[Kraftwerk] Kraftwerk and (POST) punk

Oystein Moe wrote:

Plus, we know that Kraftwerk liked "punk godfathers" Stooges and the "punk on synth" of Suicide...

Kraftwerk liked Suicide or Suicide liked Kraftwerk? Kraftwerk were in fact contemporary of Suicide, and both bands have influenced reciprocally for equal, IMHO.

OMD frontman Andy McCluskey specified that their debut single "Electricity" was a Kwk tribute (in a Record Collector interview, IIRC), and they also used to call themselves VCL11, an anorak's detail from the back cover of Radioaktivität.

Not VCL11 but VCL XI, which later did become an OMD song. DER AUTOMAT