Kraftwerk's best song. Despite its highly synthetic nature and simplistic lyrics, this song conveys through its melody so much more--all of it unspoken... Simply put: Brilliant!
@lordtherapeutics
5 ай бұрын
Saw the 81 Computerworld tour at Southampton. I was 14. It was incredible, I dont think I realised just how privileged I was at the time.
@brittscott4673
3 ай бұрын
Here in 2024 yep it's still a masterpiece. 🤘☮️❤️🎵
@darkosernek2073
Жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk's 1981 concert venue sets a precedent and is unmatched in electronic aesthetics. Analog electronics in all their glory.
@brittscott4673
Жыл бұрын
I hope Kraftwerk received royalties from Coldplay doing a cover of Computer Love on their 2nd album. The song is called Talk by Coldplay they took the melody from Computer Love and wrote their own lyrics to it.
@taagolarts3787
9 ай бұрын
@@brittscott4673 I don't think Kraftwerk got royalties, but Coldplay did ask for and receive permission to use the riff :) They did it right
@bpeck77
15 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! The jam that begins at 3:30 is simply legendary.
@BeeRich33
4 жыл бұрын
Best transition I know of, in all music.
@MrCt40
5 ай бұрын
I would kill to have a copy of this on my drive
@peterniessink2990
4 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace Florian Schneider. You and the rest of Kraftwerk have been of a major influence on my choice to go into IT beginning of the 80's . Thanks for your beautiful, and legendary, creativity .
@op8ztv
3 жыл бұрын
now India runs IT and we get paid peanuts for entry level jobs in North America...wish I was from your generation.
@garyspillett7103
2 жыл бұрын
Amen
@retroman8424
8 жыл бұрын
This song still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it, beautiful.
@caesar349
8 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Which is why i prefer listening to this song alone.
@tylerreiske7810
8 жыл бұрын
don't you just love this 1981 live version?
@persona83
6 жыл бұрын
There's something magic about this song for sure.
@porcomusic
5 жыл бұрын
the same emotion here, magic
@garyprater8139
4 жыл бұрын
Yes this is a great song. My eyes lit up when I heard this song the first time and fell in love with it. Kraftwerk taught me a lot of about writing beautiful unique songs.
@robophreeq
9 жыл бұрын
I am at a loss for words as to just how good this truly is. As another poster stated below me: "You are seeing and hearing one of the five or six best groups EVER in the history of the world operating at their staggering, visionary peak."
@persona83
6 жыл бұрын
One of the TWO, actually. The other being Depeche Mode.
@MuzikJunky
4 жыл бұрын
Word! The only other band you can even remotely compare this with is the Beatles, and anyone who says that THAT band is the most influential of all time is 100% wrong. They wrote songs that everybody loved and changed rock music, but Kraftwerk changed the way we think about and produce ALL genres of popular music. Peace.
@markmower6507
2 жыл бұрын
Decades Ahead of Electronic Music for Sure. Anyone heard of The Art of Noise? They are Way Ahead As Well!
@smallsister2
11 жыл бұрын
This song is so far ahead of it's time.
@Lexthebarbarian
5 жыл бұрын
One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in my life.
@中瀬健次
3 жыл бұрын
クラフトワークを中学生ね時はじめて聴いた時は音楽に未来があると感じました、自分今54歳です
@NiekKuijpers
Ай бұрын
Performed in 1981, uploaded in 2007, watching in 2024
@torbjornpersson9766
8 жыл бұрын
This live performance is just brilliant! Man and machine working together in perfect harmony. That synth bass is so perfect. The lead synth, before and during chorus, is so fragile and beautiful it hurts. Immortal stuff.
@sonjanoordhoek4283
8 жыл бұрын
+Torbjorn Persson I feel it to.
@torbjornpersson9766
8 жыл бұрын
It's nice to know that someone else shares the passion!
@TheNeutralViewFromSwedenAKAHer
8 жыл бұрын
That Synth Bass. To die for.
@torbjornpersson9766
8 жыл бұрын
Dusty Pink Epic!
@sonjanoordhoek4283
8 жыл бұрын
I was there too. It was so beautiful.
@funstuff811
11 жыл бұрын
the most beautiful song that kraftwerk has ever made
@pixinc
16 жыл бұрын
i saw them live in about 1982 in Edinburgh and they were so funky live, everyone was up dancing the whole night, you wouldn't believe how these guys boogied
@softpixels4355
Жыл бұрын
Are you sure it's 1982?
@Mantooth901
4 жыл бұрын
RIP Florian One of the most beautiful songs ever made here
@MuzikJunky
14 жыл бұрын
It never ceases to turn me into a puddle. So sad and melancholy. Peace.
@xeractus
14 жыл бұрын
On this tour Kraftwerk took such much equipment with them they might as well had taken a whole recording studio on the road with them (they practically did)! They truly were pioneers.
@benfearnhead9851
9 жыл бұрын
When the 'chops' come in around 3:30 it's magical
@robvanhouten
8 жыл бұрын
Yes!!!!!
@Lexthebarbarian
5 жыл бұрын
I so agree! It's sublime. Pure perfection. Takes the song to a higher dimension.
@BeeRich33
4 жыл бұрын
Best transition in music that I know of.
@AndrewTSq
4 жыл бұрын
agree!. And I always played along as a teenager on my synths to this fantastic song. There is also a great tribute for this song from the group "Komputer" which is called "komputer pop", which is also great (since its so close to Computer love :) (you can play computer love part over the song)
@paulcalladine3710
6 жыл бұрын
This song is in my top ten all time favourites, I first heard it as the B side to the Model and I fell in love with it instantly, same as when I first heard The Model...even after 30 odd years I never tire of hearing it and this version is just amazing!!
@shonuffisthemaster
9 жыл бұрын
just had a synthgasm
@OUJ_Okuma
11 жыл бұрын
中学の頃大好きな曲でした。 学校の体育館のステージでこの曲を演奏する夢想ばかりしていました。
@mnchls
10 жыл бұрын
i would sell my firstborn to have a version of this in high definition.
30 years old and truly magnificent... and made even more impressive by the fact that one of the guys manages to stop for a leak at 2:25.
@StewO101
3 жыл бұрын
Thats simply because this video is a fake. Its just a collage of scenes of other clips from this concert. Most scenes are from "Home Computer": kzitem.info/news/bejne/lHejs6J8pGWaoH4
@kotchen1
11 жыл бұрын
Шедевр электронной музыки!!!
@brittscott4673
3 ай бұрын
This is very cutting edge for it's time and that is what really made the 1980s exciting musically. Music with these techno grooves didn't really exist before the late 1970s
@PPicassoIII
13 жыл бұрын
This is what makes uTube rock... Real live audio of Kraftwerk (or any fave artist) from back in the day. Think i hear someone .... jamming. Kick ass...
@caesar349
8 жыл бұрын
Love this song, album, group. The sound was so ahead of its time- considering what was being played on the radio in 1980/1981 - considering pop, rock, even new wave etc. Give me Kraftwerk, and any other experimental any day.
@AndrewTSq
4 жыл бұрын
yeah, I remember when I heard Kraftwerk for the first time in that time. I was listening to Iron Maiden etc, and then The Robots came on the radio and I was blown away by it :D since then I loved electronic music ( as well as Hard rock, :)
@philiptrouve8490
6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Fantastic...I saw them at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1981. What a Show !!!
@blackdiamond8
14 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this amazing piece of musical history. Kraftwerk, like Pink Floyd were too ahead of their time to be understood by the majority of the masses until many years later. It appears many still fail to understand the great power they transmit.
@agostinhocarrarahonkpill3392
4 жыл бұрын
Descanse em paz Florian Schneider. Obrigado por sua criatividade e beleza !
@permaveg
7 жыл бұрын
Warm lush melodies and affectionate rhythm's from the master's, electronic music never sounded so loving or catchy.
@stephenantonio3713
10 ай бұрын
This version is beautiful in the beginning but gets down right funky as they step it up!
@Rosso456MGT
12 жыл бұрын
The most purist realisation of a musical vision ever from shunning publicity to running their own studio kraftwerk were so far ahead of their time that we are still discovering things they predicted decades ago. Their vision will be complete when the technology makes its own music. I'm privileged to have seen them live at a young enough age to influence everything I have done musically since
@brittscott4673
3 ай бұрын
This fantastic song is transcendental their is a ,great energy and vibe to their inspired performance here.
@LucidLupin
8 жыл бұрын
I saw them at Hammersmith Odeon in 1981 - aaahhh...
@the_spectre1
8 жыл бұрын
That gig is available on youtube, you should be able to search for it :)
@nigelericogden3200
4 жыл бұрын
Lucid Lupin ... me too ... can’t believe it’s almost 40 years !
@jockkent8787
3 жыл бұрын
i have a tape of that very concert, i was only 9 in 81 i'm afraid saw them in 91 and 04 though in glasgows barrowlands and o2 arena though
@Rigler01
15 жыл бұрын
I first heard Kraftwerk via their Man Machine album when I was 6 years old (thanks Uncle!), and I know a lot of their music, but somehow this track has passed me by for 25 years. Which is ironic since its' the one everyone talks about thanks to Coldplay. This song is beautiful.
@marieadams3720
5 жыл бұрын
Legendary 1981 tour...
@KrystalKlear777
5 жыл бұрын
What a Beautiful Song, Lovely
@MrCt40
5 ай бұрын
Best version of this I have ever heard ❤❤❤
@JeremyLeblanc
4 жыл бұрын
RIP Florian. What a loss.
@rooney3323
2 жыл бұрын
Had a massive goosebumps experience when I heard this on radio 6 the other day - what a great tune!
@nordlys4703
6 жыл бұрын
How could they put such groove and emotion in a « Maschinen Musik « ?! I love them for 40 years they are simply the greatest
@proflaudeo
4 ай бұрын
Best version of this song
@mercurium1860
26 күн бұрын
Sin duda una obra de arte.Los sintes con sonido nostalgico a modo de flautas y violines.Improvisacion sobre el tema.Desarrollo de la armonia a modo de sonata clasica...
@daddystabz
2 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk = ahead of their time. Geniuses!
@みなとの防衛テトラ
7 жыл бұрын
歌詞とメロディが最高です! 中学ですが、今の歌より好きです!
@jorgmehring2660
9 жыл бұрын
1981. I need a Rendezvous = computer-love? Bingo.... 30 years later it is there,. Great music. Great band. Great anticapation.
@yukioshima9177
5 жыл бұрын
This song in this LIVE is the most beautiful performance I think.
@irvsstella
3 жыл бұрын
I'm so emotional watching this 😭. Love 'em to bit xxx
@MarcinSzeremeta
11 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk ihr die besten deutsche klassik elektronische musik. Fan aus Polen:)
@ianjamieson4397
8 жыл бұрын
barely new what a computer was when this came out i was 18 seems young ones nowdays wouldnt know how to start a date with someone if not for an electronic device of some kind this kraftwerk masterpiece is timeless and never gets old always come back to it saw them at brixton some years ago in concert in the early hours of sunday morning well worth the journey from newcastle
@40ny
3 жыл бұрын
You are right. This is absolutely timeless. Long drive down from "up north" but as you say, well worth it!
@bertrahm3104
5 жыл бұрын
This the Numbers and Heimcomputer video cut together, but I like it!
@kewlkatspike
11 жыл бұрын
I saw them in Liverpool on that 1981 tour - awesome
@robvanhouten
7 жыл бұрын
Ralf is singing very nice here
@chuggachuggawoowoo
11 жыл бұрын
I saw them perform live in August of 1981 at The Ritz in New York City. I think their live show was better back then. They did more than just stand there "adjusting" the sounds. They actually played. I saw them again at The Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City in 1998. They were good, but not as good as in 1981. Also, Wolfgang Flur and Karl Bartos were gone.
@politicallycorrectredskin796
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, but that was inevitable. Their old equipment broke down and had to be replaced. It is almost impossible to recreate the old sound on new gear, particularly given that they had built most of that themselves. You can tell this was the same stuff they used to record CW that year. The first four Kraftwerk albums are true relics. Not even Kraftwerk can do it over again like that. If I remember correctly this was the main reason for their tour-hiatus in the 80s. They couldn't make it work on the inevitable replacement gear. I still remember thinking for many years that it would be impossible for me to ever see them live until they started touring again with new equipment in the 90s. I was too young for the 81 tour, so had to make do with the 90s stuff. Still good, but not the same. They knew it too, but what can you do? People wanted to see them live anyway, so off they went. Even German hippies have to feed the monkey.
@pankaburek59
2 жыл бұрын
@@politicallycorrectredskin796 no nothong broked they just stooped using analog setup i think that was bad idea today's permformances is nothing to this i wonder Can they again go on scene with minimoog own made drums and arp odyssey and play autobahn?
@politicallycorrectredskin796
3 жыл бұрын
This has always been my favorite Kraftwerk song. Nice upload.
@SirHawkeyeWho
15 жыл бұрын
My fave song. Love these guys sooooo much.
@sweetpeachnectar
4 жыл бұрын
i really wish i had lived back then. but then i also weren't at their concerts, because i'm born in the gdr... :'( but yeah, this is the definitive version of computer love. period. also kraftwerk are somewhat responsible of me working in it.
@lucascarioli
3 жыл бұрын
This robots has more love than many humans.
@btmacie
13 жыл бұрын
Back when they had to ship the entire Kling Klang Studio with them. It's no wonder they don't like touring.
@deanneclarke4205
3 жыл бұрын
So advanced! Love them
@Nivek0
13 жыл бұрын
OMG this is SOOO epic cant stop listening to this song
@squonkharold9251
7 жыл бұрын
Saw them in New York this tour.Venue held about 50 people and Florian was standing outside as we queued to get in.Nobody recognised him!
@40ny
3 жыл бұрын
Funny you should say that. I saw them a few years ago headlining an open-air concert near Dublin. I was down at the back waiting for them to start when four middle-aged guys walked out and started setting up the computers and checking a few things here and there. Not a squeak from the crowd. Roadies, everyone thought. Then they walked off and a few minutes later reappeared in the skeleton suits. Talk about letting the music do the talking.
@kaligula11
14 жыл бұрын
Ralf's voice sounds so deep here.
@electronicmaestro
12 жыл бұрын
I was 14 when i first heard Numbers. That was in 1982. I'm 44 now and still listening Kraftwerk, especially older albums. Last album in Kraftwerk's style was Electric cafe... All after is that - that...
@leerees
15 жыл бұрын
No this song was very relevant to the time,many people had "micro computers" in the 80's. I used to sit in front of the TV screen till early hours on my speccy.
@nigelriza4814
7 жыл бұрын
Finally saw them in Antwerp in May. Fantastic experience, but there is a lot or warmth lost in the move from analogue to digital, something this track in particular really brings home. A beautiful version.
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@drstevie
5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful.
@BlueRidge330
15 жыл бұрын
God, this song just gets better with age...
@MistressErixa
10 жыл бұрын
Graduated from UCLA that year, now hope to see them in the bay area in a few weeks.
@mcw8900
9 жыл бұрын
+Stéphane Flauder It's just amazing anti-ageing cream :)
@56BUICKRiviera
15 жыл бұрын
I like the way they make the sound stage look like mission control. These guy are way cool
@totnuckers
14 жыл бұрын
what great about kraftwerk compare to today's electronic music, is that their track got soul in it.
@rosepetal-ov7vl
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Not made in computers with a mouse too. All done live. There’s really something special to that
@PPicassoIII
13 жыл бұрын
This is what makes uTube rock... Real live audio of Kraftwerk (or any fave artist) from back in the day. Kick ass...
@stevelyall9652
2 жыл бұрын
Love the heavy bass on this. If only I’d gone to see them back then! Strange to see the full banks of ‘traditional’ keyboards!
@jerrychf
11 жыл бұрын
omg, this is a 1981 song but now ... seems i can still loop it forever
@NEUPARADOX
5 жыл бұрын
この時代のクラフトは神!涙が出そうな位に神。
@rollinstrummin
14 жыл бұрын
If you can imagine what the eighties felt like-robots were hot and people were barely learning about computers. You can imagine how this could have felt very new and exciting. Then it stops being vintage, it stops being old. Then you can really enjoy it. I'm losing my mind to this!!!
@mcqueenadams
4 жыл бұрын
Danke Florian, Danke! XO
@cookies19691
11 жыл бұрын
Rare as a Kraftwerk interview!!!!cheers for posting :)
@simonbuck6619
Жыл бұрын
Hammersmith Odeon 1981 , was my first Kraftwerk gig , fantastic , saw toyah Willcox had to leave after about the second song as people kept coming up to her for an autograph !!
@Rigler01
15 жыл бұрын
I'm not a massive Coldplay fan anymore but they are a decent band in their own right and they should get a little bit of credit for sampling (NOT covering) such a beautiful song, and not the most mainstream of songs too. Coldplay know there's a vast spectrum of amazing music out there, and Kraftwerk is a fantastic example. The music world owes a lot to these German legends.
@vytalman
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t say “sampled”. I would call it plagiarized with their permission.
@peterikarlstad
15 жыл бұрын
They try to be stiff and robotic but still can´t keep from "rocking out" in the end. That´s sweet...
@MilesThorne
3 жыл бұрын
Magnificent
@PW77788
11 жыл бұрын
Just amazing and raw .
@Li-iq2br
8 жыл бұрын
i swear i have this on dvd,,
@lean79
Жыл бұрын
Upload it please
@StewO101
3 жыл бұрын
This video is not from "Computer Love" its from "Home Computer". Simply compare a few scenes with this clip (for example this clip at 02:24 and in the other clip 01:43 .. exactly the same or take 03:36 and 01:10 from the other clip. At 03:52 Wolfgang already left the stage ...same with Karl at 04:07 but then suddenly at 04:11 he is again playing...Wolfgang at 04:26 ): kzitem.info/news/bejne/lHejs6J8pGWaoH4 This clip here is just a collage from different scenes of other songs at the concert. If you look closely enough you can even see that Ralf is definetely is not playing the correct keys for "Computer Love"
@Fac323JQ
2 жыл бұрын
Genius.....
@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp
8 жыл бұрын
Wow! This album COMPUTER WORLD was brand new at this performance in 1981! Amazing! ( From wiki) KRAFTWERK means "power station" and they are a German electronic music band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970 in Düsseldorf. The band was fronted by both Hütter and Schneider until Schneider's departure in 2008. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western classical style of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. Kraftwerk was one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are considered to be pioneers. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary; the band has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music.[6][7][8] According to The Observer, "no other band since the Beatles has given so much to pop culture" and a wide range of artists have been influenced by their music and imagery.[9] In January 2014, the Grammy Academy honored Kraftwerk with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
@coastallad1010
7 жыл бұрын
Wondering where this is,was lucky enough to see these guys live in Sydney 1981. Absolutely brilliant.
@satyros2
8 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!
@导演文森吴
3 жыл бұрын
There has to be a recording with better quality of this
@proflaudeo
4 ай бұрын
Wonderfull!!
@MrYnwa66
6 жыл бұрын
great version...the mashine sounds sooooo warm..
@Osonola
15 жыл бұрын
I think you can understand that both are just great... I think we both know, that both of them (Kraftwerk/Coldplay) have their own original songs :) Peacee
@marvinm.messier1120
2 жыл бұрын
So many times I've sang to myself, "I don't know what to do, what to do - I need a rendezvous, rendezvous..."
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