I thought the Mad Hatter tea party in the 1972 Marc Bolan/Ringo Starr film "Born To Boogie" was [View all]

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one of the craziest music videos I'd ever seen (and filming it was just as much of a madhouse, judging by what producer Tony Visconti wrote about it in his autobiography).

But then I ran across this bit of insanity, the video below, this evening, one of YouTube's recommendations, and it made me think of the Mad Hatter and the Beatles -- and of course that Bolan/Starr film -- but with a very German twist... The 2019 song and video (which has 1.8 million views) upset a lot of Toten Hosen fans who wanted the band just to do punk rock, or at least something like classic rock, but musicians do like to be silly at times.

And both these videos are fun.

German lyrics with English translation:

https://lyricfluent.com/lyrics/die_toten_hosen_feiern_im_regen_english