You and how many of your friends

chronology
You and how many of your friends
Studio album by Kettcar
Publication ; (s)	2002
Label (s)	Grand Hotel van Cleef
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Indie rock , indie pop
Title (number)	11
occupation	Singing / guitar : Marcus Wiebusch ; Guitar / vocals: Erik Langer; E-bass / vocals: Reimer Bustorff ; Drums : Frank Tirado-Rosales; Keyboard / vocals: Lars Wiebusch;
production	Swen Meyer

You and how many of your friends is the first studio album by the Hamburg band Kettcar . It was released on October 28, 2002 by the label Grand Hotel van Cleef , which was co-founded by Kettcar shortly before.

Emergence

The band took the beginning of 2001, the four songs Drunk , mainly faith , considered specifically and Had he really on their own in the sample room. As they were dissatisfied with the result, the band contacted the producer Swen Meyer , who re-recorded the four songs in the MOB studio . At the end of February, these first recordings formed the EP As long as the fat woman sings, the opera is not over , which was offered as a free download and at concerts (including the opening act for Tomte ). However, the band couldn't find a record company that wanted to release the album. In the summer of 2001 the band also recorded the title Landungsbrücken raus in the MOB Studio , later on Beyond the Bikini Line and the balcony opposite , but no one could find a prospect with any recording.

In 2002 the band recorded the entire album and in September 2002 the Kettcar members Marcus Wiebusch and Reimer Bustorff as well as Tomte singer Thees Uhlmann finally decided to found the label Grand Hotel van Cleef on the , also due to the growing popularity of fans then on October 28th, 2002 the debut album Du und wieviel von seine Freunde was released.

reception

Rainer Ott describes the album in the intro as a “mixture of emotionality, disappointment, love and, yes, understanding” and finds that the band with “the line-up of two guitars, drums, bass, organ and loving electronic gadgets [... ] [have] transferred the best of punk into the world of pop ” and thus created a melancholy “ that one could eat one's way into, but which is never hopeless. ”

Max Scharnigg summarizes you and how many of your friends in the Musikexpress as “Hamburg, guitars, boys, music, pop for sure, rock maybe and: lyrics! Text straight towards the pit of your stomach. "

On the tenth anniversary of the publication, the journalist Ingo Neumayer looks back and states:

" You and how many of your friends are an exclamation point [...] and pave the way for quite a few bands who, in the following years, set out to climb the Zugspitze called pop music with German lyrics [...]." [...] An album that still appeals ten years later - because it just doesn't start. Because questions remain, because even after listening for the hundredth time, not everything has been deciphered and understood. Often it is not about understanding, but rather about feeling. [...] What [kettcar] deliver here is the monarchy and everyday life of the new millennium, a stunning newcomer to the [...] classics shelf of German pop music. Personal but not embarrassing. Intimate but not intrusive. Open, but not voyeuristic. […] Kettcar go all out, a size smaller is not an option for this band that is in the mood for really big songs. There are eleven of them here. "

- Ingo Neumayer, September 2012

In the annual charts of music magazines, you and how many of your friends can occupy positions in the upper range in 2002. Readers of the intro vote the album the fifth best of the year (critics place 26), in Visions it reaches place tenth among readers and twelfth place among the critics and in Spex it reaches position 13 (readers) and 30 respectively (Critic). The editors of the webzine Plattentests.de choose the album as the second best of the year.

The album was also included in various all-time charts by specialist magazines, which underlines the album's importance for the German music scene. So will you and how much of your friends out in the list of top 25 German pop albums (20th place, Music Express 2003), and is one of the chosen by readers "150 plates for eternity" (No. 28 Visions 2005) and the 500 best albums of all time in the German edition of the music magazine Rolling Stone (424th place, 2004)

Track list

Full distance - 2:47
Drunk up - 3:54
Money left to burn - 4:37
If he were real - 3:12
Landing bridges out - 4:45
Balcony opposite - 2:04
Beyond the bikini line - 4:34
Staff measure - 3:56
Crying in the taxi - 4:00
Being here - 4:33
I thank the Academy - 3:41

References and quotations (selection)

The album title is a quote from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club .
The line “Delete and rewind” in the song Landungsbrücken raus is a translation of a line from the song Erase / Rewind by the Swedish band The Cardigans .
In the song Weeping in the Taxi , modified quotes from Kurt Tucholsky (“The opposite of good is well meant”) , Marcel Reich-Ranicki (“But somehow better to cry in a taxi than in the HVV bus, or not?”) And Wiebusch's previous band … But Alive (“Hetero and male, pale and poor”) .

more publishments

Single releases

Landungsbrücken out (February 10, 2003)

Landungsbrücken out
The main thing is belief
Looked at more closely
Landungsbrücken out (video)

10 year deluxe edition

On November 2nd, 2012, ten years after the first publication of You and How Much of Your Friends , Grand Hotel van Cleef released a new edition as a double CD and double LP, which, in addition to the original version, also included a bonus CD with the 2001 ones Titles from the EP As long as the fat woman is still singing, the opera is not over and further versions of the album titles recorded in 2001 are included. In addition, there is the song Mein Skateboard get mein Zahnarzt , which was not previously included on the album, which was recorded in the living room of drummer Frank Tirado-Rosales during the studio recordings for the 2002 album.