Banket (band)

Banket (band)
Origin Bratislava, Slovakia
Genres Synthpop, pop, new wave
Years active 1984–1991
Labels Opus
Past members Richard Müller

Banket was a Slovak pop band active between 1984–1991. Its lead singer was Richard Müller. Banket were among the pioneers of electronic pop music in Slovakia and Czechoslovakia in the 1980s.[1][2] In this regard, they can be considered Slovakia's answer to Depeche Mode.[3]

Banket made their first performance in 1984 at the Bratislava Lyre pop festival with the song Nespoznaný (Unknown). Some of Banket's best-known and typically "electronic" hits originated between 1984 and 1985, but they were not included on the band's debut album Bioelektrovízia (Bioelectrovision, 1986) that was more conventional in nature. These early hits were (although not all of them) for the first time issued on a CD on the 1994 greatest hits album Banket ’84–’91.

Discography

Albums

Year Title Translation of title Note
1986 Bioelektrovízia Bioelectrovision debut album
1988 Up the Stairs English version of debut album
1988 Druhá doba?! Second Era?! second studio album
1990 Vpred? Forwards? third and final studio album
1998 Banket ’84–’91 best-of double-album; first album release of many of the band's earliest hits
2005 Gold greatest hits selection (however, lacking many of Banket's greatest hits)

Hits

A chronological selection of Banket's greatest hits:

See also

Notes

  1. See the professional review of Banket's second (1988) album on the Slovak music portal www.hudba.sk (= www.music.sk). In 2007, the album was included in the prestigious CD reissue edition published by the leading Slovak daily newspaper SME; the edition's title is Slovak Legendary Albums.
  2. In an opinion poll of Slovak music critics, musicians, DJs, and record company executives conducted in September 2007 by the Slovak daily Nový čas to determine the 100 best Slovak albums of all time, Banket's 1986 album Bioelektrovízia was ranked 3rd, and their 1988 album Druhá doba?! was ranked 28th.
  3. See Richard Müller's interview for the leading Slovak daily newspaper SME (29 Dec 2007), in which Müller recalls a mid-1980s concert in Eastern Slovakia and that “the concert hall was packed with Depeche Mode fans”.

External links

Banket discography at Discogs

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