Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder

"Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" (Bommerlunder On The Rocks) is a German drinking song by the group Die Toten Hosen. 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 schnapps, popular in Northern Germany.

Song
"Bommerlunder/Opel Gang"
Single by Die Toten Hosen
Released1983
GenrePunk rock
Length"Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder": 2:58
"Opel-Gang": 1:59 (Single version)
1:47 (Album version)
LabelTotenkopf
Songwriter(s)Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder:
Molinare
Dt.Spez
Trini Trimpop
Opel-Gang:
Andreas Frege
Michael Breitkopf
Andreas von Holst
Andreas Meurer
Trini Trimpop
Die Toten Hosen singles chronology
"Reisefieber"
(1982)		 "Bommerlunder/Opel Gang"
(1983)		 "Hip Hop Bommi Bop"
(1983)

Die Toten Hosen released the song as a double A-side 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 Fab Five Freddy, called "Hip Hop Bommi Bop".

Music video

The video for "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" was directed by Wolfgang Büld. It shows a wedding in a church turn into total chaos, partly caused by drinking Bommerlunder.

Track listing
  1. "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" (Molinare, Dt.Spez.; Trimpop/Trimpop) − 2:58
  2. "Opel-Gang" (von Holst, Frege/Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop) − 1:59
  3. "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 maxi single under the name Die Technodosen.[1]

References
  1. Die Technodosen at Discogs Retrieved 3. Oktober 2022.
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