TEE/Abzug/Metal on Metal has to be perhaps my all time favorite Kraftwerk tune. someone wrote in 1998: "whatever you do, don't miss the video and audio presentation of 'trans europe express'. the clanging machine imagery and the huge banging sounds in 'metal on metal' are perfectly synced and absolutely transcendant. i have never seen such a powerful sight and sound presentation - - it is truly a world-class, state of the art segment, and i stopped breathing when it happened." http://www.xmission.com/pub/lists/kraftwerk/archive/kraftwerk.9806 On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:20:29 +0100 "Jan R." wrote:

olaf_juerss@web.de schrieb am 16.11.2002 12:57 Uhr:

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Bob VonMoss wrote :

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The predecessor of "Metal on Metal" was Disney's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"

well ... the REAL predecessor of kw's "metal on metal" was the legendary oskar sala's "stahl - thema mit variationen" ( "steel - theme with variations" ) , a

Uncle Oskar, we salute you ... but the REALREAL predecessor of "Metal on Metal" was Edmund Meisel's score for the silent movie "BERLIN - DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSSTADT", an experimental film made by Walther Ruttmann,