Fifty years ago this month, an album was released in the U.S. that proved to be akin to a quake under a placid sea, one that created a ripple that grew into a tidal wave. That album was "Autobahn ...

One album cover has been selected from each year ... 13th Floor Elevators, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators, 1966. Design: John Cleveland Kraftwerk, Autobahn, 1974. Design: unknown ...

Kraftwerk’s eighth studio album, released in 1981, was on heavy rotation during the making of Mazy Fly, says Cabral. “I haven’t been producing [music] for very long, so I was using my voice as a force ...