Make a wish (song)

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Make a wish
The dead pants
publication 1993
length 4:15
Genre (s) Punk , rock
text Campino
music Andreas Meurer
album Buy me!

Make a wish , the second word is originally written in capital letters, is a song by the band Die Toten Hosen . It was released, produced by Jon Caffery and published by Virgin Schallplatten GmbH , first on May 10, 1993 on the album Kauf MICH! . The music is by Andreas Meurer and the lyrics were written by Campino .

text

The text is written from the first-person perspective and structured according to the verse-refrain scheme. The song is introduced by the Mosquito Children's Choir of the Music School in Meerbusch by intoning the refrain a cappella :

The time comes, oh-ho, when wishing helps again.
The time comes, oh-ho, when wishing helps again.
Oh-ho-ho, in which wishing helps again
Oh-ho-ho, in which wishing helps again
Make a wish, make a wish, make a wish.

The text of the first stanza with six lines and the subsequent four-line transition is written like a creed . Three of the five sentences begin with the words "I believe ...". It is about belief in justice , morality , immortality and belief in a higher power that governs everything. At the end of the transition, the text is led into the absurd: "And the planet of love will be the earth and the sun will revolve around us."

The anthemic chorus is repeated twice within the song, even though it is not like in the intro There comes a time ... but This is the time ... . The first refrain follows the transition. After the second stanza, which begins with the contradicting sentence: “It will be too good to be true” and ends with the statement “It will be the resurrection of the Holy Spirit and that of Santa Claus”, the refrain is repeated twice. In the coda the request is made again: “Make a wish. Make a wish. Make a wish. Come and make a wish. "

interpretation

To interpret the text, Thomas Klie wrote in 1997 in the religious education magazine Loccumer Pelikan that Die Toten Hosen in Wünsch Dir was drafted “their eschatological vision as a mixture of general religious fantasies of the afterlife”. Klie further states that "it is characteristic of the vision of the future that a social utopia is not designed here, as in early punk rock, but rather it takes shape in a prophetic view as an image of a universal kingdom of peace."

In an interview with Jan Weiler in 2007, Campino commented on Wünsch Dir was : “The song was actually meant ironically , but people often didn't interpret it that way. So I said to myself: there you go, if that gives them courage, it's okay too. "

music

On the first recording, the piece is orchestrated with two electric guitars , electric bass and drums , played by Andreas von Holst , Michael Breitkopf , Andreas Meurer and Wolfgang Rohde . Campino is the singer in the foreground, with all band members singing the chorus together. The polyphonic coda is accompanied by the children's choir, which can already be heard in the intro.

The four-minute and fifteen-second long piece of music consists of two introductions, the first stanza with transition, a bridge , the second stanza, the refrain and a coda . After the melodic introduction by the children's voices, a few bars of the accompanying guitars follow, which provide a driving sound with staccato notes in the eighth-note rhythm, which can still be heard in the stanzas in the background. Campino reads the verses rhythmically rather than singing.

A version of Wünsch DIR was with acoustic instruments, arranged by Hans Steingen was created in 2005 for the MTV Unplugged series . In addition to the guitars , bass guitar and drums, which had meanwhile been taken over by Vom Ritchie , the band was supported at the events in the Vienna Burgtheater by guest musicians Esther Kim on piano and Raphael Zweifel on cello .

Publications

song

Single make a wish

Wünsch DIR was released as a single from the album Kauf MICH in the summer of 1993 . The B-side contains the pieces of music War and Peace , In the Name of the Lord and True Love . The single entered the German charts on June 28, 1993, stayed there for ten weeks and reached the top position 28. Wünsch DIR was on the compilations Reich & sexy , which was published in the same year and all the years from the Year 2011. An interpretation of the piece with acoustic instruments was published on the 2005 album Nur zu Visiting . Further live versions of the song appeared in 1996 on the album and the DVD On behalf of the Lord , in 1999 on the VHS Die Toten Hosen und die Roten Rosen live 1998 - We are waiting for Christkind , on the DVD Rock am Ring 2004 - Live and the DVD Hals + Broken leg - Live at Rock am Ring 2008 , on the album Machmalauter Live from 2009, on the DVD Noches como Estas - Live in Buenos Aires from 2012 and on the double album Der Krach der Republik from 2013.

Music video

The music video for the song was created in 1993 under the direction of Hans Neleman . The black and white film was shot in the New York amusement park on Coney Island and shows circus people showing off their curious talents. The band members can be seen riding a roller coaster. The video is on the DVD Reich & sexy II , which was released in 2002.

influence

The band Genetikk used the children's choir sequence from the introduction in 2015 for their hip-hop song of the same name. On October 25, 2019, the hip-hop band Antilopen Gang , which is under contract with the record company JKP , released their single Wünsch dir nix with the accompanying video clip. At the end of this song there is the vocal line: “The time never comes, there never was, when the wish helps again.” At the end of 2019, the DJ duo Gestört aber GeiL covered the melodic introduction of the children's choir and accompanied the title Techno sounds .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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 , page 337.
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Klie : Opium for the people - Promised dream time in the fun punk of the Toten Hosen. Loccumer Pelikan, religious education magazine for schools and communities, January 1997, pp. 24–27 , accessed on December 21, 2015 .
  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! .
  4. ↑ Hollow Skai: The Dead Pants. Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , p. 135.
  5. ↑ Fryderyk Gabowicz : Die Toten Hosen. Live backstage studio: photographs 1986–2006 . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-732-8 , pages 120–121.
  6. ↑ laut.de: GENETIKK: New video for "Wünsch Dir Was" . Retrieved April 15, 2015 .

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