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"Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" (Bommerlunder On The Rocks) is a German drinking song by the group Die Toten Hosen. The song is repeated over and over, each time the song is sung quicker and a pitch higher, until performers can not sing anymore.
Bommerlunder is a brand of schnapps, popular in Northern Germany.
Song
edit| "Bommerlunder/Opel Gang" | ||||
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| Single by Die Toten Hosen | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder": 2:58 "Opel-Gang": 1:59 (Single version) 1:47 (Album version) | |||
| Label | Totenkopf | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder: Molinare Dt.Spez Trini Trimpop Opel-Gang: Andreas Frege Michael Breitkopf Andreas von Holst Andreas Meurer Trini Trimpop | |||
| Die Toten Hosen singles chronology | ||||
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Die Toten Hosen released the song as a double A-side single with "Opel-Gang" in 1983, although the single is mostly referred to as "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder". The single was released with a tiny bottle of Bommerlunder included in the packaging. The single version of "Opel-Gang" is a bit different from the version released on Opel-Gang. "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" was not originally released on any albums, but the song was released later on the 1993 best-of album Reich & sexy.
In the same year, they produced a hip hop version of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" together with Fab Five Freddy, called "Hip Hop Bommi Bop".
Music video
editThe video for "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" was directed by Wolfgang Büld. It shows a wedding in a church turn into total chaos, partly caused by drinking Bommerlunder.
Track listing
edit- "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" (Molinare, Dt.Spez.; Trimpop/Trimpop) − 2:58
- "Opel-Gang" (von Holst, Frege/Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop) − 1:59
- "Armee der Verlierer" (Army of losers) (Frege, von Holst/Frege) − 4:23
Cover versions / Other versions
editEisgekühlter Bommerlunder was sporadically covered as a party song.
In 1993, for example, the electro musician Tommi Stumpff and Luc Van Leuven released a techno version of the song entitled Bommerlunder as a maxi single under the name Die Technodosen.[1]
References
edit- Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder at AllMusic. Retrieved 16:32, 15 February 2016 (UTC).