Blog: PopMatters

Even the 92nd most acclaimed album of all time lives its life in the looking glass. From station to station, back to Dusseldorf city, Counterbalance gets on board the T.E.E. Mendelsohn: Sometimes we get to a record and I have to wonder if anyone ever really listens to this album or if it's just on the list as a joke or as an attempt to build cachet. I get that feeling with Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express. I'm not trying to say this record isn't worthy of any accolade it has ever received, nor the immense amount of influence it [...]