101 Kraftwerk Covers!

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1) Melt Banana - Showroom Dummies
2) Big Black - The Model

Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

3)Luna "Neon Lights"

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

4)Tugboat -Antenna

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

5 - 101: every electro band ever "Tour De France"

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

6. OMD - "Neon Lights"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

7) Tremelo Beer Gut, "Das Modell"

nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

8. Ride, "The Model"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

(haha, you can decrement a number there, guys)

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

Next is 8

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

(ultimately someone is going to contribute some horrific Cleopatro Kraftwerk tribute compilation or similar...*fear*)

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

At least nobody's said a Certain Obvious German-Chilean Covers Release. Yet.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago) link

ew ew ew ew ew

nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

Jon, urgent and key, one artist per cover? (To heed Ned's warning, that is)

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

In which case, i"ll just say it:

8:Senor Cocounut "The Robots" (there are a few good tracks on that record, and this is one of them)

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

alex xenophon, "trans-europe express"

Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

Dungeon Family - Trans DF Express

sym (shmuel), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

10. The Clash - Pocket Calculator

LondonLee (LondonLee), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

OK, I made that one up.

LondonLee (LondonLee), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link


10:.....

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

OK, I made that one up.

MOST DISAPPOINTING POST EVER, LondonLee.

nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

11. dmx crew, "showroom dummies"

Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

10 DMX Krew "showroom dummies"

donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

math was always my worst subject ...

11. "numbers," old school players

Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

12. Slipstream - "Computer Love"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

13. Balanescu Quartet ft Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Model

stevem (blueski), Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

14 Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Hall of Mirrors
15 Snakefinger -- The Model

Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

16. The Divine Comedy - Radioactivity

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

17. Harry Pussy: Showroom Dummies

Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

18. The Vegetable Orchestra: Radioactivity

Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

Looking for Kraftwerk covers...

As I mentioned on the other thread, Trouble Funk did "Trouble Funk Express" which is basically just "Trans Europe Express".

Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:33 (twenty years ago) link

someone once told me that the Kronos Quartet have covered Kraftwerk. dunno if he knew what he was talking about, though. anyone?

tod (tod), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

19. Self-promotion alert! ... Canasta, "The Model"

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago) link

20. Cha Cha 2000 - Autobahn


(cc2000 were a prolapse shootoff)

Shooz (shooz), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

21. Big Black - the Model

latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

Just saw that was # 2. Doh!

latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link

21: ......

donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

(I'm kinda disappointed that many of these covers of mostly of the same four or five songs... no love for "electric cafe" or "pocket calculator"?)

donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

21. fibrotown - pocket calculator

22. sleepy township - europe endless

23. letraset - telephone call

the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:45 (twenty years ago) link

yay!

donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:45 (twenty years ago) link

Harry Pussy = Best Kraftwerk coverers ever! But credit due to those who stole the soullessness, barely bothering to change the song titles:

24. There was a Mortiis side project called Fata Morgana which was blatantly a Kraftwerk cover band. "Space Race" 7" has the goods.

25. Also, I liked the Austrian band Komputer.

Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:18 (twenty years ago) link

26. heligoland - neon lights

27. warm jets - the model

the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago) link

I promote your band so you don't have to.

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:04 (twenty years ago) link

28. Rammstein - Das Model
29. The Winks - The Model (friends of mine that do an instrumental cover that is good)

sym (shmuel), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:30 (twenty years ago) link

And boy, do RAMMS+EIn bring out Ralf und Florian's hidden pep!

Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 26 January 2004 07:17 (twenty years ago) link

30.Gorefest - Autobahn

Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:26 (twenty years ago) link

31. Treponem Pal - The Model

Whoever was talking upthread about a Cleopatra album - I have a Japanese tribute album I got off slsk... as I recall it's no-one you've ever heard of doing less obvious Kraftwerk songs.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know where ny brain went as I was typing that, because Treponem Pal did 'Radioactivity' and not 'The Model'.

Curse this lack of edit! *shakes fist at sky*

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:31 (twenty years ago) link

Lloyd Cole did Pocket Calculator.

harveyw (harveyw), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

Treponem Pal - The Model

Did they do this as well as "Radioactivity"? Because that's the one I know (and had forgotten about until now).

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

Ned,

See my later post correcting my mental abberation.

Noticing you've made a mistake, mere nanoseconds after hitting the Submit button - c/d?

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Ah yes, sorry. :-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

33. U2--Neon Lights

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link

34. Simple Minds - Neon Lights

visiting, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link

35. Love Tractor - Neon Lights

brimstead, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link

Senor Coconut - various

nashwan, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 07:34 (four years ago) link

36. Agost - The Model

(This Barcelona band were fab on the final day at Primavera)

i really, really, really, really, really, really like glue (fionnland), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 07:42 (four years ago) link

37. Hikashu - The Model (video, charming Japanese version)

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 07:49 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

Ebony Steel Band, with an album of Kraftwerk Kovers called Pan Machine

now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link

two years pass...

^^^ I am listening to this now. It's really good!! I've heard Kraftwerk covered in every possible style it seems but I think the steel drums really emphasize how melodic their music is. It's super fun, especially "Tour de France"

frogbs, Friday, 21 January 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link

here it is along with "Europe Endless", they both rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjbJo-PMKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxNBCkiuLc

also dig that they pull out some deeper cuts like "Tanzmusik" and "Kometenmelodie 2"

frogbs, Friday, 21 January 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link

Penguin Cafe - Franz Schubert

Hideous Lump, Friday, 21 January 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link

Radio Birdman - Radio-Activity (probably only played once though, Nov 20 1977, Paddington Town Hall)

StanM, Saturday, 22 January 2022 09:26 (two years ago) link

Still wish Oasis had covered Autobahn..
"Die Sonne scheine..." all that..

Mark G, Saturday, 22 January 2022 11:37 (two years ago) link

would love to hear a guitar based cover of Kometenmelodie 2 . Have dreamed of Savage Republic or someone similar doing that since i got Exceller 8 in the late 80s.

Stevolende, Saturday, 22 January 2022 11:49 (two years ago) link


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