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When I first heard the shortened radio single of “Autobahn” on my AM bedside radio, I was a teenager…walking on shag carpet in the hall of my parents house…about to enter my bedroom. It was spring, drizzling and overcast outside. I lived in SW Michigan.

I remember the moment that well.

The song was so different and it mesmerized me so much that I actually sat on the edge of my bed and concentrated on listening to Autobahn for its entire length.

I knew I had to have it.

Bought the album and I was hooked on Kraftwerk for life. My two younger brothers soon followed.

Second fave cut: “Kometenmelodie 2”. So electronically joyful. A product of the times, the comet songs here were inspired by Comet Kohutek — discovered by and named after Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg Observatory on 18 March 1973, the year it was visible from earth.

When I first heard this shortened single on my AM bedside radio, I was a teenager…walking on shag carpet in the hall of my parents house…about to enter my bedroom. It was spring, drizzling and overcast outside. I lived in SW Michigan.

I remember the moment that well.

The song was so different and it mesmerized me so much that I actually sat on the edge of my bed and concentrated on listening to Autobahn for its entire length.

I knew I had to have it.

Bought the album and I was hooked on Kraftwerk for life. My two younger brothers soon followed.

Our grandparents were Austro-Hungarian on one side, German on the other, so culturally Kraftwerk had special meaning for us as well.