Happy Birthday – Die Toten Hosen and Die Ärzte celebrate album anniversaries with LPs

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With their anniversary albums, Ärzte and Toten Hosen land in the top 3 of the German vinyl charts.

If “13”, the doctors’ eighth studio album, weren’t a record, but let’s say: a married couple, then this year would be their silver wedding anniversary. The album with the black billiard ball on the cover was released 25 years ago. May 25, 1998 to be exact. Now Die Ärzte have released a new edition of the album and have landed at number three in the German vinyl charts.

Not only the doctors have reason to celebrate. Die Toten Hosen also celebrated the 30th anniversary of their eighth studio album in May. BUY ME! first appeared in 1993 and has now been reissued. Both in 1993 and today, 30 years later, the record is popular with Hosen fans: the reissue climbed to second place in the Official German Vinyl Charts.

The doctors are reissuing their album “13” on vinyl

In Germany, the Ärzte album reached platinum status at the time and stayed at the top of the album charts for 29 weeks. The accompanying single “Männer sind Schweine” was in the top 100 of the German charts for 25 weeks. The new edition of “13” will be released exclusively as a vinyl album (including download code) – and not in the typical 12-inch LP format, but on two 10-inch EP records. Just like 25 years ago. The 1998 vinyl version of the album was released in a limited edition of 500 copies, also as a double EP in 10″ format. To this day, the vinyl edition of this doctor’s album is considered a rarity among collectors and is sold for several hundred euros.

The Doctors “13” Track Listing:

LP 1:

  1. lady
  2. Punk Is
  3. A Song for you
  4. Golden craft
  5. My friends
  6. Party Stinks
  7. 1/2 love song
  8. ignorama
  9. No more war, no more Las Vegas!
  10. rebel

LP 2:

  1. The Earl
  2. Gray
  3. show off
  4. Men are pigs
  5. love and pain
  6. Never said
  7. the baby
  8. grotesque song

Die Toten Hosen BUY ME! #2 on the vinyl charts

On May 10, 1993 the eighth album by Toten Hosen was released. At that time, KAUF MICH! first place in the German charts. Today, 30 years after its release, the new edition of the record is almost at the top of the charts. With the new edition of BUY ME! the pants rise to second place in the German vinyl charts; the two big hits are called “Everything out of love” and “Wünsch dir was”. To mark the milestone birthday, the long player has now been released on vinyl in an exclusive limited and numbered anniversary edition.

Die Toten Hosen BUY ME! – Tracklist:

LP Side A:

  1. Exchange excluded!
  2. Never agree
  3. Hot clip video club
  4. Welcome to Germany
  5. Under, over and over
  6. Erotim Super 3 wet
  7. Buy me!
  8. The Homolka chainsaw
  9. Sascha… an upstanding German
  10. Conscience
  11. Bon Voyage

LP Side B:

  1. Everything for love
  2. Make a wish
  3. my greatest enemy
  4. Rambo dance
  5. Disaster Command
  6. The last day

The Official German Vinyl Charts are determined by GfK Entertainment on behalf of the Bundesverband Musikindustrie eV. The monthly hit lists are based on sales and usage data from 2,800 dealers.

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