David Black 2008-12-01

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Hi, I am an amateur "ham" radio enthusiast, station callsign KD5EKU. I love this CD. I can't speak for anyone else but the music and electronic sounds take my mind to a place of radios, antennas, protons and electrons, perhaps "talking" uranium, and, probably just for me, mental images of the VLA! It is perhaps one of the most imaginative concept albums I have run across in a very long time, facinating to listen to all the way through from start to finish. Highly recomended!

Bartok Kinski 2008-07-09

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

There is something inherently prosaic in this dead dull "music of der future". Fortunately, man has still some sense of individualism, but barely, and Kraftwerk's fascist goal for music has not rendered vocals obsolete. Listening to this, it harkens back to the techno geek 1970's when Germans laden in neo-fascist uniforms with thin ties and a pound of grease on their hair, showed no emotion on stage, acting like machines. Most of them wore leather pants so tight that they froze while playing, hence the dumb and inarticulate Krautbot look. They copied architecture chic from the 1930's, added some 70's porn montage and called it "modern" 1970's and praised the revolution of robots and computers. Not only is that very idea horrifying, but it is also silly. "Kraftwerk" means "cheese plant" in German and they are very cheesy.

The CD is probably one of the most horrible things I've listened to. If you can get to the end of it, you'll find all sorts of unwanted electronic noise, Krautbot voice dubs, electro fuzz, beeps, computer konks, repugnant computer-generated vocals, static, repulsive synthesizers, and extremely unpleasant clamor that goes on forever, that you'll soon be reaching for a hammer to crush the CD. In my estimation, all crap. A few American bands at the time tried the stale trend with deadly results, Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle (1979), Styx Kilroy Was Here (1983) , both tossed their careers away because of it.

You'll be reminded of foolish telephone companies, lumbering computer screens, electronic wires, gay 70's discos, and moronic techno cabarets in smelly, dark German cellars. So, unless you're a nerd or have little taste in music, forget this stuff ever existed.

F. Woods 2008-04-06

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

I ordered a CD update of old LP music from the 70's by the German guys, "Kraftwerk", (Radio Activity), Amazon got me my copy and the ones I had sent to my brothers in Michigan quick and in good condition!

Stalwart Kreinblaster 2007-12-15

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Kraftwerk's radio-activity, my first Kraftwerk album, is I guess one of their more underappreciated works.. Yet after hearing about the band and how great they were from friends for years it wasn't until I heard the song radio-activity in a couple of films by Fassbinder that I realized I should give their music a listen...
Radio-Activity is a great experiment in pop music and I find it to be among the most pleasant and thouroughly enjoyable experiences in 'electronic' music.. Clearly ahead of their time Kraftwerk seemed nevertheless to have a very classic understanding of how to contsruct a piece of music.. By the end of the electronic radio excursion we feel we have been to an interesting place that we would like to return to in the future...

Peter R. 2007-09-26

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Kraftwerk tries to build a theme or a musical journey (if you may) into their CDs. Here, in radio activity, they try again. The music is very unique and original. Yet I cannot give it a 5-star because of my personal taste for more upbeat music from them. If you listen to the samplers that Amazon puts on the website, you will see that the music is not for dancing and not upbeat. There is some trance mood, but this ablum is very electronic "background" music. Not sure if you too can listen to the songs every day, and continue to get a "jolt" from it, like THE MIX.

Try THE MIX first. Then, work your way back to this CD, after getting the classic AUTOBAHN cd. I got hooked on the AUTOBAHN as the premiere journey CD.