"Kauf MICH!" (''Buy ME!'') is a song by
Die Toten Hosen
Die Toten Hosen (literally "The Dead Trousers", figuratively "The Deadbeats") is a German punk rock band from Düsseldorf.
History
The current members of Die Toten Hosen are Campino (Andreas Frege), Kuddel (Andreas von Holst), Vom (Stephe ...
. It's the fourth single and the seventh track from the album ''
Kauf MICH!''. The single cover is designed as a typical
washing powder
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box.
The uniqueness of the song is, that lyrically narrator puts himself "on the market", coinciding with the theme of
commercialism
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.
One of the b-sides, "Der heiße Draht", is based on an idea of people calling and singing DTH songs over the phone. For the single, this was divided in three parts. On the re-release of ''Kauf MICH!'', a best-of from these calls was made.
There is also an
English
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version of the song, titled "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (Buy Me!)", which appeared on ''
Love, Peace & Money
''Love, Peace & Money'' (also ''Love Peace & Money''; Japanese 愛、平和、そして金) is the first English-language album by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen (ディ・トーテン・ホーゼン di tōten hōzen"in katakana; DTH), not ...
''.
Music video
The video was directed by
Hans Neleman
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. It features mostly touring footage.
Track listing
# "Kauf MICH!" (Breitkopf/Frege, Müller) – 3:30
# "Der heiße Draht (Teil I)" (''The hot wire (Part I)'') − 6:19
# "Hilfe" (''Help'') (von Holst/Frege) − 3:24
# "Der heiße Draht (Teil II)" − 6:15
# "
I Fought the Law
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" (
Sonny Curtis
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) − 2:35
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cover)
# "Der heiße Draht (Teil III)" − 7:25
Charts
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1994 singles
1993 songs
Songs written by Campino (singer)
Songs written by Michael Breitkopf
Die Toten Hosen songs