now is time on shprockets when ve dance.

i guess it is cheating, when instead of posting some interesting prose on your weblog, you just look for cool stuff on youtube.com and stick it on there. still this is fantastic and i just thought i'd share.

remember when you're watching this kraftwerk footage, this was 1975. NINETEEN SEVENTY-FIVE. think back to what the mid 70's were like. staduim rock, 90 minute long drum solos, playing a guitar with a violin bow, lyrics about hobbits and sorcerers and dragons etc etc.

now watch kraftwerk performing autobahn. this song could be released next year, and it would still sound completely up-to-date. we still haven't caught up to these guys. my question is, someplace in this world there has to be a guy or girl or some combination thereof that is making music right NOW that we won't understand for 30 years or so. where are they? i really want to hear something new that makes me go 'i don't get it' but a few years from now i'll say, "ohhhh, i see."

i'd like to think i'd recognize it on sight, but who knows? if i was a teenager in the mid 70's i probably would have been waving my lighter around during stairway to heaven like everyone else, while ralf and florian et al. were busy changing the world.