"Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" (''Bommerlunder On The Rocks'') is a German

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. 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

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, popular in Northern Germany.

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released the song as a double

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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

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Hip Hop Bommi Bop "Hip Hop Bommi Bop" is a parody hip hop version of the Die Toten Hosen song "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder". The song was born with the cooperation with Fab Five Freddy and is one of the first German hip hop songs. A remix of the song ("Tap into ...

Music video

The video for "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" was directed by Wolfgang Büld. It shows a

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in a

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turn into total chaos, partly caused by drinking Bommerlunder.

Track listing

# "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

''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

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under the name ''Die Technodosen''.
''Die Technodosen'' at

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eisgekuhlter Bommerlunder Drinking songs German songs Die Toten Hosen songs