Bananafishbones
| Bananafishbones | |
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 Bananafishbones (2016); from left to right: Peter Horn jr., Florian Rein, Sebastian Horn |
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| General information | |
| origin | Bad Toelz , Bavaria , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Alternative , rock , alternative country , pop |
| founding | 1987 |
| Website | www.bananafishbones.de |
| Founding members | |
| Sebastian Horn | |
Drums , vocals |
Florian Rein |
guitar |
Thomas Dill (until 1991) |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, bass
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Sebastian Horn |
Guitar, vocals, keyboard
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Peter Horn Jr. (since 1991) |
Drums, vocals, percussion
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Florian Rein |
The Bananafishbones are a German band from Bad Tölz in Upper Bavaria, founded in 1987 . Her best-known hits include songs like Easy Day , Come to Sin or I Like a Lot .
history
In 1987 Sebastian Horn (born December 2, 1970), Florian Rein (born February 27, 1971) and Thomas Dill founded the band and named themselves after the title Bananafishbones by The Cure , which can be found on the album The Top (1984), which got its name after the short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish by Jerome D. Salinger .
After the guitarist Thomas Dill, called Toi, had to quit because of a stay abroad, Sebastian's brother Peter Horn jr. (Born August 26, 1961). After first appearances at the Tölzer Gymnasium and in the town's evangelical parish hall, the trio soon won a band competition in neighboring Wolfratshausen and made their name as one of the best live bands in the region with numerous live performances in the clubs and on the stages of the Bavarian Oberland (Süddeutsche Zeitung) .
In 1995 their first album Gray Test Hits was released (in self-production) . One year later, Easy Day was released , an award-winning mini-thriller filmed by Sebastian's brother Hans Horn, filmed between Sylvensteinsee , Upper Bavaria, and Eng , Austria, in which Franka Potente plays one of the leading roles. The accompanying soundtrack was released 3 years later as an Easy Day EP . The Bananafishbones became known throughout Germany in 1998 when their single Come to Sin was used in a C&A commercial.
They wore songs to the soundtracks of some German film productions with, for example, three Chinese with the contrabass ( What an Ending exclusively for the soundtrack), to the acid test ( Pow Wow from the album A Town Called Seven and a cover version of Talking Heads - Hits Road to Nowhere as a single) or Who dies earlier is dead longer . In the film series Die Wilden Kerle they are responsible for large parts of the soundtrack, as well as in the film Tödlicheverbindungen , in which they also played small guest roles. In 2007, she played for The Three Robbers the Räuberlied one.
The three are influenced by bands such as Ween , Cake , Eels , Barenaked Ladies or Talking Heads , as well as by artists such as Elliott Smith , Woody Guthrie , Johnny Cash or Robert Palmer , and they have a live presence rarely experienced in Germany (around 120 concerts in the year) on the day.
In addition, the band organized the annual Hillside Festival music festival in Bad Tölz from 2001 onwards . In 2006 they played a big free concert in the historic Marktstrasse.
Florian Rein and Sebastian Horn are also members of the band The Heimatdamisch, who follow Global Kryner to cover well-known hits from rock and pop in the Oberkrainer style. The debut album Highway to Oberkrain was released in 2015, the follow-up album Circus Oberkrain in 2019.
Sebastian Horn
Peter Horn jun.
Florian Rein
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1995 | Gray Test Hits | - | - | - |
First published: June 12, 1995
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| 1999 | Viva Conputa |
DE44 (17 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: March 15, 1999
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| 2000 | My Private Rainbow |
DE75 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: September 11, 2000
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| 2002 | A Town Called Seven | - | - | - |
First published: May 6, 2002
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| 2004 | 36 m² | - | - | - |
First published: March 1, 2004
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| 2007 | When You Pass By | - | - | - |
First published: March 9, 2007
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| 2012 | 12 songs in one day | - | - | - |
First published: January 27, 2012
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Compilations
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2013 | Best Of 1998-2013 | - | - | - |
First published: December 13, 2013
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Live albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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DE
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| 1997 | Live & Unplugged | - | - | - |
First published: August 11, 1997
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| 2003 | Live In Buchloe with Tölzer Stadtkapelle |
- | - | - |
First published: 2003
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| 2015 | Live & Unplugged in the Tölzer Kurhaus | - | - | - |
First published: January 23, 2015
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Soundtracks
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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DE
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AT
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| 2003 | The wild guys - everything is fine as long as you are wild! | - | - | - |
First published: September 29, 2003
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| 2005 | The Wild Things 2 |
DE63 (6 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: February 21, 2005
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| 2006 | The wild guys 3 - the attack of the beasts beasts |
DE59 (6 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: March 3, 2006
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| 2007 | Die Wilden Kerle 4 - The attack of the silver lights |
DE52 (5 weeks) DE |
AT49 (2 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: February 2, 2007
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| 2008 | DWK 5 - The Wild Things: Beyond the Horizon |
DE99 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: February 22, 2008
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| 2013 | V8 - you want to be the best | - | - | - |
First published: September 27, 2013
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1998 | Come To Sin Viva Conputa |
DE32 (14 weeks) DE |
AT26 (7 weeks) AT |
CH29 (13 weeks) CH |
First published: November 16, 1998
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| 1999 | Easy Day single track |
DE70 (9 weeks) DE |
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First published: May 10, 1999
with Franka Potente |
More singles
- 1996: Horse Gone EP
- 1999: Dinosaurs
- 2000: Glam
- 2000: Bum
- 2001: So What's New? (with Hugo Strasser and MC Matuschke )
- 2002: Smart
- 2002: Road to Nowhere
- 2003: Kids
- 2004: Snowflakes
- 2004: Ever
- 2006: 1. FC Summer
- 2006: Big-a-Dog, Big-a-Bite (as John Ferdinand Woodstock & The Rebirth Experience )
- 2007: Dice
Musicals
- 2014: Bingo! Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten (based on the children's book of the same name by Andreas Steinhöfel )
- 2016: Lieselotte and the missing apple pie (songs from the children's book of the same name by Alexander Steffensmeier )
Web links
- Official website
- Bananafishbones at laut.de
- Bananafishbones at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Heimatdamisch at Discogs (English)
- ↑ MUHsical by Alexander Steffensmeier with the Bananafishbones. In: www.musicals-on-stage.de. Retrieved September 12, 2016 .