Kraftwerk cassettes

AUTOBAHN (1985, UK) EMI/ Parlophone TC-AUTO 1 (EJ 24 0070 4) Sentimental reasons for putting this one up: It's one of my earliest Kraftwerk cassettes, and was misplaced for a number of years, but has finally turned up again. Autobahn was of course Kraftwerk's international breakthrough, the single was a hit in the US in March 1975 (reaching #25 on the Bilboards Hot 100 list) and in the UK a few weeks later, launching them to an international career and generally making them what they still are today. In early 1982, their 1978 song The Model was a surprise hit in the UK, reaching #1 there after it was issued as the b-side to Computer Love. It was to take a year before they had another single out, in 1983, and the record label were expecting their new album "Techno Pop" for months. When this didn't materialise, they reissued Tour De France in 1984, but still no new album. So in order (I suppose!) to keep the record buying public interested, the album Autobahn was re...

 DOPPELCASSETTE (Germany, 1974?) Philips, 7581 435 Another compilation today, with an added twist this time! As I said in an earlier post, following Kraftwerk's surprise hit with Autobahn in the US and elsewhere, every record company they had ever had dealings with tried to re-package their older material to cash in on the success. (In fact, I suppose the practice must have started already as Autobahn began to get noticed in it's home country, if the info I have is correct; because this album was released in 1974, before Autobahn was in the US charts... Anyway.)  Doppelalbum, sorry if I'm kicking in open doors here, translates as "Double album" in English, and this is the fairly apt if not so very imaginative title of the vinyl counterpart to this cassette. It. Is. A. Double. Album. Using the Autobahn road sign, which was on the front of the UK LP and the German cassette, but of course, not on the German LP, the discs feature the full length album version of Autob...