Why the hate on Radioakitivitat(Kraftwerk)?

Personally I don't like Kraftwerk at all

andreol263 wrote: I Couldn't understand why so much hate on this albums, for me it is the best from all of them, after that they turned very eletronic, which i don't like so much, but this album and the albums before him are VERY nice, but with scores very low(2-3 stars), while Trans-Europe Express and The Man-Machine are with a very good score(3-4stars), what's the problem with Radioakitivitat?

Oh, and by the way: You can't leave out the dots above the second to last letter. If you don't have an "ä" on the keyboard you have to use "ae" instead. This is very important; it can lead to serious misunderstandings if you just leave them off.

The best example is the difference between "geachtet" (well-respected) and "geächtet" (ostracized) The two mean just the opposite of each other.

Similarly you have to write "oe" for "ö" and "ue" instead for "ü" if you don'`t have umlauts on the keyboard.

Other examples" "lügen" (to lie, as in not telling the truth) and lugen (carefully looking, usually out of a hiding place), "Lösung" (solution) and "Losung" (slogan, motto, password, in hunting language animal scat), "Ohr" (eye of a needle) and Ohr (ear), "wägen" (to scale) and "wagen" (to dare), "Schären" (archipelago) and "Scharen" (droves), "gewähren" (to grant) and "gewahren" (to become aware of something)


Edited by BaldFriede - March 07 2016 at 13:20

octopus-4 wrote: Personally I don't like Kraftwerk at all

With the umlaut I believe it means radioactivity, but without it it means ""your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries". ;)

I like the album very much. Listening to it again now after ages. I've spent the most time listening to pre-Autobahn Kraftwerk.

Yeah!!, for me it's the best from them, really, part(barely all) of the negative reviews it's criticizing that it's too 'minimalistic', 'small compositions', 'too simple'. but for me the charm of this album comes from this(and no, this album hasn't a simple composition at all, and has a variety of instruments never seen before.i.e:Radioactivity Meter), well i'm my opinion this album isn't so bad to be with that score. 

Cristi wrote: people hate it? I didn't know that. It's one of my favorite from them.

yeah man.. who the hell hates Kraftwerk? That is like hating Apple Pie, a killer set of legs on a woman, a Picasso painting or goddamned baseball.

It makes no sense man.

I think it might have to do with expectations - if you are expecting stuff from later periods, then it comes off a bit quiet and clunky (in English anyway). I love Kraftwerk but there are definitely songs that I don't like that other people love (Neon Lights, The Model). I didn't like the song Radioactivity at first, but came to appreciate it after hearing what they have done with it recently. Seeing them on the 3D tour in 2014, it was powerful to see the song updated with Fukushima (shown here in Japanese) - I have family that lives a few hundred miles and has been affected by the radiation. 

This, too, is my least favourite Kraftwerk album from the 70's. I think perhaps because it's more song-oriented. Still some good stuff on it. On-par with Computerworld and Electric Cafe for me. But I simply obsess over the debut - nothing beats Von Himmel Hoch, or Ruckzuck.

^ Firmly Krautrock of the highest order - up there with Can, Duul, Tempel etc.

Davesax1965 wrote: I do wish people would stop linking all German 1970's bands under one arbitrary label. Hi Cristi - nooo, it's not that, it's what they become.  Autobahn was reasonably good, but the whole musical ethos behind Kraftwerk becomes, in my opinion anyway, completely wrong. The whole thing stinks of commercial sellout and being a cheap trick. It's not what it was, but what it becomes which makes my lip furl up.

well, even though Man Machine and Computer World were easy listen albums, they're still unique and original IMO.