Contest Time! Find the best/biggest piece of hack Kraftwerk-related asshattery you can find!

I like the word asshattery. It sounds like a modern psaltery for dumbasse.

Just wait to read my upcoming Kraftwerk wankery in the Seattle Weekly, kid.

but every mainstream piece on the Kraftwerk has a sentance like that. Plus the influence bit is very easily arguably true.

but asshattery will sit nicely next to my frequent use of "yahoo"

Are Kraftwerk the most influential non American/British band/artist?

actually, having just read the entire article, I think its pretty good; a kinda travelogue of a goofy attempt to find Kraftwerk;

Either he's angry at me, or he's remembering the last time Kraftwerk made the news in Germany, thanks to their involvement in the technological festival Expo 2000. Hütter and Schneider were paid DM400,000 (around £145,000) to come up with a four-second jingle. Snappy financial thinking like that eventually caused Expo 2000 to lose a staggering DM2.4bn (£700m) - £10 for every man woman and child in Germany - and the media deemed Kraftwerk guilty by association. As Dirk's assistant confirms, Kraftwerk's image at home could do with a wash and brush up. "I think in Germany people today prefer Robbie Williams," she says, sadly. "All the girls like him so much he had to play two concerts in Düsseldorf."

Plus little nuggets like that re: expo are interesting

In fact, my Kraftwerk review has something like this:

"For their role in creating some of the first really comercially and
aesthetically successful examples of what a synthesizer-based pop music could sound like, and their subsequent inspiration to the people who developed eurodisco, technopop, electro, house and techno, people now speak of Kraftwerk's influence on contemporary music as being Ramones-sized, even Beatles-sized."

I'm actually skeptical about it being Beatle-sized; Ramones-sized, that I can see.

"EVEN" beatles sized seems to do them an injustice based on the fact that we're talking totally different areas of influence. I guess it's all a bit nebulous.

Surely Kraftwerk have had a far bigger influence on modern music than the Beatles? The Krafties were instrumental in bringing about techno, electro, and hip hop. The Beatles, well, I suppose they influenced Oasis.