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The Bananafishbones are a German band from Bad Tölz in Upper Bavaria, founded in 1987. The band's best-known hits include songs like Easy Day, Come to Sin or I Like a Lot.

History
In 1987, Sebastian Horn (December 2, 1970-), Florian Rein (February 27, 1971-) and Thomas Dill founded the band and named it after the song titled Bananafishbones by The Cure, which can be found on the album The Top (1984). The song got its name from the short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish by Jerome D. Salinger.

After the guitarist Thomas Dill, nicknamed Toi, had to quit leave the band due to commitments abroad, Sebastian's brother Peter Horn Jr. After their first appearances at the Tölz high school 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 clubs and on the stages of the Bavarian Oberland.

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 the Austrian Tyrol locality of Eng, where Franka Potente played 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 contributed songs to the soundtracks of a number of German film productions, for example Three Chinese with the double bass (Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass) and Grave Decisions (2006) (Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot), as well as to the TV series Auf Herz und Nieren. They contributed large parts of the soundtrack of the various Die Wilden Kerle film installments, as well as in the film Tödlicheverbindungen, in which they also played small guest roles. In 2007, they recorded the thief's song for The Three Robbers (original German title of Die drei Räuber; released under the title Trick or Treaters in the USA).

The three band members 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 seen in Germany these days (around 120 concerts in the year).

The band members have also organized the annual Hillside Festival music festival in Bad Tölz since 2001. In 2006, they offered a large free concert in the historic Marktstrasse.

Sebastian Horn belonged, and Florian Rein is a current member of the band The Heimatdamisch, which plays well-known hits from rock and pop repertoire in the Oberkrainer style as the successor to Global Kryner. The debut album Highway to Oberkrain was released in 2015, followed in 2019 by an album titled Circus Oberkrain.

Albums

 * 1995: Grey Test Hits
 * 1999: Viva Conputa
 * 2000: My Private Rainbow
 * 2002: A Town Called Seven
 * 2004: 36 m²
 * 2007: When You Pass By
 * 2012: 12 Songs In One Day

Compilations

 * 2013: Best of 1998 – 2013

Concert albums

 * 1997: Live & Unplugged
 * 2003: Live in Buchloe, accompaniment by the Tölz municipal choir
 * 2015: Live & Unplugged im Tölzer Kurhaus

Soundtracks

 * 2003: Die Wilden Kerle – Alles ist gut, solange du wild bist!
 * 2005: Die Wilden Kerle 2
 * 2006: Die Wilden Kerle 3 – Die Attacke der Biestigen Biester
 * 2006: Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot, soundtrack contribution
 * 2007: Die Wilden Kerle 4 – Der Angriff der Silberlichten
 * 2008: Summer – Für die große Liebe musst du kämpfen
 * 2008: Tödliche Verbindungen, soundtrack contribution
 * 2008: DWK 5 – Die Wilden Kerle: Hinter dem Horizont
 * 2010: Groupies bleiben nicht zum Frühstück, soundtrack contribution
 * 2013: V8 – Du willst der Beste sein

Singles

 * 1998: Come to Sin
 * 1999: Easy Day (with Franka Potente)
 * 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 Sommer
 * 2006: Big-a-Dog, Big-a-Bite (under the name John Ferdinand Woodstock & The Rebirth Experience and with Gerd Baumann), Single on the Soundtrack of Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot
 * 2007: Dice

EPs

 * 1996: Horse Gone (EP)

Musicals

 * 2014: Bingo! Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten (children book by Andreas Steinhöfel)
 * 2016: Lieselotte und der verschwundene Apfelkuchen

Weblinks

 * Official Website (In German)