EBBA GRÖN - Kärlek & Uppror 1981

Second album by Ebba Grön on Mistlur and a lot more polished than the debut We're Only In It For The Drugs, but still good. The original members were Joakim Thåström ("Pimme"), Gunnar Ljungstedt ("Gurra") and Lennart Eriksson ("Fjodor"). After their second album in 1981 they were joined by a fourth member, Anders Sjöholm ("Stry Terrarie"). One of the most famous songs they recorded is a cover by the Swedish progg band "Blå Tåget", and is called "Staten & Kapitalet", a song with anarcho-syndicalist political lyrics about how the government, "Staten", and the private corporations, "Kapitalet", cooperate to control and enslave the working classes. During a party in Rågsved, a working-class suburb of Stockholm, in 1977, Thåström, Gurra and Fjodor formed a band called "The Haters". A few days later they changed the name to Ebba Grön after the codeword used by the police in Operation Leo. One of the first songs performed by Ebba Grön was the controversial "Skjut En Snut" (Shoot A Cop), which was never officially recorded. They released their first single "Antirock" on April 21, 1978. The band bought all the 500 copies themselves and sold them in the streets. After a concert at Långholmsparken, which was recorded by the national radio, they were contacted by Mistlur record label, and offered a contract and to re-release the single.

Ebba Grön started a hectic period of touring all over Sweden, during which they also released two more singles. In 1978, the time had come for their album debut "We're Only In It For The Drugs", with songs about the tough, yet boring lives of young people in the working-class suburbs. Ebba Grön also covered White Riot,a song originally performed by The Clash at some of their gigs. The lyrics and the music of Ebba Grön were always credited to the entire band, but after a while it became more obvious that it was Thåström who was the creative engine, and he would also have the most successful career after the breakup.

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