OK, I don’t think this is the greatest record ever released, but it’s THE FIRST SWEDISH PUNK RECORD so I thought it might as well be worth a post no matter what. In my opinion it’s a bit too much rock n’ roll, but so were most of the records released in 76 and 77 as well so maybe a kid like me should shut up? The funniest thing about them is that the guitar player, Janne Andersson is the brother of Mona Sahlin, the bad girl of Swedish politics who’s been caught shop lifting and didn’t pay her television license! Naughty, naughty, very naughty! Janne played in The pain as well, who were Sweden’s punk bad boys together with DT & The Stoodes, so maybe it runs in the family.

The 7″ was recorded in 1,5 hours on a Sunday morning which is very impressive, and my guess is that the lads wanted to go back to bed as soon as possible. They did an E.P. under the name Mandarines in 1978, and by then they had even longer hair, and yes, that one will be posted here as well.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1977
Label: Mandarine
Format: 7″
Songs:
Silver son Johnnie.mp3
Ease my pain.mp3

Been on the re-post list for a long time so at last here it is. First published on March the 25th 2006. Added new scans and high quality rips of all the songs.

More famous for their “My Dad’s A Fucking Alcoholic” this is their first effort. Fuzzy guitars, sloppy instrumentation, short songs and great looking. All in all this is punk rock from Denver, Colorado. A side note is that I got this from the famous “scam artist” Rob Noxious(Guy Robert Archambue) aka thingsdogsdo aka amateur_gynecologist(cool name ugly dude).

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Local Anesthetic
Format: 7″
Songs:
Face Reality.mp3
Cat Mouse.mp3
Sharin Sharon.mp3
New Questions.mp3

You may’ve seen sleeves with kids wearing leather jackets with studs on. Pet your dick/pussy if someone told you a punk is someone with a mohawk. All this is so wrong. The REAL punx(note: it’s spelled PUNX not PUNKS) looked like Horrorcomic. What’s so cool about Horrorcomic is Roger Reps gigantic microphone as seen on the front cover. I almost forgotten his killer Robin Hood haircut(comb over) but add that to your outfit and you can’t go wrong. At least if you want to sell a big amount of records to the real punx.

Horrorcomic’s follow up to their weak debut and the second out of three releases is raw, primitive, pissed off gubb(old men) punk at it’s best. Two chords played with a stiff gubbarm(old mans arm) is hard to beat.

Country: UK
Year: 1978
Label: Lightning
Format: 7″
Songs:
I Don’t Mind.mp3
England ‘77.mp3

Oh yes! Dig that groovy organ, the sweet melodies and the catchy hand claps! With this post you can make your own 6 songs mix tape of the best Swedish pop punk 7 inches ever. The 2 previously posted are of course Etiquette Mona and Rebell (like you didn’t know that already).

Released on the same label as Peter’s favorite band WBT, and more or less neighbors with Aksadarna back in the good old days when records were cheap and I was still just a glimpse in my fathers one eyed snake. And when the mighty fine label Stage & Music is being mentioned I might as well ask the most obvious question ever asked here; Has anyone heard Grandma’s Island? They released the first record on S&M and I have no idea what it sounds like. I’ve asked the people who should know but no one knows shit about them or what they sounded like. If you, dear reader, knows anything about them, share your knowledge with the rest of us and you’ll receive a full size plaster copy of my penis.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1979
Label: Stage & Music
Format: 7″
Songs:
Haftig brud.mp3
AB Svensson.mp3