Computer Love - Kraftwerk.
Dispite a few factual errors quite a good video, (well better than my last abonination).
Plus it has Sinclair computers in it.
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look at the silly amount of machines released in the early 80's .. oh and games actually weren't a 3d engine with "subject" bolted on..
and yet some games remain playable even after so long :)
Exhibit "A" : -
Or is it meant to and I'm losing the plot here??
EDIT : Scratch that..."Talk" was a homage based on "Computer Love" done with Kraftwerks permission. Carry on with your business...nothing to see here...
Yes Coldplay borrowed it.
I own this on Vinyl. I went though a phase of listening to it everyday, best track is Numbers. Now I'm listening to Kraftwerk's Man Machine, but skip when 'The Model' comes on.
I'm after the 1973 album Ralf and Florian on Vinyl. It did not sell well in the UK so is hard to find over here. Check out this track from it, its called Tongebirge (mountain of sound).
All it needs are some Dolphin squeeks and it's good enough for >= 30 year women (you know the type ;) ) who want to have a relaxing bath with all the candel and insence clap trap.
Heres an execllent preview of the whole album done in 10 mins with each track blended together very well.
...because it's the same font used for all of the official Timex releases almost a decade later (1983ish)
Although the Kraftwerk album appears to use a bold version of the font.
Good eye there! I think one of the Beeps on here is a specialist in fonts, maybe it's something he can answer ... it's either the one from Germany or Holland ( sorry I can't be any more help than that). I remember asking a font-specific question years ago which he easily answered (when the answer wasn't that easily found, imo)
I guess I can identify around 95% of all fonts used in printed matter nowadays, but this Kraftwerk example is a blank. But I'll have a quick browse through some of my 1970s photo-compostion type specimen and see what I can find. There's a chance that this font has not been digitised though...
I've only listened to the first 30 seconds, but it sounds a lot like one of the tracks from the B side of Autobahn, Morgenspaziergang I think is the one I mean, after looking up the track listings.
Found it! The font is called Tabasco.
A poorly digitised version is shown at http://fontpark.net/font/tabasco/en which lacks the prolonged capitals as well. The original came in two weights: medium (used on the Timex boxes) and bold (used on the Kraftwerk cover).
It's almost the same but not quite.
And thanks again for the help :-)
That's because the example on the website doesn't have the prolonged capitals. In the original specimen of Tabasco that I have here (Letraset 1993) many capital letters exist in two versions: normal and with prolonged strokes on either top or bottom.
Have a look yourself:
You mean:
Shhtish chuut shhtish chuut chuot, shhtish chuut shhtish chuut chuot, Tschak! Tschak! Tschak! chuut chuot. (Repeat till fade)
Hah! I get that! :-)
But I don't get this:
Sorry Scottie_uk :sad:
EDIT That is to say I remember the song MrCheese is referring to but not yours.
Yeah, I get the idea well enough ;-) ... but which song is it? :-?
[no longer sad, just curious]
I had no idea either and started to back away out of Scotties dressing room... :p
I suppose it just a stereo typical primative electronic drum riff from Kraftwek. If I were to pick a song I suppose it would be this c64 sounding one.
Oooh! Original video!
Thanks STeaM...I thought I had imagined that (much better in my opinion) alternative version of Talk...Nice to know I'm not going mad!
I have Minimum Maxmium (I think that is what it is called) CD I play it a lot.