Kraftwerk

The Man-Machine is one of the most groundbreaking pop albums of all time. Forget about Bowie's ersatz space-robot shtick and practically all the synth pop that came in the wake of it; this is disco made by real robots. German robots. Kraftwerk basically encoded the language of New Wave with this one.

Less than three minutes into The Man Machine, an album that faithfully extends Kraftwerk's
unmistakable brand of exquisite torture, this group has successfully drained the blood from
the listener's body and pumped in the liquid Lysol. With its efficient modern-world toys --
synthesizers, speech synthesizers, synthesized percussion -- Kraftwerk strikingly creates
a sound so antiseptic that germs would die there. What's more, the band has nev... More >

Only a curmudgeon could reject a group that synthesizes the innovations of Environments and David Seville & the Chipmunks, not to mention that it's better make-out (and dance) music. (Grade - B+)