Kraftwerk - The Model

Fitting with the fact that the Germans have landed in London, playing 8 nights at Tate Modern, I thought I'd Choose this single this week. This track originally was recorded and released in 1978, it came from the album The Man Machine but was never released as a single in the UK. Move forward 3 years to the release of the band's Computer World album and the single Computer Love. EMI decided to put The Model on the B Side of the track and the single got to the lower end of the top 40 charts. The DJ's had other ideas and started playing the B Side which made EMI swap the tracks over, so The Model became the A Side. By February 1982 the single reached number 1 and was in the top 75 for 20 weeks.

They never really had the chart success they really deserve, Autobahn was a classic and unusual sounding single back in 1975 and they have become pioneers of electronic music. I Saw them play live in 1992 in Sheffield and really they didn't do a great deal on stage but the presence of the band was enough, they had half a recording studio with them on stage but the music they created was mind blowing! The personnel in the band might have changed in the group with one original member, but we don't really care as the music speaks for itself, who knows they might even get round to releasing another album this year! Here's the single, a classic piece of electronic music that helped the soundtrack of the New Romantic movement too!