The Stomachmouths pioneered the Swedish garage punk rock boom in the 1980s. They road the crest of the global 80s garage wave between the years 1984-1987 becoming one of the leading exponents of the genre at the time. This compilation provides lots of groovy and previously unreleased bonus tracks, 20-page booklet with extensive liner notes and photos etc. 70 minutes of the original wyld and untamed garage punk from Sweden Subliminal Sounds.
When the Stomachmouths began playing vintage American teen music in Stockholm 1983, they had no European predecessors. There had been a few new wave-era bands in Britain and Sweden that covered a Nuggets tune or two, but for those bands it was always part of something else. None of them had gone the whole nine yards and stripped away all alien elements from 1960s punk, like the Stomachmouths.
The 1980s garage scene was created and has to be understood as a complete immersion in American pop culture from the 1950s and pre-hippie 1960s. It wasnt about heavy fuzz guitars or tattoos, it wasnt about wearing leopard skin pants and proclaiming a revolution. Everything like that just had to go. It wasnt a retro scene either, because nothing like this had ever existed in Scandinavia. In this pure garage scene the Stomachmouths were undoubtedly kings.
They were the best live band, they had been around the longest, they had the most developed sense for the right moves and attitude. Musically the band was top-notch, with no loose ends or weak links. Few would challenge the notion that the Stomachmouths spearheaded this scene because they took it so seriously, like a mission.
