The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Ebbot Lundberg (vocals) and Bjorn Olsson (guitar) were founders of the wildly exciting Swedish band Union Carbide Productions, which recorded several albums that mixed Captain Beefheart and punk (think Stooges) to wonderful effect in the late '80s. Eventually Ian Person joined Union Carbide Productions on guitar. By this point, however, Lundberg was becoming influenced by Love and other late-'60s psych-pop bands and was steering the band in this direction, causing friction within the band. After several albums in this new direction, {$Union Carbid...[more]
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Issuing a double album in the 21st century, with increasing industry focus on single tracks and ringtones, seems crazy at best, pretentious at worst. Communion, the fifth album by Gothenburg, Sweden's rock sextet the Soundtrack of Our Lives, proves that assertion to be dead wrong. This band has stubbornly followed an inner sense of direction that embraces paradox while using the very best of what rock & roll has to offer in order to create powerful music. Communion's 24 tracks are spread over two d [ read more ]
CD $18.98
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VINYL FORMAT. Clear vinyl! Also includes free download coupon. Swedish power pop-psychedelicists The Soundtrack of Our Lives return in force with Communion, a double album opus containing 24 tracks dedicated to the moods of each hour of the day and night. On Communion, their first album in nearly four years, caftan-sporting Norseman Ebbot Lundberg and company blast through a veritable pharmacopeia of musical medication for the often insidious symptoms of modern society. But here Soundtrack not [ read more ]
2xLP $23.99
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Swedish power pop-psychedelicists The Soundtrack of Our Lives return in force with Communion, a double album opus containing 24 tracks dedicated to the moods of each hour of the day and night. On Communion, their first album in nearly four years, caftan-sporting Norseman Ebbot Lundberg and company blast through a veritable pharmacopeia of musical medication for the often insidious symptoms of modern society. But here Soundtrack not only point out the ills experienced by modern man, they offer [ read more ]
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Swedish power pop-psychedelicists The Soundtrack of Our Lives return in force with Communion, a double album opus containing 24 tracks dedicated to the moods of each hour of the day and night. On Communion, their first album in nearly four years, caftan-sporting Norseman Ebbot Lundberg and company blast through a veritable pharmacopeia of musical medication for the often insidious symptoms of modern society. But here Soundtrack not only point out the ills experienced by modern man, they offer [ read more ]
CD $16.99
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Sweden's the Soundtrack of Our Lives have been swinging for the rock fences for a decade. Origin, Vol. 1, the band's second stateside-issued full-length, offers close, up-front proof of the inspiration for perseverance. These tracks are drenched with unabashed homages to TSOOL's heroes from rock's family tree, from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Love, pre-Tommy Who, the Doors, the Stooges, Barrett-era Pink Floyd, etc. And while it is true that TSOOL have d [ read more ]
CD $9.45
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This is exactly how a singles and rarities compilation should look and be packaged -- as something special for fans. A Present from the Past is a lavishly assembled double disc from WEA International. It collects tracks from B-sides, EPs, compilations, alternate versions, unreleased demos, and finished cuts. There are 32 selections in all, ranging from the earliest demos when the Soundtrack of Our Lives were just forming in 1995 through to 2005, the year this baby was released. What is so startling [ read more ]
CD $38.93
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Sweden's the Soundtrack of Our Lives have been swinging for the rock fences for a decade. Origin, Vol. 1, the band's second stateside-issued full-length, offers close, up-front proof of the inspiration for perseverance. These tracks are drenched with unabashed homages to TSOOL's heroes from rock's family tree, from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Love, pre-Tommy Who, the Doors, the Stooges, Barrett-era Pink Floyd, etc. And while it is true that TSOOL have d [ read more ]
CD $29.43
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Sweden's the Soundtrack of Our Lives have been swinging for the rock fences for a decade. Origin, Vol. 1, the band's second stateside-issued full-length, offers close, up-front proof of the inspiration for perseverance. These tracks are drenched with unabashed homages to TSOOL's heroes from rock's family tree, from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Love, pre-Tommy Who, the Doors, the Stooges, Barrett-era Pink Floyd, etc. And while it is true that TSOOL have d [ read more ]
CD $43.68
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A sprawling epic from these Swedes merges Doors, Stones, Beatles, Stooges, Middle Eastern sounds... rock's entire collective unconscious.Clandestinely classic Rock & Roll from Swedish band, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, featuring former members of critically acclaimed late 80s/early 90s band's band Union Carbide Productions. These proverbial Godfathers of Swedish Rock resurrected themselves in 1996 as a retro, otherworldly pop/rock/psychedelic/folk juggernaut.
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Origin Volume 1 is the much anticipated follow-up to 2002's critically acclaimed Behind the Music. These Swedes are at it again, creating epic classic rock n roll but this time with a touch of folk mixed into the tried and true TSOOL formula. Origin Volume 1 is proof that Soundtrack of Our Lives will be a permanent fixture for years to come. This is an outstanding to follow-up to an album many thought impossible to top. "T.S.O.O.L are the best post-everything six piece space rock band [ read more ]
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VINYL FORMAT. That the Soundtrack of Our Lives originally envisioned their debut LP as a 50-song box set speaks volumes about Welcome to the Infant Freebase's creativity and scope ? although the completed album contains a mere 20 tracks, the band's dark, dramatic reconfiguration of rock & roll's elemental forces nevertheless echoes the majesty and ambitions of classic albums past. Reinvigorating even the hoariest clichιs while somehow managing to avoid the pitfalls of nostalgia; the key is that TSOOL never [ read more ]
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UK Import. A radio edit of the title track plus 2 non-LP B-sides, "We'll Get By" and "Lost Highway."
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