TBC – Musik i plast Mjälthugg Records – TA 1 – 1978 – 7″

TCB was one of these early bands hard to categorize. I beleive that you need to understand the Swedish lyrics to fully appreciate this record. The members have been playing for a while and the blues-rock sound on a couple of songs indicate they had a foot in the progg-movement. For the non-Swedes, that not progressive, rather a music movement born out of the radical lefties of the 68-generation. The later was not very succesful – their biggest achievement was that they occupied a student building – not an impressive achievement considering that they own it from the beginning. Expect of that there was a lot talking and eating lentils and drinking red wine (and some demonstrations I guess). I also beleive they saved a tree or two in central Stockholm that was planned to be cut down for the subway. They were specially annoying for the early punks as they also acted as self-appointed culture police, by so determining what is good and bad culture.

The progg-influences is for sure heard on the last song “Lögn, Lögn”, translation “Lies, Lies”. It could frankly be a 1974 Nationalteatern song. What makes this record somewhat punk is the second song: “Lill-Babs (Världens Tråkigaste Kvinna)”, translation – Lill-Babs (the world’s most boring woman). Lill-Babs was (is) this vocal artist that the tabloids love to write about. There are those in the collector community that also like the first song “Musik I Plast”, translation – “Music In Plastic. The band was from Umeå up-north in Sweden. The sleeve can be found in various colours. The vinyl is yellow. They made a second EP as well in 1981? which I don’t know anything about.

♬ Full EP Musik i Plast / Lill-Babs / Lögn, Lögn (MP3 320 kbps)

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