Bois Seul - Trink Allein (formerly known as Bois Seul) is a formerly unidentified new wave song by German band Die Rüttler. It’s sung in both German and French.
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The song was first posted to the New Wave Outpost forums by user Guglielm on August 23rd, 2012 along with multiple other unknown songs.
Guglielm reposted the song to WatZatSong on September 7th, 2014. It was tagged as Rüttler, he didn’t provide any information about the song, but it was theorized to be from WFMU.
On September 27th, 2017, Guglielm said he recorded the song off of a German radio station around 1986. It was also discovered that the song was a poem written by Samuel Beckett.
On March 26th, 2023, Guglielm confirmed that he digitized all of his cassette tapes with the songs on them in the early 90s, and no longer had any of them anymore.
On May 27th, 2023, user Musicfan1994 brought up the band Die Rüttler as the possible artists. The OP brought up how some of the members joined the band called I A O and their song The Rise is basically an English cover of this song.
On August 11th, 2024, user Tyx contacted band member Achim Kohlberger and he confirmed the song was by the band. He said he still had a copy of the song, but needed to find it.
On August 18th, 2024, the song was fully identified as Bois Seul - Trink Allein by Die Rüttler after Achim found the cassette and posted the band’s discography to BandCamp.
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