BAP – Vün Drinne Noh Drüsse (LP) (1982) – €10,00

by Record Facts

posted by ad-vinylrecords

BAP (Colognian pronunciation: [bap]) is a German rock band. With eleven albums reaching the number one in the German record charts, BAP is one of the most successful rock acts in their home country.

Nearly all of BAP’s lyrics are written in Kölsch, the dialect of Cologne, or more precisely in a Kölsch-influenced derivation of Eifelplatt, a regional variant of the Ripuarian language spoken in the nearby rural Eifel. Niedecken’s most prominent musical influences, especially early in his career, were Bob Dylan, the Kinks, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Wolfgang Ambros.

Pure German rock combined with ironic, sometimes angry, sometimes melancholic texts. Powerful political protest songs such as “Kristallnaach” (Kristallnaach (Colognian for Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass) is a political song. The track was the album’s only single and reached #25 on the German charts. The song was meant to raise awareness of the resurgence of right-wing populism in Europe and critique Germany‘s Vergangenheitsbewältigung of the Nazi era.) as well as “Zehnter Juni” are followed by romantic or melancholic ballads such as “Do kanns zaubre”, one of the best lovesongs ever written in German, or the sad “Ah`ner Leitplank” about a deadly car accident. For non-German speakers: Never mind the language barrier (Even Germans have sometimes problems with the slang, so that all texts are generally translated in “School German”), the music on its own is worth it a million times.

Side one