kraftwerk was my favorite band for about a decade. i still love them, but other stuff made it to the top of my favorites list. the band had an amazing run from

kraftwerk was my favorite band for about a decade. i still love them, but other stuff made it to the top of my favorites list. the band had an amazing run from 1974 to 1991. it sure is strange, though, that past that point, they pretty much stopped making new music. the most charitable interpretation i can come up with is that they had created all the music that they needed to. or maybe, with the dawn of widely-available computers and much cheaper music synthesis, they could no longer stay five years ahead of the competition, and opted to bow out instead.