Dimple Minds
| Dimple Minds | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Bremen , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Fun punk , fun metal |
| founding | 1986 |
| Website | www.dimpleminds.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Ladde (Lars Löding) | |
| Ole (Olaf Paskarbeit) | |
| Mao (Marco Liebing) | |
| Steff (Stefan Ulrich) | |
The Dimple Minds are a German fun punk / fun metal band founded in Bremen in 1986 . Alcohol plays a central role in the texts . The Dimple Minds have sold around 250,000 records so far. The 1990 live album Volle Kelle live reached number 69 in the German album charts.
history
The five school friends Lars Löding (“Ladde”), Speedy, Olaf Paskarbeit (“Ole”), Marco Liebig (“Mao”) and Martin founded Dimple Minds in April 1986 in Bremen . The group recorded the first demo in the spring of 1987 under the title Blau auf'm Bau . It got them a record deal with No Remorse Records , where in late 1987 the debut album Drinkers to Power was released. The lyrics to songs such as Drinker to Power , Nonnentanz and Hausfrau led to the indexing of the album by the BPjM in 1988 . The first national tour took place at the end of 1988 with Tankard .
In 1989 the band left after a legal battle the threatened bankruptcy No Remorse Records and switched to Steamhammer / SPV . Michael Hirch also became the new drummer that year, with whom the Dimple Minds recorded their second studio album Durstige Männer , which was released together with the live album Volle Kelle - Live in 1990. Volle Kelle - Live reached number 69 in the German album charts . After another change on drums, the third album, Helden der Arbeit , was released in 1991 , which earned the band the reputation of promoting unemployment. Furthermore, the band became the target of hostility from the right-wing extremist camp, and because of death threats, some concerts took place in 1992 under police protection.
In April 1993, the band took on the next album with Charlie Bauerfeind, the best drink out , which was the second album in the band's history in the German album Top 100. The Dimple Minds achieved their last chart placement in 1995 with the live album Through and Through Live - Live in Alzheim , with Michael Hirch on the drums again. On the 1996 album Maximum Debilum , the group dealt critically with alcohol consumption for the first time. In the summer of 1997, Drunk on Arrival, a compilation of 15 drinking songs translated into English by the band, was released. Two more albums followed: Häppy Hour (1999) and Prollsport (2002). After that there was no agreement between the band and the record label and the Dimple Minds lost their record deal.
For the next five years the group only played a few concerts. In the Jägermeister Rock: Liga the band in 2004 finished fourth, still they came on the occasion of the profits of the German football championship in 2004 by Werder Bremen both at the Weserstadion rather than on the Bremen marketplace for championship celebrations. With a new record deal with the Weser label , the studio album Toleranz ist Heilbar was released in 2007 , and Stefan Ulrich has been the drummer ever since.
On September 26, 2014, the group's last album to date was released with Krank not dead .
Discography
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| year | album | Remarks |
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| 1988 | Blue on the building | EP |
| Drinkers to power | ||
| The mason and the king | Re-release of Drinkers to Power + Blau auf'm Bau EP | |
| 1990 | Full ladle live | Live album |
| Thirsty men | ||
| 1991 | Heroes of work | |
| 1993 | The best drink up | |
| 1995 | Through and through
... live in Alzheim |
Live album |
| 1996 | Maximum debilum | |
| 1997 | Drunk On Arrival | Best of with English-language versions of old hits |
| 1998 | Barefoot or patent leather shoes | EP (feat. Uli Borowka ) |
| Monster hits | Best of | |
| 1999 | Cheerful hour | |
| 2002 | Prollsport | |
| 2007 | Tolerance is curable! | |
| 2014 | Ill not dead |
literature
- Holger Stratmann (Ed.): RockHard Encyclopedia . Rock Hard, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 978-3-9805171-0-2 , pp. 93 f .
Web links
- Official website
- Dimple Minds at laut.de
- Dimple Minds at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Chart tracking Dimple Minds ( memento of the original from June 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.chartsurfer.de, accessed on December 27, 2012.
- ↑ Christoph Wenke: DIMPLE MINDS. Target group: Dancing lawyers. Ox Fanzine, accessed October 22, 2011 (December 2007 / January 2008).
- ↑ Björn Gieseler: Interview with Dimple Minds. bloodchamber.de, December 27, 2007, accessed October 22, 2011 .
