It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.
We are looking back in a series. Today we have to hear "Barbie Q Killers" and "Stereo" by the swedish punks Sator.
What spaghetti is to the colleagues from Guns N'Roses is juicy roasted Barbie dolls to the Swedish heavy heroes from Sator. For two whole years, singer Chips K. and Co. phoned and faxed obscure US bands like The Nuns and The Zeros to get their consent to re-record such "lost songs" as "Fuck You" or "On The Way Down".
In contrast to G'n'R, the Swedes are not concentrating on their journey of discovery into rock history on well-known classics, but on pieces that were previously only included on bootlegs and lost live records.
Enriched with strange original audio documents, the fourteen "Barbie Q Killers", which - surprise surprise - are each included twice on the CD - derive their appeal primarily from the fact that you don't have to know the originals to hear them Copies easy to find.
The fourth work by the Swedish bubble gum punks called “Stereo” was also a sound rejection of all experiments. Produced by Tim Hunt and, as always, recorded in Gothenburg, the quartet around singer Chips Kiesbye plays twenty uninhibited but cleanly mixed southern curve bellows without a false bottom.
Supported, among others, by the two kindred spirits dead Hosen Kuddel and Breiti (Tote Hosen), the Swedish Hosen on Stereo maintain the pure doctrine of happy riff rock: no ballads, no messages, no great art, just kickass rock 'n' roll , which could be at the top in the age of the perpetual punk revival.