The subject matter of this song, looking for romance via the computer, is a remarkable prediction of the future as this was written many years before online dating. In the early 1980s computers were large, impersonal, incommunicative things; few could have foreseen their use as a vehicle for communicating with others. Computer World is a concept album about the rise of computers within society.
This song was originally released as a 7-inch single in the UK in 1981, reaching #36 in the singles chart, backed by "The Model." In December 1981, it was re-released as a double A-side 12-inch single along with "The Model," and this time it topped the UK charts.
Coldplay got permission from Kraftwerk to borrow the main synthesizer riff of "Computer Love" for their 2005 song "Talk."
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