I remember when I first moved to Philly a few years ago, there was one guy who knocked my socks off. He wore white t-shirts, dark, cuffed jeans, and black shoes; a total science nerd Get Up Kid. Of course he also wore black-rimmed glasses which was like the cherry to his hot guy sundae.I did a William Zabka-esque double-take the first time I saw him. I was Wayne Campbell staring at that guitar in the window: "You will be mine! Oh yes, one day, you WILL be mine!" I think I even shook my fist in the air to really drive the point home.
The next time I saw him was at a house party a few weeks later and he was wearing a Kraftwerk shirt. Swoon-a-fuckin'-LOON! I practically had to roll my tongue back into my face because it was draggin' on the floor.
Of course my dream guy liked Kraftwerk. Of course he liked sparse, European proto-techno, skinny-tie-wearing knob tweakers. I mean, I liked him before the Kraftwerk shirt, but that shirt catapulted him from cute dude-land to "how much would it take to bribe him to be my boyfriend like Patrick Dempsey did in Can't Buy Me Love because he's just that hot" dude-land.
Guys who listen to Kraftwerk, I love you. Let's listen to "Computer Love" and lay around your apartment and talk about cinema or some shit.
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I gotta say - this is the ultimate boner killer for me. If you heart this group, I will mock you and your poor choice in overrated bands. Yup. I am elitist record snob who has NEVER appreciated this stupid band. Yeah yeah yeah, I know their importance to the history of electronic music (yet another genre spinning its wheels these days)but it doesn't mean I have to pretend to like them. The more you try to tell me how much the rule, the more I will quietly plan to my escape route to ever having to talk music with you again. Luckily, I love you Anna, ha!
I love you Anna, that's what life is all about, laying around and talking about some shit!
So, you like dudes who worked in record stores... when those existed?
That's cool; we all like The Wedding Present as well.
I buy about 10 LPs a month, easy... and I mean LPs not CDs
Um, I ADORE dudes that have worked in record stores. My high school sweetheart worked in a record store. He was a total snob about it. I hated it, yet at the same time, I LOVED it.
Did I mention I own a record store?
to the person who hates Kraftwerk, check out those bootleg LP's with the green and orange construction cones and see if they don't change your opinion. You can probably throw a stone and hit a douchewaffle hipster who has at least one of those albums. And since we're talkin' 'bout Kraftwerk, now's a good a time as any to inform the neophytes and the rest of the peanut gallery that NEU! rules the roost; they zig where Kraftwerk zags.
Yes, the first two Kraftwerk LPs are really good, non-bonerkilling music!
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