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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 edit
The 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 edit
Eisgekühlter 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).