Kraftwerk/YMMV

• Awesome Music: All of Die Mensch Maschine, goddamit.
  • Most fans agree that Autobahn through Computerworld represent their best work.
• Covered Up: A lot of young Rammstein fans sadly probably think that Rammstein wrote "Das Modell".
  • And American Alternative Rock fans might know "The Model" from the Big Black cover.
• Ear Worm: "I'm the operatah with my pocket calculatah." * Bleep bloop....broing!*
  • "We are the robots" "veem veem veem vam"
  • "Neeeeeeeeeonlicht"
  • Rare rhythmical example: the drum beat of Trans Europe Express. chk-chk chk-chk-chk, chk-chk chk-chk-chk...
• Ending Fatigue: Autobahn has a couple fake-out endings. It's best to clear your daily schedule if you're going to listen to that song.
• Face of the Band: Ralf and Florian, the co-founders of the band. Until Florian left in 2008.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Kraftwerk seem to be one out of two explicitly German bands well-known in the USA. The other one is Rammstein.
• Growing the Beard: The albums Autobahn and Radioactivity are where Kraftwerk really began to develop their style, Autobahn being somewhat of a transition between their earlier ambient style and their later one.
• Narm Charm: Songs like We Are The Robots and Pocket Calculator run on it.
• Nightmare Fuel: "Showroom Dummies", for anyone who knows Doctor Who, or that episode of The Twilight Zone called "The After Hours" where the mannequins are alive.
  • The song "Mitternacht" off of their Autobahn album.
  • "Kometenmelodie" from the same album. Especially the transition between the two movements, which involves a sudden high-pitched screech.
  • Nothing beats the scariness of The Man Machine video. Just see those endless columns of zombies walk somewhere mindlessly, without a single clue why they are doing it.
• Sampled Up: Most people never recognize it when bands sample from Kraftwerk, but it happens a lot. A lot of Industrial and EBM acts do it, and their drum beats crop up in hip-hop, especially from the 80s and early 90s all the time.
• Seinfeld Is Unfunny: By the 1980's Kraftwerk was suffering from this, because by then synthesized music was everywhere.
  • This one is especially sad, as newer generations are not likely to recognize them for what they did.
• Uncanny Valley: The trope their band ran off of.
  • This video is a perfect illustration of this trope in action.