Long ago evaporated
| Long ago evaporated | |
|---|---|
| BAP | |
| publication | October 1981 (single) October 12, 1981 (album) |
| length | 5:45 |
| Genre (s) | Kölschrock |
| Author (s) | Wolfgang Niedecken , Klaus Heuser |
| Label | Musician / EMI Electrola |
| album | For usszeschnigge! |
Verdamp long ago is a rock song by the band BAP , which was released in 1981. The text is by Wolfgang Niedecken , the music by Niedecken and Klaus Heuser .
The song was the band's first national hit. The song is still played live today.
Background and origin
The lyrics were written in March 1981 and the song was completed in July 1981.
Niedecken wrote the text on Shrove Monday 1981, on which he and his girlfriend Carmen fled to the Franconian town of Morlitzhaben before the Cologne carnival . He tried to come to terms with the death of his father, who had died around six months earlier. After two days the text was ready.
Niedeckens band BAP found the lyrics too melancholy, so it was taken over on the album Für usszeschnigge! remained questionable for a long time, especially since the refrain was still missing. Guitarist Klaus Heuser finally had the idea to make the beginning of the text the chorus.
“What do we do with my father's song now? Then the major, Klaus Heuser, said: “What are you going to do with it? So maybe? "And then he played this police-lick: ditditditditditditditdit, like a sewing machine and then he sang the chorus that was still missing on the most obvious chorus harmonies:" Verdamp long ago, vaporize long, vaporize long ago " . Everyone looks and says: "Yes, let's try that." ... You have to imagine that: The chorus in the song only comes after the fourth verse - according to today's radio format criteria: impossible. "
Wolfgang Neumann, DJ at WDR , played Verdamp for a long time , although it wasn't a single, in a show in which singles were presented.
“And then it started. We had to hurry to get the thing out as a single, we didn't even have a photo for the cover and then we put a live photo on it, unbelievable. "
Due to Verdamp long ago , the band received an offer from Rockpalast to perform with lots of Neue Deutsche Welle bands in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle . The song also made it possible to support the Rolling Stones in 1982 .
content
The first stanzas contain reflections on the condition of Niedecken. After the chorus, it is about the speechlessness in which father and son Niedecken found themselves at the end, and a regret about it.
“Even before he died, I kept walking around with the thought: How can we do it again? Then he was dead. "
"You don't have to fool yourself, the coincidental success of 'Verdamp long ago' is of course that everyone interprets their own story."
- Wonder when I last painted a picture
- Whether one song is actually enough for me now.
- If I am now where I wanted to be
- I wonder if the paint doesn't dry up that way.
- I think I know: whether you paint loudly or softly,
- It just depends on doing it.
Publication and reception
The single was released in October 1981 by Musikant / EMI Electrola and in the same month on the album Für usszeschnigge! It reached number 13 in the German charts and was placed for 22 weeks. On the B-side is the Song Laundromat .
literature
- Wolfgang Niedecken, Teddy Hoersch: Verdamp Lang Her - The stories behind the BAP songs ; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-462-02805-7 .
- Wolfgang Niedecken, Oliver Kobold: For a moment . Autobiography. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-30699-6 .
Web links
- Lyrics on bap.de
- Music video on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Grieger: Why BAP boss Niedecken likes to sing "Verdamp lang her" so much. January 12, 2016, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Bap: "Do it magic" - "Vapor long ago". June 9, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Wolfgang Niedecken: For a moment: autobiography . Hoffmann and Campe, 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-85119-9 ( google.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
- ↑ BAP - long ago , hitparade.ch
- ↑ BAP - long ago , discogs.com
| Studio albums |
Wolfgang Niedecken's BAP rocks other Cologne Leeder • Affjetaut • For usszeschnigge! • Vun drinne noh drusse • Zwesche Salzjebäck and beer • Ahl men, slick • Da Capo • X for 'e U • Pik Sibbe • America • Comics & Pin-ups • Sound film • Aff un zo • Sonx • Three times ten years • Radio Pandora • Halv su wild • Life sentence |
| Live albums |
Bess then • … affrocke !! • Övverall • Live and in color • Full program • The fairy tale of the unplugged plug • Lifelong in the home port of Neukölln • Live and clear |
| Compilation albums |
Kristallnacht • Wahnsinn - The hits from 79–95 • Three times ten years • The most popular songs 1976–2016 |
| Singles |