Die Toten Hosen

Noted for their irreverent style and tough but hooky tunes, German punk-metal band Die Toten Hosen are one of the country's most successful rock bands, commanding a large and loyal following at home and in Australia, South America, and Japan many decades after they began. With the group's swaggering style and self-deprecating wit, they appeal to both serious punk fans as well as dabblers, and they showed off their fandom with 1992's Learning English: Lesson One, the first of several albums of vintage punk covers featuring members of the original acts. 1996's Opium fürs Volk wa...