Genre: Garage Rock, Punk Pop Country of release: Sweden Year of release: 2010 Publisher (label): RPM Catalog number: Retro D873 Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac) Rip type: tracks+.cue Audio bitrate: lossless Duration: 02:00:02 Tracklist: CD 1 1 The Nomads - I'm 5 Years Ahead Of My Time (Solna, Sweden) 2 The Shoutless - Insane (Solna, Sweden) 3 The Wayward Souls - Unknown Journey (Stockholm, Sweden) 4 The Backdoor Men - Out Of My Mind (Almhult, Sweden) 5 The Crimson Shadows - Even I Tell Lies (Stockholm, Sweden) 6 Dolkows - Silent Woods (Sweden) 7 Sonic Walthers - No Lies (Gothenburg, Sweden) 8 The Hijackers - When I Get Home (Flen, Sweden) 9 The Sinners - When She Lies (Lund, Sweden) 10 The Voodoo Dolls - That's The Breaks (Sweden) 11 Legendary Lovers - King Of The World (Sweden) 12 The Wayward Souls - Your Eyes (Stockholm, Sweden) 13 The Wylde Mammoths - Help That Girl (Stockholm, Sweden) 14 Friends Inside - Where Are You Sleeping Tonight? (Sweden) 15 The Stomachmouths - Don't Put Me Down (Stockholm, Sweden) 16 The Psychotic Youth - Love Machine (Sandoverken, Sweden) 17 Wilmer X - Motorbike Drivin' (Malmo, Sweden) 18 Union Carbide Productions - Cartoon Animal (Goteborg, Sweden) 19 The Bottle Ups - Ramblin' Wreckless Hobo (Stockholm, Sweden) 20 The Bangsters - Strangers (Hudiksvalt, Sweden) CD 2 1 Screaming Dizbusters - This Ain't The Summer Of Love (Solna, Sweden) 2 Problem - Uppskärarjack (Malmo, Sweden) 3 The Slammers - Don't Push Me Around (Katrineholm, Sweden) 4 The Creeps - She's Gone (Almhult, Sweden) 5 The Maryland Cookies - Don't Lie To Me (Johanneshov, Sweden) 6 Dr. Yogami - Plastic Surgeon (Angelholm, Sweden) 7 Highway Slugs - Just Another Loner (Sollentuna, Sweden) 8 The Public Vein - Carry On (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden) 9 The Bottle Ups - Too Much Talk (Stockholm, Sweden) 10 The Playmates - Days After Tomorrow (Stockholm, Sweden) 11 The Pyromaniacs - Lost Revenge (Solna, Sweden) 12 Slobster - Sudden Death (Helsingborg, Sweden) 13 The Preachers - Thirtynine Steps (Uppsala, Sweden) 14 Pushtwangers - She's Blind (But I Don't Mind) (Stockholm, Sweden) 15 The Cornflake Zoo - Hey Conductor (Stockholm, Sweden) 16 The Highspeed V - Sally (Vallingby, Sweden) 17 The Livingstones - Fastest Car Around! (Stockholm, Sweden) 18 The Rumblers - Bopalina Bopalina Ow Mow Mow Mow (Sweden) 19 Sator - Pigvalley Beach (Borlange, Sweden) 20 The Leather Nun - Prime Mover (Gothenburg, Sweden) Goodness knows why, but in the early 80s Solna, a suburb of Stockholm, found itself the centre of a startlingly fertile scene of high-energy rock'n'roll that looked back to the 60s for inspiration. This 40-track compilation rounds up the best of that music, starting and finishing with Swedish garage's two best-known bands, the Nomads (blistering through a cover of the Third Bardo's I'm Five Years Ahead of my Time) and the Leather Nun. In between, snotty aggression is the order of the day, essayed to thrilling effect during the breakneck snarl of That's the Breaks by Voodoo Dolls. The audience for this stuff was small, but global and committed – the riff and refrain of the Screaming Dizbüsters' This Ain't the Summer of Love would crop up on one of the key early grunge singles out of Seattle, Green River's Swallow My Pride