"Kein Alkohol (ist auch keine Lösung)!" (''No

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(is no solution either)!'') 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 second single and the eighteenth track from the album ''

Auswärtsspiel ''Auswärtsspiel'' (''Away game'') is the ninth studio album by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen. It was released in 2002. This is one of the band's favourite albums. The record is much more personal than previous albums. This is also the last ...

''. The narrator paints a bleak picture of his life, and explains that not drinking doesn't improve matters. Furthermore, he states that even Jesus realized that one can't do without drugs (referring to the miracle of transforming water into wine) and that teetotallers (singling out the Vatican and the

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as examples) are the worst people.

Music video

The music video was directed by . It features

Karina Krawczyk Karina Krawczyk (born 5 August 1971) is a German actress and occasionally works as a fashion model. Acting career Karina Krawczyk speaks Polish, German, English, and French fluently. She studied acting at the theater school Jacques Lecoq in Pa ...

and Ingo Naujoks in main roles. The video shows a couple walking into a fancy restaurant. When they're offered wine, the screen splits to two: on one side they decide to drink the wine, on the other side they refuse. Then intermittently separately and with the split screen is shown how the non-drinking version of the couple are having a romantic dinner and the others are starting to act up. On the drinker side it comes to a fight between the man and a waiter and among the mess the two sides become interspersed with each other, which leads to a similar conclusion on both sides.

Track listing

# "Kein Alkohol (ist auch keine Lösung)!" (Frege, Meurer, van Dannen/Frege, van Dannen) − 3:49 # "Wie man Kaninchen macht" (''How one makes

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s'') (Frege, Meurer/Frege) - 3:57 # "Im Meer" (''In the

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'') (Breitkopf, von Holst/Frege) – 3:42

Charts

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kein Alkohol (ist auch keine Losung)! 2002 singles Die Toten Hosen songs Songs written by Campino (singer) Songs written by Andreas von Holst Songs written by Funny van Dannen