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Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk Format: Vinyl
4.5 out of 5 stars 91 customer reviews
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. Europe Endless
  2. Hall of Mirrors
  3. Showroom Dummies
  4. Trans-Europe Express
  5. Metal on Metal
  6. Franz Schubert
  7. Endless Endless

Product Details

  • Vinyl (November 16, 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: PARLOPHONE USA
  • ASIN: B00EZ3CPBA
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (91 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,042 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Truly Beautiful Album
By M. Scagnelli on January 28, 2001
Format: Audio CD
When one hears that Kraftwerk uses basically all computers and synthesisers to make their msic, you might expect a very jagged and metalic sound. Trans - Europe Express, however, is suprisingly beautiful and very melodic. This album proves that Kraftwerk weren't just brilliant musical engineers and sound creators, but also incredible musically. This is Kraftwerk at their best. All the songs are great and flow beautifully. My personal favorites are Europe Endless and the title track. After almost 25 years, this album still sounds like it was made in the future. Trans - Europe Express is, at least, a very interesting album to listen to and at most a brilliant album, mixing melody with technology.
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3.0 out of 5 starsBeware - This version is dubbed from an LP!
By Harry Housley on December 6, 2006
Format: Audio CD Verified Purchase
Years ago I purchased the EMI version of Trans Europa Express and have enjoyed it so much I decided to add the Capitol version to my last shopping cart so I culd have the English lyrics. When I played it I noticed lots of low-frequency rumble, especially on the first track - Europe Endless. I popped the EMI version in and it is totally quiet! I guess for $10.98 you get what you pay for but I find this recording unacceptable so I ordered the $15.98 version to see if the problem disappears. Here are the details of the "flawed" version:

Audio CD (September 26, 1995)

Original Release Date: 1977

Number of Discs: 1

Format: Original recording remastered

Label: Capitol

ASIN: B00000DQSZ
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5.0 out of 5 starsTrans-Europe Express - 25 Years Later.
By The Groove on November 17, 2002
Format: Audio CD
The title track to Kraftwerk's 1977 LP is among the most influential and vital singles of the modern era. It's a hauntingly beautiful exercise in electronic minimalism, stripped down to eerie synths, crisp drum machines, and a seductive monotone vocal. When it segues into the next track "Metal on Metal," with its click-clack beats, the recording approaches its very climax. "Trans Europe Express" was released in an era when disco was hitting its peak in popularity and while classic rock bands like Boston were ruling airwaves. Its arrival may have stuck out like a sore thumb, and naysayers may dismiss the album as cold, detatched, and synthetic. But the truth remains that this album, a classic in its own right, is the "Sgt. Pepper" of electronic music, and it deserves to be on as high a pedestal as any beloved rock and roll album. It was powerful enough to transcend many barriers, including hip hop, as Afrika Bambatta stole the title track's synth line for the single "Planet Rock." Beautiful and attention-grabbing in every which way, "Trans Europe Express" is a classic that's also essential listening.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEndless Endless
By Rasmus Bryder on January 19, 2002
Format: Audio CD
Kraftwerk was totally unknown to me, before I bought this record. I'd read reviews and I heard samples on some CD-stores' websites, but still, I didn't get it. When I bought it, I felt like....wow!
When Trans-Europe Express was released in 1977 by Kraftwerk, that band had no idea of what that record would change on contemporary music. With its seven or eight numbers, it makes a deep journey in other parts of Europe, that we haven't heard of before - an endless journey, into the music of one of the bands that influenced the world, by changing the standards of alternative music.
The third record from Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express, had laid on the early albums of Kraftwerk (1974's Autobahn, the record that most Kraftwerk fans consider the greatest work, and 1975's Radio Activity), but still, it returns a melodic and harmonic sound of truly electronic work.
The albums starts off with "Europe Endless", a part of the journey into Europe, that makes people imagine, how they travel into the beautiful and harmonic world of Europe, within 9 and a half minutes listening of pure electronic work. It turns into "The Hall of Mirrors", the reflecting part of being in a hall with no end with the repeated lyric "Even the greatest stars live their lives in the looking glass". "Showroom Dummies" kicks off with the revolutionary sound of the sound, we most hear in disco, and alternative pop, and moves on with vocals by Ralf Hutter along with the beats.
"Trans-Europe Express", the head-track on the record, takes it away with the sound of a train, the TEE, and is given the metallic beats in a flash of imagination and travelling.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsIconic Kraftwerk; Important part of the history of electronic music
By Sex_Engr_RockNRoll on September 18, 2015
Format: Audio CD Verified Purchase
**Intro**
This isn't just a casual music album, this is a snapshot of electronic music as it was in 1977, back when people weren't even sure if electronic music was going to be something that you enjoyed at a dance club or in a concert hall. Also, there weren't really very many commercially made electronic instruments, so a lot of the music that you hear on this album is made from instruments that Kraftwerk made themselves. This means that no only did they write a compose the songs on this album, they designed the timbre of each sound!

**The songs**
There are relatively few songs on this album, but they are all fairly long, and one gets the sense that Kraftwerk worked on each one a lot before they decided they were satisfied and approved the album for release. One gets the impression that every small note shape, timbre, rhythm, and embellishment is there because the band decided to put it there, and nothing was accidental. The stereotypical German attitude toward precision certainly seems to be here.

1.) Europe Endless - A gentle start to the album, a happy beat that suggests the forward motion of travel. Bright percussive electronic sounds and occasional vocals with a pleasant German accent, sometimes distorted and sometimes not. Music already suggests train sounds and train travel, though the song does not commit explicitly toward trains.
2.) The Hall of Mirrors - A darker song, focuses on self consciousness and self-image issues. Repetitive, echoing, and with electronic sounds that suggest pacing footsteps. The vocals seem forlorn to me.
3.) Showroom Dummies - Somewhat silly in some ways, and more dark and ironic in others, this song is about mannequins in a store window, the lyrics are from the mannequins' first person perspective.
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