Ok, here is the third installment. I was going to wait until Tuesday, but tomorrow is going to be a busy day, so away we go. I really like this choice because it's not typical rock and roll and isn't usually regarded as one of the "top 100 of all time", at least I can't recall seeing it on any lists in the recent past. What is it? It's Kraftwerk's - Trans-Europe Express (1977).

Released at the height of punk, this sleek, urbane, sythesized, intellectual work shared little ground with its contemporaries. Kraftwerk operated from within a bubble of equipment and ideas which owed more to science and philosophy than mere entertainment. Still, this paean to the beauty of mechanized movement and European civilization was a moving and exquisite album in itself. And through a sample of Afrika Bambaataa's seminal "Planet Rock", the German eggheads joined the dots with black American electro, giving rise to entire new genres. Without this there would be no techno, no house, no Pet Shop Boys. The list is endless.

Your thoughts on the record's influence?

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