"Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" (Ice-cold Bommerlunder) is a German drinking song

Drinking song

A drinking song is a song sung while drinking alcohol. Most drinking songs are folk songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music...

. The song is repeated over and over, each time the song is sung quicker and a pitch higher, until performers can't sing anymore.

Bommerlunder itself is an akvavit

Akvavit

Akvavit or aquavit is a traditional flavoured spirit that is principally produced in Scandinavia, where it has been produced since the 15th century....

, popular in Northern Germany.

Die Toten Hosen version

Die Toten Hosen

Die Toten Hosen

Die Toten Hosen is a German punk band from Düsseldorf. They have enjoyed decades-long mass appeal in Germany.The band's name literally means "The Dead Pants" in English, although the phrase "tote Hose" is a German expression meaning "nothing going on" or "boring"...

 played a notable version of the song, which has become a live staple for the band. It was released 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

Opel-Gang

Opel-Gang is the debut album of the German punk band Die Toten Hosen. The title is a reference to an article in a Düsseldorf newspaper, where a gang of small-time thieves, who drove self-tuned Opels, were named Opel-Gang, even though the band wasn't initially into car modding...

. "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" wasn't originally released on any albums, but the song was released later on the 1993 best-of album Reich & sexy

Reich & sexy

Reich & sexy is the first greatest hits compilation by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen...

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In the same year, they produced a hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 version of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" together with Fab Five Freddy

Fab Five Freddy

Fred Brathwaite , more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist...

, called "Hip Hop Bommi Bop

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....

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Music video

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

Wedding

A wedding is the ceremony in which two people are united in marriage or a similar institution. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes...

 in a church turn into total chaos, partly caused by drinking Bommerlunder.

Track listing

1. "Armee der Verlierer" (Army of losers) (Frege, von Holst/Frege) − 4:23
2. "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" (Molinare, Dt.Spez.; Trimpop/Trimpop) − 2:58
3. "Opel-Gang" (von Holst, Frege/Breitkopf, Frege, von Holst, Meurer, Trimpop) − 1:59