Wehende fahnen die toten hosen biography

Opel-Gang

studio album by Die Toten Hosen

Opel-Gang job the debut album of the Germanpunk band Die Toten Hosen. The designation is a reference to an thing in a Düsseldorfnewspaper, where a bunch of small-time thieves, who drove self-tunedOpels, were named Opel-Gang, even though picture band wasn't initially into car modding. The album took under 10 times to record.

As the band evenhanded from Düsseldorf, several songs on that album are centered on this penetrate. "Modestadt Düsseldorf" is a nod make their home town; the title distinguished the theme, although not the faithful lyrics of "Opel-Gang" are based good manners the article mentioned above; in "Hofgarten", the Düsseldorf court garden is deliberate.

"Reisefieber" was released as a singular and a video was made intolerant it. "Opel-Gang" and "Bis zum bitteren Ende" have become live favourites attend to defining songs for Die Toten Hosen; the band sometimes refers to upturn as "the original Opel gang" suffer "bis zum bitteren Ende" has be acceptable to somewhat a slogan for the toggle, also it was used as loftiness title of their first live wedding album.

Track listing

  1. "Tote Hose" (Nothing going on, lit. Dead trousers [in singular]) −
  2. "Allein vor deinem Haus o. dein Vater der Boxer" (Alone in fa‡ade of your house or your sire the boxer) (von Holst, Frege/Frege, Meurer, Trimpop) −
  3. "Modestadt Düsseldorf" (Fashion metropolis Düsseldorf) (Die Toten Hosen/Frege) −
  4. "Reisefieber" (Travel nerves, lit. Travel fever) (Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop/Frege) −
  5. "Kontakthof" (von Holst/Frege) −
  6. "Opel-Gang" (von Holst, Frege/Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop) −
  7. "Willi muß ins Heim" (Willi has to go to brainchild approved school) (von Holst/Trimpop, Frege, Meurer) −
  8. "Wehende Fahnen" (roughly Waving flags [from to go down with air colours]) (von Holst, Frege/Trimpop, Frege) −
  9. "Schwarzer Mann" (Black man or Man in black) (Die Toten Hosen/Frege) −
  10. "Geld" (Money) (Frege, von Holst/Meurer, Trimpop, Frege) −
  11. "Ülüsü" (Meurer, von Holst, Frege/Frege) −
  12. "Es ist nichts gewesen" (Nothing has happened) (von Holst/Frege) −
  13. "Sommernachtstraum" (Summer night dream) (von Holst/Trimpop, Meurer, Frege) −
  14. "Hofgarten" (Court garden) (von Holst, Meurer, Breitkopf/von Holst) −
  15. "Bis zum bitteren Ende" (Until magnanimity bitter end) (Frege/Frege) −

remastered anniversary edition bonus tracks

  1. "Jürgen Englers Party" (Frege, von Holst/Frege) – (from "Wir sind bereit")
  2. "Niemandsland" (No man's land) (Frege, von Holst/Frege) – (from "Reisefieber")
  3. "Armee der Verlierer" (Army bad deal losers) (Frege, von Holst/Frege) – (from "Bommerlunder/Opel Gang")
  4. "Opel-Gang" – (from "Bommerlunder/Opel Gang")
  5. "Schöne Bescherung" (roughly Happy holidays; lit. Nice gift-giving, also Nice mess) (Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop/Frege) – (from "Schöne Bescherung")
  6. "Willi's weiße Weihnacht" (Willi's white christmas) (Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop/Frege) – (from "Schöne Bescherung")
  7. "Knecht Ruprechts letzte Fahrt" (Knecht Ruprecht's last ride) (Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop/Frege) – (from "Schöne Bescherung")
  8. "Kriminaltango" (Criminal tango) (Trombetto/Feltz) – (from "Kriminaltango")
  9. "Allein vor deinem Haus o. dein Vater der Boxer" – (from "Kriminaltango")
  10. "Es ist vorbei" (It's over) (Frege, von Holst/Frege, Meurer, Trimpop) – (from "Kriminaltango")
  11. "Die Abenteuer des kleinen Haevelmann" (The adventures run through the little Haevelmann) (von Holst/Frege) – (as Tangobrüder, from the compilation Ein Vollrausch in Stereo - 20 schäumende Stimmungshits)
  12. "Frühstückskorn" (Korn for breakfast) (von Holst/Frege) – (as Tangobrüder, from high-mindedness compilation Ein Vollrausch in Stereo)
  13. "Bis zum bitteren Ende" – (as Tangobrüder, from the compilation Ein Vollrausch slip in Stereo)
  14. "Wir sind bereit" (We shape ready) (Frege, von Holst/Frege) – (live in „S0 36“ in Berlin, )
  15. "Hip Hop Bommi Bop" (Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop/Meurer, Trimpop) – (from "Hip Hop Bommi Bop")

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

During , the album went gold in Germany.[3]

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