Kraftwerk's best song. Despite its highly synthetic nature and simplistic lyrics, this song conveys through its melody so much more--all of it unspoken... Simply put: Brilliant!

This song blows my mind like no other. This version is just too much. Those analogue synths are so tenderly played and groove from 4:00 on is so pure I can't describe this...I've been listening to this my whole life being 5 when in came out, my step dad used to jam it out and over 20 years later it has only gotten better. It takes me in and I get lost in in it like no other tune. Love it Kraftwerk, This version is just unbelievable though!

Kraftwerk's 1981 concert venue sets a precedent and is unmatched in electronic aesthetics. Analog electronics in all their glory.

This song is so far ahead of it's time.

I am at a loss for words as to just how good this truly is. As another poster stated below me: "You are seeing and hearing one of the five or six best groups EVER in the history of the world operating at their staggering, visionary peak."

Saw the 81 Computerworld tour at Southampton. I was 14. It was incredible, I dont think I realised just how privileged I was at the time.

This song still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it, beautiful.

Rest in peace Florian Schneider. You and the rest of Kraftwerk have been of a major influence on my choice to go into IT beginning of the 80's . Thanks for your beautiful, and legendary, creativity .

I was there too. It was so beautiful.

クラフトワークを中学生ね時はじめて聴いた時は音楽に未来があると感じました、自分今54歳です

just had a synthgasm

the most beautiful song that kraftwerk has ever made

i would sell my firstborn to have a version of this in high definition.

This live performance is just brilliant! Man and machine working together in perfect harmony. That synth bass is so perfect. The lead synth, before and during chorus, is so fragile and beautiful it hurts. Immortal stuff.

Fantastic! The jam that begins at 3:30 is simply legendary.

One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in my life.

It never ceases to turn me into a puddle. So sad and melancholy. Peace.

When the 'chops' come in around 3:30 it's magical

This song is in my top ten all time favourites, I first heard it as the B side to the Model and I fell in love with it instantly, same as when I first heard The Model...even after 30 odd years I never tire of hearing it and this version is just amazing!!

i saw them live in about 1982 in Edinburgh and they were so funky live, everyone was up dancing the whole night, you wouldn't believe how these guys boogied

On this tour Kraftwerk took such much equipment with them they might as well had taken a whole recording studio on the road with them (they practically did)! They truly were pioneers.

RIP Florian One of the most beautiful songs ever made here

RIP Florian! Thank you for the music!

Here in 2024 yep it's still a masterpiece. 🤘☮️❤️🎵

何だか涙が出そうなくらい感動的ですね。一聴すると無機質なエレクトロポップですが真摯にエレクトロニクスに向き合い完全にコントロールしながらも洗練された感性とテクニックで演奏してみせる。神ですね。大袈裟かもしれませんが同じ時代に生きれて良かった。

Nice rhythm, melody and harmony!

Absolutely Fantastic...I saw them at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1981. What a Show !!!

It is just so innovative, and seeing the video makes me sooooo nostalgic............even though I wasn't even around then. It really must have been an exciting time for those alive at the time. One of the most important artists, along with lead belly and co. Hail to Kraftwerk!!!

Love this song, album, group. The sound was so ahead of its time- considering what was being played on the radio in 1980/1981 - considering pop, rock, even new wave etc. Give me Kraftwerk, and any other experimental any day.

Descanse em paz Florian Schneider. Obrigado por sua criatividade e beleza !

Thank you so much for posting this amazing piece of musical history. Kraftwerk, like Pink Floyd were too ahead of their time to be understood by the majority of the masses until many years later. It appears many still fail to understand the great power they transmit.

This is very cutting edge for it's time and that is what really made the 1980s exciting musically. Music with these techno grooves didn't really exist before the late 1970s

中学の頃大好きな曲でした。 学校の体育館のステージでこの曲を演奏する夢想ばかりしていました。

Шедевр электронной музыки!!!

Had a massive goosebumps experience when I heard this on radio 6 the other day - what a great tune!

Warm lush melodies and affectionate rhythm's from the master's, electronic music never sounded so loving or catchy.

I saw them at Hammersmith Odeon in 1981 - aaahhh...

30 years old and truly magnificent... and made even more impressive by the fact that one of the guys manages to stop for a leak at 2:25.

Legendary 1981 tour...

This version is beautiful in the beginning but gets down right funky as they step it up!

This fantastic song is transcendental their is a ,great energy and vibe to their inspired performance here.

What a Beautiful Song, Lovely

How could they put such groove and emotion in a « Maschinen Musik « ?! I love them for 40 years they are simply the greatest

This is what makes uTube rock... Real live audio of Kraftwerk (or any fave artist) from back in the day. Think i hear someone .... jamming. Kick ass...

1981. I need a Rendezvous = computer-love? Bingo.... 30 years later it is there,. Great music. Great band. Great anticapation.

I first heard Kraftwerk via their Man Machine album when I was 6 years old (thanks Uncle!), and I know a lot of their music, but somehow this track has passed me by for 25 years. Which is ironic since its' the one everyone talks about thanks to Coldplay. This song is beautiful.

RIP Florian. What a loss.

Best version of this I have ever heard ❤❤❤

歌詞とメロディが最高です！ 中学ですが、今の歌より好きです！

The most purist realisation of a musical vision ever from shunning publicity to running their own studio kraftwerk were so far ahead of their time that we are still discovering things they predicted decades ago. Their vision will be complete when the technology makes its own music. I'm privileged to have seen them live at a young enough age to influence everything I have done musically since

I'm so emotional watching this 😭. Love 'em to bit xxx

This song in this LIVE is the most beautiful performance I think.

Kraftwerk = ahead of their time. Geniuses!

This has always been my favorite Kraftwerk song. Nice upload.

barely new what a computer was when this came out i was 18 seems young ones nowdays wouldnt know how to start a date with someone if not for an electronic device of some kind this kraftwerk masterpiece is timeless and never gets old always come back to it saw them at brixton some years ago in concert in the early hours of sunday morning well worth the journey from newcastle

I saw them in Liverpool on that 1981 tour - awesome

This the Numbers and Heimcomputer video cut together, but I like it!

Ralf's voice sounds so deep here.

Best version of this song

So advanced! Love them

This robots has more love than many humans.

My fave song. Love these guys sooooo much.

i really wish i had lived back then. but then i also weren't at their concerts, because i'm born in the gdr... :'( but yeah, this is the definitive version of computer love. period. also kraftwerk are somewhat responsible of me working in it.

Ralf is singing very nice here

Back when they had to ship the entire Kling Klang Studio with them. It's no wonder they don't like touring.

OMG this is SOOO epic cant stop listening to this song

Kraftwerk ihr die besten deutsche klassik elektronische musik. Fan aus Polen:)

この時代のクラフトは神！涙が出そうな位に神。

THANK YOU!

Beautiful.

Saw them in New York this tour.Venue held about 50 people and Florian was standing outside as we queued to get in.Nobody recognised him!

Finally saw them in Antwerp in May. Fantastic experience, but there is a lot or warmth lost in the move from analogue to digital, something this track in particular really brings home. A beautiful version.

I was 14 when i first heard Numbers. That was in 1982. I'm 44 now and still listening Kraftwerk, especially older albums. Last album in Kraftwerk's style was Electric cafe... All after is that - that...

nice cut´s....love it! Thanks

Magnificent

God, this song just gets better with age...

I saw them perform live in August of 1981 at The Ritz in New York City. I think their live show was better back then. They did more than just stand there "adjusting" the sounds. They actually played. I saw them again at The Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City in 1998. They were good, but not as good as in 1981. Also, Wolfgang Flur and Karl Bartos were gone.

Performed in 1981, uploaded in 2007, watching in 2024

Rare as a Kraftwerk interview!!!!cheers for posting :)

There has to be a recording with better quality of this

Danke Florian, Danke! XO

Hammersmith Odeon 1981 , was my first Kraftwerk gig , fantastic , saw toyah Willcox had to leave after about the second song as people kept coming up to her for an autograph !!

Computer liebe!

omg, this is a 1981 song but now ... seems i can still loop it forever

Just amazing and raw .

Love the heavy bass on this. If only I’d gone to see them back then! Strange to see the full banks of ‘traditional’ keyboards!

I like the way they make the sound stage look like mission control. These guy are way cool

Graduated from UCLA that year, now hope to see them in the bay area in a few weeks.

Wonderfull!!

They try to be stiff and robotic but still can´t keep from "rocking out" in the end. That´s sweet...

Genius.....

i swear i have this on dvd,,

No this song was very relevant to the time,many people had "micro computers" in the 80's. I used to sit in front of the TV screen till early hours on my speccy.

So many times I've sang to myself, "I don't know what to do, what to do - I need a rendezvous, rendezvous..."

great version...the mashine sounds sooooo warm..

Seen these guys Sydney 1981. Unfuckingbelievable!!!

Wondering where this is,was lucky enough to see these guys live in Sydney 1981. Absolutely brilliant.

I think I fell in love with Ralf

Wow! This album COMPUTER WORLD was brand new at this performance in 1981! Amazing! ( From wiki) KRAFTWERK means "power station" and they are a German electronic music band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970 in Düsseldorf. The band was fronted by both Hütter and Schneider until Schneider's departure in 2008. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western classical style of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. Kraftwerk was one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are considered to be pioneers. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary; the band has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music.[6][7][8] According to The Observer, "no other band since the Beatles has given so much to pop culture" and a wide range of artists have been influenced by their music and imagery.[9] In January 2014, the Grammy Academy honored Kraftwerk with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Best live version