A Product of the '80s"Product"(1982) was the sequel to "Block To Block", the breakthrough album by Andrej Nebb, Ola Snortheim and Jørn Christensen. Like it's predecessor, "Product" was produced by John Leckie and de Press. Both albums are now being re-released by Apollon Records on vinyl and CD. What is it about these two records? They still sound like nothing else from the Norwegian music scene. Both albums were on par with anything from the wider world, and this in a time were international New Wave and Post Punk classics were being released on an almost weekly basis. They encapsulate the sound of an entire era and may mirror the contemporary zeitgeist of it's time so brilliantly that we still see ourselves in them.If it's predecessor was the party before the proverbial bomb goes off, their sophomore album was the sound of the seconds leading up to the explosion. It sounds exciting and full of vitality-and fascinatingly dangerous. Like a Polish-Norwegian Joy Division from the underground of some forsaken city. Just listen to the intensity of songs like "The Fatal Day", "Passages", "In A Crowded Room", and the title cut1. The Fatal Day2. In a Position to Know3. Passages4. In a Crowded Room5. Signals6. Product7. Other Man's Sin8. Heaven9. Total Corruption10. Swienty Pokoj
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A Product of the '80s"Product"(1982) was the sequel to "Block To Block", the breakthrough album by Andrej Nebb, Ola Snortheim and Jørn Christensen. Like it's predecessor, "Product" was produced by John Leckie and de Press. Both albums are now being re-released by Apollon Records on vinyl and CD. What is it about these two records? They still sound like nothing else from the Norwegian music scene. Both albums were on par with anything from the wider world, and this in a time were international New Wave and Post Punk classics were being released on an almost weekly basis. They encapsulate the sound of an entire era and may mirror the contemporary zeitgeist of it's time so brilliantly that we still see ourselves in them.If it's predecessor was the party before the proverbial bomb goes off, their sophomore album was the sound of the seconds leading up to the explosion. It sounds exciting and full of vitality-and fascinatingly dangerous. Like a Polish-Norwegian Joy Division from the underground of some forsaken city. Just listen to the intensity of songs like "The Fatal Day", "Passages", "In A Crowded Room", and the title cut1. The Fatal Day2. In a Position to Know3. Passages4. In a Crowded Room5. Signals6. Product7. Other Man's Sin8. Heaven9. Total Corruption10. Swienty Pokoj
