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089: Kraftwerk - Computer World (1981)

Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

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What Is a Pocket Calculator?

Kraftwerk was notoriously reclusive. They basically invented the whole like daf punk mystique as far as I'm aware. When they did this song live, they would play it on these little handheld devices so it looked like they were all rocking with their calculators. So here we have a hilariously outdated and irrelevant song about how cool it is to have a small electronic device to carry around in your pocket. It's hard to get too excited about a pocket calculator nowadays, but in the early 80s, there was a whole worldwide calculator culture dedicated to finding undocumented features in programmable calculators.

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