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.