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 the 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", 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 '70s 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, Minutes to Go has come to be known as the first real Danish punk rock album - and 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 and American new tendencies in punk like no wave and art punk as personified by Suicide and Lydia Lunch.
I was rather fond of this, although, I only ever had a copy on cassette.
