Electric Boys

   
Artist: Electric Boys

   Genre(s): 
Jazz: Funk
   

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Discography:


   
 Groovus Maximus

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 17


   
 Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride (Remastered)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 18


   
 Funk-o-Metal Carpet Ride

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10

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Sweden's Electric Boys were one of the first and most celebrated purveyors of the passing casimir Funk metal phenomenon of the late '80s and early '90s. Led by charismatic singer and guitarist Conny Bloom, the quartette garnered spout reviews and built quite a following in Europe, simply never managed to bridge the Atlantic and convert American audiences. Their creative juices were also speedily exhausted, causation the dance band to disintegrate into obscureness subsequently only three albums.


In 1988, Conny Bloom formed Electric Boys with bassist Andy Christell in Stockholm. After grading a meaning domestic reach with their first single, "All Lips N' Hips," the radical completed their batting order with guitarist Franco Santunione and drummer Niclas Sivegall and sic to work on their first album, 1989's critically acclaimed Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride. Signed to Atco by former Kerrang! scribe off A&R man Derek Oliver, the band took Europe and the U.K. by storm with their exceedingly smelly retro-hard rock sound and cheap psychedelic bet. Producer du jour Bob Rock was brought in to remix the record album and record book some new tracks prior to release stateside. But piece the video for "All Lips N' Hips" was actually located in daylight revolution by MTV, sales never truly took cancelled.


1992's dissatisfactory Groovus Maximus failed to receive fan and critical expectations, and though amicable, the going away of Santunione and Sivegall proven another blow. Guitarist Martin Thomander and drummer Thomas Broman were brought in to put back them prior to the band's side by side turn, which included a few European festival appearances encouraging Metallica. But Electric Boys had lost serious momentum, and were eventually dropped by Atco. Released by self-governing Music for Nations in 1994, their third feat, Freewheelin', played it safe with pretty straightforward hard rock, merely this only seemed to speed up their extraction. Following the cancellation of a planned U.K. tour in support of King's X, the ring distinct to call it quits and played a concluding spear in their hometown of Stockholm. Conny Bloom would continue active as a sometime solo creative person and finally coupled one-time Wildhearts master valet de chambre Ginger in the ephemeral Silver Ginger 5.