• pet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    ‘Autobahn’ is from Kraftwerk’s 1974 album with the same name. Basically, Moranis messed with that track by turning the drawn-out hypnotic opus into a radio-format bombastic tune. (Though Kraftwerk are pretty pop-friendly themselves.)

    I haven’t listened through his other songs, but it seems that all three albums are comedic in nature.

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      4 months ago

      I should probably check out Kraftwerk, also. I know I ran across them years ago when I learned about Joy Division as a predecessor to New Order, but only remember a song that (I think) was called Radioactivity.

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        4 months ago

        They have a peculiar sense of humor (the linked song is called ‘Pocket Calculator’ in the English-language release). The ‘Radioactivity’ track originally referred simultaneously to nuclear decay and radio waves — though iirc a later version increased the emphasis on nuclear incidents.