release date: Nov. 1979
format: vinyl (MLR-10) / digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,46]
producer: Stefan Glaumann
label: Mistlur - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: A) 1. "We’re Only in It for the Drugs No. 1" (live) - 2. "Totalvägra" - 3. "Jag hatar söndagar" - 6. "Beväpna er" - - B) 1. "Det måste vara radion" - 2. "Folk är farliga, folk bits" (4 / 5) - 3 ."Flyger" - 4. "Schweden Schweden" (4 / 5) - - *13. "Tyst för fan"
* Bonus track on cd issue
Studio album debut by Swedish punk rock band Ebba Grön, a trio consisting of Joakim 'Pimme' Thåström (aka Sven Joachim Eriksson Thåström), on this credited as 'Stortån' on vocals and guitar, Lennart 'Fjodor' Eriksson, here credited as 'Simple Simon' on bass and backing vocals, and with Gunnar 'Gurra' Ljungstedt, here appearing as 'Gunta' on drums.
The album is punk rock but with clear inspiration from 1970s psychedelic rock and garage rock scene - perhaps with sources in MC5, The Stooges, and of course referenced in the title: The Mothers of Invention ("We're Only in It for the Money"). The lyrics are typical (classic) punk issues: generation cleft, political and social issues. When one knows the debut album by The Clash, this is - without being a mere copy - very much a Scandinavian version of that same energy.
I think, this may be one of the first albums, I purchased with the band shortly after being introduced to some of their songs by a friend of a friend in '81. I always felt that it consisted of great tracks but also that it had too much focus on 70s guitar rock, which they would leave behind on their two following albums. The end track on the A side is credited The Haters - the name of the band before settling with Ebba Grön.
[ Ebba Grön live 1979 ]
