>> ^Fjnbk:
Beethoven was German, of course.

Beethoven - 31 results
Mozart (Austrian is still German, ja?) - 24 results
Bach - 42 results
Kraftwerk - 11 results

Volkswagen - 17 results
Audi - 13 results
BMW - 24 results
Mercedes - 8 results

Berlin - 48 results
Munich - 8 results
Stuttgart - 2 results

Austria - 10 results
Vienna- 8 results
Switzerland - 19 results

Eselsoße - 1 result

I find it much more entertaining to watch this while Kraftwerk's "we are the robots" is playing.

Abba Badly Drawn Boy The Beatles Black Eyed Peas Chemical Brothers Christina Aguilera Daft Punk The Darkness David Bowie Elton John Eminem The Flaming Lips Franz Ferdinand Goldie Lookin Chain Guns N' Roses Har Mar Superstar The Hives Ice T INXS Jackson Five Jimi Hendrix Kiss Kraftwerk Led Zeppelin The Libertines Marliyn Manson Missy Elliott Morrissey New Order Nirvana Oasis Ozzy Osbourne Prodigy Public Enemy Queen Queens Of The Stone Age Red Hot Chili Peppers Rolling Stones Scissor Sisters Stevie Wonder The Stone Roses Tatu Tupac Shakur U2 Usher The Velvet Underground The Village People Wham! The White Stripes X-ecutioners Xzibit Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yoko Ono Frank Zappa

With the original graphics on the creators blog.. nice sift
http://www.flipflopflyin.com/portfolio/omm.html

Praise the dentaku
Dentaku (live) by Kraftwerk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eI3gCWL-sY

That riff you love is completely ripped off from a Kraftwerk song named "Computer Love." 100% lifted.

Sounds like Kraftwerk meets Alvin and the Chipmunks at the Casio factory......

real goofballs these guys...that one cat has a Kraftwerk kinda Fred Schneider look.....

hehe nice one.. I was chatting to someone last night who saw them play at Brixton Academy a couple of years back, apparently their robots brought the house down (more so than Kraftwerk themselves).

OK, are you looking for essential listening, or my favourites? How about essentials, stuff that maybe you don't listen to every day, but everybody should at least hear a few times for reference. Music that can come in handy at the cocktail party, so you can get an idea about what people are talking about.

1 Shpongle - the greatest psychedelic group of all time. (or: Mystery of the Yeti, Taruna)
2 Lee "Scratch" Perry - the original dub master (or: King Tubby)
3 DJ Philippe - The original and one of the greatest Acid House producers (or: Frankie Knuckles)
4 Ozric Tentacles - What has happened to psychedelic rock since pink floyd
5 Jesse Dangerously - my friend, and the smartest rapper around
6 Merzbow - When somebody says they've heard the loudest music in the world and they aren't talking about merzbow, they need to STFU
7 Discordance Axis - When somebody says they've heard the fastest metal in the world and they aren't talking about Discordance Axis, they need to STFU
8 Robert Rich - One of the greatest ambient artists around, beautiful, melancholy, ethereal stuff (or: Alio Die, Steve Roach)
9 Kraftwerk - What can i say, the fathers of electro, techno, industrial... the ones that started everything...
10 Congo Natty - The original junglist. "Amen Brother" broken and chopped to bits, with ridiculous ragga toasting, and bass (or: Roni Size, Dillinja, Dead Dread)

Yeah, certainly not a complete list, but a good start. At least be familiar with those and you'll be in good shape.

To be sure, I only really listen to Shpongle and Robert Rich on that list on a regular basis, but to me they all represent the most creative and groundbreaking artists I can think of on the top of my head.

There are plenty of actual Kraftwerk produced videos of this song, live and studio, already on youtube...

congratulations gorillaman..your british comedy playlist is simply delightful...

first published -

http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-Bailey-Tribute-to-Kraftwerk

Well done mate. Many good comedy clips, you've got excellent taste sir.

My <ahref="http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-Bailey-Tribute-to-Kraftwerk">favourite.

The Orb are an English electronic music group known for popularising chill out music in the 1990s and spawning the genre of ambient house. Founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and KLF member Jimmy Cauty, The Orb began as ambient and dub DJs in London. Their early performances were inspired by ambient producers, most notably Brian Eno, and German artists such as Kraftwerk. Because of their "trippy" sound, they developed a cult following among clubbers "coming down" from drug-induced highs. Despite many personnel changes, Alex Paterson has maintained The Orb's science fiction themes and visually-intensive live performances. Their frequent use of unlicensed samples has been a source of contention and legal disputes with other record labels and artists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orb

Wikipedia:

"Heroes" (the quotation marks are part of the title, for reasons of irony)[1] is an album by David Bowie, released in 1977. Serving as the second installment of Bowie and Eno's "Berlin Trilogy" (the other two being Low and Lodger) "Heroes" is similar in sound to Low but more robust and visceral. Of the three albums, it was the most befitting of the appellation "Berlin", being the only one wholly recorded and mixed there. The mood of the record reflected the zeitgeist of the Cold War, symbolised by the divided city.

The title track remains one of Bowie's best known, a classic story of two lovers who meet at the Berlin Wall. The album is considered one of Bowie's best by critics, notably for the contributions of guitarist Robert Fripp (for which he flew in from the U.S. to record in one day).[2] It was marketed by RCA with the catch phrase, "There’s Old Wave. There’s New Wave. And there's David Bowie…"[3] The album made #3 in the UK and stayed in the charts for 26 weeks, but was less successful in the U.S. where it peaked at #35.

With "Heroes", Bowie again paid tribute to his Krautrock influences: the title is a nod to the track "Hero" on the album NEU! '75 by the German band Neu! while "V-2 Schneider" is inspired by and named for Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider; earlier in 1977, Kraftwerk had name-checked Bowie on the title track of Trans-Europe Express. The cover photo was inspired by Erich Heckel's Roquairol, as was that of The Idiot, one of Bowie's collaborations with Iggy Pop that was released the same year.[4]

Though "Heroes" included its share of dark and atmospheric instrumentals such as "Sense of Doubt" and "Neuköln", as well as the sprawling confessional "Blackout", after the melancholy and inward-looking Low it was regarded as a highly passionate and positive artistic statement.[5][6] This was evident not simply through "Heroes" the song but in the rocking opener "Beauty and the Beast" (released as the second single in January 1978), the raucous "Joe the Lion" and the light-hearted closer "The Secret Life of Arabia".

A number of the album's tracks were played live at Bowie's concerts the following year, captured on record as Stage (1978). Philip Glass adapted a classical suite, "Heroes" Symphony, based on this album, a companion to his earlier Low Symphony. The title track has been covered by numerous artists, whilst "The Secret Life of Arabia" was sung by Billy Mackenzie in 1982 on the British Electric Foundation LP Music of Quality and Distinction."

It's nice to see the affect that Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk has had after so many years.