Toten Hosen - Altes Fieber (Old Fever) - official video & live in Poland, 2017

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Last edited Sat Jun 11, 2022, 08:42 PM - Edit history (2)

And over and over
it's the same old songs,
that make you feel
as if time were standing still.

‘Cause it’s never over,
this same old fever,
which always comes up
whenever we’re together.

German lyrics and English translation here: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/altes-fieber-same-old-fever.html

Great lyrics about how old songs take you back to old days and the friends you knew then, the feelings that never completely go away. Songs are time machines.

I'm not quite sure what the lyrics have to do with the official video (which has nearly 24 million views), but this isn't the first time I've noticed official videos that don't seem that closely based on the song (not the first time with this band, either).

I'll admit I didn't expect a video set in what I think they meant to be the Old West, the American Old West. OTOH, I heard decades ago that Germans were obsessed with the Wild West, with westerns very popular on German TV. Not sure how far back that obsession goes, but my German-born grandfather did head for Texas soon after coming over from Germany and worked for a while as a cowboy before settling down to farm like his other German-American relatives and family in Germany going back centuries.

And God knows westerns are still popular here, including with some RW relatives of mine who are, unfortunately, gun nuts.

I do think someone had been watching "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (especially the ending) before they filmed this video...

Editing belatedly to note that this is one of the tracks off DTH's award-winning 2012 album Ballast Der Republik.

And re what I said about the video being reminiscent of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid --according to the German version of Wikipedia, it was in fact following the German film Zwei Banditen or Two Outlaws, which was based on the story of Butch and Sundance.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballast_der_Republik

This was the second of four singles off that album. I've also posted the other three in separate OPs.


Editing again because I found out reading an interview with Campino that some of his favorite books as a child were Westerns written by German author Christopher S. Hagen, so that could be where the interest in the Wild West comes from. The band also used an intro at their concert at a stadium in Köln (Cologne) last night that showed them as actors in a Western film: https://democraticunderground.com/10181664814#post44