Tag: Down at the Nightclub

The Creeps sound like they came from the garages in the sixties but it was the 1980s. I love the sound they got on this record.

This song is off of their debut album “Enjoy The Creeps” and it was released in 1986. Critics have said that they never did translate the excitement of their live show to records but this one is good. They released it on a small label named Tracks on Wax which was a Swedish Garage Rock-label in the 80s.

They formed in Sweden in 1985. They were influenced heavily by the Animals and Yardbirds, Robert Jelinek (vocals, guitar), Hans Ingemansson (Hammond organ), Anders Olsson (bass) and Patrick Olson (drums). Whenever I think of music from Sweden I think of Abba…this is not Abba by any stretch of the imagination.

Their third album, Blue Tomato, was released in 1990. It contained their most popular song, ‘Ooh I Like It’,  and it became a major Swedish hit and was eventually voted Best Song Of The Year by MTV viewers in 1990.

Down at the Nightclub was written by guitarist Robert Jelinek.

After a few years the band dropped the dirty sound of their debut album and went more for an 80s funk dance sound.

The band broke up in 1997.

Down At The Nightclub

All right
We’re going down to the nightclub baby
Where the fashion lights are all so gay
And the music’s so loud
I tell you we’re the in-crowd
We’re the grooviest gang around

I got a battering ram in my head
The room is turning in a blue green red
And the lights sure blows my mind
and I might get this time
Down at the nightclub

That girl’s dancing in her miniskirt
The way she moves now she gives me the hurt
Gonna move up to her, let my backbone slip
I’m gonna take her on a magic trip

I got a battering ram in my head
The room is turning in a blue green red
And the lights sure blows my mind
and I might get this time
Down at the nightclub

I got a battering ram in my head
The room is turning in a blue green red
And the lights sure blows my mind
and I might get this time
Down at the nightclub

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