release date: Feb. 1979
format: digital (1997 reissue)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,68]
producer: Poul Bruun
label: EMI Records - nationality: Denmark
Tracklist: 1. "R.A.F." - 2. "Television Sect" (promo video) - 3. "Pathetic" - 4. "Police" - 5. "Flickering Eyes" - 6. "Suicide" - 7. "Transport" - 8. "Copenhagen" (live 2011) - 9. "Ghost City"
Studio debut album by Danish punk rock pioneers Sods originally released by Danish label, Medley Records. The band is a quartet consisting of lead vocalist Steen (Birger) Jørgensen, guitarist Peter Peter [aka Peter Schneidermann], bassist Knud Odde (Sørensen), and with Tomas Ortved (Larsen) on drums. Eight out of a total of nine tracks are written by Sods - with the end-track, "Ghost City" being a cover-version of a track by Suicide written by Alan Vega and Martin Rev. The running time is just below 30 mins, an album on the shorter side of 'long playing' albums but for late 1970s punk rock this wasn't unusual. The '97 cd re-issue contains an additional six tracks lengthening the running time to approx. 40 mins. (4 tracks have a running time over 4 mins, 8 tracks are all under 2 mins.).
Somewhat late in the punk rock movement, Minutes to Go is still regarded as the first genuine Danish punk rock album - and it stands as a fine uncompromising first attempt. The style is hardcore punk styled after the British punk of later bands like Charged GBH, UK Subs, Killing Joke, fused with early expressions as exemplified by Sex Pistols and Stiff Little Fingers as well as shaped by influence from American tendencies in punk rock labelled no wave and art punk and exemplified by Suicide and Lydia Lunch.
I was rather fond of this, although, I only ever owned a copy on cassette, and time hasn't done a lot of good to the sound and style created on this album but it's still a remarkable conernerstone in Danish music history.
