Favourite Member of Kraftwerk (classic line-up)

RALF FFS

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Florian in a landslide.

Come on X has been in the band for like 20 years and doesn't even get a mention?

curious as to whether the one vote this option received was for a specific member of the post-classic line up, or just a general sympathy vote for all of the other guys

Conny Plank, I reckons.

Wolfgang was the one who invented electro

Well, Florian went from jaw-length hair and sideburns, to short hair, to no hair. So there's been some change. He's just so distinctive looking I think it's impossible for him to look like anyone else, no matter what styling he has.

But the thing is, I'm sorry, but... sexless? Fluteless, sure, I can understand how free jazz flute isn't to everyone's taste.

I have never understood why people called Kraftwerk's music sexless. OK, maybe the earlier experimental traffic cone stuff is a bit wibbly and rather sexless; Ananas Symphony isn't exactly a banger. But the *music* of the kind of classic period? Are you kidding me? It's dance music! It's incredibly sexy, even while it's austere and restrained - or perhaps that's why it's so sexy, because it's so repressed, it's practically dripping with sex. (And that's not even touching on the lyrical content - like, every hetero(ish) female Kraftwerk fan I've ever known has highlighted the same bits in Computer Love and The Robots - come on! "We are programmed just to do/Anything you want us to" like HELLO! - and so on.)

Sexless... if all that machine music on TEE isn't drop-dead sexy and if the romanticism of e.g. Neon Lights isn't drenched in emotion... well if that stuff isn't considered sexy, then quite frankly I'm not sure what sex is supposed to be.

Granted, this is not the best thread for this, perhaps I should just go and revive one of ILM's 8 billion Kraftwerk threads, but this has always confused me deeply.

― The Hauntology of Celebrity (Branwell with an N), Sunday, August 9, 2015 5:50 PM

Robot sex jokes aside, really. Is Kraftwerk's classic period *MUSIC* sexless? Really? Discus!

So how true is that Ralf and Florian are trying to erase the other guys' existence? Read a review about the reissues where the writer was saying the album covers where changed so it didn't feature any of the band members.

What other guys?

Those were very early EMI cd issues,where you'd get a page of 'technical detail" about CDs in five languages, rather than the credits.

Wolfgang Flür's new album now streaming on Spotify.

I'm going in...