Australian Metalhead reacts to Kraftwerk - “Radioactivity”

Australian Metalhead reacts to Kraftwerk - “Radioactivity”
#synth #ambient #80s
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[@andrewmarriott9331]

sorry if you had see Kraftwerk live you would know this song as they play it at every concert not always in full. But once you've heard it you don't forget there tracks and I've see them 5 times all over Europe. a great band.

[@goytabr]

This song's original studio version from the 1970s had different lyrics (partly in English, partly in German) and wasn't *explicitly* political, though Kraftwerk have always been very political, but in a much more subtle way in their early years. What they did in most of their songs was show how dystopian the world already was (and is) from the point of view of a submissive and falsely naïve person who was happy within the system, while being controlled by it not unlike in "Brave New World". After some time you started to get disturbed by so much joy and perfection, noticed that the supposed happiness was also very cold and devoid of real emotion, and suspected that something had to be wrong. Then you started to think.
That was their whole point and strategy from the beginning, and that alone would already be genius, but there was more, including small details like the stark contrast between their (at the time) very futuristic, technological, and innovative sound with their nostalgic retro album sleeve artwork, with a touch of deliberate kitsch. Today, some would call it "post-modern", but they made it before that was even a word, let alone a buzzword.
Also, this song title is one word, but is from the *nearly* homonymous album "Radio-Activity" - deliberately inserting a hyphen that transformed the title into a pun, as it could be interpreted either literally as "radioactivity" or as "activity on the radio", two very different things but distantly correlated through electromagnetic phenomena. And indeed, that album's songs alternated between the themes of radioactivity and radio as a means of communication. This makes "Radio-Activity" a curious and unique case of a meta-album - an album of electronic music that explored the very physics that makes electronic music possible. Again, genius.
Kraftwerk did not invent electronic music, but it was definitely they who brought it to the mainstream and to the centre stage. Not only that, they created a shape, a form, and techniques to compose and play it, and all that can still be heard half a century later in virtually *everything* you listen today. You can't turn on the radio or Spotify, or go to a dance club without listening to things that are taken for granted in today's soundscape, but were created by Kraftwerk and only later appropriated and digested by others. For this reason, Kraftwerk are considered one of the most influential and pivotal bands of all time.
Yet "Radio-Activity" (the album) was poorly received by both the critics and the public at the time, simply because it was so novel that it couldn't be understood. It was also difficult to listen (not unpleasant, though, just a bit strange), contrasting with the easy merry, listen of both their previous "Autobahn" (their first commercial success and a historic album) and later albums like "Trans Europe Express". It took time before people realised that if Kraftwerk created a whole new thing in music, "Radio-Activity" was the complete instructions manual for it.
Today, "Radio-Activity" is widely considered a masterpiece, and I strongly recommend a private listen of the whole album - all at once, from start to finish. Probably, you won't like it on first listen. But trust me, it will disturb you, and it will grow on you until you're in a combination of love and awe.

[@7thSmurf]

the MORSE code in teh song actually spells RADIOACTIVITY .. 8)

[@3axapTv]

I like how after words: "death and skin cancer" crowd start cheering.

[@mykindofweird]

I’ll have fries with that