This is a track I made as an exam for my studies in conflict resolution at Gothenburg University. For those of you who are not in to that field or discourse the text/lyrics references may appear odd. But in short the song is a true reflection of my feelings at the time, and the mixed sense of on the one hand been given a handfull of tools to use in conflict resolution and on the other hand remaining powerless to use them. This comes thru in the chorus; "We´re riding on conflict trains, and there´s no destination!"
Personel on this track are the magnificent foursome, on this track named "The Conflicts" A.K.A Blue Moon, Hudsucker and Freakflag: 
Claes "Angry" Andersson - vocals, lyrics (myself)
Antonio "Ante" Helge Dennerholm - bass and keyboards, Wurlitzer
Mats "Zapato" Dojan Hansson - drums and percussion
"Don" Roberto Laghi - guitars, recording and mixing
The track were among the last we as some kind of collective recorded together. It was for my part a glorius period in my life regarding the fact that I started to take myself and my songwriting abilities more serouisly, and being blessed to have the material being transcended to higher ground by these wonderful musicians. Thanks, but hopefully more to come from this period...

Conflict Train

This is some of the songs we recorded during our short but ambitious career. It is such a joy to hear these songs again, now slightly remastered by our chief producer and engineer - the one and only Roberto Laghi. These songs were made and recorded during 87-89... and there are more songs coming from that period. The themes for our lyrics can best be described as the little mans struggle to survive in a Big World. Our ambitions were high, we wanted to sound like the major bands ot the era, Simple Minds, U2 as well as Rush. Our production fascility consisted of a 12 track and a 16 channel mixer and some basic outboard equipment, and a large portion of ambition and recording discipline. The tension within the band musically flexes from on one hand pop/rock influenses from bands such as XTC, Killing Joke and Peter Gabriel and on the other hand more groove based music as reggae and funk. 

10. Lack Of Motivation

6. Stand Or Fall

5. Under The Sun

4. I Hold The Line

These two songs were demos sent to various record companies in Sweden and Europe back in 1989, to little or no effect. We were pretty confident that we were the sole saviours of the record industry, but we used sarcasm and irony to communicate it. Not a good move... Today, as well as back then I still believe we were right and the industry wrong. I am quite proud to know under what circumstances we achieved these songs, in a bunker in Kortedala, on an 12 track AKAI MG 14D with a 16 track Soundtracs mixing console and with the tram going not more than 3 m from the side wall in the studio. The sound stands out wery well today. Glad to hear what you think!

13. Fire And Ice

12. Guardian Angel

These are some demos that we did in order to get gigs, most memorable are the ones we did in Uddevalla at Mortens Krog and as special guests at a weeding party in Hamburgsund where we did 2 versions of 2 songs that are hard to beat, Simple Minds "Alive and kicking" which in fact was my final and last song with the band, an amazing triumph! And as a special gift to the marrying copuple we did the Police song "With or without you" which brought tears to the brides eyes! I had a hard time pleasing all the different angles of the genre and the band, but I really love what they did for me and I still think they are an amazing band.  

Claes Forsell Andersson

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