Dauerschleife reinziehen. Gefahren wurde auch viel entspannter – die Autos waren ja nicht so überdimensioniert wie heute. Bei meinem R4 war bei 120 km/h einfach Schluss, mehr ging nicht, und mehr brauchte man auch nicht. Man tankte den Wagen voll, holte sich noch ein Bier und ein Brot dazu – und selbst nach der Ölkrise reichte dafür eine Handvoll Münzen. Das waren noch Zeiten!"

cool. the title track is great, but the rest kinda feel like plantasia b sides. 2.5

Previously unknown. Not for me.

As early practitioners of the genre, I get the feeling they had intentions greater than creating something for people to listen to while tripping on ecstasy. I can’t say I fully understand what those intentions may have been, but I also didn’t fully hate it. At least, not the second half of the album. Twenty-plus minutes of, “autobahn…auto autobahn…” cost them a star.

A lot of that type of noise that Buck Rogers used when they wanted to show futuristic music. Thankfully we will long be gone before that time is a reality. Unfortunately we have this.

Not for me. Albums like this kinda drive me crazy and not in a good way. You have to respect someone trying something new especially in 1974. 5.1/10

Definitely a significant band, but nothing really hooked me on this album. Leading with a 22 min track is a bold move.

It’s really not even anything against this album I just think there’s kind of a 2-2.5 star ceiling re: my enjoyment of almost anything in the genre

These guys really like transportation. Cool album to drive to, Alicia said it sounded like the aliens were about to beam her up near the end.

No words. Huge fan of them.... Absolute album

Favourite Songs: Kometenmelodie 2 Mitternacht

1974 Autobahn is a classic song. Not my favorite album by them, but still really good.

I was excited when this one popped up given admiration expressed by musicians I like. The album was ok and once again songs delivered by Spotify once it completed were more engaging…surely owing to algorithm selecting more popular songs. The autobahn opener was about 8 minutes too long. The rest of the album had a haunting vibe like soundtrack to horror film. Likely to seek out more work by this artist but not likely to seek out this album specifically. 3/5

I don’t know that i enjoyed this but i did understand it and appreciate the elements i recognize in other places. Does that make sense

It would be a pretty decent driving album. Sounded a bit too never ending story though. I prefer other albums.

Hurts me to give a group I adore so much a mediocre rating, but Autobahn is a record that screams out that Kraftwerk were still growing. It's not bad. The title track is classic - but slightly outstays it's welcome in my eyes. The rest is a decent collection of tracks. I'd just rather be listening to any of their many better albums.

Pretty good, not as great as most of Kraftwerk's more well-known work though

I think I might've listened to this album before, and I remember not being impressed by it. The sound is very basic and amateurish IMO. I was kinda alright with the title track, and it was a little groovy and enjoyable to get into it, but really the whole thing was just kinda impactless. It was fine, but nothing I would tell anyone about or listen to more than once. Two stars.

These dudes LOVE driving, and they can kinda convince me to love it too. Kraftwerk are a singular group with a massive legacy in electronic, pop, indie, and experimental music. This shit right here is why. You start thinking “hmm, what a pleasant little synthpop tune” before you’re into double-digit minute sound collage simulating Autobahn driving. It rules. The other tracks show some of their range from pleasurable melodies to ambience to synthetic experiments. It’s an electronic “krautrock” (komische musik) and it’s pretty far out while also showing some poppier tendencies

Better than I thought it would be. I don't generally like electronic music too much, so pioneering work I thought was going to be a miss. It was alright however.

Aaaah, when computers sounded like computers and all the more human for it.

I didn’t like the first one I see no reason for two to be on this list. Sounds like shitty royalty free YouTube music.

Dnf. It was nice to listen to for the first 3 minutes. Then I got left behind on the Autobahn

6.5/10 = biased a little bit because i remember always docking my dad's ipod to listen to the robots in my dining room when i was rlly little and a lot of the album is quite inaccessible i think and "it insists upon itself" especially w the reviews i skimmed here but i didn't mind it at all and it was good background for me

The more of their album's I listen to, the more I like them.

80

Thursday, 6 August, 2026 Loved this album. Amazing sound. Weird aesthetics. Legendary.

vom Feinsten

Just didn't stick with me. I don't mind electronica. This felt kind of dated.

horrible, refuse to finish this. Boring and insanely repetitive, it's driving me crazy.

So many of these “really influential” albums are unlistenable dull. This one’s pretty cool.

8/10 The title track is awesome. Side 2 less so. But what I love about Kraftwerk is that they trust in the power of music. They know that the interplay between just a few notes is where the magic lies.

Mhhhhh

I forgot how musically intricate the title track was. It must have sold a lot of hifi equipment when it was first released. The synths sounds janky, but in a cool way, and the bass synth is quite lovely. The vvocoder trick must have blown peoples's minds - this was the future. The precise teutonic vocals are out of place, but also work in a sterile way. It's mad to think that this would have all been played in live - I wonder how many takes there were, yet it sounds like it was sequenced - it's that tight.

This album is an absolute masterpiece and hugely influential. Mind you, I don't think it has always been received that way by pop and rock fans - I can remember most of my friends back in the 1970s treating this album with complete derision - claiming this wasn't 'real music'. In fact with the passage of time, this album is clearly very important. And more than that, it's good to play.

2.5/5

It's video game music. The entire time I listened to this I kept thinking of my playstation. I'm not saying it's bad but I expected it to be a bit weirder. I will never listen to this again but I'm not mad I listened to it once. I do not understand how this was groundbreaking, AT ALL. As someone who doesn't enjoy electronica this is a huge miss but I have friends that love them live.

Literally the most autistic music of all time (non-derogatory)

One of the most influential groups of all time, you really cannot underplay Kraftwerk’s importance to electronic music and music at large. Incredible that this was made in the early 70s really. That being said, it’s not going to be an album Id return to all of the time

Cool that this exists, but not really my thing.

Not at all what i expected.

This sounds so remarkably different from the other albums I've listened to by them, but no less lovely

Autobahn might be my second favorite album to capture the feel of a road trip. 4.5 stars, rounding down.

Too boring for me.

I feel weird reviewing this, because I've been hearing for a while that Kraftwerk is incredible and I enjoy electronica quite a bit. This was pretty great, but I was expecting something completely amazing. This was very innovative for the time and I loved how it ended, but I feel like it gets better than this. It sounds like they have more albums on here so I'm definitely interested in checking them out.

Not unpleasant, not pleasant. Will not listen again.

I get the negative reviews on here. Even as someone who enjoys electronic music, it took me a long time to appreciate Kraftwerk. All of the artists who came after them expanded the palette of electronic music, adding much more texture and variety to their sounds. Going back and listening to Kraftwerk can feel a little like listening to Bo Diddley after you've heard Jimi Hendrix. The real testament to Kraftwerk is the fact that later artists universally credit them as pioneers of the genre and vitally influential

Last two tracks brings this down slightly, but mein gutt the title track is a masterpiece

Yeah man alright

I did kinda feel like i was driving while listening to this ... do you think thats what the kraftwerk guys wanted

he he he... No man. no.

no, this was weird I felt like I was a part of some alien encounter , but also lowkey once I turned it off I wanted to hear it again bc it kinda calmed me

Drony, repetitive, and samey may be the point here, but that doesn’t mean I have to enjoy it. It mostly toodles along at a very medium tempo, which doesn’t give me much sense at all that I am speeding happily along on the Autobahn. The repetitive synthesizer swooshes simulating passing cars (and they seem to want us to experience EVERY passing car) are super annoying over a 22 minute track. I get it guys, we’re passing a lot of cars. Side 2, which is broken into four shorter compositions, does not improve things. The fake bird calls on the last track are especially irritating.

Very strange album, opening with a 20 minute track is ambitious, i didnt hate it. The second track was pretty cool, bout overall not fully my vibe, i definitely felt like it dragged on. 6/10 with 3 stars.

Even the 20 minute long self titled track keeps you invested in the song, I enjoyed it The other songs are really cool as well, I liked the water and flute

I have never desired an album to end quicker than I did with this album. This was just awful. I understand it was 1974 and this was one of the first electronic albums of all time, but not everything is timeless. This is one that shouldn’t be remembered as good just for the sake of nostalgia.

It’s just weird noise, not really music at all.

Better than Coldplay

wtf

Who's the daddy!? I've been waiting for some Kraftwerk. And I have to be honest - I didn't love this as much as I thought/hoped I would. I enjoyed the structured melodic stuff, Autobahn and Kometenmelodie2. The more random noise, Kometenmelodie1 and Mitternacht were a bit of a struggle But this has to be on the list. It's the daddy of so much.

surprisingly good but in an odd way. 22 min for a song is crazy and you start to lose your sanity here and there, but I listened to it at work and was a decent vibe.

Probably closer to a 1.5, but most of the album felt like background music

The title track is fun but the rest is tilted more towards their early experimental sound and does not hold my full attention. This is background music at best for me. 2.5⭐️

I’m glad Kraftwerk is finally getting their flowers. It’s long past time.

The best selling and possibly most iconic album by them, as for me, I've heard about "Autobahn" way more than any other of their projects, but it doesn't mean it is the best. "Autobahn" clearly shows the group in an experimentation phase, as it is not even close to the catchy and spacey synthpop of "Die Mensch∙Maschine". What the album offers is a sound that is way closer to ambient and Krautrock. The first song is the most obvious example, as it is a twenty three minutes piece where the band is constantly making changes, and thus having moments featuring hypnotic rhythms and melodies while others focus on atmosphere and experimenting, creating sounds with their synths, such as the imitations of cars passing by or claxons, which comes as incredibly creative. The rest of songs are more one-dimensional, centering around ambient and Berlin School, excluding "Kometenmelodie 2", feeling closer to Krautrock due to the addition of rhythmic pattern. The ambient tracks are quite nice, specious and eerie (in the case of "Kometenmelodie 1" and "Mitternacht") or beautiful (in the case of "Morgenspaziergang", featuring some wonderful flute and piano). Nevertheless, I don't think they are as unique as the first song, or as immersive as "Phaedra" by Tangerine Dream, another project coming from Berlin School that I love quite much. So overall, I think it is a decent album that shows some really interesting experimentation with the synths and their textures, creating a nice blend of electronic, ambient and Krautrock.

I love these crazy German spacemen. 5/5.

couldn't find this album

Just a bit too much of a slog for me to enjoy - sorta like a long monotonous trip on a motorway, I guess.

An album that you must listen too. Often copied never matched.

DE & EN: Ein spielerisches, analoges Wohlfühlerlebnis. Erhebend, in seiner Perfektion beinahe spirituell. Eine Kreation von klinischer Präzision, handgefertigt, analog, auf Tonband aufgenommen. Einzigartig originell und zeitlos aktuell, so perfekt auf unsere rhythmische Hörphysiologie abgestimmt, dass wir vielleicht bewusste Roboter sind. Berührend in seiner einzigartigen Schönheit. Jedes Hören fühlt sich an wie ein erster Tanz oder eine erste Fahrt in einem BMW auf den perfekt glatten, kurvenreichen Autobahnen Deutschlands. Bravo. a playful analogue wellbeing experience. Uplifting, almost spiritual in its perfection. a creation of such clinical precision, made by hand, analog, recorded on tape. Singularly original and timelessly current, and so suited to our rhythmic acoustic physiology suggesting we may be conscious robots. Touching in its singular beauty. Every listen feels like a first dance, or a virgin drive in a BMW on the perfectly smooth cambered freeways of Germany. bravo.

It literally washes over you. You can go to very strange places listening to this, it holds your hand while you let your mind wander. This is what the minmoog was made for, just needed some batshit crazy Germans to put it all together. The whole thing is very cool and of course timeless. Then they went on to do the Casio thing and the pocket calculators, I mean does it get any better than Kraftwerk!

I would have been about 13 or 14 when a slightly older school mate mockingly suggested that Autobahn was the sort of thing that I would like. I remember him sarcastically singing "fun fun fun on the autobahn" (as he pronounced it) like it was the most ridiculous song ever. I didn't actually know anything about Kraftwerk at that stage but mentally filed it away for future reference on the assumption that, if an obnoxious prick like him hated it, there must something worth investigating. A year or so later I picked up a copy from the Ashfield Record Bar in Hercules St -- I assume it was cheap, I didn't have much money -- and it became a core part of my nascent record collection. Not owning many LPs, I listened to this a lot. The sound of this album has become such a part of the mainstream that it is hard to remember how fresh it once sounded. Minimal, repetitive synth pop is everywhere now, but it started here. While the 7" edit of the title track was a mere novelty for many, the album stretched to explore the possibilities of the synthesizer and suggested a whole new approach. I would argue that Autobahn is not as influential (or possibly even as good) as their following four albums, which set became unlikely influences on pop, electro and hip hop. It sounds a bit dated these days. But I have a nostalgic love of Autobahn because it was a special record for me in my teens. I think my school mate had this pegged as nerd music, played by nerds and only fit for nerds like me. And it is true that Kraftwerk (and I) were nerds. But it was rare in the early 80s for a nerdy kid like me to have musical heroes that I could relate to. Eventually the nerds would conquer the world, and Kraftwerk would be hailed as the innovators they were, despite the fact that they have essentially rested on their laurels for the past 40-odd years. Personally, I quite liked Electric Cafe, the last all-new album they released. I bought it on release, and I really dig the crisp, super-minimal, lock-step funkiness, especially on the first side. Most people consider it a flop, and it seems to have shattered Kraftwerk's creative operating model. Since then, it has been remixes, the odd "event" single, and increasingly elaborate live shows showcasing their classic catalogue. People say the shows are amazing, but I haven't felt the need to see them live -- the records are perfect.

it took me 20 years to get through the title track for some reason - although i've listened to it before, it felt more grating to get through this time around. I still had a good time. I need to be in the proper headspace for this one I think. Still very calming. Beautiful soundscapes. I feel like being the perfect amount of wine drunk in a plane; trying to find even an ounce of comfort being dangerously in the sky for hours drifting in and out of sleep is where I’d want to be hearing this for the first time.

Kraftwerk really were a groundbreaking artist. This is another really good album.

This was on. I heard it but it is such a weird album. Fine to listen to but it's just there and nothing else.

Kultni bend i album koji su definirali cijelu eru glazbe i treba ih promatrati kroz tu prizmu, što kažem jer sam pročitala masu reviewova koji seru po albumu jer je repetativan, a ista ta ekipa će u petak ići izbezumljena na neki ispod prosječni tehno i vratiti se u ponedjeljak, to nije repetativno. Svaka čast Kraftwerku i velikih 4/5 samo zbog toga što mi ovo nije njihov najdraži album. 4/5, 8.5/10

Oh great /s. That's just from seeing a Kraftwerk album. Now, to listen. .....not as painful as I had expected. Mostly just boring though. Not my genre of choice, but hail to pioneers.

I had heard of Kraftwerk, and a general idea of their genre, but never actually heard any of their songs. This was a very pleasant surprise though. I was pretty wary about the first track being so long, especially after how long that first 5 minutes felt. But the movement throughout the track was great, even if I think it could've been a tad bit shorter. Overall, great album though.

Always meant to check out this album but now I have I am not convinced of its greatness 😐

**A strange album, no vocals

I love a synthesiser: the sound has always grabbed me, from when I was really young. I wasn't aware of Kraftwerk until The Model/Computer Love in 1981(?) but of course I now know more about how long they'd already been around by then, and how they in fact influenced the whole art rock scene in the UK, and then the whole 80s synth pop movement. So, hurrah for Kraftwerk. Very cool, even with the odd, pastoral recorder-playing on the final track.

Recognise it was a classic early Kraftwerk but they have done better

536/1089 - Pleasant synth noises. Nothing special now but probably something special back in the 70s.

crazy to think of this sound existing, even in its nascent form, in 1974. a piece of history!

Pretty neat, Autobahn did not need to be 20 minutes long but I see the vision. Favorite Track: Morgenspaizergang, absolutely gorgeous track

Autobahn is just genius. Impossible that it's over 50 years old. The blend of electronic music with flute and guitar is beautiful. 22 minutes of greatness. Side 2 is a bit less interesting, but Kometenmelodie 2 is really good.

Oh go right on and fuck yourself you pretentious German assholes and take the stupid ass music critics who included three of your albums on this list with you. A 23 minute opening song with some found sound of a car starting? Why do so many of these found sound dorks use cars starting? At least all the other songs are of reasonable length. "...a landmark in avant-garde pop minimalism," AKA garbage music. Nothing like a little German chanting every five minutes either. This is like the German Tubular Bells. This is awful. Brian Eno loves it though. I bet these guys are pissed that his airport Muzak album got famous since they invented the genre apparently. And to cap it all off, a collections of science fiction sounds and tweets and beeps and some flute music. Morgenspaziergang is the music/background noise from a Mystery Science 3000-level movie lab scene.

I enjoyed the first Kraftwerk album I got, but each subsequent one has been a bit less interesting. It’s weird - it sort of sounds like background music, but I feel it needs more active listening than I want to give it.

Can't pretend it's my music exactly, but very good, very groundbreaking, cool atmosphere.

het eerste 22 minuten lange nummer over snelwegen drove (ha) me insane. leuke (innovatie met) synths geven een pluspuntje echter.

echt slaapverwekkend saai

Тільки тайтл-трек хороший. Все інше скіп. Оцінка: низька-середня 4

When you’ve got a twenty-something minute long mostly ambient electronic song with a total of less than ten words for lyrics in the can, you don’t need to waste any more of that hit-making magic on album tracks. Just cut four moody instrumentals that you can re-sell to B-picture fantasy movies to use in the background when the bad guy is introduced to fill up the second side of the album. That’s just music biz 101 baby. Sigh. Someone, somewhere is listening to the Supremes with a smile on their face, shaking their hips, while I long for the sweet release of das Sterben. Ach du lieber!

Very cool synthetic pop aspects combined with 3d audio elements, weird vibes but I like despite its oldness

Futuristically hopeful, while also a little offputting and uncanny. Very cool though. Sounds like background music for a game set in futuristic city streets. Not really my thing but i can see the appeal. Appreciated the use of different sounds to create the atmosphere.

One of the most boring, mindless albums I've ever heard, there's nothing interesting about it. I'm not listening to this ever again. For starters, the opening song. This song felt truly neverending, and I mean it in the worst way possible. 22 minutes of the same boring melodies, along with annoying, repetitive lyrics, and still, this is the "better" song on this album. The rest of this album is just equally boring, unmemorable, and bland like the first song, but worse. Nothing great about this album overall.

I love my autobahn

Solid German electronic music

A bit of chillaxing German electronica to get me through the afternoon. Sehr gut

It's nice enough I guess....?? I quite like the diverse use of synths for different flavours... but just because it's influential doesn't mean it's worthy of special consideration. It's not offensive, but there's also nothing here to get a rise out of me, and a lot of the weird ambient tracks just add absolutely nothing of worth. On its own merits it's just mediocre. 2.5 rounded down.

The baboon has now become dinner. First electronic album ever??? Its really cool to hear where it all originated from and I can see how this album helped shape the modern day. Lena Raine, C418, and some fishman connections were made. the first track was the standout as natural but the shorter songs felt like padding more than anything. i LOVE my eb tuning drone. The connections to the german highway were very apparent and were made very clear. I found it cool how they mimiced train bells with keyboards depitched and cars with well, cars. The last song hit though because me and this dumbass were talking bout some chinese baboon getting eaten by a leopard. that last song was STRAIGHT national geographic music . the baboon has now become dinner

Excited to finally hear this. Fantastic!

esse album do kraftwerk é uma brisinha diferente de ouvir, mas tipo, não é meu tipo de album. não peguei o conceito e os instrumentais de eletronicos pra mim foram os mesmos. nota 3,5

Clearly influential, and somehow not heard by these ears before. I have a few Kraftwerk albums so perhaps need to add this to the shelves. Surprisingly good to run to. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ✅️ ★★★★☆(7/10) Total reviewed : 362 Already owned : 79 Purchased : 16 To buy : 6 Nope : 261

A formative and important album that I’ll probably never listen to again. The last track was nice though.

repetitive and boring, I know that is the point but...

I didnt like this

Kraftwerk gets too much grief for being the weird German techno wizards. They were ahead of their time by decades. Without THIS album, we don't have techno and house and Goa and Dubstep. Hell, maybe not even new age. Yes, Autobahn goes on WAY longer than it needs to. Is this a perfect album? No. Does it deserve respect? Hell yes. Just strap in and take the drive. Go down a back country road and get hypnotized by the looping. Let it flow. My Rating: 5/5

Enjoyed to some extent.

I think I prefer Man Machine, but this is still amazing. Sounds so free and playful despite the obvious limits of early electronic production.

Benieuwd naar deze! Vorige Kraftwerk album was een hele makkelijke 5 sterren en dit is het 'bekendere' album. Sowieso hoor je meteen al weer de zelfde innovatie, dat dit uit 1974(!!!) komt is echt bizar. Autobahn is een heerlijke trip. Het nummer blijft doorgaan, maar blijft je ook continue boeien, mij althans. De muziek klinkt nog steeds futuristisch en houdt de aandacht vast, lyrics zijn er niet of nauwelijks; maar dat is ook niet het doel van deze muziek. De nummers gaan ook gewoon perfect in elkaar over. Ik begrijp gewoon niet dat je mensen hebt die naar bijvoorbeeld de Grateful Dead gaan om LSD te gebruiken, terwijl dit ook al bestond? Dit is toch tripmuziek in optima forma. Ogen dicht en voor je het weet praat je met God op een Duitse Autobahn. Wel moet ik eerlijk zeggen; dit album pakt me gewoon een stuk minder dan het eerdere Kraftwerk album. Ja Autobahn is zeer vet, en ik ben ook echt wel fan van Kometenmelodie. Daarnaast is het zeker geen slecht album, maar toch merk ik dat ik hier minder de behoefte heb om meteen het album nog een keer aan te zetten. Dat is voor mij toch wel een beetje een 'vereiste' voor 5 sterren. Dus uiteindelijk denk ik dat ik het een vet album vind, maar geen 5 sterren. Ik wil Duitse robot techno blijkbaar, geen trippy autorijd prototechno. Weet ik dat ook weer. FAVO: Autobahn, Kometenmelodie 2,

Review: This was an interesting album. Extremely revolutionary considering this was in 1974. My main problem with this album is the lack of words. Not that I hate instrumental music I just find it to much harder to connect with artists messages just through noise. I did still however love some of the songs on this album. Autobahn and Kometenmelodie 2 stood out the most for me. The electric sound was captivating and I loved that I could feel the music flowing around me. There also some tracks like Mitternacht that just kind of felt like they threw some sounds together and called it a day.

perfect!

I am a big electronica/ techno fan. It is "my" genre. Of any sort of music I consistently like it surrounds this base: from deep house to trip hop to big beat... and everything in between. Kraftwerk is canon and a big part of starting it all, they are a huge part of the head table and are, in my view, essential listening (and knowing) if you have even a mild interest in any sort of synthesized music or electronica. They are, if not gods, at least demi-gods, so there is that!

I am in a streak of horrible albums. The last 10 come to a 1.1 average. This list must have been put out by Dyson, because it really sucks.

I can get behind this

Jump on the Autobahn when you listen to this one.

Yet again bad background music

Would have been mind blowing in 1974 - not as mind blowing now, but still worth a listen.

I choose to believe this perfectly captures the feeling of driving on the Autobahn, no one tell me otherwise.

I give 5 Autobahn out of 5 for this one. Even if it is a little weak at the end.

Pleasant. Nothing particularly exciting or offensive. Listened a couple times while working and it just made for a nice texture in the air.

not for me!

I wanted to like this but ultimately didn’t quite land in the way I hoped. Can certainly appreciate it but think it might not have found me in the most patient mood for this type of music. No doubt influential and deserving of its place on the list though.

It's good, but not their best

1st track is a banger but it falls off pretty hard for me. Can't get to a 4 star like many other albums they have.

The title track is amazing, the concept is fun, and the other tracks take a little getting used to, but really well done.

WIR FAHR'N FAHR'N FAHR'N AUF DER AUTOBAHN!?!?

#386/1001. - Hän oli kaunis kuin öinen moottoritie. - Ja suurinpiirtein yhtä nopea liikkeissään. Two quotes from a Kaurismäki movie which I heard just as I was starting to write this review. What does it have to do with this album? Everything and nothing. The meticulously planned minimalism. The characters behaving like one-two note melody patterns from Autobahn. The road trip from nowhere to nowhere. The quotes, punchlines which are between funny and immortal. The winter, ambient season. These metaphors, which suck big time.

Late to the party with these. Pioneers. All over their stuff now. This is decent. 4/5

I should say first that this was not as bad as I thought it would be. The tunes are mostly inoffensive, just super-simple. I recognize that this band is extremely influential, and that they were very creative for their time. As a result of that influence & creativity & inoffensive simple songs, this gets a 3. Additional Kraftwerk albums are not likely to fair as well.

Futuristic, ambient, chill, exciting.

I didn't enjoy Autobahn as much as the other two Kraftwerk albums i did on this project. This is one of the earliest electronic records and you can absolutely tell here as this album definitely felt like synth-mania. My main issue with this album is that the first three songs end up outstaying their welcome, especially that title track which went on for 22 minutes. And in general, those songs in particular just lacked the cool atmospheric vibe that this band's later records had. The last two tracks though were pretty good and had a very atmospheric vibe to them that i expect from Kraftwerk and had cool ideas with them. If it were just the first 3 songs, this album would have only been worthy of a 2 star rating but the last 2 songs were able to bump it up a half. Best Song: Mitternacht Worst Song: Kometenmelodie 1 Side note: Last Kraftwerk album, you know what that means: 1. The Man Machine 2. Trans Europe Express 3. Autobahn

sometimes on this site i listen to a rock or punk record whose historic significance completely goes over my head. this one didn't! i rediscovered this gem and could see how mind-blowing and influential it was for the time. imagine listening to this in the 70s! but even beyond the historic aspect of this, it's incredible how well the music held up. still a fantastic album to listen to while you're driving or chilling. i should listen to this more.

6.5/10

Enjoyed it a lot, more than I thought I would. Liked the length and repetition of the songs.

Minus one for back to back Kraftwerk

This was groovy the 20 minute opener was like somehow the worst song on here. Second one slaps tho

Oh goody more than one album on this list that’s an ode to good old fashioned German engineering. Oh and for the record the closer on this is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard in my life

closer to a 5 than a 3. hell yeah! this is crazy, youngsters. vibe central.

nyyyooOoOoMm tstststs bonbon on ttstststststsss wooyoyoooooommm byoooOoOoOm

wir fahren fahren fahren auf der autobahn

Звичайно, що титульна композиція тут головна, сторона А і все таке. Це ще не піковий для мене Крафтверк, але вже дуже близько. Інші композиції не такі сильні. Водночас все одно цікаві. Той самий "пташиний спів" в Morning Walk - дуже крута ідея. Впевнена 4.

Титульний трек супер класика і кайф, але решта альбома не дотягує все ж. Тому 3.5

Onhan toi ihan huippu artisti, ja jälkeen kerran asiallista musaa. Eka raita alkoi vähän toistaa itseään, olisin kaivannut vähän dynaamisempaa menoa. Ja viimeisessä kappaleessa oli erehdyttävästi nokkahuilulta kuulostavaa soundia, siitä vain 4/5.

Uraauurtavaa soundimaailmaa kyllä, ei ehkä sitä ominta juttua kuitenkaan.

i’m a fan fan fan of the autobahn

I loved this band in 2nd grade so I can't hate this. 4/5

Good listen - I could only find and EP. Ejoyed it though.

I like electronic music and I also enjoy soundscapes. So I was very much looking forward to this album. It is also the album that most people recognise when they think of Kraftwerk. This album feels much more serious than "The Man Machine" and the heavy weighting on the track "Autobahn" provides less of a showcase for the different sounds and themes that Kraftwerk can make. So I was a little disappointed overall. The album is still good and is a very good example of an electronic concept album. I feel like it was just not what I was hoping for. (3.000)

Sounds like a music project they came up with on the last day of the deadline and got an F

A stellar album, after their early and more experimental albums (which are also brilliant btw), Kraftwerk have now fully embraced both the sound and the image that would define them. Autobahn is an electronic classic, an album that would influence so much of what was to follow. Sadly I was unable to get tickets for the recent UK tour, a friend went to the Royal Albert Hall and tells me that it was a superb evening.

2,5

2,5

Classic. And it still sounds fresh and smart.

i like kraftwerks ethos and influence in experimental electronic music but i dont love listening to them i honestly find their music kind of boring sometimes. i will say that the title track here is really good probably one of my favourite kraftwerk songs but the rest of it just feels like filler 7/10 Favourite: Autobahn Least Favourite: Mitternacht

Whoever thought this album should be in the list has real problems and should be sacrificed to the kraken. This album sucks

2.5 - Meh

Awful

Weird, but kind of good. Interesting sounds

um where am i what is this. this is an experience..! the sounds are fun & innovative. playful, experimental, carefree. i feel like im ... on a journey!? is that, a flute? are we in a mystical land?! favorite song: probably the title track. makes me want to drive on an autobahn hahaa orrr kometenmelodie 1 / mitternacht bc they're so boss intro / dungeon level coded. xd

Just the right amount of experimental to feel edgy but not enough to drive you away. Pun intended hehe

Great album. Electronic pioneers

Dreary, repetitive techno Europop.

Honestly, sounded like the jams my brother and I composed & played on our Casio keyboard as kids--it wasn't good back then either.

Fazer música cool com barulho de carro não é para todos. Acho que nunca tinha ouvido o resto do álbum, parece que descobri o meu novo tema do despertador para as minhas morgens

Esperava algo mais variado tbh

Great werk

Really good stuff. They're fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n on the autobahn. The first and last song carried, I could do without the middle songs.

Sehr gut.

Genius. What an album -a truly remarkable work.

1. Autobahn (★★★⯨☆) -Muy "bonita", pero se me hizo eterna. 2. Kometenmelodie 1 (★★⯨☆☆) 3. Kometenmelodie 2 (★★⯨☆☆) 4. Mitternacht (★★★☆☆) 5. Morgenspaziergang (★★⯨☆☆) TOTAL = ★★⯨☆☆ (2,8) -Debería ser un 3, pero me pareció más un 2, así que le voy a poner 2 estrellas.

mneh

The Good: No speed-limits! The Bad: There’s always construction going on, slowing us down… The Ugly: The original album cover… I’ve driven the autobahn, many times, max speed that I reached probably 248 km/h, it was fun. One of the main things I realized about driving on the autobahn is that you need to pay attention, all the time… This album… this does not help paying attention. It is a snooze fest. It is dull… and it is EMD in it’s genesis… and I don’t like EMD. I am certain that this album has it’s merits… but the 20-minute opening track was enough for me to applaud reaching the end of the album knowing that I will never-ever play this album again. 2*

I often listen to these albums at work, which has maybe meant I shortchanged a few of them, but I think it worked in Autobahn's favour - it's good for going into a semi-trance.

Not bad

3/5

5/10

This early electronic stuff is tough to get through. But I did! That first track at 20 minutes was a slog…

fahn fahn fahn on the autobahn

That is one lengthy ride on the Autobahn (even though it was only 43 minutes.) Best track is the last one, Morningwalk. (1.99*s) This was cutting edge with nothing else like it when it dropped.

Some fun, fun, fun on the autobahn but a 23 minute ride is too long boys. The rest of the album sounds like it's from an old horror movie and you end up in a bonsai garden which I Iike but weird. This may be an influential album and laid down some electronica foundations, just not as good as their later work. Still figuring it out I guess. 1.35 stars for this drive.

I get what Kraftwerk was going for here but man was Autobahn a drag to get through. Kraftwerk's ode to driving came off as 22 minutes of some of the worst aspects of the activity. I found the whole song to be redundant, repetitive, somewhat frustrating and wishing it was over, much like sitting in traffic. I was hoping for a reprieve on the back half with Kometenmelodie and the other tracks but unfortunately it did not deliver. When all was said and done I found Autobahn to be mostly a forty-minute chore. I often listen to these albums on my drive home from work and they typically offer a great escape from the monotony of the commute. I was hoping this could be a casual companion piece but listening to Autobahn on my drive home was one of the worst ways to get through it. Incidentally I had already listened to Autobahn somewhat recently for a separate reason (Sounds Like Teen Spirit) and found it pretty insufferable that time around as well. I can confidently say that I can't blame the traffic/commute as the reason I didn't enjoy this. I like electronic music quite a bit and appreciate Kraftwerk for helping to popularize the genre but this album was a surprise dud for me. 1.05 stars

Autobahn track does get a bit tedious, other tracks probably more interesting to be fair

6.5/10 Groundbreaking for sure. But the ideas on here don't really come together well. Later Kraftwerk albums have better songs. Highlights: Kometenmelodie 2 Autobahn

Amusing, quirky. I can take it in small doses snd can see how this might rate being one of 1000 albums one should be aware of

pocas cosas me parecen tan malucas como esta banda y todo lo que hacen

Great background music.

Not my thing, but pretty cool to have come out in the 70s.

Didn't like the first Kraftwek album I had, don't like this one either. The first track, Autobahn, is 22 minutes long and soungs like a group of somewhat gifted 5 year olds got together to make a song. The rest are just uninteresting instrumentals. Morgenspaziergang has a decent melody, but that's the only good thing I'll say about this album. Best song: Morgenspaziergang

Interesting but not my particular cup of tea

It's an interesting album that left a long reaching impact, but I don't think I'm high enough to truly appreciate it.

I will likely never listen to this again, but it was interesting and a good one off I feel. Can definitely see how this might influence artists in the coming years. 3/5

Best Song: Autobahn. This does have an alright, droning rhythm that feels well suited for driving (and subsequently falling asleep at the wheel). Worst Song: Mitternacht. This feels less like a song and more like background music from a bad movie. Overall: Alright, after three albums I think I can conclude that I don't really like Kraftwerk. Maybe they were influential, but I don't see the appeal. It seems to be music that motivated people to make much better music, so I suppose there's value in that.

Not my favored genre

It was fine. 2.5/5

Very good Atmospheric Classic

Not really a Kraftwerk fan, I kind of dread whenever I get these records. But.. I kind of liked this one. It was very atmospheric. Easy and nice to have on in the background while I was grinding through work today. Weird and flowy, fun and chill. I liked this.

wow, it's like i was right there, on the autobahn

Me encanta, lo amo los he escuchado mucho.

Just not for me

Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der Autobahn This song takes up more than half of the album's runtime, but that's okay, because it's the only track the album needed in the first place.

It's ok.

While I find it the most boring of Kraftwerk's albums, you can't deny the importance. It forever changed music as we know it

Is the opening track a little long? Sure. I actually listened to this on a run today and by the time track one was done I had run 5k. Long doesn’t mean bad, this is electronic music and Kraftwerk are creating an atmosphere and it’s super chill. There are enough variations, slight as they are to keep this interesting. I’m not sure I’d use this as a running album again but it’s a great album to zone out to or work to. Really good stuff. 4 stars

Definitely a good choice for this 1001 list as it must be one of the most significant album releases of all time in terms of what it influenced and led to in terms of stylistic development. What it lacks in terms of raw musical content it makes up for in sheer electronic timbral variety - how DID they develop those sounds. One cannot remove the image of the Tomorrow's world segment and the advent of 'future music'. The Spectre of prog is not far from the 22 minute title track which does have its impressive moments. Can see why Bowie was transfixed by this stuff at the time - I always felt that Jean-Michel Jarre took it further but hearing it for the first time must have been remarkable or completely baffling.

Im a fan, fan, fan of the Autobahn

Okay. Certainty a different listening experience but catchy musical arrangements.

not a single other album of its genre perfectly represents electronica better than this. master class in synth. german engineering in audio format. brilliant. 10/10 FAVOURITE SONGS: AUTOBAHN, MORGENSPAZIERGANG

Long instrumental/ artsy electronica bleepy soundscapes— def makes me think of Eno. Not nearly as kitsch as the other Kraftwerk assignment I got this week!

Agréablement surpris, ni trop expérimental, ni trop boum boum, ça peut, éventuellement, s'écouter

This was a one and done album for me. The music was interesting, but it didn't really move me, so although I was glad to have heard it once, I really won't have to listen to it again.

I dont like this, it's a bit too robotic and Stoner dad vibes, the synths are solid but this isnt something i would ever revisit

It was ok but didn’t love it

Just boring and repetitive. It's inoffensive as background noise, but it's really just not very interesting.

I was stoked when Kraftwerk came up. I knew the singe Autobahn of course as well as about ten other tracks. I love those songs and am well aware of the huge impact this band has had on synthpop and electronic music in general. So, the album starts with a 22 minute version of Autobahn, which was way longer than it should be. The car noises were clever though. The rest of the album was underwhelming too. Very little in memorable tunes and it left me with no desire to listen to the record ever again. Still, three stars for the sheer impact of the band and this album

A pinnacle album, very much pointing the way to the future.

Genius. People are still building albums and tracks off the backs of ideas that they created. Cynics should also remember that all of this is being done without the existence of digital audio workstations, sequencers, samplers, midi, or any modern day drum machines. They used primitive analog drum machines that are not what you think they are. I don't think many people quite understand how much effort had to be put into pulling this sort of artistic endeavor off. This is the album that inspired much of David Bowie and Brian Eno's best work, and almost every single synth based work that you have heard just about anywhere for the past 52 years. Take a trip, put Kraftwerk in your veins.

no se canto

This is my third (and I believe) and last Kraftwerk album and I am still not 100% sure how I feel about them as a band. I enjoy a lot of the music I've heard, while I also could take or leave the other music that I heard. I knew the song Autobahn from somewhere and I can't place it. I wish I could say this album has ultimately changed my mind about Kraftwerk but it has not. I like Autobahn, but it is a very long track, and the second half of the album are nothing but instrumentals. My favorite tracks: Autobahn Kometenmelodie 2

Beep booo

If this album was produced today instead of 50 years ago, it would have been called just another electronic EDM album. But considering it was created in 1974, the technology was quite groundbreaking. Truly pioneering the electronic and industrial music revolution.

bro I feel like im in a car factory cult

I prefer Computer World but all Kraft is good werk.

Tune in and zone out to the loops, ambience, shifting mood and textures, propulsive trancey locked in rhythm and slowly iterating synth scenery.

Robotic genius. Not as good as computer world but still cool as hell

I’ve studied law in Germany. If anyone told me they’d listened to a 22 minutes of ‘wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn’, I would consider them legally insane. I suppose that includes myself now.

Songs too long. Got bored listening to them. Eh. German though which is kinda cool. No lyrics. Feels more like a jam sesh than anything. Would recommend to andrew, not really for me tho

Love these crazy German critters. 4.2/5

Autobahn is one of those vinyl-era albums that either begins or ends with an LP-side-spanning piece that takes up the vast majority of discussion around the record as a whole. most of these tend to be guitar-based compositions, and they're usually either jams (whether kicked- or psyched-out) or tightly-constructed, progressive suites; think 2112, Meddle or In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. by stark contrast, the title track of Autobahn is a somewhat abstract tone poem about the act of driving on the titular German highway system. (the song's main lyrical phrase repeats the word "fahren", or driving, three times, which English-speaking audience misheard as an allusion to the Beach Boys.) there's a few repeating sections based around simple synth-pad chord progressions and a static electronic drum beat; but the section around 10 minutes in, where the synths become the sounds of cars flying up and down the road in both directions, is easily the standout. the slow-developing nature of the whole composition, and its predictable ebbs and flows, make for an odd, nonetheless relaxing experience. despite four band members appearing on the cover's rear-view mirror, this track, and much of the B-side that follows, was made by Kraftwerk's two original main brains (Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider) largely in isolation. Wolfgang Flür shows up to play electronic drums on the second of the breezy "Kometenmelodie" tracks, which feature more clear-cut instrumental pop structures. Klaus Röder also throws some electric fiddle on "Mitternacht"; you can hear it echoing off the Moogs around the midsection particularly well. as cool as the sounds Kraftwerk makes on this album are, I'm excited to revisit their later work, where they managed to fit those sounds into more urgent, succinct and catchy(!) pop frameworks. wonder if I should listen to them in German or English. or both. decent 7/10.

Good ol' Kraftwerk

This album sets its parameters clearly, defines what is going to be about, and completely fulfills its promise. No fluff here. An amazing work. I was hoping someday someone could do for trains and airplanes what Kraftwerk has done for the Autobahn. +1 star for lyrics in multiple languages.

I know this is the foundation to every 80’s dance tune that I love. But… ugh.

I love Kraftwerk but they only got better from here on.

3- Stars (7/15)

Another great listen from Kraftwerk! I found the B-side a little bit unfocused, but the side-long piece on the A-side was a treat, probably my favourite Kraftwerk piece we've had so far.

Not something I’d listen to again, but I had a fun time!

My favorite Kraftwerk to date! The title track is an absolute joy! They get into some more experimental and psychedelic stuff for the remainder of the album -- some of which you could mistake for early Pink Floyd if it wasn't so electronic and, well, German lol. It's fine, but definitely falls a bit flat after vibing to "Fun fun fun at the Autobahn" (misheard lyrics i know) for 22 minutes. Standouts: Autobahn • Kometenmelodie 2

Wanted this to be a 4 very badly but so much of it is taken up by Autobahn, which I didn't like much, I couldn't bump it up that high just because I thought the last two tracks were amazing.

This electronic stuff is too weird for me.

Autobahn was sehr gut. Innovative and influential stuff. No longer futuristic sounding.

Despite ( or maybe because haha..) being a Krautrock fan, never really got into Kraftwerk. This reminds me of Kelvinos trip to SF pretty much 11 years to the month, where I played this and Trans-Europa endlessly. I ended up not being really into it though, and that's still the case. Enjoyed Kometenmelodie 2 the most - could really hear the influence on Sterolab on those MiniMoogs(?)

I was really not enjoying the opening track and kept thinking about my junior school and the soundtracks to the public information and educational films that we would watch on a TV set that they would roll in to the hall on a trolley once or twice a term. It was sounding like Jean-Michel Jarre was having a bad day to be frank. As the album progress though, I got more into it, even if admittedly, the track with the pipes came as welcome relief from all the repetitive synth. In summary, this is a very much a worthy inclusion on this list, possibly a landmark album, but not really my thing.

Yeah, it's Kraftwerk. I like their later albums a little better.

dominated by a 23 minute opening title track that plays like a chibi robo loading screen. every three minutes when the chorus comes in with "fahn fahn fahn off the autobahn" i wanted to clasp my hands in prayer and wish for just *something* to happen musically speaking. surely young german couples in the 70's were popping this shit on to occupy their toddlers like primeval baby shark. not since frank zappa has a song just kind of made me mad. by and large the other half of the album didn't change that impression. the weird lovely little moment in Morgenspaziergang made me happy if only by contrast

Rating: 7/10 Some real prototype electronic music, the grandfathers, innovators. Autobahn is a great song and the B side has a repetitive ambience in an actually kinda cool way that holds its own as a solid listen

Nah this ain't it. The wacky factor wore off and now it's just silly noise that I don't fully buy into anymore 3.5/10

Shite! Someone just pushed demo on a keyboard! THIS IS NOT MUSIC!!!

It’s great for studying

Tää oli ok soundillisesti, erikoinen äänimaailma. Nimi biisi oli hyvä ja suosikkini.

It's cool. Very forward thinking. Sounds less dated than a lot of 80s music.

Didn’t hate this, but I can’t say I was that into it either. It just felt kind of underwhelming most of the time, like I was waiting for something to really grab me and it never really did. The first track threw me off. It sounds kind of goofy, which I’m guessing is intentional, but I just couldn’t really take it seriously. It made it harder to get into the rest of the album because it didn’t pull me in the way I hoped. I liked the second half more but even then nothing really stuck with me. It’s not a bad album at all, and I can appreciate that it was probably pretty innovative when it came out. You can hear how it might’ve influenced a lot of stuff later on. But listening to it now, it just didn’t fully land for me, and I did get a bit bored at times. Overall, it’s one of those albums I respect more than I actually enjoyed.

Kraftwerk was interesting. I knew the name, and their reputation as a largely influential band on 70s/80s electronic music proceeds them. Not much comes to mind other than I enjoyed the beats and sound, but it was largely an instrumental album, but makes it harder for me to get into it.

bleep bloop bleep bloop

Really enjoyed this. Surprised I haven’t explored Kraftwerk before. Autobahn was a lot of fun.

Alright. Thats it. I’m packing my bags and I’m moving to Germany now. All jokes aside, This is a good example of German electronic music. And not just Autobahn, all of Kraftwerk. Neu! could have learned a few things from this album when they made neu 75. Great job Kraftwerk. Some may say that this album is a great craft-work! I don’t think I can put this on the same level as Trans Europe Express and I haven’t listened to The Man Machine yet. Especially as I don’t find Mitternacht to be that appealing. That song is kind of like Moonchild off of In the Court of the Crimson King. I will say that Morgenspaziergang, which translates to “Morning Stroll” in english sounds exactly like a morning stroll, and I find that to be the most be the most beautiful song on the album. I’m debating on whether to give Autobahn 4 stars or 5 stars. Three of the tracks are very forgettable, but the other two alone beat most of the three star albums that have already been generated for me. I’m going to give this 4 stars though.

Title track is so full of joy and wonder. The rest of it is also good, but not quite to that level.

This is an album I will likely never listen to again, but at the same time I enjoyed it a lot for what it is. To here electronic music painting a scene so vividly, especially from the 70s, is fascinating.

Not my thing at all

Loved this so much more than I was expecting, the title track had me and my teenager dancing and swaying. It’s great

This album felt like I was standing on the side of the Autobahn and not driving on it because it blew right by me.

The album that broke Kraftwerk into the mainstream! The title track is one of the most important synthpop tracks of all time.

Tbh I enjoyed the second half of this album, but I can’t give a good score to an album that starts with 22 minutes of that

Lyssnade inte ordentligt men säger nja till det här

What am I listening to? Okay this is some futuristic bullshit not a fan ans I am struggling to comprehend why this is considered a must listen to album... huh???

So, I've gotten one album by these guys before, "The Man Machine", and I actually vibed with it pretty well, surprisingly. I'm not sure if that'll happen this time around, but I'm hopeful. So...i'm a little mixed. I didn't like this as much as "The Man Machine", but similar to my thoughts on that one it's cool to hear early electronic music. I hear so so so many influences from this in some of my favorites of today, a big one I'm thinking of is Magdalena Bay. It's interesting to see the origins of it all. That being said, I do not see myself coming back to this probably ever? It's just a bit too long, minimalist, and lyric-less for my personal taste. The soundscapes created are really cool and pretty tho!

What the heck did I listen to??

I’d give this a 6 if I could

Listening to this is like driving on the Autobahn and if you just relax and enjoy the trip it's wonderful but if you spend the whole time looking for your exit it's going to be miserable.

It’s like, cool, but not fun to listen to

Nice ambient sounds, a wee bit dull in parts though.

I somewhat enjoyed the goofiness of the first song. I couldn't really take it seriously even though the rest of the album went in a completely different direction. It was alright. The other songs might have been good but none of them were memorable to me in any form or capacity I didn't connect to any of it but it also wasn't predominantly bad. It just wasn't good either. Maybe it's not my cup of tea. Until that changes we will just continue to "Fahr'n auf der Autobahn". My favorite song here was "Autobahn".

Wir fahr'n auf der Autobahn! Ich mag Kometmelodie 1 nicht, und Mitternacht ist auch nur ok. Aber sonst, crazy Atmosphäre, crazy feeling, Autobahn.

From one side of electronic inspiration to the next. Kraftwerk is interesting in that every time I listen to them, they become more human. The first time it just sounds like soulless automation. But Autobahn, overlong and repetitive though it is, opens up a bit more, a bit more, a bit more... this is the first time I found myself feeling a little let down each time it started to end, as opposed to relieved. Eventually you want more. Side B is still a bit more difficult. It is much more mood than composition... Lazer bleeps, drippy caves and jungles... Kraftwerk are showing off what electronic instrumentation can do. If the title track is them throwing all of the Compositional flourishes into one track, side B is exploring soundtracking. I'll always like something a bit more organic more, but it's exciting to start to "get" it. This'll probably keep growing but im surprised to be giving it 4*

I felt like the aliens were coming for me. It's not bad just not my taste.

FUN FUN FUN. Clever album that takes you almost literally on a journey through time and space. Sounds like the Beach Boys if Brian Wilson was part man/part machine.

I like some Kraftwerk, but really could not get into this one.

This album might work if you had a popped collar, some neon lights, darkness, and a Ferrari. But my collar is down, I have fluorescent lights, daylight, and a Ford. So it doesn't work.

This is my second Kraftwerk album, and, as before, I'm surprised to say that I enjoyed their music. I'm not a fan of New Wave, but I can understand (and appreciate) Kraftwerk's influence on a whole slew of 80s bands with bad haircuts who danced to music emanating from synthesizers and drum machines. As when listening to Trans Europe Express, which came after Autobahn, I experienced a sort of hesitancy when it came to evaluating Kraftwerk's music: Is the band producing something original and groundbreaking? Or is it pretentious electronic drivel? Did Kraftwerk know the difference? Did they even care?

La idea, novedosa y conceptual, me encanta. Debo igual reconocer que no es ni cerca un álbum que me entretenga o me genere algo. Es más bien una pieza de valor histórico lo que me atrae que lo que me llega al oído. Más allá de todo, los banco a ellos y a la propuesta. 6/10

I think I like this less than the first Kraftwerk album. Some of these songs sounded like an elementary school student composed them.

How many Kraftwerk albums does one need to hear? I'll probably just give this one a 3, like I did the other one. Not bad music for having my morning coffee and biscuits and doing the NYTimes wordle and spelling bee ;) I'm glad Kraftwerk created this music, in Germany, in the 70s -- and, I suppose, that its influence rippled slowly out across space and time, man. And that we can occasionally (very occasionally?) still enjoy it, now.

I was stingy with my other rating of Kraftwerk so I'll be more generous now. I was going to say this album was important for the 80s and then I saw it came out in 74 so yeah. They were pioneers It's nice to have some long form and proper ambient music on this list. The synths are very playful and warm

Funny how one song can you take you back

AUTOBAHN! KRAFTWERK! Listened to after saying goodbye to someone for the final time. It was a nice moment after having listened to "sad boy music" all the day before that moment. Beep beep! 4.5*

The opening track was a slog and the rest of the album wasn't too much better. Enjoyed The Man-Machine more than this one.

Clearly innovative and influential, but not something I would revisit

I can't say I enjoyed it particularly, but I listened to it and I'm not offended, which is more than I can say about other albums, so it gets a 2