The real irony is that Kraftwerk themselves are also quite "funny"
-also a fan [of both parties]
--- component <component@mindstorm.com> wrote:
quoted 64 lines Which is rather ironic, because most of the Kraftwerk's lyrics are a
> Which is rather ironic, because most of the Kraftwerk's lyrics are a
> completly silly.
>
> Disclaimer: I'm a huge Kraftwerk fan, not someone starting a flame.
>
> Rob
> www.componentrecords.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jimenez, Enrique <EJimenez@Hasbro.com>
> To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:11 PM
> Subject: [idm] funny? ... how am I funny? ... like a clown? .. do I amuse
> you?
>
>
> > Nick Zavriev wrote:
> >
> > "Senor Coconut
> > Atom Heart's latino-style project. The latest album is a tribute to
> > kraftwerk: full of mambo, samba,
> > cha-cha-cha etc. covers of classic Kraftwerk songs. No IDM at all, but very
> > nice and funny."
> >
> > and I say:
> >
> > One of the problems Atom Heart had with Kraftwerk, upon the release of "El
> > Baile Aleman" in the US and EU was that Kraftwerk felt that the version of
> > "Radioactivity", which is included in the Japanese version, was TOO FUNNY.
> > This infuriated Atom Heart, because he felt that Kraftwerk took this snobby
> > attitude of judging latin american music as being funny. So how can music
> > from another culture, Atom felt, be considered as funny, when the music is
> > actually positive, exotic maybe, warm and definetly "alegre" (happy), but
> > never funny in the ha ha ha kind of way. Atom Heart thought that it would
> > be ridiculous to sue them on the grounds of this first world super group
> > denying permission for a latin band from the third world to cover one of
> > their songs because Ralf and Florian think that latin american music is
> > funny. Totally ridiculous. Of course Kraftwerk denied permission to
> release
> > this track to the rest of the world and poor Atom had to agree to this,
> > otherwise these fine album might have never been released. Of course, it
> > makes sense now, they are the robots!!!!.
> >
> > Its like me, a latinamerican from Tijuana, saying that Autechre music is
> > funny because the beat skips or that some Oval sounds like a damaged CD:
> > "Ha ha ha, the CD sounds like its damaged, its hilarious ... ha ha ha, I
> > cant help but laugh ... oh god please make it stop ... its so funny ...
> that
> > clicky sound ... ha ha ha"
> >
> > saludos,
> >
> > ejival
> >
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