Days like this
| Days like this | |
|---|---|
| The dead pants | |
| publication | March 23, 2012 |
| length | 4:28 |
| Genre (s) | Punk , rock |
| text | Campino and Birgit Minichmayr |
| music | Andreas von Holst |
| album | Ballast of the republic |
Days like this is a song by the band Die Toten Hosen . It preceded the album Ballast der Republik as the first single release and was released on March 23, 2012 on the band's own label JKP . The music is by Andreas von Holst , the text was written by Campino in collaboration with Birgit Minichmayr .
Emergence
Andreas von Holst had the Worksong Black Betty inspiration, which he in the 1970s version of the band Ram Jam knew, and from which it of a piece with the working title at home in his basement studio in 2010 a demo version turning circles had taken . However, the band had put the song aside for the time being, as they were neither convinced by the melody nor by Campino could come up with a suitable text. It was only with the help of Birgit Minichmayr in the summer of 2011 that a suitable text and the title days like these emerged . The song was the first to be recorded for the album, which was to be released for the band's 30th anniversary.
When recording the title in the Principal Studios in Senden, Campino took over the vocal part as usual, Michael Breitkopf and Andreas von Holst played the rhythm and melody part on the electric guitar , Andreas Meurer accompanied the bass and Vom Ritchie sat on the drums .
Music and lyrics
The text describes the collective feeling of happiness when celebrating with music from a first-person perspective .
The almost four and a half minute song follows the classification: intro , first and second verse, first chorus , third verse, second and third chorus followed by an outro . A simple riff in D major , performed by Andreas von Holst , introduces the song with a few bars and accompanies the melody part, sung by Campino in all verses. In the second verse the drums kick in, played by Vom Ritchie . The electric bass and the second electric guitar , played by Andreas Meurer and Michael Breitkopf , can only be heard from the first chorus.
The first part of the song, which consists of two stanzas, describes the anticipation and the meeting with the friend or acquaintance at the agreed point. They make their way to the venue, which is located in Düsseldorf , because according to the original text they pave their way "along the streets, to the Rhine terraces over the bridges, to the music."
This is followed by the chorus of all band members in the first chorus: “On days like these, you wish for infinity. On days like these we still have forever. I wish for infinity. "
The third verse is about not wanting to stop swimming and diving in the crowd, but also about protecting one another. At the point it says: “Come on, I'll carry you through the people. Do not be afraid, I'll take care of you. "
The following second and third chorus was supplemented with the sentence “On this night of nights, which promises so much to us, we experience the best, no end is in sight”, the last part of which forms the end of the song in multiple repetitions.
Publications
song
Days like this was first released as a maxi CD on March 23, 2012. The single contained three more pieces of music: Champions League (text and music: Campino and Funny van Dannen ), Du missst (text: Campino; music by Andreas Meurer) and What is Berlin doing? (Text: Campino; Music: Michael Breitkopf). The cover shows a photo by Andreas Gursky with the title May Day III , taken at the techno party of the same name in 1998. The song Days Like This also appeared on the album Ballast der Republik on May 4, 2012; a live version is on the album Der Krach der Republik , which was released on November 22, 2013. Another variant of the song, performed by Campino, accompanied by Andreas von Holst on acoustic guitar, appeared on the album Alles ohne Strom in October 2019.
A version of the song in Spanish, entitled Días Como Estos , was released for download in August 2012. The text is written Sebastián Teysera by the band La Vela Puerca from Uruguay . A live version of the song is included on the DVD Noches como Estas - Live in Buenos Aires .
Music video
A music video for days like this was created under the direction of Joern Heitmann . It is about a group of 20 to 30 year old men and women who meet to spray graffiti together . The scene is repeatedly interrupted by recordings from the studio, live performances by the band and fans of the Bundesliga club Fortuna Düsseldorf .
Cover versions
Cover versions of the song were released in 2014 on the album Nah bei dir by Adoro , in 2015 on the album Infinite by Scala & Kolacny Brothers and in 2018 on the album … and bye by Heino . Helene Fischer covered the song on her 2013 summer tour.
Another version was created in 2015 by the Swiss right-wing rock band Amok . Since Amok partially replaced the text with right-wing extremist passages, the band Die Toten Hosen filed an injunction.
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The single reached number one in the charts in Germany, number five in Austria and number four in Switzerland. In addition to the single charts, the piece also reached the top position of the German airplay charts for three weeks . In 2012 it was awarded two platinum records in Switzerland, one platinum record in Austria and three times platinum in Germany in 2019. At the 2013 Echo Awards , the song was named "Hit of the Year 2012". In addition, the band received the German Music Author Award 2013 in the category “Most Successful Work” for the piece of music .
The German national soccer team chose days like these as the “most popular song to get in the mood for the 2012 European Championship games ”. The ARD radio backed excerpts from the live radio reports from the preliminary round matches with the piece of music. According to a Forsa survey , days like these were the most popular song among German business travelers in 2012. The Rheinische Post chose days like this as the “song of summer”. It delivers the "soundtrack to the collective exhilaration". It is suitable for “sounding at public festivals as well as for celebrating a victory at the European Football Championship”. In the listener hit parade The Greatest Hits of All Time, which was played by SWR1 , reached fourth place out of 2000 music tracks on days like this .
Editor Jens Bauszus from Focus -Online states that days like these are typical for Die Toten Hosen despite “its slowly building up guitar wall and the melodic chorus […]”. The “nostalgic hymn to the euphoria before a performance” stands “perfect for its change over time”.
On the evening of the 2013 federal election , the leading politicians of the CDU celebrated their election victory, danced, clapped and sang in public to the song Days like this . The band Die Toten Hosen, who had already distanced themselves from using their song for political purposes during the election campaign, reacted with ridicule. A few days after the election ceremony, Angela Merkel apologized by phone to Campino for her party's appearance.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philipp Oehmke : Die Toten Hosen - In the beginning there was noise . Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-498-07379-4 , pp. 91-92.
- ↑ Philipp Oehmke: Die Toten Hosen - In the beginning there was noise . Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-498-07379-4 , p. 108.
- ↑ a b c d Die Toten Hosen: Die Toten Hosen - Until the bitter end - The songbook with all lyrics and all songs . Bosworth 2012, ISBN 978-3-86543-735-8 , p. 284.
- ↑ “Días Como Estos” the Spanish version of “Days like this”. Die Toten Hosen, August 15, 2012, archived from the original on November 22, 2012 ; accessed on February 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Schütz: Explanation of a Phenomenon. Augsburger Allgemeine, June 24, 2013, accessed November 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Matthias Lohr: Helene Fischer is the queen of hearts. HNA, June 14, 2013, accessed November 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Campino sues Swiss neo-Nazi band. 20min.ch, accessed on August 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Airplay Charts Germany: Week 20/2012. germancharts.de, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
- ^ Swiss charts for precious metals
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen "days like this" in the IFPI database DE AT CH
- ↑ Music industry database - search query required
- ^ The winners of the German Music Author Award 2013. www.musikautorenpreis.de, April 26, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Number one for the national team. WDR 2 , June 21, 2012, archived from the original on June 24, 2012 ; Retrieved October 27, 2013 .
- ↑ In 2012 business travelers enjoyed hearing the Toten Hosen. Hamburger Abendblatt , December 20, 2012, accessed on February 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Philipp Holstein: Germany has a new folk song. RP-Online , May 30, 2012, accessed February 22, 2015 .
- ↑ 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is the new number 1. SWR1 , October 24, 2013, accessed on October 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Jens Bauszus: Record review: Die Toten Hosen - 'Ballast der Republik'. Focus -Online, May 6, 2012, accessed February 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Elisabeth Niejahr : Moments of the year - flags, kisses, stinky fingers. Die Zeit , December 27, 2013, accessed on March 2, 2019 .
- ^ Dpa : Song at CDU party: Now the dead pants are mocking. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , September 24, 2013, accessed on March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ dpa: Merkel apologizes to Tote-Hosen singer Campino. Welt , November 16, 2014, accessed March 2, 2019 .