Pop, a definition taken from Urban Dictionary.

Horrible “music” in wich (sic) teenage girls age 13 and up sing about the hardships of love, they do not write their own songs, nor music, and there are no real instruments, just a repetitive and chaotic electronic beat in the background with the girl constantly going “ooooh ooooh! oh woah woah woah woah woah woah, heee heeeeya-ya! ooooh baby!” in between verses.
In a word, ass paste.

ABC 80 were only a pop band, but I like it no matter what! One of the greatest power pop releases from Sweden ever and if you don’t like it, you ain’t nothing but a tard.

For those of you who thinks the name rings a bell but never gave a damn about computers, one of the members was in Brigad 45 b as well.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Rockslaget
Format: 7″
Songs:
Pop i radion.mp3
Man maste ha distans.mp3

I´m totally in love with this record. Cause it combines the best of two worlds: powerpop and sloppy punk rock. The flips cover of Bacharachs My Little Red Book. Holy shit! A cover performed as if no other then Elvis Costello and The Attractions had possessed their bodies. But first you have to go through a fantastic sneering punk tune with a guitar solo that just points a finger at you and scream FUCK YOU. The first of three seven inches from Floridas The Panics. Spin it now baby!

Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: Superdisc
Format: 7″
Songs:
Kill It(Before It Multiplies).mp3
My Little Red Book.mp3

Gotten a couple of emails from people who´ve been banned. This is not on purpose. I got banned too today ha ha. Just try reloading the site a couple of times and it will work fine.

Here’s the second release from Bugs, and as you can hear they learned how to play by now. Unfortunately they still showed way too much of their roots as a punk band in the songs Doda doda and Religion, but just ignore those songs and enjoy the sweet acoustic song of praise to IBM and the homophobic love song Bogen (The queer) instead.

This record has one of the tastiest covers ever I guess, as a former owner apparently took a bite of it after spilling some coffee on it. Well oh well, at least the look of it made it a very cheap buy for me. And according to my dad it’s only collectors with their head stuck in their ass who cares about the condition of the cover anyway and who the hell wanna have their head up there? Not me for sure!

I think there are two members on this release that played on the first one as well, but it’s more or less a new band as the remaining members even choose to switch instruments on this release. And who did the two new guitarists insult? Neither names nor faces on the band photo!

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Bugs
Format: 7″
Songs:
Doda doda.mp3
IBM.mp3
Bogen.mp3
Religion.mp3

To companion Erichs post of the second Breakouts(which I used to have but didn´t and still don´t like) here´s their debut which is much better in my opinion. Sure the songs are still on the long side but for some reason they manage to keep it interesting all the way through. I would like to say that both tracks are killer punk rock the way they did it in the late 70´s in the States. I bet the Marlboro man was involved!

Well I´m pretty filled up with apple(nice computers) pie so I need to lay down. Pie pie! 

Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: Accelerator
Format: 7″
Songs:
In Vagueness Deal.mp3
Millirems.mp3

Aaah! The artwork for Disco Zombies second release is one of the best, if not THE best artworks done in the history of punk rock. The scanning don’t do it justice, but no matter what, this is the way to do a wraparound sleeve, so take notice if you’re in a band and about to release a 7″. I’ve seen it in a greenish version as well but nothing says punk as much as pink, right?!

Drums over London is one of those perfect punk hits that grabs you gently by the throat and makes you walk around and sing the chorus for days on end, and admit that you want to hear it a few more times then the 32 times that are already in the song. Or maybe not as it would make the song slightly too long, which is my guess of what the bassist thought as well as he just gives up playing 3.23 into the song! Maybe he got lost in all his noodling?

Heartbeats love isn’t as immediately catchy, but at least the rhythm guitar manage to fuck up the intro in a very amusing way. I think I know why he played rhythm instead of lead… Well, a catchy chorus and a great and short outro makes it a minor hit at least.

I’m quite sure the label was named after the South Circular line in London and I have a feeling someone once said that one of the members had a record shop called South Circular as well. Someone from the UK should have more info about this band I guess.

Country: UK
Year: 1979
Label: South Circular
Format: 7″
Songs:
Drums over London.mp3
Heartbeats love.mp3

How is it even possible that these youngsters managed to write such a dreadful piece of shit as Goodbye when they were capable of writing killers as Sick Society? And what the hell were they thinking of when they paired them together on the same 7 inch? And which of the songs did they play on the TV show that gave them their record deal? With a name like Hangover I assume that they played Sick society, but if that was the song the label thought could be a hit then why did they write Goodbye? A mystery worth to investigate by none less then Scooby Doo for sure. Scooby Doo & the horrible a-side maybe, or Scooby Doo & the mysterious punk song? I’m sure it would’ve made a great comic and introduced as many new kids to punk as the Chipmunk punk album.

Hangover did a second shitty 7″ in 1979 before they evolved into powerpoppers Pictures who did the great mod stomper Kicks & tips in 1981.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1978
Label: Sonet
Format: 7″
Songs:
Goodbye.mp3
Sick society.mp3

Thank you Chris Renna! Without you I would never known how great this forgotten gem is. Chris had Nova Lust as a mystery track at his trading site:http://pages.cthome.net/chrisrenna. Nova Lust well words can hardly describe what a total blaster, killer and monster track that is. It´s THE typical sound of american punk to me. Clever and hook laden. And that sneering american accent that is unmistakably from Texas(thoughl I´ve heard people in Saint Paul/Minneapolis sounding like rednecks out of Texas, like Bob Mould). It got a killer organ too that makes the song jump and swing back and forth. For fucks sake listen!!

Dial Another Hit and Snowy Day continues in the same vein while Beaverworld and Hook In Your Heart make babys with The Rezillos. 

Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Ray Gun
Format: 12″
Songs:
Nova Lust.mp3
Night 2.mp3
Dial Another Hit.mp3
Beaverworld.mp3
Snowy Day.mp3
Hook In Your Heart.mp3

Two amazing tracks with loads of fuck you attitude and more venom in the lyrics than a Death Adder makes this a killer among killers. The singer sounds like a pissed off member from the steel union and the lyrics to the second verse in Kris is as funny as they are clever. The heroes from the house of parliament has lost all their luster and are occupied with their gonorrheas for sure!

I guess these guys were a bit older and had some kind of musical background as they got the same kind of gubbgung (old man’s swing) as Goteborg Sound and knew how to cover The Who without sounding like they just stole their instruments and were trying to figure out how to make them work. The new lyrics takes the song to new dimensions as we all want to know how much the singer has to drink to be able to stand his girl friend. I think this is one of the better Who covers ever, even if KSMB’s version of My generation, Torbjorns horor, is even more tongue in cheek.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1979
Label: Ego Produktion
Format: 7″
Songs:
Kris.mp3
En grogg till.mp3

The old forum wasn´t used at all so now I´ll try another round with PhpBB instead to see if there´s any interest. I´ll give it some months then it will be removed if there´s no activity. The link can be found on the left. Click it! Designed a new header too. Sorry Chronic Sick if I made you uglier then you really where :(.