Bavaria (Die-Toten-Hosen-Lied)
| Bavaria | |
|---|---|
| The dead pants | |
| publication | December 6, 1999 |
| length | 4:16 (album version) 4:19 (single version) |
| Genre (s) | Punk rock , rock music |
| text | Campino , Funny van Dannen |
| music | Campino, van Dannen |
| Label | JKP |
| album | Immortal |
Bayern is a song by the band Die Toten Hosen and was first released on the album Immortal on December 6, 1999. The band re-recorded the track and released it as a Tipp-Kick version in 2000 as a single. Text and music are a collaboration between Campino and Funny van Dannen .
Text and music
The song has the character of a hymn. In terms of content, it is an anti- FC Bayern Munich song. A few lines of the song read: “So much can happen. So much can happen. There is only one thing I know for sure: I would never go to Bayern in my life. ” Real Madrid and Manchester United are also mentioned in the text, as is Uli Hoeneß, who has been president of Bayern Munich for many years.
In the creation of the song, Campino took over the lead vocals. The electric guitars played Michael Breitkopf and Andreas von Holst , the latter also played the acoustic guitar one. Andreas Meurer played the electric bass and Wolfgang Rohde played the drums .
Bayern's intro plays an acoustic guitar that accompanies the singing with broken chords until the middle of the first verse . Then an electric bass and a slightly distorted electric guitar kick in. In the chorus one encounters hammered eighth notes and power chords typical for the style of the band . From the second verse a clearly played electric guitar takes up the motif of the acoustic guitar again, plus the drums and another guitar, which give the song the full rock sound .
Publications
song
The single for the Tipp-Kick version by Bavaria from 2000 contains the following additional titles:
- Let off steam - 2:24 ( Fred Weyrich , cover by Gert Fröbe )
- You'll Never Walk Alone - 2:36 (Cover by Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein )
- Hang On Sloopy - 2:30 ( Wes Farrell , Bert Russell , cover of The McCoys )
The Tipp-Kick version was released one more time on the album Reich & sexy II in 2002 and the sampler All all the years in 2011. A live version of the piece Bayern appeared on the album Machmalauter Live in 2009.
Music video
The music video was directed by Peter Thorwarth . It was created during a friendly game between the band members and fans on the Ascheplatz of Alemannia 08 in Düsseldorf-Flingern . After the soccer game, the band Die Toten Hosen will be shown. At the end of the film you can see a person from behind looking at the VHS tape of the music video. This person, who is supposed to represent Uli Hoeneß, expresses a quote from Hoeneß about the song: "This is the dirt that our society will eventually suffocate on."
When Campino , the band's front man, congratulated Hoeneß on his 60th birthday in 2012, he added that music sales had declined in southern Germany since the song was released, and that they had not stabilized by then.
resonance
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The single stayed in the German charts for 14 weeks and reached number 8. In Switzerland, it stayed in the charts for 9 weeks and reached no more than number 18.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung saw the humoresque in the song and on December 18, 1999 awarded it the “muse kiss of the week”. The Yeti Girls, on the other hand, covered the song and changed the original text line: “I would never go to FC Bayern Munich!” To “We would never go to the Toten Hosen!” They made the “Anti-Hosen title” available for download on their homepage to disposal.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel, Martin Wolf: Loosely out of the stomach . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1999 ( online ).
- ↑ a b Die Toten Hosen, adaptation by Hans Steingen: Reich & sexy II - The fat years. (Songbook) Bosworth Berlin, ISBN 3-937041-45-1 , pp. 80-83.
- ↑ Video shoot for 'Bavaria'. (No longer available online.) Die Toten Hosen, March 11, 2000, archived from the original on July 1, 2012 ; accessed on May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Campino wants reconciliation with Uli Hoeneß. May 9, 2011, accessed May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Bundesliga - Bad congratulations to Hoeneß . In: Yahoo Sport Deutschland , January 5, 2012. Accessed August 29, 2013.
- ↑ Albums and Singles . musicline.de; accessed on May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Discography Die Toten Hosen . austriancharts.at; accessed on May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Discography Die Toten Hosen . hitparade.ch; accessed on December 31, 2010.
- ↑ Fok: Kiss of the Muses of the Week, quoted by Die Toten Hosen, in: 'All the whole years - press archive'. (No longer available online.) Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 18, 1999, archived from the original on November 25, 2010 ; accessed on May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Yeti Girls: Internet parody of Die Toten Hosen at laut.de ; Retrieved August 8, 2000