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kleinbl00  ·  1793 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kraftwerk founder Florian Schneider dies at 73

    Coldplay used a section from Kraftwerk's Computer Love in their hit Talk

Understatement of the year

Talk is basically an homage to Kraftwerk.

It's been an odyssey. Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity" in 1976

Fast forward to 1991:

Wasn't until I saw them in 2004 and they made it explicit what the robot was saying:

Fast forward to 2019 and they're no longer mentioning Hiroshima because, well, that one was intentional.

That was some bleak-ass shit.