After their splitting up, Blumfeld received a number of critical acclaims. Christof Meueler of "Junge Welt" listed Blumfeld among the "great German protest bands" like Ton Steine Scherben and Fehlfarben. "Die Welt" praised Blumfeld as "one of the most influential German pop bands of the recent years" that quickly became successful with their "square-edged, vigorous music and the wilful and political lyrics", but "never let themselves be pigeonholed either". With songs like "Graue Wolken" Clouds, "Diktatur der Angepassten" of the Conformists or "Krankheit als Weg" as a Way "Distelmeyer had, according to critics, created pieces of art that go far beyond quickly-consumed pop songs." Writing for "Freitag", Ingar Solty called Blumfeld the "leftist-intellectuals of rock music in Germany" and attributed "an expressionistical-poetical language that will permanently stay out of touch in pop culture" to Distelmeyer. "Jungle World" wrote on Blumfeld's turn toward a broader audience that Blumfeld were in fact exceptional because no other band "would have been taken for serious any longer if they suddenly had started playing Schlager music."