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Hamburg, Germany (1993 – present)

Tocotronic is a German rock band formed in 1993. Similar to Blumfeld or Die Sterne, Tocotronic not only innovated German language rock music, but also inspired a number of later bands, such as Wir sind Helden. Their influence on pop culture is widespread, from fashion (Tocotronic made the combination of 1970s style track suit tops with cheap second-hand ad-shirts famous in Germany) to the playful and weird look of their early records.

Tocotronic are from Hamburg and are released on L’Age D’Or, together with Die Sterne - forming the so-called hamburger schule (“Hamburg school”). However, they dislike this classification; they rather like to see their music as “discursive-rock”, which emphasizes their rather intellectual approach to pop music.
Despite having never been overly commercially successful, Tocotronic have a steady fanbase in Germany and their records have been reviewed in mainstream newspapers and music magazines alike.
The band members are bassist Jan Müller, drummer Arne Zank, and guitarist and singer Dirk von Lowtzow. Starting with the album “Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen” a new guitarist and keyboard player, Rick McPhail, has joined the band. He used to play with Tocotronic at live shows before.

Discography:

Studio Albums:
* Kapitulation (2007)
* Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen (2005) (Pure Reason Must Never Prevail)
* Tocotronic (2002)
* K.O.O.K. (1999)

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1	Kapitulation	692
2	Mein Ruin	551
3	Imitationen	522
4	Verschwör dich gegen dich	455
5	Aber hier leben, nein danke	389
6	Sag alles ab	384
7	Aus meiner Festung	383
8	Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen	370
8	Harmonie ist eine Strategie	370
10	Wehrlos	362
11	Gegen den Strich	356
12	Sie wollen uns erzählen	339
12	Explosion	339
14	This Boy Is Tocotronic	325
15	Ich bin viel zu lange mit euch mitgegangen	297

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vor_jahren_mal wrote:
yesterday morning

schall und wahn

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alex4own wrote:
Sunday afternoon

<3<3<3

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OlivaOlivenbaum wrote:
last week

♥

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Floele wrote:
last week

interessantes Interview

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Silence_kid wrote:
last week

Danke, Dirk!

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CactusJens wrote:
14 days ago

bin gespannt auf das neue material

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loet1000 wrote:
17 days ago

Was hat Sie bloß so ruiniert?

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Kwas91 wrote:
18 days ago

Kompletnie konkretnie nie kumam ich tekstów, ale i tak są zajefajni!

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vor_jahren_mal wrote:
21 days ago

warum nicht?

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volc wrote:
27 days ago

@Draufleben ich schließ mich ohne große worte an....

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Draufleben wrote:
last month

ich mag tocotronic einfach nicht mehr so...

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HommeDePomme wrote:
last month

Jop, 22.1. Hamburg, ich bin dabei:D

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momme93 wrote:
last month

Durch nichts zu toppen

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dreiund20 wrote:
last month

22.1. AAAAAAAAAAH!

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Unckrich wrote:
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In den Texten keiner anderen Band finde ich mich so sehr wieder!

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thekiller wrote:
September 2009

Ich verabscheue euch wegen eurer Kleinkunst zutiefst.

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toco-till wrote:
September 2009

Ich liebe meine Tocos... Seit nunmehr 10 Jahren meine Identifikations-Band...

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beinahe-seltsam wrote:
September 2009

Ex-Blumfeld Jochen Distelmeyer solo: http://www.lastfm.de/music/Jochen+Distelmeyer

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Floele wrote:
September 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYu7rWb_RxA Impressionen vom Konzert in der Roten Flora. Viele Fotos. Aber auch 3 kleines Videos sind enthalten.

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pinepeach wrote:
September 2009

are they really THAT overrated? I would say Wir Sind Helden or some others are more so. Tocotronic is incredible!

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