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really? i thought they were in their twenties... do we people get old when they reach the 25 spot???

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is a noble occupation. Better than bringing bad luck to young bands.

You fire up with nothing rofl! Gimme more! Gimme more!

I need to stop and buy some tampons first! I told you I have my period! ho, and maybe you meant "RAUSS".

not "fascists" because otherwise someone will accuse me of being racist. i don't mean to be mean really. i have my period!!! sorry!!!

stop it. i am taken. and you are a girl by the way. at least since you were kling klang's manager... i don't fancy girls.

Ian? Please? You are always here, you waste an awful lot of time defending Kraftwerk. C'mon. I am Uni and of course I have free time and a sad life but you... You are definetly paid to write here. It just can't be. Or, you need help or a hobby or something to do! Gardening? As for the paternally gratified you and Rofl are the only ones who took it in that way. For us, naive, lighthearted people it meant "flattered like a father would be to see his kids following his steps". I will be sorry if the badn change their name. Kraftwerk don't own the German language! They ahve been the arrogant, the cocky, the aggressive and the fascists. And this is my opinion and your mastermind PR strategies won't change that.

The Tenner is a male... You can tell by his writing. While the manager was said to be a female. Moreover, I as well think you are a member of Kraftwerk entourage trying to manipulate opinions and direct the feelings of the board. You, ROBOT!

But i feel ashamed to say that cause everybody digs em so much! frustrating!

Have yyou slept at all rofl, or you stayed up all night waiting for some news to comment on? oh, yeah, but work is work!

Thanks Johnny! That is what I have been saying for ages! Ian-t gets all tender and moved when he talks about kraftwerk and their wit and sense of humour and music. I do like Krfatwerk. very very very much. my cousin used to play them when he was babysitting me. they are some of my first memories of music but still I don't get all wet if i think about them...

I have read an article on londonlite where it said flares are coming back and goodbye skinny jeans! thank god... i couldn't wear them as my rear is a bit... imposing!

and the bunch of thieves? where have they gone? oh my god ian! KRAFTWERK PAY SO MUCH YOUR BILLS!! You have been the first to reply - you and rofl, your faithful friend - and the vertigo of happiness that you are exuding after knowing kling klang might change their name is really disgusting! you are even kssing their asses saying they are agood band! you know no decency. get youself together. it is not good that a 45 year old PR spends so much time on a youngsters' blog! OH, AND BY THE WAY, ONLY YOU AND ROFL ARE REPLYING TO THIS POST. CAUSE YOU ARE STALKING THE BAND! you msut get some counterpart from thsi dedication. and you, ian-t, you haven't posted anywhere else. pathetic pathetic pathetic.

OMNIA MUNDA MUNDIS!

Oh God! Where did they take the outfits??? I guess only foreigner can believe the trick tho. It happened to me while in Hungary and none of us had ever seen an Hungarian policeman so... We believed them! HA!

SO YOU ARE A GIRL THEN? ok ok ok. i said no more posts.

I am coming! Isn't he just the hottest man on earth! I am so much into him that my boy sort of resembles him! I hope he is not reading this...

more! I really really like the album. It took me a while to completely fall in love with it, but then, it became a burning passion!

Get a life! I can't believe you are still here. TheTenner I remember seeing name, but the post have been edited a million times in fact all the quotes we were argueing about have been removed. So, yes it was a female name, but who tells you she is a girl. She could be some old sob... Anyway, Ian-t, sorry to point out this but "the best defense is the accuse" trick doesn't really work. You are swinging from "oh yeah they are a good band" to "oh yeah they are a bunch of thieves". I think that the only insider here is YOU cause it is not normal that someone waste so much time in writing heartfelt defence of a band (Kraftwerk). unless you work for their label. a thing i am now pretty sure of, cause you know things, you have a lexicon and so on. well, if kraftwerk need to put around people to stick by their cause that is silly and pathetic. it means they are not so sure of being right. it doens't seem to me that the english band formerly known as kling klang have release an official statement. what we have here are some words by some manager and a string of events. not enough to assume anything particular. the only thing we can do is to express a point of view, with the naivete of the fans i suppose. but still there is something dodgy about your way of posting. you appear from nowhere, you come out with clever well structured points and strategies. I don't know really. it seems a bit too "corporate" as far as i am concerned. we insult each other, say stupid jokes and behave stupidly. you, no, you are calm, precise and PREPARED. you even went around looking for trademark regulations! and when someone tells you (me) about a story i have read about a guy being sued by kraftwerk you have the courage to say you are sure "they didn't take the money", while the story is they have settled the thing out of court" i.e. paying some money. why why why defending them like this? seems to me this is definite PR stuff. I don't know who you are but you are clearly some insider guy. and i think that rofl is one of yours too. you have been discovered since you first posted in fact you felt obliged to say you weren't working for kraftwerk. why is that? no one was saying that. we were joking about the thing. but your being so damn clever and prepared, well that stinks of PR to me. and as far as me, i am not a kling klang manager, my name is Cindy Cummings (yeah, like the poet), I am 22 and a student at Goldsmiths College, London. Want my number? I was born and raised in stratford east london, i have a dog named cyrus and a boyfriend named Matthew. and no, none of Kling Klang is named Matthew. and with this, I am leaving this conversation cause it is boring and it is clearly manouvered by some label wise guy.

For having taken the time to explain your position in every part and detail. This is your opinion. I reserve the right to have mine that slightly differs from yours.
At this point I hope the band will change their name and still prove wrong all the detractors. That would be a real victory in the end. Because what remains is that they could even call themselves the britneyspears. the music is good and no one can deny this I believe. Long live "the britneyspears"!
As for the little guys having little to loose... i don't think that kraftwerk would be happy with peanuts really. they sued a guy for 100000 dolars. oh my! at the end of everything I am happy to know that the "english band called kling klang" are still around and recording.
Amen!

Please Rofl, tell the tenner here I am taken!

LAAAIDY!

shitter. Go and grab it.

Yes, the jungle. Shortage of carrots... They are good for the eyes! A pity really, cause you won't see how pretty I am! ;P! Yawn? I lost? Oh no! I won't sleep tonight!

Kraftwerk are everything excpet "has beens". Sorry mate. The have made history. Check your sourcesc ause they are still pretty hot shit. There is a difference between being sort of greedy/too picky and being overrated. And low on cash? Er, no! Not at all!

Seriously. One of the best thing I have ever seen! Amazing amazing amazing.

I really don't undesratnd why they are even considered as band. I mena, it is just the guy writing everything and live... Oh my god hel us all. They are inexistent!

update my profile in here so you'll see how hot i am. But you are not gonna get some! XP!

Yes, that is true. I signed in to post a reply to this and so what exactly? I friend of mine told me the news. And so what exactly, Colombo? It is illegal to post in here? I have never hidden the fact I am a fan of Kling Klang or Kraftwerk. The article talks about them so it is quite natural for me to intevene. I am not 18. Like you. And you are indeed aggressive. Infact you are the one calling people cretins, idiots and so on. You are really rude. Where did you grow up, in the jungle? My post was a reply and was meant as reaction to some ill-hearted comments. And another thing if you want to offend people, fair enough, but offend people who can actually answer back, which is to say people who are posting here. As far as I know none of the people posting here are members of Kling Klang, so no need to involve them in our cheap cat fight. So address to ME or THETENNERYOULOST or JOHNNYZAZA or DAN. oh yeah, all of them signed up to answer this cause Kling Klang pay us! You are not even able to let people understand what you mean... You should check on the dictionary the meaning of the word "cretin", cause you dangerously match the profile...

So you are employee of Der Kraftwerk Wermacht!!!! Ian has been the one who got more heated up by the entire thing. C'mon, he posted a thing long 10000 words at three in the morning! So it is enough to suspect he is some kind of Kraftwerk insider! But we joked about the thing! I guess all the people defending Kling Klang are doing so because they like the band. So yeah, I can call myself a fan. So what? That makes me stupid? Tha makes me uncapable of considering a thing unfair? Who do you think you are to judge people like this? Why you have to be so aggressive? You too, premestrual syndrome? Or maybe your sexual life sucks...

Man, we don't need no primadonna here, rofl! Or you meant "ROLF" or better "RALF" ah ah ah! Kraftwerk have their spy on us!

I mean, what do you mean???? It is not clear. Why being cryptic really? Nonsense

Make yourself intellegible, mate!

i guess it is important that the band pointed out they weren't on the same page. it is right. bands need managers but they have to maintain their own opinion. it is like saying oh yeah Alan Mcgee thinks this while oasis think that. probably they don't want to expose themselves too much cause the matter is really delicate and they realize this and don't want to seem to cocky! hey thetenneryoulost, are you the manager??? or amybe you are dating him???? just joking!

See, the band disagree with the manager. They are fans, I told you, they just wanted to homage their heroes. It is so obvious!

Oh my god Ian, what is it? Have you got your period? What an acrimony! It is not like Kraftwerk are your relatives. Or are they? I think you have read the article in the wrong way and in the wrong spirit really. First the "paternally gratified" is in inverted commas and to me and anyone who hasn't got pre mestrual syndrome, sounds more like someone who knows his shit so well, know what he has done so that he is even able to crack a smile if a bunch of kids decides to find inspiration in his work. I think you have been disrespectful yourself. you don't know what was in kling klang's mind when they chose the name for the band. i think they have been respectful. even too much. a bit obedient i would say, in fact they say they want to find a solution to make every party happy. more reasonable than this? and another thing, what you have read is an article, whcih is to say an interpretation of something that the management said to the reporter. it is not an official statement, so maybe the manager is an utter idiot - i do believe so - and have cheson the wrong words. it is not like, kling klang have released a statement and blah blah blah. and as far kraftwerk are concerned, i think they knew about the band and they decided to wait until they gained some sort of notoriety, by like supporting portishead. in fact they are not sueing TUSSLE who have an album called kling klang. why is that? i don't see all this bona fide from them. remember they had the courage to ask 100000 dollars to a college kid cause he had created a fan site about them! and they don't even own the trademark of the word kraftwerk. they own the trademark of the LOGO. it is a different thing indeed. and they are not sueing coldplay because maybe coldplay have the most powerful lawyers and would certainly find a way to strip kraftwerk down. or, more likely, they have received some money from coldplay, out of court, to use the sample. i even doubt kling klang have the money to afford to pay a lawyer to give them advice. sorry if i take it so personally. but it is the old "the big against the tiny" thing. why, for once can't be the tiny to win? Cindy-spellingismyvocation

Oh my god Ian, what is it? Have you got your period? What an acrimony! It is not like Kraftwerk are your relatives. Or are they? I think you have read the article in the wrong way and in the wrong spirit really. First the "paternally gratified" is in theinvetrted commas and to me and anyone who hasn't got pre mestrual syndrome, sounds more like someone who knows his shit so well, know what he ahs done so that he is even able to crack a smile if a bunch of kids decides to find inspiration in his work. I think you have been disrespectful yourself. you don't know what was in kling klang's mind when theyc hose the name for the band. i think they have been resepctful. even too much. a bit obedient i would say, in fact they say they want tof ind a solution to amek every party happy. more reasonable than this? and another thing, what you have read is an artcile, whcih is tosa y an interpretation of something that the management sai to the reporter. it is not an official statement, so maybe the manager is an utter idiot - i do believe so - and have chseon the wrong words. it is not like, kling klang have released a statement and blah blah blah. and as far kraftwerk are concerned, i think they knew about the abnd and they decide to wait until they gained some sort of notoriety, by like supporting portishead. in fact they are not sueing TUSSLE who have an album called kling klang. why is that? i don't see all this bona fide from them. remember they had the courage to ask 100000 dollars to a college kid cause he ahd creatde a fan site about them! and they don't even own the trademark of the word krfatwerk. they own the trademark of the LOGO. it is a different thing indeed. and they are not sueing coldplay beacuse maybe coldplay have the msot powerful alwyers and would certainly find a way to strip kraftwerk down. or, more likely, they have received some money from coldplay, out of court, to use the sample. i even doubt kling klang have the money to afford to pay lawyer to give them advice. sorry if i take it so personally. but it is the old "the big against the tiny" thing. why, for once can't be the tiny to win?

I love Kraftwerk and it is sad as a fan to see them behaving in this silly way. I am not questioning their grandeur really but it is like when they asked that guy 100,000 dollars cause he had registered its site using the word kraftwerk somewhere. I shat in my pants and I changed my nickname on myspace! Yes, I am brave!

Kraftwerk can have a point excuse me? They have registered a certain trademark and then they expect people not to use a different name? I mean why they didn't register "kling klang" but Klingklang"? Because it is illegal to put trademark on common words. I mean, not even Bowie who is utterly greedy has sued the kooks. And what about the dandy warhols! that's even a person's name. Kraftwerk are always sueing poeple to attract attention cause they are not doing anyhthing new these days. That is a bit sad, c'mon! As far as Kling Klang are concerned I think they are superb. Like nothing that is around these days. But I thought they split up years ago...

I really don't understand this reaction from Kraftwerk. A record label or a studio are not the same thing as a recording band! I don't get the problem! I mean it is not like they are using the name kraftwerk to make their albums. It is like the dominos sueing domino records. Or matador sueing the matadors or Interpol actually sueing Interpol. I really really don't get it. Sorry tho cause i really like Kraftwerk. And Kling Klang. I didn't even know they were still around! But it is great news!