Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen

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Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen
Studio album by Die Toten Hosen
Cover

Publication
(s)

July 13, 1987

Label (s) Virgin records

Format (s)

LP, CD, MC

Genre (s)

Punk rock

Title (number)

13

running time

35:06

occupation
  • Electric guitar:

production

The dead pants

Studio (s)

Airport-Studio, Cologne

chronology
Ladies Choice
(1986) 		Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen Until the Bitter End
(1987)

Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen is an album by the band Die Toten Hosen , which they released in 1987 on Virgin Records under the pseudonym "Die Roten Rosen". The album only contains "rocky" cover versions of German hits .

Design of cover and booklet

Cover of the Sex Pistols album from 1977.

The transformation from “dead” to “red” and from “trousers” to “roses” was consistently carried out: the label “ToT 69” became a “ROT 69” and was produced for “Rosenkopf”. The title of the album and the design of the cover is a pastiche on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols , an LP by the punk band Sex Pistols from 1977.

The band members were also given new names. Vid Sicious (based on Sid Vicious ) plays the bass, the electric guitars are played by Rüdiger and Digger Barnes (a character from the Dallas series ), the cherry water king Münchhausen drums and Judas Inocenti sings.

A picture in the booklet shows the band in the cemetery at an open grave. The ribbon on the funeral wreath bears the inscription “In a silent memory of the German Schlager”.

Emergence

The album was born out of the spontaneous idea to satirize old hits and was recorded within ten days in the airport studio in Cologne-Porz for a production cost of only DM 5,000. The original texts have not been changed. “We wanted to bring out the absurd, surreal and sometimes even evil in the songs. The German hit was sometimes not as harmless as it was, ”recalls Michael Breitkopf in 2007 in an interview with Jan Weiler . The melodies and chords of the original songs were also taken over unchanged, but they were played much faster and more energetically. "[...] we wanted to show that the difference between philistine bourgeoisie and punk is sometimes just a question of rhythm," Campino commented in an interview with the specialist journal Musikmagazin in December 1987. Virgin Schallplatten initially showed little willingness to publish the recordings, but gave on the condition that the whole thing not count as a regular album in terms of the contract with the band.

Track list

Since all titles are cover versions, the original artist is noted in brackets.

  1. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini - 1:54 (from Club Honolulu )
  2. All girls want to kiss - 1:26 (by Leo Leandros )
  3. In the car in front of me - 3:28 guest singer: Monique Maasen from Asmodi Bizarr (from Henry Valentino and Uschi .)
  4. I do everything for Gaby - 2:29 (by Gerd Böttcher )
  5. We - 3:36 (by Freddy Quinn )
  6. And that's what you call love - 2:27 (by Sandie Shaw )
  7. No Gnadenbrot - 3:40 (by Das Bachner-Duo , music and text: Kuntze, / Peter Igelhoff / Fink)
  8. Halbstark - 2:26 (by The Yankees )
  9. The sauerkraut polka - 1:50 (by Gus Backus )
  10. When you're alone - 2:29 (by Manfred Schnelldorfer )
  11. Two girls from Germany - 2:14 (by Paul Anka )
  12. My hobby are the girls - 2:53 (from The Germans )
  13. Medley (Cinderella Baby / Tyrolean hat / The elevator upstairs is occupied / Beautiful Maid / Mama / Adelheid / The old chief spoke / It's nice to be in the world) - 4:14
    (by Drafi Deutscher , Billy Mo , Hazy Osterwald Sextett , Tony Marshall , Heintje , Billy Mo, Gus Backus , Anita and Roy Black )

Singles and music videos

As a 7-inch vinyl record, it was initially released in 1987 in the car in front of me with Halbstark as the B-side. In the same year all girls want to kiss appeared as single. For the music titles Liebesspieler and Opel-Gang in country music style on the B-side, the band, contrary to the album, interpreted their own tracks in a hit version. In addition, the song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini was released as a single for the English market , which contained the English version of the piece as the B-side.

A music video for Im Wagen vor mir was filmed on September 24, 1987 for the Formula One program, hosted by Stefanie Tücking . Two old cars were lined up one behind the other in the studio, the band sat in one, and guest singer Monique Maasen sat in the car in front of it. More music videos can be seen in the documentation 3 chords for an alleluia . The band is playing hard in a pedestrian zone and the song Wir on a staircase in front of a construction site.

resonance

The album was the first chart success for Die Toten Hosen. It rose to number 27 on August 31, 1987, reached number 21 as the highest rating and was in the German charts for 13 weeks. The band was also awarded a gold record .

Andreas Hub from the specialist journal Musikmagazin stated in December 1987: "Crazy enough - and that fits the madness of this band again - that they make the big hit with a record on which they actually do not appear."

New edition 2007

For the band's 25th anniversary, the album Never Mind the Hosen - Here's Die rote Rosen was reissued, a new booklet was added and additional titles were added, including the English version of Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini . As a guest musician, Hans Steingen accompanies the band in Schade um die Rosen on the organ and in I stand at the bar and have no money with the accordion.

Additional title

  1. Motorbiene - 1:59 (by Peter Kraus )
  2. If only you had stayed in Düsseldorf - 2:22 (from Dorthe )
  3. A shame about the roses - 2:22 (Niessen)
  4. I'm standing at the bar and have no money - 2:05 (from Bobbejaan )
  5. Popocatepetl-Twist - 1:41 ( Caterina Valente and Silvio Francesco )
  6. 1000 Taler - 1:40 (text and music: Campino, Hanns Christian Müller )
  7. Baby you shouldn't cry - 3:28 (Campino, Müller)
  8. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - 2:08 English Version (Original by Brian Hyland )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bertram Job : Until the Bitter End ... Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, pp. 166–167.
  2. ↑ a b Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies… Die Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens to 1982-2007 . Booklet for the new edition 2007, episode 4: Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen .
  3. ↑ Andreas Hub: Die Toten Hosen - Merry Christmas! in Fachblatt Musikmagazin , December 1987 issue, p. 11.
  4. ↑ Interview with Monique Maasen, guest singer with the Rote Rosen. Die Toten Hosen, November 2001, archived from the original on June 25, 2013 ; Retrieved October 25, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Our productions for Ariola. Kuntze-Music, accessed on May 4, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , p. 90.
  7. ↑ Red Roses - Itsy Bitsy Teen Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini. Discogs , accessed August 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Fryderyk Gabowicz : Die Toten Hosen. Live backstage studio: photographs 1986–2006. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-732-8 , pages 12-13.
  9. ↑ Hollow Skai: The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , pp. 87-88.
  10. ↑ Music industry database - search query required
  11. ↑ Andreas Hub: Die Toten Hosen - Merry Christmas! in Fachblatt Musikmagazin , December 1987 edition, pp. 10-13.

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