[QUOTE 4592772, member: 259"]Never. Life on earth started with the single version of Autobahn exactly 5000 years ago.[/QUOTE]
Funny you should say that, hearing the single version of Autobahn is what set me off on my Krautrock odyssey. I recall hearing and thinking wow, that's great. I then went out and bought the single and the album, then started reading up about them, of course a few other German bands were mentioned and I just had to investigate them and this started me off on my life-long love of Krautrock and Can, amongst others, in particular. I wouldn't class Kraftwerk as Krautrock now though but I still like most of their stuff.
I'm old enough (but not quite 5000 years old!) to have been able to buy the first three albums at the time, they were obviously still available when Autobahn was released (the first two were released in Britain as double album, with a groovy cover I may add). For anybody who have not heard them they are not really anything like the well known stuff subsequent to Autobahn and may not be what you'd expect at all. I'm sure I've posted a 'tube video of Klingklang off the second album here at some time in the past.