Radio-Activity
	Produced by Ralf Hutter, Florian Schenider, Emil Schult
	Released on November 1975
	US CHART POSITION #140
	Find it at GEMM
S11-56855 cover [high resolution photo]

I ’ve been playing with impressionistic writing lately, which is to say writing that conjures the specific impression an album leaves behind. I’m not sure if it’s a better communicator than straight prose, so if you find this useless (or just plain annoying) let me know. This is not poetry, which would require countless revisions; it’s more of a sketch that utilizes a vague rhythm/rhyme scheme.

If robots dream of ‘lectric sheep
there must be lullabyes
cooed in the cool tones of ohms
or crackling surges
which Kraftwerk slips into the deep
subconscious of surprises
static jumping from their bones
at a resistor’s urges
Here is an Eden after man
an earth that brooks no moistened breath
where small mechanical insects
chatter after death
in the porticos of great houses
soaked deep in the stink of history
emboldened by uranium
sleeping but fitfully
as the light waves wash over the ground
light of a harsh star unyielding
undiminished by atmosphere
swift and unfeeling
pulsing through the desiccated strands
of trees where lovers might have stood
twined in a copse of sunlit warmth
im himmelsblut
How many now have plugged this buzzing box of sound into the wall
and heard in it the call
of an electric litany to come
ages from whence the will of man is done?
Then will these copper wires strain to see
the last immortal coil’s activity.

SN-16380 back cover

TRACK LISTING

1. GEIGER COUNTER
2. RADIOACTIVITY
3. RADIOLAND
4. AIRWAVES
5. INTERMISSION
6. NEWS
7. THE VOICE OF ENERGY
8. ANTENNA
9. RADIO STARS
10. URANIUM
11. TRANSISTOR
12. OHM SWEET OHM

CREDITS

KARL BARTOS --
WOLFGANG FLUR --
RALF HUTTER --
FLORIAN SCHNEIDER --
Peter Bollig -- engineer

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