Dinge von denen
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"Dinge von denen" [Things of which] is a song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 by Die Ärzte
Die Ärzte
Die Ärzte is a punk band from Berlin. Die Ärzte are one of the best-known German punk rock bands and have released over 20 albums. The band consists of guitarist Farin Urlaub, drummer Bela B. and bass player Rodrigo González...

. It's the fifth track on CD1 and the second single from their 2003 album Geräusch
Geräusch
Geräusch is a studio album by Die Ärzte. The album was sold on two CDs, which look like LPs. The package is designed, using upside-down techniques, to make it difficult to decide which of the covers is the front....

. It's about not wanting to hear of others doing wrong and/or gross things.

The video

The video is a parody
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

 of Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

, it's also in greyscale. The video was filmed in a copy of the decoration of the German game show Dalli, Dalli (Hurry, hurry). The host in the video said after the song: "So, wir sind der Meinung, das war spitze" (now, in our opinion, that was great), in reference to the sentence of the Dalli, Dalli host Hans Rosenthal
Hans Rosenthal
Hans Rosenthal was a radio editor, director, and one of the most popular German radio and television hosts of the 1970s and 80s.- Life :...

. He also jumped in the air and the jump was frozen, like Rosental in his show. The introduction, after the intro and before the song, was a parody on the introduction for the 60's music show Beatclub, made by Wilhelm Wieben
Wilhelm Wieben
Wilhelm Wieben is a German journalist, actor and author.Wieben was born in Hennstedt, Dithmarschen. After school he studied theater at Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel in Berlin. Later he worked as a journalist for Radio Bremen. From 1972 to 1998 Wieben was a news presenter on the TV channel...

.

There are two versions of the video, Bela is not in the first one but in the second, where he is coming too late to the performance of the band.

Track listing

  1. "Dinge von denen" (Gonzalez/Gonzalez, Blitz) - 3:57
  2. "Powerlove" (Felsenheimer) - 4:37
  3. "Worum es geht" (Urlaub) - 2:51
  4. "Unrockbar
    Unrockbar
    "Unrockbar" is a punk song by Die Ärzte. It's the first track on CD2 and the first single from their 2003 album Geräusch. It's about a man, whose girlfriend doesn't like rock....

     (Video)" (Urlaub) - 4:38
  5. "Dinge von denen (Video)" (Gonzalez/Gonzalez, Blitz) - 3:57

B-sides

  • "Powerlove" is about giving lonely women "powerloving", one of them attempting suicide and the other masturbating. It was initially released on the compilation 10 Jahre Fritz - Die CD as "Power Love".
  • "Worum es geht" [About what it is] is about different opinions of different social groups.

Charts

Year Country Position
2003 Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

14
2003 Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

33
2003 Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

68
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