We are waiting for the Christ Child
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| Studio album by Die Toten Hosen | ||||
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1998 |
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| Label (s) | JKP , Eastwest Records | |||
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20th |
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58:05 |
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Jon Caffery and Die Toten Hosen |
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We're waiting for Christkind is an album by the music group Die Toten Hosen , which the band produced under the pseudonym “Die Roten Rosen” together with Jon Caffery and released for the first time at Christmas 1998 on the band's own label JKP .
In addition to a number of “rocky” cover versions of German and English-language Christmas folk songs and pop songs, the album contains a new recording of their satirical play Frohes Fest from 1987. The tragic-comic songs Santa Claus from the roof and Christmas from the Brandts are new pieces.
The name of the album is based on the motto of the program We are waiting for Christkind , which has been broadcast regularly on December 24th in the ARD children's program for several decades since the 1960s. In the musical design of the album, the band was influenced by the British punk band The Boys , who had released The Yobs Christmas Album in 1980 under the band name "The Yobs" .
Emergence
The recordings took place in summer. The band reports that they ate tons of Christmas cookies and drank a lot of mulled wine to get in the right Christmas mood. The musicians came up with new artist names for the project: Campino called himself “Judas Inocenti” , Andreas von Holst was “Johannes the drunkard” , Michael Breitkopf was “King Scratch Salomon” , Andreas Meurer was “Cardinal Mendoza” and Wolfgang Rohde drummed as “Herr Rohdes " . Also From Ritchie , who was already stepped in on drums for Rohde's spinal problems often is represented on this board and was called "From, The Baptist".
Guest musicians included Monique Maasen from Asmodi Bizarr , Matt Dangerfield and Honest John Plain from The Boys and Arturo Bassick from The Lurkers .
Die Toten Hosen usually jokingly portray the “Rote Rosen” as another band. In their booklet, “Die Roten Rosen” recommend a “Die Toten Hosen Calendar” as a product of “good colleagues” and in the online biography of the “Toten Pants "reads: " Back in Düsseldorf the band had to find out that the Rote Rosen had already spread to them in the rehearsal room. One was forced to work with them on the Christmas album "We are waiting for Christkind". "
Music and lyrics
The album mainly contains cover versions of well-known Christmas carols, in which the classical arrangement was replaced by hard guitar sounds. Many songs also differ lyrically from the original. This is how it says, for example, come to your child :
"Come, little children, oh come on, come and smoke weed in Bethlehem's stable and see what joy the grass from Jamaica makes us on this holy night."
The song Frohes Fest is a new recording of a track from the B-side of the single Sascha… an upright German from 1992. The piece had previously appeared on the sampler How Much More Black can it Be in 1987 - but here it was still with different text. Every year again and softly trickling snow had also been recorded for the Sascha single , but in a completely different version.
The song Still, still, still was later used by Jamba as background music for the mobile phone application The drunk elk .
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Track list
- Ave Maria - 1:56
- Silent Night, Holy Night - 1:50
- You children, come - 1:40
- O Christmas tree - 1:20
- Merry X-mas Everybody - 3:19 ( James Lea, Neville Holder )
- Santa Claus from the roof - 4:02 (M: von Holst ; T: Campino )
- Auld Lang Syne - 2:32
- The Little Drummer Boy - 3:49
- The snow trickles quietly - 2:55
- Every year again - 1:28
- Happy Holidays - 3:41 (from Holst / Campino)
- White Christmas - 3:49
- Christmas at the Brandts - 3:42 (M: Breitkopf / Campino)
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - 2:20
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas - 3:07
- In dulci jubilo - 5:28
- Happy X-mas (War is over) - 2:38 (M: John Lennon , Yoko Ono / Lennon)
- Jingle Bells - 3:09
- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day - 3:52 ( Roy Wood )
- Still, Still, Still - 1:28 (vocals: Andreas von Holst )
Singles
In the same year, the single Santa Claus from the roof was released for which a video clip was created under the direction of Ralf Schmerberg . In addition to the title track, the CD also contains the tracks Come all ye faithful , a dub version of Jingle Bells and the song Baby, du shouldn't cry .
In 1999 Auld Lang Syne was released as a single with the songs Morgen wird alles anders ... , location Germany and the live versions of The Little Drummer Boy and Auld Lang Syne as bonus pieces. The video clip designed by Sven Offen and DoRo , which shows the band at a party in an alpine hut with their friends, can be played from the CD using the software supplied on the PC.
Tour and music film
Die Toten Hosen performed on November 26th and 27th, 1998 together with Gerhard Polt and Biermösl Blosn under the direction of Hanns Christian Müller in the Munich Volkstheater with the Second Help Show - Duel of Folk Music .
Under the motto We are waiting for Christkind , the band gave 13 Christmas concerts in the following month. At the first appearance in the Vienna club Chelsea, TV Smith stepped on stage. At all other concerts, the Australian group The Living End played in the opening act and as guests. At the final concert on December 26th in the Philipshalle in Düsseldorf , Monique Maasen and Bandroady Noppa performed and Campino's ten-year-old niece Maja played A ship, loaded on the recorder. The concert was recorded under the direction of Sven Offen and came as VHS Die Toten Hosen & Die Roten Rosen: We're waiting for Christkind - Live! launched in 1999. The video was re-released in 2003 as a double DVD box together with the video On behalf of the Lord under the title Die Toten Hosen Live .
Artwork
In the enclosed booklet of the album, on the last page, a skull-photo is the nationally known of fairs ago haunted ghost snake the showman family Emil Lehmann & Sohn from the Rheinhessen Worms am Rhein mapped in 1979 by the company Mack Rides has been built and has been owned by the Bavarian Skyline Park amusement park near Bad Wörishofen since 2019 . This booklet page also contains the recipe for a Dresden Christmas stollen with the ingredient “ plenty of grass ”.
New edition 2007
For the 25th anniversary of the band, We are waiting for Christkind was remastered and given six additional titles. An additional booklet contains a new interview with Die Toten Hosen. In a conversation with Jan Weiler , the band remembers how the album was made.
Additional title
- Come all ye Faithful - 2:34
- The Little Drummer Boy (unplugged) - 2:42 (T. + M. Davis, Onorati, Simeone)
- Auld Lang Syne (unplugged) - 3:17
- Every year again - 1:30
- The snow trickles quietly - 1:33
- Jingle Bells (Dub version) - 5:34
Web links
- Birgit Fuß: The musical Advent calendar, part 9: Die Toten Hosen - 'Auld Lang Syne' article in Rolling Stone on December 9, 2011, accessed on March 26, 2012.
- Lyrics to the album
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Weiler : Children, how time flies… Die Toten Hosen tell - Jan Weiler listens to 1982–2007 . Booklet for the new edition 2007, episode 14: We are waiting for the Christkind .
- ↑ Booklet to the album
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Hanns Christian Müller - author. (No longer available online.) Biermösl Blosn, archived from the original on January 18, 2010 ; accessed on March 26, 2018 .
- ^ Sabine Weisser: Die Toten Hosen + The Living End Stuttgart: Schleyerhalle . In: Metal Hammer . No. 03 , 1999, p. 116-117 .
- ↑ Showman Emil Lehmann: The ghost train in the heart of Julia Böcken at www.kurierverlag.de, Kurier Verlag GmbH , Memmingen , August 29, 2019 (accessed November 8, 2019)