Electric Café (studio album)
by Kraftwerk
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Electric Café is ranked 6th best out of 19 albums by Kraftwerk on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Kraftwerk is Trans Europa Express which is ranked number 301 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,596.
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Electric Café track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 11/12/2025 23:35 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 06:58 | Proto | 3,724 | 33/100 |
| ! | 10/12/2025 20:21 |  Superunknown | 281 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/21/2025 14:34 | RemainInLight | 3,127 | 36/100 |
| ! | 04/21/2025 02:22 |  CaptainPain | 3,257 | 61/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.5/100, a mean average of 70.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.
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Jboy56 11/03/2024 09:35 | #305860
This makes me happy, just want to to the Electrix Cafe for sip of cappuccino..
lleon79 02/11/2024 18:21 | #301927
This album is amazing!
Not their best album sadly, it feels like the group recycled stuff they'd done on previous projects a lot of the time and IMO the production makes it sound overblown and at times corny
santropez 03/09/2019 15:49 | #233320
Best track: "Sex Object"
Weakest track: "Musique Non Stop"
I think this record gets a bad rap. Sure, it's not as great as its predecessor "Computer World", but I think that "Electric Cafe" cleverly taps into the isolation (sexual or otherwise) one feels with increasing technology. Musically a bit stale since all the other 80s synthpop acts caught upto their sound by 1986, but you know, it still sounds fine. A weak Kraftwerk record is still pretty good.
Boltzmann 07/12/2018 22:54 | #218118
Y’know, it’s fun. You can’t take that away from this album. And because the technology at this time was already somewhat less outdated than previous works, I feel myself gravitating to this album a lot more often.
It's telling when one of Kraftwerk's worst albums is still really good. This one in particular may lack any revolutionary streak that "Autobahn" had or the sublime melodies found in "The Man-Machine", but by subtly enveloping the listener in a melancholic atmosphere, "Electric Cafe" manages to create a world of its own. This particular atmosphere really complements the record's cyber-paranoia themes, which seem to revolve around the monotony of technology and our reliance on it.
Songs such as "The Telephone Call" & "Sex Object" are great examples for that interpretation, and others like opener "Boing Boom Tschak" & closer "Electric Cafe" bring back the Kraftwerkian bounciness (even if it isn't as radiant as "Computer World"). Overall it's an impressive record, thematically ahead of its time, and it's one that's sadly been neglected (or simply misunderstood) by critics and audiences alike, but you know, hopefully it'll be given the rightful amount of acclaim by future generations.
Sehr gut!
Very Good !
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