Kauf MICH! (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Kauf Mich!


Type = Album
Artist = Die Toten Hosen
Released = 1993
Recorded = Studio Dierks Stommeln
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 54:01
Label = TOT (Virgin Records)
Producer = John Caffery, Die Toten Hosen

Last album = "Learning English, Lesson 1" (1991)
This album = "Kauf Mich!" (1993)
Next album = "Reich & Sexy" (1993)

"Kauf Mich!" is the ninth album by Die Toten Hosen, released in 1993. The LP is a concept album dealing with consumerism and ultraconservatism. Various satirical advertisements and infomercials are interspersed among the music. In addition, the concept of right wing extremism as exemplified by ultraconservatism and neo-Nazism in the songs "Wilkommen in Deutschland" (Welcome to Germany) and "Sascha...ein aufrechter Deutscher" (Sascha... an upstanding German) is explored, which excited controversy during the time of the album's release. It was a best-selling album in Germany for 13 weeks in 1993, also selling well in Austria and Switzerland. [http://www.charts-surfer.de/musiksearch.php Charts-Surfer Deutschland] ]

Track listing

# "Umtausch ausgeschlossen!" – 2:18 ("No Trade-Ins!")
# "Niemals einer Meinung" – 3:44 ("Never of the same Opinion")
# "Hot-Clip-Video-Club" – 4:01
# "Wilkommen in Deutschland" – 3:56 ("Welcome to Germany")
# "Drunter, drauf & drüber" – 3:02 ("Under it, on it and over it")
# "Erotim-Super-3 feucht*" – 0:31
# "Kauf Mich!" – 3:30 ("Buy Me!")
# "Die Homolka Kettensäge*" – 0:36 ("The Homolka Chainsaw")
# "Sascha...ein aufrechter Deutscher" – 2:34 ("Sascha...an upstanding German")
# "Gewissen" – 2:41 ("Conscience")
# "Gute Reise" – 5:04 ("Nice Trip")
# "Alles aus Liebe" – 4:34 ("All for the sake of Love")
# "Wünsch Dir was" – 4:15 ("Make a Wish")
# "Mein größter Feind" – 3:08 ("My Worst Enemy")
# "Rambo-Dance" – 4:09
# "Katastrophen-Kommando" – 4:30 ("Catastrophe Commando")

Tracks marked with a * are marked with an asterisk in the CD's accompanying booklet. Both of them are short mock infomercials. There is also a hidden track after the final song.

2007 re-release

For the 25th anniversary of the group many albums were remastered, among them was Kauf Mich!. The album received a second booklet and additional songs, including the B-side of the Kauf Mich! single.

# "Krieg und Frieden" − 4:58 ("War and Peace")
# "Im Namen des Herrn" − 2:08 ("In the Name of the Lord")
# "Auf dem Weg zu Nummer 1" − 4:01 ("On the Way to Number 1")
# "5 Minuten" − 3:01 ("5 Minutes")
# "Hilfe" − 3:24 ("Help")
# "Der heiße Draht (Best Of)" − 6:09 ("The Hot Wire")

References