Now that I’ve counted down my favorite 1977 albums, the time has come for me to highlight other albums from the year with which I’m less familiar.

Having now listened to a bunch of 1977’s most notable albums, I’m confident that my personal top ten is a great representation of the year’s best music (according to my taste, anyway). If you’re a fan of punk or electronic music, you probably feel different. Still, I did manage to hear a few new gems.

Today’s featured album isn’t one of them.

Trans-Europe Express is the third album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, and by all accounts it’s a masterpiece of the genre. Wildly ahead of its time, this album paved the path for countless synth-pop and electronic bands in the 80s and beyond.

Despite the high praise, and the fact of its outsized influence, Trans-Europe Express just isn’t for me. It’s grating and repetitive in a way that I assume is a feature, not a bug, of the genre. I can’t imagine listening to this music for fun, enlightenment, or anything else.

I do like the inclusion of the lyric “from station to station, back to Düsseldorf City, meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie” toward the end of this song (if you make it that far). Those two gentlemen had a big 1977, which I’ll get to later this week.