Die Toten Hosen (The Dead Pants) are legend in Germany. The were founded in 1982 as a post-punk band, and have been active ever since - so for 42 years now! They made lots of successful songs and albums, with much of their activities being quite political, leaning leftist. A huge success and probably one of their biggest hits is the song "Hier Kommt Alex" from 1988. Just check it out and dont miss to read the lyrics.
Many of the songs on this album are for the stage musical "Clockwork Orange" which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick and starred Malcolm McDowell. The album is really worth it.
@@kadajawi2 I concider it post-punk if the band can actually play music. Punk was earlier in the late 70s, and they usually just made noise.The bands you name were New Wave.
@@petebeatminister Your definition varies from what, to me, is the generally accepted definition of post punk. Never heard that before. A lot is considered punk where the musicians know what they are doing. Also, I'd argue that the musicianship on early Die Toten Hosen albums is not that great either. And New Wave isn't Post Punk. It's related, but not the same.
In the meantime, we can even call Campino an elder statesman since he was invited to the state banquet for King Charles, with all its pomp and circumstance. #AlleSagenDas
The Toten Hosen started as a punk band in the 80s and are extremely popular in Germany. Nowadays their music is more Rock than Punk, but they still make punk songs. The band members are big fans of their local football club „Fortuna Düsseldorf“ and also of the „FC Liverpool“. The beginning of the song is about how the guys meet to go to see a football match at their home stadium. The song is extremely popular and is frequently played when something to remember has happened. The band is also extremely popular in South America filling big stadiums.
"Die Toten Hosen" were like "Die Ärzte" founded in 1982 as a punk-rock band, and like them they still filling stadiums. Last year they had two concert tours, the first was "Alle sagen das" with concerts at Düsseldorf (their home), Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Nuremberg, Nürburgring, Austria, Swiss and even in Blackpool (Rebellion Festival); the second "Forever - eine kulturelle Zumutung" (a cultural impertinence) together with Bavarian comedian Gerhard Polt and Bavarian folk music / cabaret band "Die Well-Brüder" with 16 sold out concerts (including Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart, Zürich and 2 times Vienna). In 2022 they made an Argentina tour with 4 concerts there and their 40 years tour with 19 concerts in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Their singer Campino had even become a kind of moral authority over the years.
This song was really popular in 2014 when Germany won the world cup in Brazil. They played it in the stadium after the final and at all the fan zones all over Germany, so it really was kind of a football anthem back then.
For German football fans it somehow became the anthem and soundtrack already for the European Championships 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. But already before it was the soundtrack for Fortuna Düsseldorf fans when their club went up to 1. Bundesliga in 2012, as "Die Toten Hosen" come from Düsseldorf, are fans of Fortuna Düsseldorf and some lines of this song's lyrics refer to places in Düsseldorf. But yes, it still was popular during the World Cup in 2014.
Yes, you're right. Campino often sings in simple, clear language. A perfect description of the feeling of meeting up with friends, having a great evening and wishing that something like this would happen again and again. Thank you for your clip. Keep going.
Thank you for your reactions. I‘m from Germany and your positive view helps me to see and hear our music in a different way. Much more positive way. Thank you for that. 🙏
I think this song is less about celebrating life in general and more about the collective feeling of happiness that crowds often experience at festivals, concerts or in football stadiums. It's about this very special atmosphere that slowly builds up beforehand, gets you more and more carried away and carries the crowd through the event until the end. So you're right, it sounds like a football anthem and is therefore often played and sung in German football stadiums.
I don't think so. I am also from Düsseldorf and at the beginning they clearly describe a place in the historic part of the city next to the river called "Die Treppen". This is a place where people of all ages usually meet on the weekends to sit, drink, eat pizza, play music and watch the sunset over the glittering water of the Rhine. This is where people hang out in lush summer nights and forget their worries and just exist. Having spent my childhood and youth there whith friedns and family I absolutely feel this song and now that I don't live in Düsseldorf anymore, the first few lyrics of the song immediately bring me back home.
The "Festival" that you see in the video is actually footage from thr citywide party for the advancement of soccerclub "Fortuna Düsseldorf 1895" from 2. Bundesliga to 1. Bundesliga (Premierleague). All Members of the Band originally come from Düsseldorf and are proud of that. They also started their career there. Funfact: They are all proud members and fans of Liverpool on top of that. The song meanwhile became an anthem in sport events celebrating success similar to "we are the champions" by Queen
They were major - and that song, every time this song gets played in a club (up to this day it does, yes!) everyone, every single person in that club sings along and knows the lyrics by heart.
Campino, the singer, is half British/half German, he was raised bilingually and is a huge fan of Liverpool F.C. "Die Toten Hosen" also have songs in English. Check out "Die Toten Hosen - Pushed Again", nice song.
Not to forget the LP "Learning English" where all the songs are in English and in the video "Carnival in Rio (Punk was)" Ronald Biggs can also be seen.
Die Toten Hosen is one of two very famous punk bands in germany. They are known for many good albums, very political songs like Sasha or Alex, but also for a lot of songs with deep feelings like "nur zu besuch" or simply some fun songs and football songs. So a big mix of different types of songs and its worth a look. The other famous punk band die Ärzte is also worth a few looks.
Fun fact: Tote Hose (dead trouser) is a german saying for completely boring. When the club you're at is empty or the city you are offers no activities, they're "tote H ose"
If you want to listen to the ultimative punk band, check out Die Ärzte…they came up around the same time as the dead pants…check out their medley from „Rock‘n‘Roll Realschule“ to get a nice picture of what they have to offer 🤟🤟
For me as Düsseldorfer it is THE song about the Rheinkirmes. A huge fair in summer on the other Rhine side. Meeting since generations with friends every year same time two weeks long. With huge festival tents and all days bands and music for everybodys dancing and singing style and a lot of beer🎉❤
Die Toten Hosen used to be a punkrock band back in the days. They were founded in 1982 in Düsseldorf. Today they describe their stile as Stadion-Rock (stadium rock if this makes sense). Maybe you should listen to their old stuff, pretty much better imao... I propose the clockwork orange inspired song "Hier kommt Alex". And yes, they are huge. 70 000+ people in their live shows :)
Ach Unsinn, viele ihrer alten Lieder sind eigentlich ziemlich schlecht und auf einem niedrigeren Niveau. Das ist nur die Nostalgie, die dich glauben lässt, dass sie besser waren. Frürher hatten sie auch noch keine Ahnung, wie man ein Instrument überhaupt spielt. Heute sind sie vielleicht auch nicht großartig darun, aber besser, als früher und das merkt man. Eigentlich wusste nur Kuddel, was er da tut, der Rest hatte von Tuten und Blasen keine Ahnung. ;)
It's very well possible that coldplay listened to the Hosen when they were still kids and got some inspiration ;-) I mean the Coldplay guys were 5 years old when the Hosen started their band.
Die toten Hosen where founded in 1982. They are a German punk band. They describe the old places where they used to meet in Dusseldorf, when they were younger. Campinos (the singer) mother was from England. Campino has a big connection to the football club of Liverpool, so it is really possible that he wanna make it sound like a football song. But they are not like Coldplay.
"Hier kommt Alex!" A Clockwork Orange tribute song, one of their most successful songs ever. During the decades, from the early 1980s until today, the anarchists of German Punk Rock have become an institution in German music - legends, like I said before.
@@matthewrandom4523 Not only is „Alex“ a tribute to A Clockwork Orange. The whole album „Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau“ itself is a retelling of the complete movie. Great album, great songs. A true classic.
They are a band from former western Germany and went to the former GDR in 1983 for a secret concert since the punk community was surpressed in former eastern Germany. They were even in danger to go to jail for it.
The Hosen are obscenely popular in Germany. They have developed from a pretty edgy Punk Band in the 80's and early 90's to an indeed Coldplay-esque happy go lucky anthem orchestra. Almost everybody knows them. They have as many ultra fans as haters. I find their older stuff more appealing. Look for the Songs "1000 gute Gründe", "Sascha ... ein aufrechter Deutscher", "All die ganzen Jahre", "Hier kommt Alex", "Wort zum Sonntag", "Wünsch dir was", "Bayern". Still love the more nostalgic and calmer "Unsterblich“ Album from the 2000s. Under the Name "Die Roten Rosen" (The red roses) they published some English tracks and a pretty funny X-Mas Album "Wir warten auf’s Christkind" with some very cool German and international X-Mas Song covers.
"Die Toten Hosen" (literally "The Dead Trousers") are a punk band founded in the early 1980s and already successful then. They come from Düsseldorf, some lines of the song's lyrics refer to Düsseldorf. It's about having a great time on a great day celebrating. The lyrics describe from a first-person perspective the collective feeling of happiness when celebrating with music. The song "Tage wie diese" ("Days like these") was released in March 2012 and two months later the football club Fortuna Düsseldorf succeded in getting up to the 1. Bundesliga, so the song became an anthem for Düsseldorf fans then and since. Lyrics translation: I've been waiting for this day for weeks And I'm dancing for joy across the asphalt As if there were a rhythm, as if there was a song That keeps pulling me through the streets Come to meet you, to pick you up, as agreed At the same time, at the same meeting point as last time Through the throng of people We'll make our way down the familiar path Along the alleys, to the Rhine terraces Over the bridges, to the music Where everything is loud, where everyone is going crazy Where the others are waiting to start and go wild with us On days like these you wish for eternity On days like these we still have forever I wish for eternity This is forever, forever for today We won't stand still for a whole night Come, I'll carry you through the people Don't be afraid, I'll look after you We'll let ourselves drift, dive under, swim with the current Turn in circles, don't come more down, are weightless On days like these you wish for eternity On days like these we still have forever In this night of nights that promises us so much Let's experience the best, no end in sight. In 2023 Anastacia released an English cover version ruclips.net/video/4KuDAo_8CdA/видео.html
'The Dead Trousers' are a punk rock band since the early 80s. Nearly everbody in germany knows this band. They actually sounded quite different in the past, got older and more Mainstreams nowadays. Watch out, same band: ruclips.net/video/BAon9ShZUjg/видео.htmlsi=5HLiLEoX6PBR917x
Hope you don't mean to say they're worse now. As a matter of fact, I think some of their older stuff is pretty bad compared to the newer stuff. One reason being they were even much worse at playing their instruments back then (aside from Kuddel maybe) than they are now.
How big is this band.... well.. lets say it like this... my 77 year old mom, myself and the 18 year olds in office all know that Campino is the singer of Die Toten Hosen. A German needs to pretty much been living under a rock for the past 40 years to not know them. Also this song was covered by Anastacia (Best Days)... so yes, I think they are somewhat known ;)
Die Toten Hosen are legendary! This song is rather commercial. They are punk. You should search for a documentary where they traveled separately to east Germany to give a concert. I have goose skin
They are not only one of the famous and legendary punk bands in Germany, but they were always advocating against rascism and fascism. Also the other famous punk band „Die Ärzte“ …
Fun Fact the Singer (Campino) ...His Mother was british His father german....now he choose the british Citizenship. The Drummer is Vom Richtie from England....Former Doctor and the Medics member....very funny Guy.....and he is doing the Drums great....The Band DTH💀exists now over 40 years
Die Toten Hosen are a german eqivalent to The Clash! But they managed to survive! Thats the difference. They keep on rocking! Want a Song request? Die Toten Hosen - Guns of Brixton!
In the early years they got a Lot of Hits. Just liston to Bonnie and Clyde and hier kommt Alex. Legends and great. A react to the band "die Ärzte" would ne nice.
They have an album dedicated to the novel "A Clockwerk Orange" the Song "Hier kommt Alex" translates to "Here comes Alex" ist very popular. They have many great Songs.
Yes they are very big in Germany! Some would say they are THE german Punk band! And in the UK they even use their translated band name "The Dead Pants". They are not that famous in the UK, but some Punk Rock fans in the UK might certainly know them! 🙂 I like how you reviewed the song and that you even took your time to look for the translated lyrics! 🙂
That's the sound of my youth. Toten Hosen and Ärzte were really popular at us in the 80s. That's the sound of my youth. Toten Hosen and Ärzte were really popular in the 80s. They were cheeky and rebellious and constantly drunk, just like me. It started with "Opel Gang" and ended for me with "Opium fürs Volk". After that they became too commercial and too mainstream for me. Please do something older like "Hier kommt Alex" or "Freitag der 13.", "All die ganzen Jahre", "Bonnie & Clyde", "XTC" or our anthem "Wort zum Sommtag".
Poignant❤ thanks for this word😅 i love the english language, it's so simple😊 I thought my vocabulary was pretty decent, but we learn every day😊much love from berlin❤
My favoutie since I was 15 years old. Campinos mom was British by the way and they also have songs in English. They are around since the 1980s. 🙂 You should react to more songs from them. They have such a huge variety
singer and frontman of DIE TOTEN HOSEN is half german / half british namned CAMPINO, he even met King Charles and Camilla during their visit to Germany!
I’d like to add that the lyrics were translated/written for her by Campino, the lead singer of the Toten Hosen, who also wrote the lyrics of this original song.
jeah, very popular band from germany. for me it's my personaly favorite band. u should take a look at their concerts in argentinia. these are wild over there xD one funfact about the band: the bass is tuned 1 note of. over multiple decades they never learned to tune their instrument correctly and then, when somebody told them about this they decided to don't change it anymore. So they got a very unique tone until today.
Btw: the lead singer's mother is British and he accepted British citizenship in 2019. In former days they were heavily inspired by British punk (Sex Pistols).
They are my absolut favorite band and very famous in Germany and also in Argentina (no german band have ever achived this). And funFact the Leadsinger and the Drummer are actual british
Anastasia covered the song, the version of Anastasia is „Best Days“ However, „Die Toten Hosen“ also have English songs, one of which they recorded with the legendary English mail robber Ronnie Biggs who fled from prison in England and set off in Brazil.. the song is called „Carnival in Rio“, another gangster story that they released in English as well as in German is the song „Bonnie & Clyde“ in addition, a few years ago they broke out their classic „Wort zum Sonntag“ from 1986 because they could no longer sing I’m not yet 60 and the 60 had to exchange with 70. This video shows a lot of recordings that they show especially in the early years, it's nice to see and remember how they were still complete back then.. the old drummer has unfortunately already passed away and some members of their crew have also passed away who were buried on their joint band grave..
The answer is worse. Its both of both and more. They fill stadiums in both Germany and in South America. So the stuff with the paint is both in South America and at their concerts, because they have big concerts on different continents.
They are some sort of the resident headlner of rock am ring, and what happens there when they play is just magic. I think at least some of the footage in the video is from theyre concerts and the festival
:-D A song loved by kindergarden-kids and also by their grandparents and great-grandparents. A song for a 'night to remember'. Kids singing this song wenn they start on their summer-vacation or when they start into summerbreak. Also a weddingsong. But also a last-meeting-song when you meet someone for the last time in your life.
To compare die Hosen with Coldplay is one of the greatest insults, I ever heard ... *ggg* - btw. "Die Toten Hosen" are along site "Die Ärzte" the most famous, legendary and successfull bands in Germany since the 1980s. Both can easealy fill stadiums (Die Ärzte last weekend the former Berlin Airport Tempelhof). Often called Punk Bands. But both are today far away gone over these roots. They are rock bands, that can play a lot of styles.
If u hang up with ur best Dudes, u go to a conzert, a party, anyway... for a long time u didn´t see eachother, than... THAN, thats the Song. Day like these i wish me the Time stoped.
The Band Revolverheld have met there oldest friend at a party und he told them that he will marry and they wrote a song for the proposal. Fantastik Band -> -> Revolverheld - Ich lass für Dich das Licht an
Funny that you just noticed that Campino has a clear pronunciation. I don't know any other English person who has such a clear pronunciation as you. That's also one reason why I like your channel so much. Best regards from Germany! 🇩🇪 Keep it up!! 👍🏻
Campino, the band's singer, was 50 years old at the time of publication. He has an English mother and his grandfather was briefly a member of the British House of Commons for the Labour Party. He is a big fan of Liverpool FC and Fortuna Düsseldorf. The whole band supports Fortuna so much that they were shirt sponsors for three years after the club was relegated from the first division in 1997 and two further relegations to the fourth division. When, after almost 15 years following relegation from the Bundesliga, there was finally a chance that Fortuna Düsseldorf would return to the top flight, this celebratory anthem was released eight match days before the end of the season. And, as in a Hollywood film script, it came as it had to: In two incredibly dramatic matches against Hertha BSC Berlin (including a 20-minute stoppage in play because the fans stormed the pitch too early in the second leg in Düsseldorf), Fortuna prevailed in front of 51,000 fans in their own stadium. If Hertha had scored just one more goal, Düsseldorf would not have been promoted.
Hi Dwayne, yes the Toten Hosen are popular in Germany. It's not my kind of music but you can argue about music. If you want to listen to an extraordinary German group I recommend Einstürzende Neubauten with the song Ende-Neu e.g. Blixa Bargeld sang together with Nick Cave in the Bad Seeds. Nina Hagen as a soloist is also interesting. As a contrast, perhaps Söhne Mannheims, Fanta 4, Fischmob, Die Ärzte or Fettes Brot etc.? You are a very likeable guy, stay the way you are.
Legendary! Düsseldorfer Band at the Altstadt! For my point of few the greatest Punk-Band in Germany. Like the Clash in GB. They comes from 1982 and have great lyrics! The Festival they sing about is in the Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf. Here Comes Alex Hier Kommt Alex English Version - Die Toten hosen
Maybe the song sounds familiar to you because you know “Best Days” by Anasticia. Thats basically a cover of "Tage wie diese" in English. I like her music a lot. Because she takes songs from different artists, translates them into English or she just covers them and than she does her own thing with a similar beat and rhythm 😅 You should listen to her in yor free time if you want to hear something special! 😊
I would like to recommend you another song of "Die Toten Hosen". I really would love to see your reaction to "Nur zu Besuch" or "Steh auf, wenn du am Boden liegst". They're one of my favorite german bands of all time. They're awesome.
one of the famous bands here in germany with a strict political standing against faschisem. Best album kleine Horrorshow if you know the film clockwork orange. Other lyrics are often not so often clear in their meaning ob first hearing but they have same „party“ song too.
I recommend the album Auswärtsspiel. Or have a look here on RUclips for the song Depression de luxe for example. What I like about die Toten Hosen is that they have really texts. Not all of them need to be taken too seriously, like 10 kleine Jägermeister, but often the texts have really content. Not just the average love songs. And even their love songs are better than most others. 🙂
Ah yes Die Toten Hosen. My first concert back in 2009. Unfortunately their last Album was rather... disappointing for me, so I even skipped the concert, my father went but I prefer the older stuff. Die Ärzte did a lot better recently. Well it's hard to talk about Die Toten Hosen without mentioning Die Ärzte somehow I always compare them.
Die Toten Hosen have 3 English Album from 1991 "Learning English - Lesson One" from 2001 "Crash Landing" and from 2001 “Love, Peace & Money". The Mother of the Frontman is from Oxford.
This is one of two number one hits. The song was so popular that it was even played at the party conference of the center-right CDU party. Campino had attacked the party several times in the past for its policies and didn't find it funny. In fact, the party's spokesman apologized to him. The other was the result of an argument between Campino and the manager. The manager wanted a number one hit several times in the 90s after the first successes. Campino accused him of not understanding what the band's music was all about. He could write a number one hit at any time, but he didn't want to. He would write him his hit now and then he should shut up. Campino was right: Die Toten Hosen // „Zehn kleine Jägermeister“ [Offizielles Musikvideo]
The gentlemen were already making music, and no one had even thought of Coldplay.
The “Toten Hosen” have been in business for over 40 years.
Yeah, first he calls Campino an "older gentleman" then he asks if they are from the same era as Coldplay. 😉
Die Toten Hosen (The Dead Pants) are legend in Germany. The were founded in 1982 as a post-punk band, and have been active ever since - so for 42 years now! They made lots of successful songs and albums, with much of their activities being quite political, leaning leftist. A huge success and probably one of their biggest hits is the song "Hier Kommt Alex" from 1988. Just check it out and dont miss to read the lyrics.
Many of the songs on this album are for the stage musical "Clockwork Orange" which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick and starred Malcolm McDowell. The album is really worth it.
Great suggestion !!!!!👍
They weren't post punk though... they started as punk band. Post punk would be something like Joy Division, Siouxie and the Banshees, Bauhaus etc.
@@kadajawi2 I concider it post-punk if the band can actually play music. Punk was earlier in the late 70s, and they usually just made noise.The bands you name were New Wave.
@@petebeatminister Your definition varies from what, to me, is the generally accepted definition of post punk. Never heard that before. A lot is considered punk where the musicians know what they are doing. Also, I'd argue that the musicianship on early Die Toten Hosen albums is not that great either. And New Wave isn't Post Punk. It's related, but not the same.
"Like Coldplay" - that might make them cry....
I‘ve never heard Campino being called „an older Gentleman“! 😂😂
I know you mean that in a respectfull way…but I can‘t stop laughing!
Right😂. Campino would probably laugh, too!
@@CatsDogs-jf4fy I think he‘d be trying not to be offended, actually…..I still see him as the young lead singer
In the meantime, we can even call Campino an elder statesman since he was invited to the state banquet for King Charles, with all its pomp and circumstance. #AlleSagenDas
The Toten Hosen started as a punk band in the 80s and are extremely popular in Germany.
Nowadays their music is more Rock than Punk, but they still make punk songs.
The band members are big fans of their local football club „Fortuna Düsseldorf“ and also of the „FC Liverpool“. The beginning of the song is about how the guys meet to go to see a football match at their home stadium.
The song is extremely popular and is frequently played when something to remember has happened.
The band is also extremely popular in South America filling big stadiums.
The band translated this song in spanish, because they have so many fans in South America.
this song is pure nostalgia to me, i hear the first 2 seconds and get instantly goosebumps.
Me too. My Pubertät started in this year ❤
"like coldplay" is only possible cause this is the first song you´ve heard of them :D
"Die Toten Hosen" were like "Die Ärzte" founded in 1982 as a punk-rock band, and like them they still filling stadiums. Last year they had two concert tours, the first was "Alle sagen das" with concerts at Düsseldorf (their home), Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Nuremberg, Nürburgring, Austria, Swiss and even in Blackpool (Rebellion Festival); the second "Forever - eine kulturelle Zumutung" (a cultural impertinence) together with Bavarian comedian Gerhard Polt and Bavarian folk music / cabaret band "Die Well-Brüder" with 16 sold out concerts (including Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart, Zürich and 2 times Vienna). In 2022 they made an Argentina tour with 4 concerts there and their 40 years tour with 19 concerts in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Their singer Campino had even become a kind of moral authority over the years.
This song was really popular in 2014 when Germany won the world cup in Brazil. They played it in the stadium after the final and at all the fan zones all over Germany, so it really was kind of a football anthem back then.
Public viewing ist im Englischen sowas, wo man sich Leichen anschaut, also sowas wie mit der Queen gemacht wurde.
For German football fans it somehow became the anthem and soundtrack already for the European Championships 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. But already before it was the soundtrack for Fortuna Düsseldorf fans when their club went up to 1. Bundesliga in 2012, as "Die Toten Hosen" come from Düsseldorf, are fans of Fortuna Düsseldorf and some lines of this song's lyrics refer to places in Düsseldorf. But yes, it still was popular during the World Cup in 2014.
I can't remember, that they played this song. But I remember Andreas Burani with "Ein hoch auf uns!"
@@meinhund...undmehr6014 yes, they also played that one.
But bevor Borussia Dortmund used it as they won the DFB Pokal 🎉
Yes, you're right. Campino often sings in simple, clear language. A perfect description of the feeling of meeting up with friends, having a great evening and wishing that something like this would happen again and again. Thank you for your clip. Keep going.
Stars worldwide!!! Not Only in Germany legends.
Thank you for your reactions. I‘m from Germany and your positive view helps me to see and hear our music in a different way. Much more positive way. Thank you for that. 🙏
I think this song is less about celebrating life in general and more about the collective feeling of happiness that crowds often experience at festivals, concerts or in football stadiums. It's about this very special atmosphere that slowly builds up beforehand, gets you more and more carried away and carries the crowd through the event until the end.
So you're right, it sounds like a football anthem and is therefore often played and sung in German football stadiums.
I don't think so. I am also from Düsseldorf and at the beginning they clearly describe a place in the historic part of the city next to the river called "Die Treppen". This is a place where people of all ages usually meet on the weekends to sit, drink, eat pizza, play music and watch the sunset over the glittering water of the Rhine. This is where people hang out in lush summer nights and forget their worries and just exist. Having spent my childhood and youth there whith friedns and family I absolutely feel this song and now that I don't live in Düsseldorf anymore, the first few lyrics of the song immediately bring me back home.
Their drummer is actually from England. And their frontman is now also a british citizen (his Mum was from England). He's a huge Liverpool Fan as well
Vom is from Essex to be a little more specific. ;)
They are one of my fav since my teenage days. I am almost 51 now. Where has the time gone??? 😮
Their soo big in Germany, that green day was an opening act in the early 90s
True, but DTH also performed as the opening act on Green Day's USA tour...
The "Festival" that you see in the video is actually footage from thr citywide party for the advancement of soccerclub "Fortuna Düsseldorf 1895" from 2. Bundesliga to 1. Bundesliga (Premierleague). All Members of the Band originally come from Düsseldorf and are proud of that. They also started their career there. Funfact: They are all proud members and fans of Liverpool on top of that. The song meanwhile became an anthem in sport events celebrating success similar to "we are the champions" by Queen
Saw them few times in the 80-s. One of the best live bands.
during my teen time this was one of my fav. bands. Now im 44 and they are stilll here and still one of my fav.
Yep, they rocked…lol….punked back then.
In our school you were either into the Toten Hosen or die Ärzte
They were major - and that song, every time this song gets played in a club (up to this day it does, yes!) everyone, every single person in that club sings along and knows the lyrics by heart.
Sorry, but "Die Toten Hosen" are probably going to eat Coldplay for breakfast. 😂
Holi festival originated in India and was a big trend in Germany about 10 years ago. I went to one in Munich.
Campino, the singer, is half British/half German, he was raised bilingually and is a huge fan of Liverpool F.C.
"Die Toten Hosen" also have songs in English. Check out "Die Toten Hosen - Pushed Again", nice song.
Not to forget the LP "Learning English" where all the songs are in English and in the video "Carnival in Rio (Punk was)" Ronald Biggs can also be seen.
@@onnasenshi7739 What about parts 2 and 3 of Learning English ;)
Die Toten Hosen is one of two very famous punk bands in germany. They are known for many good albums, very political songs like Sasha or Alex, but also for a lot of songs with deep feelings like "nur zu besuch" or simply some fun songs and football songs.
So a big mix of different types of songs and its worth a look.
The other famous punk band die Ärzte is also worth a few looks.
Fun fact: Tote Hose (dead trouser) is a german saying for completely boring. When the club you're at is empty or the city you are offers no activities, they're "tote H
ose"
If you want to listen to the ultimative punk band, check out Die Ärzte…they came up around the same time as the dead pants…check out their medley from „Rock‘n‘Roll Realschule“ to get a nice picture of what they have to offer 🤟🤟
For me as Düsseldorfer it is THE song about the Rheinkirmes. A huge fair in summer on the other Rhine side. Meeting since generations with friends every year same time two weeks long. With huge festival tents and all days bands and music for everybodys dancing and singing style and a lot of beer🎉❤
Ein mal augen zu und dieser song in einem Fußballstadion vom Publikum gesungen. Gänsehaut
Die Toten Hosen used to be a punkrock band back in the days. They were founded in 1982 in Düsseldorf. Today they describe their stile as Stadion-Rock (stadium rock if this makes sense). Maybe you should listen to their old stuff, pretty much better imao... I propose the clockwork orange inspired song "Hier kommt Alex". And yes, they are huge. 70 000+ people in their live shows :)
Ach Unsinn, viele ihrer alten Lieder sind eigentlich ziemlich schlecht und auf einem niedrigeren Niveau. Das ist nur die Nostalgie, die dich glauben lässt, dass sie besser waren. Frürher hatten sie auch noch keine Ahnung, wie man ein Instrument überhaupt spielt. Heute sind sie vielleicht auch nicht großartig darun, aber besser, als früher und das merkt man. Eigentlich wusste nur Kuddel, was er da tut, der Rest hatte von Tuten und Blasen keine Ahnung. ;)
It's very well possible that coldplay listened to the Hosen when they were still kids and got some inspiration ;-) I mean the Coldplay guys were 5 years old when the Hosen started their band.
Legendary in Germany 😊😎✌️
Check the old stuff from "Die Toten Hosen " 😊
Hello, this is in German Lagacy Punk Rock Band from the 80th. A Big Favorite 🤩
Die toten Hosen where founded in 1982. They are a German punk band. They describe the old places where they used to meet in Dusseldorf, when they were younger. Campinos (the singer) mother was from England. Campino has a big connection to the football club of Liverpool, so it is really possible that he wanna make it sound like a football song. But they are not like Coldplay.
Everybody knows them in germany, they are as big here as coldplay probably would love to be . Legend with 80k festival headline concerts
This song is legendary in Germany! My childhood! ❤
"Hier kommt Alex!" A Clockwork Orange tribute song, one of their most successful songs ever. During the decades, from the early 1980s until today, the anarchists of German Punk Rock have become an institution in German music - legends, like I said before.
@@matthewrandom4523 Not only is „Alex“ a tribute to A Clockwork Orange. The whole album „Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau“ itself is a retelling of the complete movie. Great album, great songs. A true classic.
yeah - they're really old band - I know them since mid 1980ies, but then they already were quite popular and had already released a couple of albums
The wedding song of me and my husband... The Toten Hosen are such a great band with a good message in every song!
They are the godfathers of punk in Germany and South America😂🎉and the cold play comparison is ridiculous…
They are a band from former western Germany and went to the former GDR in 1983 for a secret concert since the punk community was surpressed in former eastern Germany. They were even in danger to go to jail for it.
Western and Eastern are not "former", they're still West and East ; )
Cold Play sounds like Tote Hosen I would say :)
If they would - certainly !!!😂 But they don't! Hell, no!!! Although I love Coldplay, but.......no.
The Hosen are obscenely popular in Germany. They have developed from a pretty edgy Punk Band in the 80's and early 90's to an indeed Coldplay-esque happy go lucky anthem orchestra.
Almost everybody knows them. They have as many ultra fans as haters.
I find their older stuff more appealing. Look for the Songs "1000 gute Gründe", "Sascha ... ein aufrechter Deutscher", "All die ganzen Jahre", "Hier kommt Alex", "Wort zum Sonntag", "Wünsch dir was", "Bayern". Still love the more nostalgic and calmer "Unsterblich“ Album from the 2000s.
Under the Name "Die Roten Rosen" (The red roses) they published some English tracks and a pretty funny X-Mas Album "Wir warten auf’s Christkind" with some very cool German and international X-Mas Song covers.
They are famous. ❤ great.
"Die Toten Hosen" (literally "The Dead Trousers") are a punk band founded in the early 1980s and already successful then. They come from Düsseldorf, some lines of the song's lyrics refer to Düsseldorf. It's about having a great time on a great day celebrating. The lyrics describe from a first-person perspective the collective feeling of happiness when celebrating with music. The song "Tage wie diese" ("Days like these") was released in March 2012 and two months later the football club Fortuna Düsseldorf succeded in getting up to the 1. Bundesliga, so the song became an anthem for Düsseldorf fans then and since. Lyrics translation:
I've been waiting for this day for weeks
And I'm dancing for joy across the asphalt
As if there were a rhythm, as if there was a song
That keeps pulling me through the streets
Come to meet you, to pick you up, as agreed
At the same time, at the same meeting point as last time
Through the throng of people
We'll make our way down the familiar path
Along the alleys, to the Rhine terraces
Over the bridges, to the music
Where everything is loud, where everyone is going crazy
Where the others are waiting to start and go wild with us
On days like these you wish for eternity
On days like these we still have forever
I wish for eternity
This is forever, forever for today
We won't stand still for a whole night
Come, I'll carry you through the people
Don't be afraid, I'll look after you
We'll let ourselves drift, dive under, swim with the current
Turn in circles, don't come more down, are weightless
On days like these you wish for eternity
On days like these we still have forever
In this night of nights that promises us so much
Let's experience the best, no end in sight.
In 2023 Anastacia released an English cover version ruclips.net/video/4KuDAo_8CdA/видео.html
'The Dead Trousers' are a punk rock band since the early 80s. Nearly everbody in germany knows this band. They actually sounded quite different in the past, got older and more Mainstreams nowadays.
Watch out, same band: ruclips.net/video/BAon9ShZUjg/видео.htmlsi=5HLiLEoX6PBR917x
Hope you don't mean to say they're worse now. As a matter of fact, I think some of their older stuff is pretty bad compared to the newer stuff. One reason being they were even much worse at playing their instruments back then (aside from Kuddel maybe) than they are now.
How big is this band.... well.. lets say it like this... my 77 year old mom, myself and the 18 year olds in office all know that Campino is the singer of Die Toten Hosen. A German needs to pretty much been living under a rock for the past 40 years to not know them.
Also this song was covered by Anastacia (Best Days)... so yes, I think they are somewhat known ;)
Die Toten Hosen are legendary! This song is rather commercial. They are punk. You should search for a documentary where they traveled separately to east Germany to give a concert. I have goose skin
Legends!!!
They are not only one of the famous and legendary punk bands in Germany, but they were always advocating against rascism and fascism. Also the other famous punk band „Die Ärzte“ …
Best. Band. Ever.
You love Provinz? Nina Chuba x Provinz - Ich glaub ich will heut nicht mehr gehen
Fun Fact the Singer (Campino) ...His Mother was british His father german....now he choose the british Citizenship.
The Drummer is Vom Richtie from England....Former Doctor and the Medics member....very funny Guy.....and he is doing the Drums great....The Band DTH💀exists now over 40 years
He is/was also in Spittin Vicars, for instance.
Die Toten Hosen are a german eqivalent to The Clash! But they managed to survive! Thats the difference. They keep on rocking! Want a Song request? Die Toten Hosen - Guns of Brixton!
same time like cold play...😂..the "toten Hose - death trousers 👖) are older 1982 not 90'er
In the early years they got a Lot of Hits. Just liston to Bonnie and Clyde and hier kommt Alex. Legends and great.
A react to the band "die Ärzte" would ne nice.
They have an album dedicated to the novel "A Clockwerk Orange" the Song "Hier kommt Alex" translates to "Here comes Alex" ist very popular. They have many great Songs.
Yes they are very big in Germany! Some would say they are THE german Punk band! And in the UK they even use their translated band name "The Dead Pants". They are not that famous in the UK, but some Punk Rock fans in the UK might certainly know them! 🙂
I like how you reviewed the song and that you even took your time to look for the translated lyrics! 🙂
That's the sound of my youth. Toten Hosen and Ärzte were really popular at us in the 80s. That's the sound of my youth. Toten Hosen and Ärzte were really popular in the 80s. They were cheeky and rebellious and constantly drunk, just like me. It started with "Opel Gang" and ended for me with "Opium fürs Volk". After that they became too commercial and too mainstream for me.
Please do something older like "Hier kommt Alex" or "Freitag der 13.", "All die ganzen Jahre", "Bonnie & Clyde", "XTC" or our anthem "Wort zum Sommtag".
They are still pretty popular :)
Poignant❤ thanks for this word😅 i love the english language, it's so simple😊 I thought my vocabulary was pretty decent, but we learn every day😊much love from berlin❤
Anastacia covered this song. THIS is the original
It´s Düsseldorfs Football Song .The Club is called Fortuna Düsseldorf .
My favoutie since I was 15 years old. Campinos mom was British by the way and they also have songs in English. They are around since the 1980s. 🙂 You should react to more songs from them. They have such a huge variety
A very Important Political Song for Freedom is in English. It’s called „Pushed Again”. The Original Video is a must!
Watch out for live gigs of "Die Toten Hosen" in Argentina. They are very popular over there.
Anastacia covered this Song (Best Days)
Before they called themselves Die Toten Hosen, they went with the name The Red Roses - but you probably knew that already 🤭🤗
The singer is British, like you. And big van from Liverpol FC.
singer and frontman of DIE TOTEN HOSEN is half german / half british namned CAMPINO, he even met King Charles and Camilla during their visit to Germany!
They made this Song because of Fortuna Düsseldorf, a footballteam got from the second into the first german football liga this time.
Anatasia has a great english version called Best Days
I’d like to add that the lyrics were translated/written for her by Campino, the lead singer of the Toten Hosen, who also wrote the lyrics of this original song.
Anastacia. I love it, too.
There is also a Spanish version by themselves "Días como estos"
The singer is half british.
jeah, very popular band from germany. for me it's my personaly favorite band.
u should take a look at their concerts in argentinia. these are wild over there xD
one funfact about the band: the bass is tuned 1 note of. over multiple decades they never learned to tune their instrument correctly and then, when somebody told them about this they decided to don't change it anymore. So they got a very unique tone until today.
You should check out one of their live Performances either of this song or Hier kommt Alex !
singer Anastacia sang a cover version of this song. the original Singer also wrote the english lyrics for her.
Do "Pushed Again" < live version! English lyrics ... Die Toten Hosen > great band, founded 40+ years ago and still on tour! :)
Btw: the lead singer's mother is British and he accepted British citizenship in 2019.
In former days they were heavily inspired by British punk (Sex Pistols).
They are my absolut favorite band and very famous in Germany and also in Argentina (no german band have ever achived this). And funFact the Leadsinger and the Drummer are actual british
Anastasia covered the song, the version of Anastasia is „Best Days“
However, „Die Toten Hosen“ also have English songs, one of which they recorded with the legendary English mail robber Ronnie Biggs who fled from prison in England and set off in Brazil.. the song is called „Carnival in Rio“, another gangster story that they released in English as well as in German is the song „Bonnie & Clyde“ in addition, a few years ago they broke out their classic „Wort zum Sonntag“ from 1986 because they could no longer sing I’m not yet 60 and the 60 had to exchange with 70. This video shows a lot of recordings that they show especially in the early years, it's nice to see and remember how they were still complete back then.. the old drummer has unfortunately already passed away and some members of their crew have also passed away who were buried on their joint band grave..
The answer is worse. Its both of both and more. They fill stadiums in both Germany and in South America. So the stuff with the paint is both in South America and at their concerts, because they have big concerts on different continents.
They are some sort of the resident headlner of rock am ring, and what happens there when they play is just magic. I think at least some of the footage in the video is from theyre concerts and the festival
:-D A song loved by kindergarden-kids and also by their grandparents and great-grandparents. A song for a 'night to remember'. Kids singing this song wenn they start on their summer-vacation or when they start into summerbreak. Also a weddingsong. But also a last-meeting-song when you meet someone for the last time in your life.
To compare die Hosen with Coldplay is one of the greatest insults, I ever heard ... *ggg* - btw. "Die Toten Hosen" are along site "Die Ärzte" the most famous, legendary and successfull bands in Germany since the 1980s. Both can easealy fill stadiums (Die Ärzte last weekend the former Berlin Airport Tempelhof). Often called Punk Bands. But both are today far away gone over these roots. They are rock bands, that can play a lot of styles.
If u hang up with ur best Dudes, u go to a conzert, a party, anyway... for a long time u didn´t see eachother, than... THAN, thats the Song. Day like these i wish me the Time stoped.
The Band Revolverheld have met there oldest friend at a party und he told them that he will marry and they wrote a song for the proposal. Fantastik Band -> -> Revolverheld - Ich lass für Dich das Licht an
Funny that you just noticed that Campino has a clear pronunciation.
I don't know any other English person who has such a clear pronunciation as you.
That's also one reason why I like your channel so much.
Best regards from Germany! 🇩🇪
Keep it up!! 👍🏻
Campino, the band's singer, was 50 years old at the time of publication. He has an English mother and his grandfather was briefly a member of the British House of Commons for the Labour Party. He is a big fan of Liverpool FC and Fortuna Düsseldorf. The whole band supports Fortuna so much that they were shirt sponsors for three years after the club was relegated from the first division in 1997 and two further relegations to the fourth division. When, after almost 15 years following relegation from the Bundesliga, there was finally a chance that Fortuna Düsseldorf would return to the top flight, this celebratory anthem was released eight match days before the end of the season. And, as in a Hollywood film script, it came as it had to: In two incredibly dramatic matches against Hertha BSC Berlin (including a 20-minute stoppage in play because the fans stormed the pitch too early in the second leg in Düsseldorf), Fortuna prevailed in front of 51,000 fans in their own stadium. If Hertha had scored just one more goal, Düsseldorf would not have been promoted.
They also bought a player for the team, back in the 980s iirc.
Hi Dwayne, yes the Toten Hosen are popular in Germany. It's not my kind of music but you can argue about music.
If you want to listen to an extraordinary German group I recommend Einstürzende Neubauten with the song Ende-Neu e.g. Blixa Bargeld sang together with Nick Cave in the Bad Seeds. Nina Hagen as a soloist is also interesting. As a contrast, perhaps Söhne Mannheims, Fanta 4, Fischmob, Die Ärzte or Fettes Brot etc.?
You are a very likeable guy, stay the way you are.
Also 'die Ärzte' (English the doctors) and 'die Prinzen' I would add
Legendary! Düsseldorfer Band at the Altstadt! For my point of few the greatest Punk-Band in Germany. Like the Clash in GB. They comes from 1982 and have great lyrics! The Festival they sing about is in the Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf. Here Comes Alex Hier Kommt Alex English Version - Die Toten hosen
Maybe the song sounds familiar to you because you know “Best Days” by Anasticia. Thats basically a cover of "Tage wie diese" in English. I like her music a lot. Because she takes songs from different artists, translates them into English or she just covers them and than she does her own thing with a similar beat and rhythm 😅
You should listen to her in yor free time if you want to hear something special! 😊
The band exists for about 41 years now
I would like to recommend you another song of "Die Toten Hosen". I really would love to see your reaction to "Nur zu Besuch" or "Steh auf, wenn du am Boden liegst". They're one of my favorite german bands of all time. They're awesome.
It's the Holi Festival. It is in different cities around the year. You just missed the Berlin one. It was on Saturday
one of the famous bands here in germany with a strict political standing against faschisem. Best album kleine Horrorshow if you know the film clockwork orange. Other lyrics are often not so often clear in their meaning ob first hearing but they have same „party“ song too.
I would like when you react to „ Die Ärzte - Schrei nach Liebe“
YESSSS!!!!!
I recommend the album Auswärtsspiel. Or have a look here on RUclips for the song Depression de luxe for example.
What I like about die Toten Hosen is that they have really texts. Not all of them need to be taken too seriously, like 10 kleine Jägermeister, but often the texts have really content. Not just the average love songs. And even their love songs are better than most others. 🙂
Festival is called Rock am Ring
Ah yes Die Toten Hosen. My first concert back in 2009. Unfortunately their last Album was rather... disappointing for me, so I even skipped the concert, my father went but I prefer the older stuff. Die Ärzte did a lot better recently. Well it's hard to talk about Die Toten Hosen without mentioning Die Ärzte somehow I always compare them.
...my 1st concert back in 1994... 😉
and even back then those who used to listen to Die Toten Hosen were also an target audience for Die Ärzte...
Die Toten Hosen have 3 English Album from 1991 "Learning English - Lesson One" from 2001 "Crash Landing" and from 2001 “Love, Peace & Money". The Mother of the Frontman is from Oxford.
Coldplay has a sound reminiscent of Die Toten Hosen, who formed in the early '80s and have achieved significant success in Germany.
This is one of two number one hits. The song was so popular that it was even played at the party conference of the center-right CDU party. Campino had attacked the party several times in the past for its policies and didn't find it funny. In fact, the party's spokesman apologized to him.
The other was the result of an argument between Campino and the manager. The manager wanted a number one hit several times in the 90s after the first successes. Campino accused him of not understanding what the band's music was all about. He could write a number one hit at any time, but he didn't want to. He would write him his hit now and then he should shut up. Campino was right:
Die Toten Hosen // „Zehn kleine Jägermeister“ [Offizielles Musikvideo]