To celebrate Florian Schneider's incalculable contributions to popular and experimental music, we've ranked Kraftwerk's ten greatest songs
Seven years before Prince urged the world to dance in the face of nuclear holocaust, Kraftwerk created the soundtrack to the pre-programmed post-apocalyptic Sunday services. Heavenly yet inhuman choral voices rise in intensity as a Geiger counter keeps time and arrhythmic radio signals seem to call out for a response that never quite arrives. One of Iggy Pop's favorite tracks to lull him to sleep, it's also one of the band's most gloriously eerie and unsettling achievements.
"By pressing down a special key it plays a little melody" could almost read as self-skewering… except for the fact that like the best of their compositions, the bouncing rhythm forces you to bop along. Which is exactly the sort of purposeless reaction that proves the inhuman can bring about the most human response of all.
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