The Man Machine

Okay, but not my cup of tea.

noise pollution.

80s techno slop. I fully understand people who like the synth sound, I hate it. Some artists make sparing use of what's covered here and they only make it good because it's a novelty. They made meandering "audio space" stuff (a genre that's already a little difficult to listen to) sound robotic and mass produced. Of an era for sure, not worth listening to now.

I don't know when I would listen to these songs. I couldn't finish any one of these songs

techno cult type shit. not even mid tbh

Nothing special.

Muy raro, demasiado experimental. No me gustó.

I feel like I'm on Space Mountain.

Not for me

Don't like it.

Not for me

1/1

type shit co zrobis na garageband

Meh

Damals bestimmt wild. Heute naja...

I understand that this is pretty relevant and all and how it's themes are pretty ahead of its time. However, I don't think it was fun to listen to. Not my kind of beep boops ig Rating: 2/10 No Favorite song

Music for a low budget movie about wannabe hackers.

i understand its value as an influence and almost a premonition of the sound in electronic music, techno, synth pop and other derivatives, but as also happens to me with these genres, i cant find any connection with the music itself the songs keep adding and removing layers and playing with patterns and textures; again, i understand that this is the purpose of this work, to sound mechanical and artificial, but it seems to me that these machines are too far removed from the emotionality i expect in music so much repetition ans waiting for small variations makes it tedious to finish and difficult to enjoy, and my rating will reflect that

I hate it here. Maybe I don't appreciate this because technology has advanced now and a child could accidentally make this on the keyboard in their music classroom today. Electronic music must've been difficult to make back then. I acknowledge this is groundbreaking stuff. Just because you could, it doesn't mean you should. Dear lord how can something so revolutionary sound so drab? It was so dull.

Debe haber sido un viaje escuchar esto en 1970 y seguro que fue muy revolucionario, pero es muy dificil escucharlo entero, mismo es muy dificil escuchar una canción entera.

Malisimo

Muy robótico y futurista? It's not my cup of tea

This is the dumbest shit I have ever heard. How people get such a boner for this is beyond me.

I generally like electronic music but I stopped listening to this after 3 songs because I thought it was an annoying waste of time. I've tried listening to Kraftwerk on multiple occasions and this is always the outcome. Their sounds reminds you of just how fundamentally joyless Berlin and North Germany are as a whole. I think the word that sums my feelings on them is banal. I will never attempt to listen to Kraftwerk again.

Bored.

No.

nottttt a fave.

1/1

Wow that was tedious!

Not bad. No solid bangers for me. But good music. Not enough songs. 1.75/6 54.01%

Really tried to like this one but just didn’t have it in me. I liked being reminded of playing an 8bit game but I sadly couldn’t put myself in the headspace without a controller in my hand.

Yuck! DNF Best Song: N/A Rating: 1.5/10 Stars: 1

gross

Um, no.

Like listening to the background music from old video games.

I made some similar songs on garage band in 9th grade

I don’t take drugs so I guess I can’t appreciate electronica stuff. Just total rubbish

Neon Lights war ok. Was besseres kann ich nicht sagen.

The Model ist gut.

Not impressed

Not for me

absolutely not! soooo repetitive and pointless

Never heard of this guy or this album. Favorites: - Thoughts: Fuck this album too, this made me quit this thing for like a whole 2 months.

Beep boop, it's crap

not my cup of tea. weird electronic music.

I will always have beef with Kraftwerk. Don’t ask me why.

Movie soundtrack?

does the creator of this list think he deserves to live?

remember kids, you don't have to listen to shit music to fit in

Electronica is torture on my ears.

I’m sorry but I don’t get this type of music. Maybe I am to narrow in my music. Buuuut some beats where nice.

Hmmm linia melodică e prea liniștită și monotonă, didn’t like it

Experimental Dance from when synths were shit

It feels like I'm going insane at a dentists office.

Unlistenable

Didn't like this one unfortunately.

Not my vibe weird

Don't care for electronic music.

I only added one song (the model)only because I heard it before but other than that this album is not doing it for me.I mean it has its quirks and I guess I see this perhaps playing in a video game but I would not listen to this in my spare time,it low key has uncanny vibes eg if i heard robots in a horror game with that grainy ass quality I would kms on the spot because I would know the worst is coming my way.

What possessed you to make this 1st song - I have no words 2nd - not that bad ig but more movie sound track and not for me 3rd - again movie sound track not for me but better than the other 2 4th - spooky vibes I like this one 5th - video game music put this in Mario or Tetris asap but not for me 6th - sounds like he’s casting a spell on me the robots are taking over machine machine machine 1/6 ( the model )

1/5, it's something to someone, I'm sure, and it isn't hard on the ears at all times. I imagine it must have been groundbreaking for 1978. I imagine some electronica aficionados prize this album. But Holy Christ, was it boring to listen to. I will probably never play a single song on this album ever again. Weird yet inoffensive. Strange yet uninteresting. It's genuinely discouraging to think people bought this album after hearing it instead of something more melodically, harmonically, poetically accomplished, simply because of the novelty.

Never heard of it before.

no.

a little too out there for my liking

I don’t get it

Boring

YGBFKMWTS! 1

First listen Saved 1/6 Top track: Neon Lights

no thanks

Art deco electro from the 70s very repetative

Some of the beats were good but it's just really not for me. "The Robots" - Funky. Literally went OH when they started speaking. I hear the robot. Beat was good, but just kept repeating "we are the robots." "Spacelab" - I guess the beat was interesting but I did not like it. "Metropolis" - I really don't like this. "The Model" - I just really don't like the sound. "Neon Lights" - No. "The Man Machine" - No.

I cant listen to Kraftwerk anymore with thinking of the syntheziser scene with Ross performing his sound "poems" on Friends Groundbreaking at the time for sure, but in 2025, it just doesn't hit the same

With the recent influx of ai music this missed the mark.

ufo music ass album

More bad stuff on the list that is s'pose to be music.

Beeps and boops. Sounds so dated, just not a fan at all.

Moins pire que l'autre mais affreux quand même

Robot 'music' good for elevators and grocery stores

This album was a choice.

Not into it

Boooooooorrrrrriiiiiing

I read the title of the first song and cringed a bit. The Robots? Really? Bryan Johnson probably patented headphones that play this album to his adult son Talmage’s penis while he sleeps. I’m out.

Oh God. No. Too much synth.

Just more annoying european electronic music. Stupid robot voices and weird bleeps and bloops. I hate this kind of “music” if you can even call it that. It’s just sounds.

nah

Thought I’d like this a lot more!

não gostei muito, muito conceitual eletrônico pra mim.

I get that it was ahead of its time and dead influential or whatever, but that was absolute fucking wank

I'm not gonna listen to kraftwerk sorry

Not my genre, picked a few songs I liked but just can’t get into techno

Deathly boring, so sorry for those who enjoy

Horrible

This was groundbreaking at the time but quite tortuous to listen too for me!

I just can't with Kraftwerk.... never have been able to. Sounds like a video game machine taken over by aliens

first album i've wanted to turn off. 1/5

naaaaaaah

Not for me

this is my worst nightmare genuinely does not get worse than this abomination towards music

Oh my god, this is like a Giorgio Moroder score with robot voices singing silly lyrics. And in Russian too. These German cats were interested in making music that bridged the sides of the Cold War. Warsaw Pact or NATO, you can listen to this crappy electronic music. This is far from the worst album I've heard though which I think tells you everything you need to know about this project. It wears on you though. I guess I have to give them a pass for the lyrics since their primary language is German, but the repetitive electronic music is mind numbing. The Man Machine feels more like something someone made so that 80s rappers would sample it rather than an actual song anyone wanted to listen to.

I did Not Like this. Repetitive, boring and nothing Special.

Just don’t know what to say. Didn’t care for it.

It made me feel like I worked long hours for low pay in factory that produced lousy music.

it my favourite, i listened semi intentionally it was being in the stomach of a robot, whirring and slightly jarring sonic i think that’s what they were going for it wasn’t bad but just 100% not for me, something i would pretend to like when i was 16 to impress a boy that really couldn’t care less

Early synth

Not my thing

I legit have no idea anyone finds any enjoyment out of this.

3 stars because...

I'm sure this was a pioneering sound in the 70s.

There is not one element here that I enjoy. I have said it is hard to get a one out of me- but this one certainly earned it.

I mean, seminal, but in the same way that milking a bull is: not something I particularly feel the need to experience first hand.

Nope. Just....nope.

Really wasn’t for me

Yeah, no thanks.

Daft punk minus 30 years. Hard listen, hard pass

How is there another one?!?

That was far worse than I’d expected. Got nothing for me.

Not good

Boring

Bloody awful- only reason it’s not getting a 0.1 is because I think it inspired/ reminded me of robots by flight of the conchords Specific rating - 0.4 Fav song - man machine Least fav- space lab

Revolutionary for its time. A waste of mine. Not my least favourite kraftwerk album but I still won't be listening again. Favourite: The first three minutes of Neon Lights Least: The Man Machine (the song... but also the album) or the last five minutes of Neon Lights

beep bop this is shit i understand that it was probably fire when it came out but it really didnt stand the test of time for me

Weird techno, not for me.

So bludclaating boring . It’s just like who would choose to go oh yeah I’m really feeling an even shitter version of daft punk . Horrid . Please never give me an album like that like ever again please

An actual robot could do better.

To quote some dumbass reviewer “a bunch of German weirdos singing in robot voices about space lasers”. It’s repetitive and unlistenable and I hated every second of it. Ts ass ☹️👎

bruh

This album sounds like I’ve been stuck on hold with HSBC customer service for 36 minutes.

Maktet bare høre to sanger

Not my cup of tea. Seems very repetitive and dull

Might have been revolutionary, but decades of progress have marched far beyond. A lot of jarring sounds, I wasn't comfortable listening to this and I love a lot of EDM.

Wtf is this. To repetitive

Nope. Never again.

Electronica

Just not for me

Hits me like a movie soundtrack to a 90's dystopian scifi story.

Ass. Why would someone listen to this. The model isn’t bad tho. It’s a shame cuz I like his voice but he barely fucking sings

Awful

not my cup of tea. can’t really find much to praise. it probably sounded sick in 1978 but now it sounds like a baby using its first synthesizer. fav track: the model

Come on give me something good

Boring and repetitive, group chants of their unimaginative song titles. Innovative for the time but dull in retrospect

Blah. I mean… SOOOOO INFLUENTIAL!! PIONEERING MUSIC!! AGAINST THE GRAIN!! DARING TO DARE!! PAVED THE WAY FOR FUTURE BRAVE MUSICIANS WHO ALSO STROVE TO VENTURE AWAY FROM THE STATUS QUO!! In other words… meh. What even was this? Oh well. I’ll forget about it tomorrow.

a n s t r e n g e n d

German industrial electronic music. It's well done, but not really my thing. Also very repetitive. Each track is also much longer than it needs to be. I'll pass. Best song: The Model

Did not like this is not my genre

There’s so many good albums out there, why is this one on the list?

Bad with a capital B

I gave this three songs to make me interested, and it failed. It felt like I was in a grimy underground European swingers club where everybody is wearing masks. I think that's the vibe they were going for? Not the worst music I've ever heard, but I was not a fan

I am sure this was a cool experiment into electronic music at the time but this has aged terribly. Very dull and repetitive not worth a listen any more and surprised this made it as a best album.

If someone knows this album, they probably have eclectic taste, and listen to better electronic music. If this is someone's favorite album: run. This sounds like what groove-allergic straight edges think future music will be like, only less fun.

What am I supposed to hear? Sure maybe it was made before it’s time but it’s just not it. Update. Ok maybe I judged it a bit too soon, but still it’s just, it just doesn’t hit.

eh, not my thing

- genau wie das letzte Album, was von denen dran war: "- Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh, absolut gar nicht meins - zu repetitive - der Sound trifft einfach null meinen Geschmack - deswegen dann leider auch super anstrengend, habe ich durchgeskippt" - The Model war okay-ish 1,25-1,5 / 5

I just find this stuff cold and uninspired.

Crapwerk. That is all.

Not the worst music I've ever heard, but if given the choice I would never voluntarily listen to this again. It's not my thing.

Shitty video game music

No offense, but to my ears Kraftwerk just sounds like child's play. Everything about, the themes, the sounds, the art, it just seems silly. Which wouldn't be a knock against them if that's what they were going for, but all signs point to them taking themselves seriously. Which, like Jean-Michel Jarre, is just maximum corny.

A very long 36 minutes. Just extremely repetitive. It's trying to be an interesting concept album but in reality it's pretty dull.

Not for me.

Not my cup of tea

01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100111 01101111 01101111 01100100

Headache inducing 1 ⭐️

what the hell was that?

I thoroughly hated this.

there are two good pieces on this, and thats being generous

God was this album annoying

They put on these electronica albums. I listen in the vain hope of getting something interesting. Nope.

Required listening, essential listening whatever the fuck you wanna call it. This album is not that. I can accept that maybe this is good music, definitely not my cup of tea, but maybe it’s good to someone. But when you say essential I’m thinking that I’m missing out on soemthung if I don’t listen to it. I COULD GET THE SAME EXPERIENCE BY PLAYING GEOMETRY DASH FOR 30 MINUTES. Actually it’d probably be more enjoyable AND I SUCK AT GEOMETRY DASH. If this album was any longer I might’ve just stopped listening. Sure it’s some okay sounds but ESSENTIAL??? Fuck off

Probably cool back then but boring now

Album 485 of 1001 The Man Machine - Kraftwerk Rating : 1 / 5 This genre just isn’t for me at all — cold, electronic, and nothing I can really latch onto. I respect their influence on music history, but as a listening experience, it gave me nothing.

boring electronica that is worse than everything that came after it but I guess you don't get Name of the Game or Breathe without it so its important

Dreadful. What in the world possessed them to make this album? How did it make the list? Do people really like this? Is more of this bullshot headed my way if I continue? So many questions. I'm not sure I can go on.. Tell my family I love them and tell Kraftwek they suck eggs.

Not for me

Not for me at all.

I feel like I'm stuck in an old video game. Not for me. DNF.

Straight ass.

alien music

could i write poetry to this? n

Just not my cup of tea.

Not my favorite thank you.

This might be the beginning of techno music, but it’s not standing the test of time.

Prima poco significativa. La seconda più carina Le altre meh. Album bruttino , particolare ma insignificante

Didn’t like it

Bad 80's background synth.

I try to be positive on here. So I’ll keep this short. Not my favorite.

It's not music to me when people are simply manipulating synthesizers and other machinery in random, discordant ways.

Not at all interested in this type of music.

Not at all for me, and to be honest I really don't see how other people are into this either. It sounds like a shitty soundtrack from a futuristic 80's movie. If that's your thing cool, but again it's not for me.

Sucky

Hated it. DNF. Do not recommend.

Not for me

Who thought this was a good idea?

Not my genre but it’s interesting that the titles literally match the sound. Not sure if hip-hop sampled from this or dissembled from hip-hop but the last song is a staple. Also heard a millisecond of a snippet of that Nicki Minaj, dungeon, dragon song.

Not a fan of this album. I was initially excited going into this listen because I know how influential Kraftwerk are, but damn I feel like this album is stuck in its era. It does not age well with the rest of the electronic landscape. It sounds like music from an 80s nerd sci-fi B movie. I was able to hear glimpses of inspired artist, but this was a tough listen overall. The last song The Man Machine was maybe the only kinda standout. The Model stands out in a bad way for me.

Techno trash

Painfully bad

Ross Geller with a keyboard vibes

way too repetitive for me, not interesting.

I can appreciate how innovative this must have been in 1978. But I hate it. It sounds like a less shitty version of songs I used to play on my electronic Casio keyboard. I never need to listen to this again.

Nah.

not for me.

Not my cup of tea

Nope

Can hear their influence on so many things to follow but just this is so very not for me

1. the robotz - 0 2. zpacelab - 0 3. metropoliz - 0 4. the model - 0 5. neon lightz - 0 6. the man machine - 0

Electronic music.

I had never heard of this album before. It was quite a struggle to get through. Definitely not my type of music, too repetitive with some unpleasant sounds throughout. I love lyricism, which is definitely missing.

Pretty boring and repetitive.

I wasn't a big fan.

An album that has aged in the worst way possible. Everything from the production to vocal effects of this album are very much stuck firmly in the 70’s and in a way that has not achieved the timeless sound of several other vintage albums. Listening to this music seems like listening to the draft of a collection of 70’s computers sound effects. I’ve been told I have to appreciate this album ‘for what it is’ which is not something I expect to have to do from a list of only 1001 albums everybody should hear before they die. I see how production-heads and vintage video game nerds would be all over this track but in my opinion it has not held up at all.

- finally something weird - instrumental, techno, robotic music, even machines singing - this is kinda trash though - some of the production isn’t bad but it’s goofy - better when he doesn’t “sing”…

I'll take others' word for it that it's seminal and influential for a lot of things I've enjoyed since it was released, but no thank you never again

I thoroughly did not enjoy listening to this album. Most of the tracks felt corny AF and just overall not a fun experience to listen to. – HOWEVER I do appreciate why Kraftwerk was so influential and groundbreaking at the time, so this critique is solely subjective, nearly 50 years after the album came out. I still stand by the statement that these tracks do not hold up against the test of time.

i'm never gonna listen to german elctro music man

so many beeps and boops I'm not happy about it

Terrible

Not super impressed with the album, it was pretty bland

Sounds like a sci-fi movie soundtrack. Ahead of its time in style, probably surprised a lot of listeners in ‘78.

SYNOPSIS: Genuinely very hard to listen to. Feels like a very poor mashup of techno and rock in a way? I don't understand as it still doesn't sound good even if you take it as techno or rock on their own. TOP TRACKS: None, all bad FINAL RATING: 1/10

after 2 one-star reviews, will the 3rd kraftwerk album change my mind? no

Pretty annoying

thanks I hate it

I don’t like Kraftwerk.

Lot’s of robot voice

Very dated.

I get it you like to pretend to be robots. This album was probably composed wearing cardboard boxes and dryer vents

Hated every second.

Lyrics on par with the writing skills of a 10 year old, music sounds like a bunch of loops on garage band and it was unimaginably boring, I can't tell you what to do but I recommend you don't waste your time I don't listen to it.

This album boldly asks “what if Daft Punk were terrible?” I know it’s much older than most of its genre and probably deserves some credit, but I don’t want to give it.

Mais um álbum que não faz sentido estar nesta lista

no.

1/5

1/5

Pretty terrible, especially compared to the standard of today's electronic music

Couldn’t even finish it. Not a fan of Electronic music, and this was so boring.

Wow, 1977? Electronica has been terrible for decades

Just too much for a Monday lol. I do understand this was a pioneering sound at the time, but it's too rudimentary on modern ears... hard to get around.

why does this music exist. be fr

Trash

Not my jam not my party

This was lost on me. It sounded like a cheesy, all synth soundtrack to a TV movie.

Meh

Track 2 gave me sims vibes. Not an album for me

Appreciate their werk it’s just not my kind of music

Awful, gave me headaches

I like the songs musically but the lyrics are almost comical how simple and uninspired they tend to be (this may be because this style has been parodied a lot since Kraftwerk pioneered it). I don't see myself coming back to this album. I know it was groundbreaking at the time for the genre but it just doesn't do much for me when we have so much better electronic music available. Standout Track: Neon Lights

Not my synth jam

ughhhh

Eh

I mean..: what even is this? Glad some people seem to enjoy this but i couldn’t get through 3 songs

wow this was just awful.

Couldn’t get into it.

Ok, I've tolerated a whole lot from this list, and haven't skipped a single thing. But I cannot - cannot - deal with a single more Kraftwerk album after this. Three now? For what?

Man, I don't even have an opinion. OK, aside from having a desire to quote Marvin from Pulp Fiction, I'll take Gary Neumann, the Human League, and Thomas Dolby over these fellas.

Boring

Música de fliperama

Computer noises and robotic voices. Neat...

I didn't like.

Boing boom tschak mais ça suffit pas à passer 1 étoile

too robotic for my liking

Whack. Sounds like a kid on garage band trying to make alien movie music.

I'm sure it sounded ground breaking when it came out but hearing it for the first time 40 years on its pretty simplistic and largely boring.

Awful.

I really just can't deal with this. "We are the robots"?? Come on.

Def weird but maybe this was ahead of it time for 1978

Super bad.

Probably wouldn't ever listen to it again

Music for a serial killer. But a couple beats were tolerable for the first min

This is album provides glimpse into the trial and error period that got us to the bodacious 80's. An error nonetheless.

OK

Les falta barrio.

no thank you.

Not a bad album. Does it need to be on this list?

never again

1.5, pretty bad...