Buy me!

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Buy me!
Studio album by Die Toten Hosen
Cover

Publication
(s)

May 10, 1993

Label (s) DEAD, Virgin

Format (s)

CD, LP, MC

Genre (s)

Punk rock

Title (number)

16

running time

54:01

occupation
  • Electric guitar:
  • Mosquito Children's Choir, Meerbusch in Make a wish

production

Jon Caffery

Studio (s)

Studio Dierks, Stommeln

chronology
Learning English Lesson One
(1991) 		Buy me! Rich & Sexy
(1993)

Buy me! is the eighth studio album by the rock band Die Toten Hosen . It was produced by Jon Caffery and first published on May 10, 1993 by Virgin Schallplatten GmbH .

Buy me! contains, after the previous album Learning English Lesson One , again exclusively the band's own compositions in German and reached first place in the German charts as the band's second album, after Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück from 1990. Cover design, title song and satirical commercials that are woven between the music tracks give the album a basic concept that relates to advertising and consumption . Further topics from the field of sociology are included . In addition to the song Sascha… an upright German , which was already successful as a single at Christmas 1992, another piece of music, Willkommen in Deutschland , appears on the album as a statement by the band against right-wing extremism in Germany.

Design of cover and booklet

The title of the album Kauf MICH! Is written in orange letters on the black outer sleeve of the CD . underneath in white capital letters the name of the band; on the back is large and the order number is printed in the middle. On the back of the CD case , above the title of the album, there is the small inscription: “Only real with this symbol” in connection with the band's emblem , the “Bone Eagle”. The packaging is marked with a green dot , but this has been renamed the dead point and is black in color. The design of the cover, for which Johann Zambryski and the Hosen Cover-AG are responsible, is, according to the band: "[...] our statement about the advertising society itself and especially the thinking of the music industry." The 14-page booklet to the album Contains all the texts and black and white photos of the band members, taken by the Hamburg photographer GABO .

Emergence

Die Toten Hosen were playing at the time of recording for the album Kauf MICH! in the formation Andreas von Holst and Michael Breitkopf on the electric guitars , Andreas Meurer on the electric bass and Wolfgang Rohde on the drums. They were mainly responsible for the compositions , while Campino , singer and front man of the band wrote most of the lyrics.

Hanns Christian Müller , who has been the band's advisor and friend since 1986, shot the comedy Long Saturday in 1992 with Campino in one of the leading roles. In return, Müller produced for the album Kauf MICH! three commercials that were recorded in his recording studio in Gallenbach, Bavaria. In addition, Müller worked on the text of the songs Kauf MICH! , Under, on & over and conscience with. The song Sascha… an upright German , in whose creation Müller was also involved, was released at Christmas 1992 as a benefit single for the Düsseldorf appeal against xenophobia and racism . The songs Hot-Clip-Video-Club and Wünsch DIR was were performed by the band in front of 11,000 people during the People, Animals, Sensations Tour in 1992, including on the Loreley open-air stage .

All tracks for the album Kauf MICH! were recorded and mixed from February to April 1993 under the direction of Jon Caffery in the studio of Dieter Dierks in Stommeln .

Texts and title list

Track list
  1. No exchange! - 2:18
    (music: Wolfgang Rohde / text: Campino )
  2. Never agree - 3:44 (Campino)
  3. Hot-Clip-Video-Club - 4:01 (Rohde / Campino)
  4. Welcome to Germany - 3:56
    ( Michael Breitkopf / Campino)
  5. Under, On & Over - 3:02
    (Campino, Hanns Christian Müller , W. Thal / Campino, Müller)
  6. Erotim-Super-3-humid - 0:31 (Sketch, Müller)
  7. Buy me! - 3:30 (Breitkopf / Campino, Müller)
  8. The Homolka chainsaw - 0:36 (Sketch, Müller)
  9. Sascha ... an upright German - 2:34
    (Campino, Müller)
  10. Conscience - 2:41 (Breitkopf / Campino, Müller)
  11. Have a good trip - 5:04 (from Holst / Campino)
  12. All for love - 4:34 (Campino)
  13. Make a wish - 4:15 ( Andreas Meurer / Campino)
  14. My greatest enemy - 3:08 (from Holst / Campino)
  15. Rambo Dance - 4:09 (Meurer / Campino)
  16. Disaster Command - 4:30 (from Holst / Campino)
  17. The last day - 3:28 (Meurer / Campino) Hidden Track

As in most of the group's previous productions, the lyrics to the album were mainly written by Campino. They are almost always written from a first-person perspective and in colloquial language. They are structured according to the verse-refrain scheme, with the lines usually rhyming at the end in the cross . The concept of the album is the theme of consumption and advertising, but other themes are also included.

Producer Jon Caffery speaks the introduction to the album. He thanks TOT Totenkopf GmbH & Co. KG for purchasing the product from their house with the addition: "For risks and side effects, please ask your neighbor or landlord." This is followed by a significantly increased volume of the quick punk rock song exchange excluded , which is linked to it in terms of text: "We are always up to date in technology and design, true to our company's motto: 'The customer should be king'."

Two satirical commercials, before and after the song Kauf MICH! are inserted in the middle of the album. The clips around a condom named Erotim-Super-3-feucht and a so-called Homolka chainsaw were spoken by Uli Björklund, Wolf Brannaski, Reiner Buck, Fips Müller, Gerhard Polt and Gisela Schneeberger . Another short advertising clip Germania Sprachstudio - and every German becomes your friend was inserted before Sascha ... an upright German . The lyrical me in the title song Buy ME! extols himself using word creations and superlatives from advertising: “I am your new car, your sexy body spray, your everyday happy pill, if you have me, you are OK. I am your fresh breath, I am 100 percent taste. I am the great freedom in the Spar-Fix-Power-Pack. "

In the Hot-Clip-Video-Club someone asks about violent videos and child porn , which are sold there “under the counter” . The text says: “I want to look death straight in the eyes from the front row. I get goose bumps when I scream for help and are full of conviction. If there’s the stuff for my dreams, I’ll pay any price for this thrill. ”In the song Drunter, drauf und Abber it is regretted that in times of gonorrhea , AIDS and syphilis, unprotected sex is no longer possible.

The text in the music title Wünsch Dir was deals ironically with faith and religion. In the song with the title Conscience, the personified conscience warns : "On your last day I will catch up with you, take you tightly in my grip, then you will no longer get past me and I will show you the real you." My greatest enemy goes it is about lack of self-esteem and doubt. Gute Reise is about an inexpensive short trip to paradise. The last sentence of the lyrics says: "But everyone who has ever been here will be punished for it, only lives for the longing for this fairy-tale land."

Never an opinion is about two people who are constantly arguing, but still cannot let go of each other. In the course of the song Alles aus Liebe , a partner who is madly in love ends the relationship violently. At the end of the track, three shots can be heard depicting the murder of the partner and the subsequent suicide .

The introduction to Rambo-Dance speaks Tom Gerhardt in the role of the character he invented, the proletarian Tommie , who wants to attend a concert by the band Die Toten Hosen. With disaster command the band Die Toten Hosen describes himself as a cheerful tolerant group in a celebratory mood.

While the band takes a satirical look at the topic of xenophobia in the mocking song Sascha ... an upright German , they seriously deal with the same topic in Willkommen in Deutschland . There it says: "It is also my home, even if it is a coincidence and at some point it also falls back on me when a person from another country can no longer live here without fear."

The last day is attached to the last track on this album as a hidden track after a long break and begins with a scream.

music

The first bars of the guitar in the intro from Never one opinion audio sample ? / iAudio file / audio sample

The music titles are only written in 4/4 time. It is dominated by the usual in rock music, reduced to narrow pitch melodies and a fast, continuous eighth note rhythm. Campino is the front singer in all pieces, the chorus in the chorus is usually sung by all band members together. The instruments commonly used in rock music: electric guitar , electric bass and drums are used. An acoustic guitar accompanies almost all of the songs . In the quiet music title Mein große Feind the drums are dispensed with and the vocals are exclusively accompanied by the acoustic guitar. In the song Conscience , Wolfgang Rohde beats rhythmically on iron plates.

In Kauf MICH's solo , Andreas von Holst modulates his electric guitar with a talk box , creating a sound that the musician Peter Frampton made popular in the 1970s.

The spoken introduction of the first music track cannot be exchanged! is electronically generated Easy Listening deposited -Music. Bon Voyage starts recording the adhan of a muezzin from a minaret from. A sitar guitar played by Andreas von Holst can be heard in the stanzas . Before Wünsch DIR was , the Mosquito Children's Choir of the Music School in Meerbusch sings the hymn-like refrain of the song a cappella .

All other pieces begin with a simple melody or a guitar riff, which is played over and over again in the verses or can be recognized in the chorus.

Publications

Singles

In the summer of 1993 the title Wünsch DIR was released as a single. The cover shows the caricature of a boy in shorts with a pump gun in his right hand. He stands in a victory pose with legs apart over a person lying on the ground, of whom only the trousers and shoes can be seen from below. The single also contained the previously unreleased pieces War and Peace , In the Name of the Lord and True Love .

The single Alles aus Liebe was released at the end of 1993 with two new songs On the Way to No. One and 5 Minutes on the B-side . The cover shows a comic drawing. A woman in a red dress with an angry expression on her face is furiously beating her partner. She wears the “bone eagle” as a thigh tattoo . The English language version of the song entitled All for the Sake of Love was released by the band in 1994 on the album Love, Peace & Money . Campino and guest singer Marina Casariego from the band Marousse sang the song in French in a duet under the title Tout pour sauver l'amour , which was first released in 1995 as a promo single in small numbers and in 2002 on the compilation Reich & sexy II appeared. The band Ich Troje covered the song in 1999 under the title A Wszystko to bo Ciebie Kocham in Polish and released the song both as a single and on their album No Limits .

Cover of the single Kauf MICH!

Shortly after the release of the best-of album, Reich & sexy , the band set up a telephone hotline under the motto: “For DM 1.15 per minute, the Toten Hosen on the REICH & SEXY PHONE now give you the chance to become a record star to become “among the people. A selection, with a running time of 20 minutes, of the calls received there, partly wild insults, appeared in 1994 under the heading The hot wire on the B-side of the single Kauf MICH! . In addition, the single contains a new band composition Help and a cover version of the song I Fought the Law by The Crickets . The single is labeled Kauf MICH Ultra and has the subtitle: Even better, even louder, even whiter! Mistake. The design of the cover is based on the advertisement for a detergent.

Music videos

Roller coaster on Coney Island , location for the video for Make a Wish

The black and white clip by Hans Neleman for the song Wünsch Dir was from 1993 was filmed in the amusement park on Coney Island , New York and shows various local circus people who present their "extraordinary talents" and the band members while riding on a decrepit roller coaster . The video for Alles aus Liebe , directed by Hans Neleman, was recorded within two and a half hours in an empty old apartment and looks like a film that is viewed through a black and white television screen, with the image occasionally scrolling through. Actors are the band members who play their instruments in the stairwell and a photo model hired for a short time by the agency who moves erotically to the music, sometimes in front of a wall, sometimes with Campino in front of the window, in the stairwell or in the front door. A couple of handcuffs, a revolver, and a bouquet of dried flowers are the only props in this clip.

In the music video for Kauf MICH! , which was presented in 1994, Neleman wanted to capture the contrast of the concerts in 1993, in which the band appeared on the one hand under the pseudonym "Katastrophen Kommando" in clubs and living rooms in front of a manageable audience and on the other hand as the opening act for U2 in stadiums from to played to 60,000 people. There are recordings from the event on the Cannstatter Wasen on June 6, 1993, combined with pictures from the backstage area and the band's aftershow party in a bar in Stuttgart; In addition, one sees recordings of the concert in the Markthalle Hamburg on June 7, 1993, interrupted by snapshots from the Reeperbahn , recognizable by the spreading woman's thighs at the entrance to the trendy bar “ Zur Ritze ”.

New edition 2007

For the 25th anniversary of the band, the album Kauf MICH! remastered. The new edition contains a new, second booklet, written by Jan Weiler with explanations of current affairs in 1992 and an interview with the band from 2007. In the newly released album Kauf MICH! The song The Last Day is not hidden, but inserted as track No. 17 without a long pause. In addition, the album contains most of the B-sides of the singles Wünsch DIR was , Alles aus Liebe and a further six-minute selection of calls to the action The Hot Wire :

  1. War and Peace - 5:00 am (Meurer / Campino)
  2. In the Name of the Lord - 2:02 (Campino)
  3. On the way to number 1 - 4:00 (Rohde / Campino)
  4. 5 minutes - 3:01 (from Holst / Campino)
  5. Help - 3:22 (from Holst / Campino)
  6. The Hot Line (Best Of) - 6:10

tour

Entry ticket to the 1994 tour

The rich & sexy - buy ME! The tour began on March 19, 1994 in the Triftbachhalle in Zermatt . This was followed by 25 concerts in Germany and Switzerland by the end of June. On June 17th the band performed in the amphitheater in Istanbul . In the summer months, the festival appearances at the Donauinselfest in Vienna , the Schüttorf Open Air in Bad Bentheim , the “Out in the green Festival” in Winterthur , the “ MTV Football Challenge” in Amsterdam and the Hultsfredfestival in Hultsfred (Sweden) followed. On September 28th, the band played at L'Arapaho in Paris . On October 7, 1994 the band traveled to Buenos Aires and performed at the Obras Sanitarias. In November she gave another seven concerts in German cities. At the end of November she played in Toronto at the Coliseum , in Montreal at the Verdun Auditorium , in Philadelphia at the Civic Center and in Hempstead (New York) at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum as opening act for Green Day . After a club tour through Scotland and England, the concert tour ended on December 21, 1994 in the city theater of Sittard in the Netherlands.

resonance

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Buy me!
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/17/1993 (63 weeks)
  AT 9 06/06/1993 (16 weeks)
  CH 5 05/23/1993 (21 weeks)
Singles
Make a wish
  DE 28 06/28/1993 (10 weeks)
  CH 26th 05/30/1993 (6 weeks)
All out of love
  DE 29 02/21/1994 (13 weeks)
  CH 37 03/06/1994 (5 weeks)
Buy me!
  DE 34 05/09/1994 (8 weeks)

Chart successes and awards

Buy me! was the group's second album after Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück , which was listed at number one in the German music charts . In Austria it reached number nine and in Switzerland number five on the charts. It was awarded a gold and a platinum record in Germany in 1994 . Until 2006 the album was awarded gold in Austria.

Press

Jörg Schulz from Rock Hard wrote in July 1993 that "Die Toten Hosen have earned their absolution in the German-speaking music and commercial trade". Thematically, the album is "wide-ranging". The music is "of course HOSEN-typical with lots of good melodies, with a pastiche of American rock 'n' roll understanding (Rambo dance) and German unculture (Sasha) anyway". He describes the advertising copy as "simply strong". Schulz also wrote of a “pampering package for the ears”, to which he distributed 100 percent of the points that the magazine awards internally. The editor-in-chief of the magazine, Götz Kühnemund , adds in an interview with the band that he considers the title Willkommen in Deutschland to be "even more successful" than Sascha ... an upright German because it "goes beyond blatant slogans against right-wing radicalism" , a statement that he did not expect from "Hosen" in this form.

The reviewer in the magazine Musikexpress , in the June 1993 issue, was of the opinion that the band was interested in Kauf MICH! Would "save dignified in their third decade". “From every bar they exuded the full feeling of life of a band that is old enough to play really good German rock music, but that is young enough” to “let it crash mercilessly at the right moment”.

In an article in the music magazine Zillo from May 1993, Markus Hartmann considers the album to be a “stroke of genius”, “ Buy ME! pants are at their best, ”he remarked. It is “grown-up notes from a band that has cultivated wildness, that has not only made the word punk socially acceptable. The band members have developed personally. ”Campino's lyrics are“ no longer blunt drinking hymns ”, the album even includes“ everything out of love ”,“ even a real punk ”. In his band biography from 2007, Hollow Skai describes the album as a "concept album that has been ripped off badly at times".

Martin Groß wrote in June 1993 in the magazine Metal Hammer that buying ME! "Boy Scout Lyrik" was largely avoided, "another trick is less Schrodelpunk, but instead - more musical refinements for pants". Groß considers it “probably her most mature record to date”.

literature

  • Andrea Müller: Die Toten Hosen. Punk rock made in Germany . Econ, 2nd edition, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-612-12006-9 .
  • Bertram Job : Until the bitter end ... Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-462-02532-5 .
  • Die Toten Hosen, adaptation by Hans Steingen : Reich & sexy II - The fat years. (Songbook) Bosworth, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937041-45-1 .
  • Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 .
  • Kai Jessen: Forever Punk , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12889-3 .
  • Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies ... Die Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens to 1982–2007 . Booklet for the new edition 2007, part 9: Buy ME! .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hollow Skai : Die Toten Hosen. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 . P. 95.
  2. ^ Quotation: Andreas Meurer in conversation with Markus Hartmann in Zillo , May 1993 edition, pp. 15-17.
  3. ↑ Bertram Job : Until the Bitter End ... Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, p. 217.
  4. ↑ a b Booklet for the album Kauf MICH!
  5. ↑ Markus Hartmann: Die Toten Hosen - Live on the Loreley in Zillo , October 1992 edition.
  6. ↑ a b Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies… Die Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens to 1982-2007 . Booklet for the new edition 2007, part 9: Buy ME! .
  7. ↑ Questions to DTH - Part 11 with Campino. (No longer available online.) Die Toten Hosen, February 6, 2004, archived from the original on October 22, 2013 ; accessed on March 25, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Questions to DTH - Part 44 with Andreas von Holst. (No longer available online.) Die Toten Hosen, September 21, 2007, archived from the original on October 22, 2013 ; accessed on March 25, 2018 .
  9. ^ Die Toten Hosen, adaptation by Hans Steingen : Reich & sexy II - The fat years. (Songbook) Bosworth Berlin, ISBN 3-937041-45-1 , pp. 76-79.
  10. ↑ a b Hilko Meyer and Jin Choi: Die Jungs from page 3. Fachblatt Musikmagazin , July 1993 edition.
  11. ↑ Thomas Klie : Opium fürs Volk - Promised dream time in the fun punk of the Toten Hosen. (No longer available online.) Loccumer Pelikan, Religious Education Magazine for Schools and Congregations, January 1997, pp. 24–27 , archived from the original on December 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 21, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Alles aus Liebe interpreted by the band Ich Troje. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 19, 2015 ; accessed on March 25, 2018 .
  13. ^ Poster for the Reich & sexy tour , 1994.
  14. ↑ Fryderyk Gabowicz : Die Toten Hosen. Live backstage studio: photographs 1986–2006 . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-732-8 , pages 120–121.
  15. ↑ a b DVD, Die Toten Hosen: Reich & sexy II - their most successful videos , 2002, comments by the band.
  16. ↑ Martina Wimmer: Die Toten Hosen Germany in Musikexpress , Issue 6, June 1994, pp. 30–31.
  17. ↑ Tour data archive. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
  19. ↑ Music industry database - search query required
  20. ↑ Die Toten Hosen “Buy me!” In the IFPI database DE AT CH
  21. ↑ Rock Hard , No. 74, July 1993.
  22. ↑ Rock Hard, No. 75, August 1993.
  23. ↑ pw: bestseller. In Musikexpress, June 1993 edition, page 74.
  24. ↑ Markus Hartmann: Die Toten Hosen - Buy ME! in Zillo, May 1993 edition, pp. 15-17.
  25. ↑ Martin Groß: Die toten Hosen - Buy me! Metal Hammer , July 1, 1993, p. 58 , accessed January 20, 2013 .

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