This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
One thing I never get tired of is the smash, bash and thrash of classic punk rock. Apparently, neither do the Swedes.
Bombshell Rocks and 59 Times The Pain are just the latest two acts to come storming out of the frozen wastelands with all the spit ’n’ grit of Brits circa 1977. The Bombshell boys boast a singer with Joe Strummer’s razor-blade rasp (and latter-day Mohawk), a guitarist with Mick Jones’ cheeky metal riffs, and anthemic choruses straight from Stiff Little Fingers (plus a jillion other bands), all crumpled into a manifesto of sneering nihilism and unyielding idealism. Swedish meatballs 59 Times The Pain, meanwhile, land somewhere between metal and the mutant blitzkreig bop of The Ramones. Speed is the main weapon in their arsenal, and brevity the soul of their wit — the 13 songs on this 27-minute album (if that isn’t a contradiction in terms) explode one after the other like a string of firecrackers. Strummer, Jones and The Ramones may not write ’em like that anymore, but we should all be glad somebody still does.
