Sick… These Swedes rip out some serious rockin' punk shit. Some heart felt Undertones-like choruses all mixed up with a cleanly demo tape sounding guitar and bass and great late 70's Adverts drum like stuff makes this the best! If you are punk, buy this! I would like to eat up Panty Raid, the Pagans and Peaches and barf this back up. Thank you.
The Vectors "Still ill" LP:
THE VECTORS are playing some quick, vigorous as well as powerful and remarkable, punky old school hardcore with high-quality, catchy as fuck singing parts. These 13 tracks run between 47 seconds and 2:42 minutes – there’s no need to panic since only 3 songs are longer than 2 minutes!! –, so you know THE VECTORS don’t fuck around! If you love, just like me, one alcohol driven hymn after the other, you cannot go wrong with this pearl!! [Busted Heads Records – http://www.bustedheads.com –]
The Vectors ''Still ill'' LP
At fuckin last! After hearing the mix for their second album two years ago i´ve really looked forward to this piece, and it just as i remember it. It´s 13 tracks of punkrock in it's rawest, purest and energic form coming from sweden. I really listened trough this to find anything to complain about, and just can't find anything. It's just a brilliant as their first album and their singles, it's a three chord war raging on. Totally on the top of punkrock. New tracks like ''kill'' and ''damage'', ''blitz & glitz'' is just fuckin wonderful and i found myself just fuckin dancing around in a craze listening to this. If you don't get this one for yourself for christmas present you are not my friend.
THE VECTORS - LP
The Vectors "Still ill" LP
Den här inspelningen har tydligen 4 år på nacken och är det första jag hört med the Vectors. Jag hade en föreställning om hur de skulle låta och jag måste säga att den oborstade punkrockattacken som Umeåligan levererar inte är långt borta från hur det lät i min fantasi. Melodisk, kaxig, ösig punkrock med rötterna i snorig engelsk sjuttiopunk och tidig amerikansk hardcore, är vad The Vectors handlar om och de gör det jävligt bra. Det låter gammalt och hederligt, och det är ett stort nöje att lyssna igenom de 13 spåren. Det känns jävligt onödigt att analysera sönder den här skivan när det räcker för mig att säga att det här är skitgött punkrockmangel. Två fingrar i luften, spottloskor, trasiga glasflaskor, tjata brallor och öppen-mun-rock. Finfina grejer
The Vectors "Still ill" LP
3/5
I fyra år låg tydligen denna inspelning och samlade damm. Diverse bolagsstrul hette visst anledningen. I slutet av förra året lyckades det numera Stockholmsstationerade bolaget Busted Heads komma över mastertapen och tätt inpå såg "Still ill" dagsljuset för första gången. The Vectors består av tre personer från Umeå som spelar stökig treackordspunkrock. Deras mix av bland annat Black Flag, Dead Kennedys och New Bomb Turks får mig verkligen att röra på sidofläsket. Nog för att en speltid på drygt 25 minuter kan kännas en aning snålt tilltaget, så räcker det alldeles utmärkt i det här fallet. Problemet är bara att man blir sugen på mer. Gillar ni stökig och catchig punk så bör ni givetvis kolla upp detta släpp. Själv har jag redan valt ut fyra låtar till min bland-cd som jag ska plocka med till sommarens kommande festivaler.
Vi syns fulla i gyttjehögen grabbar!
The Vectors "Still ill" LP
Här kommer lite ölindränkt, fartfyllt punkslammer i den gamla skolan. Umeåtrion The Vectors har genom Busted Heads försorg fått ut sin andra LP "still ill". På 22 internsiva minuter skyndar de sig igenom 13 låtar. The Vectors kan sin punk och har attityd så det räcker och blir över. En titt på diskografin förtydligar: bandets första singel hette "Fuck MTV", den andra "Rape the pope.". Ni fattar.
Daniel Axelsson
THE VECTORS "rape the pope" 7"
Wow hands down the best stuff I have heard from this bunch of Swedish (not bloody Norwegians!!!!!) punk n rollers - the album they did was pretty good - this is better still, well worth gathering some reindeer poo (or whatever they use for money up there) and ordering a copy ASAP
The Vectors - Still Ill
In past, they released "Fuck Mtv" ep (cool! nice title!!). This is their album and this band ex E.T.A member participation. Their sound is not fast thrash hc, not Swedish hc. I feel it's garage R&R sound meets ushc!! Very exciting!!!
VECTORS - RAPE THE POPE (SINGEL-RABID ALLIGATOR 731)
This groups am I hearing some things from sometimes and it´s really nice. They play raw and distorted type of punkrock which only misfits can like. Just because of that I like it. Because they play that sort of music which really makes me happy because they can´t be heard on the radio because they too raw. And they manage to make som dirty punkrock which can be hard for any other band to copy. Very nice plastic thing this and I want to hear all their material on a fullength CD (EIGHT) 24/8-00
THE VECTORS' Compilation Tape 1996/98.
''... a compilation of the Vectors, a snotty three piece punk band from snowy Sweden. (...) It's a pretty frantic in your face baptism too. The Vectors have a Ramones dumbness about em in the short 'n' fast blasts, like opening track 'Straitjacket' . And these speed-freaks have their combat-boots firmly on the gas pedal as they speed off around the corners like madmen and leave Da Bruddas for dead as the dust settles. (...) They sing songs with titles like 'Adolph Hitler Stroll', 'I Hate You' and 'Fuck Punk Rock' which mixes dumbness and don't give a fuck attitudes with pissed of observations. (...) Angry pissed of punk bands who don't follow the rules to the letter are always gonna be big in my book, looks like Nihlism is alive and kicking in Sweden. (...)
Vectors - Rape The Pope
''My sweet jesus what a mess'' ännu ett Umeå band, men denna gång kommer Vectors med riktigt jävla aggressiv punk!! FAN VAD HÄRLIGT! Kaxiga texter, Kaxig musik och Kaxig sång. ''Spit on you'' är grymt bra även ''See you in the parkin' lot'' utmärker sig! Men när man lyssnar mer och mer, så blir fan alla låtar bra som fan, kanske för att det görs för lite riktig punk i dagens läge och sånt ska ju verkligen uppskattas!! Fan boka bandet, köp singel för 40:-, de söker visst även distro! RIOT!
''Babble on, babble on, shhhut your mouth''
5/5
THE VECTORS - The Vectors LP (New Life Shark/SCUMFUCK)
AU JAAAA! Supergeiler, megakrachiger, endschneller, alles wegpustender Mix aus Garage und 77. Dieses Gerät regelt in allen Belangen und ich habe keine Fragen mehr! Sound wie Kickboxer auf Pep! Da stimmt sogar das Logo! T-Shirt her! * collaps
The Vectors ''Rape The Pope'' 7'' (Vectors)
Från Umeå kommer det flera band som jag gillar. International Noise Conspiracy, The Chronics och så har vi punkarna i The Vectors. De har ett fruktat ös och kan väl beskrivas some en mix av den typen av band som låg på Raw Records och amerikanska band som Dead Kennedys, Dead Beats och så vidare. Jag gillar den här fyra spårs EP:n som fan och med låt titlar som ''Rape The Pope'', ''Spit On You'' kan det väl inte gå fel, totalt röj som får mina spinkiga ben att fara fram i ultra snabbt tempo! är det någon som sett mina ben? Horan: Nej bara din tredje arm!
THE VECTORS - The Vectors (New Lifeshark)
Nach der 7", ebenfalls auf New Lifeshark, haben sich die Schweden jetzt also die Albumdistanz vorgenommen, und siehe da, sie meistern sie ohne Probleme. Die Herkunft aus Umea, home of verschiedener Schweden-Melodic-Langweiler, hat somit nix zu sagen. In forcierterer Geschwindigkeit gehen die Herren aus dem Norden daran, im 45°-Grätschschritt ihre Art von noisigem PunkROCK auszuleben, und was soll ich gross sagen, sie machen ihre Sache vorzüglich und brauchen sich hinter und vor nichts und niemandem zu verstecken. Schnarr, schnalz, bolz, schranz, krrrrr - go!
VECTORS-rape the pope-7''
Nach 2 Veröffentlichungen auf dem Essener NEWLIFE-Label ist die neue 7'' der Schweden eine Eigenproduktion. Es handelt sich dabei um 4 schnelle, dreckige Garage-Rock´n´Roll-Punk-rock Sonx mit ordentlich Pfeffer in der Ritze, die selbstverständlich in das Genre übliche Lofi-Gewand gekleidet wurden. Der Spass kostet $5 inkl. Porto für Einzelbesteller oder $2 + Porto für Weiterverkäufer, die noch gesucht werden. Micha.
VECTORS - S/T
Dalla Svezia un grande LP di punk rock allo stato puro. Muro di chitarre con la giusta distorsione e grandissima voce. Dedicato a chi ama il punk con il cuore
It would have been a fucking shame if these tracks would have gone unreleased. The recording was missing somewhere for years until Busted Heads got hold of it and pressed these 13 tracks on wax that sounds like it's straight from the early eighties. The Vectors have a serious black flag groove going on with sometimes the vocalist sounding a lot like Jello Biafra. And even with this obvious influence blast from the past this threesome manages to sound original. The recording is really snotty and textured with an "80's filter" - I wouldn't be surprised if someone heard this and thought it's some old worn out vinyl found from the antiques. 13 tracks of snotty punkrock n roll with a hardcore shift on from time to time. Just grab a six pack and put on the Vectors and wreck some shit!
written by fubar 6/21/2004
The Vectors ''Still Ill'' LP
7/10 - [Busted Heads]
I don't know the story behind this record, but apparently it was recorded four years ago and finally ended up in the hands of the mighty Busted Heads for release. These Swedes play dirty fuckin' straight up hardcore/punk with a little rock thrown in there as well. It definitely sounds like it could've been at home in the early- to mid-80's here in the US, specifically on the west coast. It's sort of catchy and memorable, but it's got a shitload of attitude as well as some aggression that never goes too far. They sound very little like either of these bands to me, but I can hear bits and pieces from anything from Black Flag to the Dead Kennedys in here. And then you've got your total fucking ragers like ''You're a Joke'' that kick up the intensity factor big time and bring in some UK types of influences. Awesome. Most of the songs hover right around two minutes or less, so they blow through without a hitch. The production is raw, but that's how it almost needs to be to fit the music, and they do it right, so it sounds intentionally so, rather than coming off as shoddy or something like that. It's got that dated sort of grittiness to it, but the mix is pretty even and there's no real lack of density or anything like that. The drums are really sort of distant, the bass is back there, the guitars have a lot of crazy distortion going on, etc. It gets my approval. I assume the layout here is similar to the sleeve of the LP (this is a CD-R promo copy), though I would guess that the LP might have a lyrics insert and such. The artwork is all simple and to the point. The lyrics are pissed off with plenty of attitude and that's basically how it goes: ''Line up and fight like there's no tomorrow, It doesn't matter if we end up dead, Together we can do some real damage, And we don't care about your damn age…'' If you like your hardcore/punk true to form and miss the good ol' days then this fucker's for you. They have a god damn song called ''Kill'', what more reason do you need!?
Running time - 22:02, Tracks: 13
[Notable tracks: Blitz & Glitz, You're a Joke, Everyone's Against Me, Kill]
THE VECTORS Still Ill LP
(Busted Heads)
Snotty, dirty, streetwise, cheeky punkrock in the same vein as, or mix of, Swedish Randy and American The Strap-ons with some good old harDCcore thrown in. It's very catchy and raw at the same time and I can see why Mr. 138 would wanna go with this - it's got attitude! This recording is 4 years old and I'm glad someone finally got it together and released this as it's nothing you wanna miss out on if you're up for the great mix of old and new that makes for a hell of a obnoxious punk record. 13 in your face tracks in 22 minutes, just as it's supposed to be. Just listen to tracks like ''Shootin' out your lights'', ''Enter Armageddon'' and ''You're Dead'' and ''Everyone's Against Me''.
[Krogh]
THE VECTORS - STILL ILL
Sweden's The Vectors were featured in issue #2 of Take On Your Heroes, so I am already a fan. I was thrilled to open my mailbox and see this promo CDR waiting to be thrown on the stereo and played way too loud.
The Vectors play punk the old fashioned way: loud, snotty and confrontational. A good way to describe them is the rawer batch of '77 UK punk (Satan's Rats, Bleach Boys, The Users) mixed with a hardcore sense of brevity and fire (think the FU's and The Freeze).
The CD charges right out of the gates with 29 hyperspeed seconds of ''Damage'' and doesn't let up one iota until the record is over, 22 minutes later. Although this is a compilation of sorts, this works great as a whole album, using the Ramones school of set 'em up and knock 'em down as the band zips through 13 pogo inducing blasts of belligerent, restless punk rock. What the Vectors may lack in originality, they more than compensate with personality and sheer abandon, attacking their instruments with a raw energy that simply levels everything in it's path.
In these days of metalcore, crossover, jazzcore, dance punk, emocore, punk-pop, etc, it's refreshing to hear a good, straight forward, gob on a hippy, shitty sounding punk rock record played with energy, verve and a bad attitude. Fun for the whole family!
Busted Heads Records, Rating: 7 of 10
The Vectors "Still ill" LP
Fem år efter den självbetitlade albumdebuten, utgiven på New Lifeshark Records, är Umeås smutsigaste punkpatrask tillbaka med en ny skiva. Trion spottar ur sig tretton treackordshits som har lika mycket att göra med det sena sjuttiotalets brittiska punkrock som tidig amerikansk hardcore. Jag gillar gruppens osnutna attityd och David Sandströms (ex-Refused) skitiga produktion doftar cigarettfimp, folköl och otvättad jeansjacka. "Still ill" är ett skönt alternativ till den könlösa metalcore som hemsöker hardcorescenen idag.
VECTORS-STILL ILL(CD)(LP)(BUSTED HEADS)
This is a LP which comes out in november but I got this one on CD now already. It was a long time since I heard Vectors now but they have kept their sound and they´re almost better than ever. They play fast, precisly as I like, and it´s sounding really simple and I got the feeling that The Vectors could have been in the start of punk in 1977. Because it´s a little bit of the same soundquality over their music and it feels like if Vectors plays music which they really love and those things I´m really weak for. When you play music because you like it and you don´t give a daman about all things you must do. Tought attitude musically and The Vectors sails up as a personal favoruite right now.(EIGHT) 29/9-04
THE VECTORS – „Still ill" LP
[Busted Heads Records, Box 275, 901 06 Umea, Schweden –
Obwohl ich den Namen THE VECTORS noch nie im Leben gehörrt habe, sind Busted Heads Records nach zahlreichen Verörffentlichungen mittlerweile bekannt wie ein bunter Hund, und da die noch nie eine auch nur ansatzweise schwächliche Scheibe verörffentlicht haben, konnten THE VECTORS ebenfalls nicht schlecht sein. Natürlich kam es wieder wie es kommen musste und so rocken THE VECTORS volle Kanne mit flott vorgetragenem, gleichermaßen energischen, powervollen als auch eingängigen, mächtig punkigen old-school Hardcore, der durch die guten, catchy as fuck Gesänge exzellent in Szene gesetzt wird. Diese dreizehn tollen Tracks werden zwischen 47 Sekunden und 2:42 Minuten – keine Panik, nur drei Songs überschreiten die zweifelhafte Zweiminutengrenze! – feilgeboten, von daher ist klar, dass sich die drei Schweden nicht mit irgendwelchem unnötigen Mist abgeben! Kein Scheiß, hier reiht sich Hit an Hit, also wenn du ultimativ saufkompatible Festlieder im entkrampften Eineinhalbminutentakt so sehr magst wie ich, ist dieser Longplayer geradezu für dich gemacht!!
VECTORS
Cassette
Catchy and bouncy '77 punk rock, fueled by the spirit of the Ramones, this power trio from up in Sweden get out a batch of tunes here that is full of the good ole 'fuck you to your face' attitude, as they laugh out loud and have fun. They can scream 'Fuck MTV' and still do songs like 'Take Your Cancer Like A Man'... that's what's thee haps here. Katz
THE VECTORS 'Rape The Pope' EP
(rabidalligator731) 45 2000
4 raging slabs of punk hit you like a baseball bat around the head. This is Sweden's answer to the blasphemy squad. Rapeing the Pope don't exactly fill me with glee, but the music sure rams it home! The Vectors are manic, they're fast and it's all over before censors can draw breath. 'Spit On You' is even faster and aimed at Bill Clinton's extra carricular activities, but forget the lyrics coz the Vectors biggest asset is their rampaging untameable noise. All delivered on a backdrop of blitzing guitars, pounding bass and rumbling drums. Flip it over and Side B kicks off with 'Babble' that's the slowest track on here by a milli-second and has the best riff by far. Last track 'See You In The Parking Lot' begins with a Pistols 'Satellite' crescendo and reminds me of early Pack in the way the revenging guitar rings out, which can't be bad. A nasty little punk 3-piece here that deserves more attention.
THE VECTORS rape the pope ep (Rabid Alligator)
D'Umeå, Suède, la ville de leurs copains de DS-13, les Vectors avoinent un punk rapide et brutal presque parfait. Un enchaînement d'accords simples. Un bombardement de paroles directes. Umeå : mes prochaines vacances.
The Vectors, Per Jansv.1, 903 55 Umeå, Suède
The Vectors
Magneto, Luleå
Fredag 21 maj
Det berömda citatet från något obskyrt sjuttiotalsfanzine ''de är som en fyrverkeripjäs i röven på etablissemanget'' är en passande beskrivning på Umeåtrion The Vectors. När jag fortfarande låg i vaggan hade de hunnit ge fingret åt det mesta som går att ge fingret åt och den första EPn Fuck MTV kom för åtta år sedan. Nej, de är inga barnungar, bröderna Karl och Pelle Backman, låtskrivare och frontfigurer i The Vectors. Men deras hängivna punkleverne har inte satt så djupa spår som man lätt kan tro. Tvärtemot såg de riktigt fräscha ut då de i fredags spelade på ett nästan fullsatt Magneto i Luleå (klubben Teenage Lust).
Fotnot: På Magneto spelade även luleåbandet Slideshow.
Olle Sjögren
Noch mal 'ne Nordland-Kapelle auf New Lifeshark, die nach ihren fantastischen Releases in '97 & '98 mein Vertrauen & Herz im Sturm erobert haben. Das Debutalbum der Vectors, die ja schon 'nen 7-incher auf gleichem Label hatten, mit 13 mal Punk'n'Roll, weit punkiger, als die schon besprochenen Let's Go's, was dann auch den Unterschied zwischen Punk'n'Roll & R'n'Roll-Punk ausmacht. Und jetzt bitte keine dummen Fragen mehr! Deshalb gibt's bei den Vectors weniger R'nRoll, aber dafür mehr ''melodischen Agressionen'' & einige Slogans/Titel wie sie nur von Punkbands kommen können & dürfen: ''Quit your job'' (habe ich getan!), ''I hate you'' (kannste haben, Bürschchen!), ''Straitjacket'' (her damit, da beiß ich mich durch!), ''You can't grind us down'' (das mein' ich doch aber auch!). Demgegenüber steht dann ein Titel ''Fuck Punkrock'', der fast schon so genial ist wie der für immer unerreicht bleibende Slogan der Oblivians ''Kill a punk for R'n'Roll'' !!! Machen ganz schön viel Lärm für nur eine Gitarre & haben dabei wie gesagt noch Zeit, Melodien mit einzubringen. Spucken dir in's Gesicht, während sie dich anlächeln & machen genau die Mucke, die dich einerseits wild rumspringen lässt, wo du aber andererseits immer denkst: ''denen darf man nicht den Rücken zudrehen, ohne einen Streich gespielt zu bekommen!'' Als Beilage gibt's noch gratis die Texte mit Akkorden! (2,0/MU)
The Vectors ''Fuck MTV'' EP (New Lifeshark Rec.)
Hey, da horch ich auf. Catchy punky tunes from Sweden, die derbe an Screeching Weasel erinnern. Sicherlich haben drei auch schon die Ramones gehört und wissen daher wie man mit den drei altbakenen Akkorden gute Songs schreibt. Vier Songs - Vier 1-2-3-4-Pogo-Hits. Was den Deutschen Ihre Sonic Dolls, sind den Schweden ihre Vectors. Abel
New Lifeshark, P.O. Box 7000320, 44883 Bochum
Wow fuck punkrock let's rock. We have a message 1, 2, 3, 4, let's go to the zoo! Viele Leute haben keinen Arsch in der Hose, meiner sollte immer so süß gewesen sein. Nun denn, jetzt ist er auch weg und ich weiß auch warum so viele Leute keine Arsch haben. Die hören zuviel rockenden Punk wie die Vectors ihn zelebrieren. Dreckig und gemein hauen die Schweden uns um die Ohren. Die in Skandinavien so beliebte Mischung aus Garage Punk, Rock 'n Rock und Ramones Punk. Der Sound ist so powervoll das dasSitzenbleiben unmöglich wird. Die Ramones Buttons in die nackte Haut gerammt, das blutet, Sauerrei, aber sieht cool aus. Pflicht, wenn man gerne Röcke trägt.
Umeå wird ja immer wieder als HC-Hauptstadt von Schweden besiechnet, doch die VECTORS, deren feine ''Fuck MTV''-7'' jetzt auf New Lifeshark erschienen ist, spielen was gans anderes: exzellenten Grätschschritt-Punkrock nämlich, der ohne Ende Arsch tritt und locker mit den SONIC DOLLS oder JET BUMBERS mithalten kann. jh (5)
The Vectors ''Fuck MTV'' EP
(New Lifeshark Rec.)
Immer wenn ich so erstklassige Platten von unbekannten Bands in die Finger bekomme, überfällt mich Wehmut und Panik: Wieviele verborgene Talante mag es geben, von denen ich nie erfahren werde, daß es sie gibt, entweder weil sie in den Karparten leben und damit ihre Platten unereichbar bleiben, oder keine Chance bekommen außerhalb ihres Proberaums zu musizieren. Zum Glück hat diese Schicksal die Vectors nicht ereilt. Die drei Schweden spielen nämlich den Punk-Rock, den eigentlich jeden möder muß: melodisch, aber dennoch rauh, einfach aber effektiv. Zudem befindet sich auf dieser EP mit ''Take Your Cancer Like A Man'' ein so megamäßig grandioser Hit, daß sich alleine dafür der Kauf lohnt.