The Analogs

The Analogs is a Polish street punk band. They originated in Szczecin, and are quite successful on the local and international punk rock scene.

The band is widely regarded for making street punk music popular in Poland, and for their non-political stance, which had a novel feeling in the Polish punk rock scene of the 90s. Though the band have always been 100% committed to anti-Fascist politics.

In the early 1995 three members of a ska band Dr. Cycos came into a rehearsal hall situated in Bronx pub, Szczecin to work on several songs which were supposed to be in a traditional punk rock style. Those people were Marek Adamowicz (guitarist), Ziemowit Pawluk (drummer) and Paweł Czekała (bassist). The band did not have any name at that point.

After melody lines for the first few songs had been prepared the band started to look for a vocalist. The first candidate was Tomasz Iwanow, band members' old friend. However, Iwan was unsuccessful as a vocalist and another candidate for this position was Dominik Pyrzyna, an orthodox punk those days, who perfectly fit the vocalist role for the band.

As the band had completed its line-up the time came to record the debut album entitled Oi! Młodzież. While recording it (in "Kakadu" studio, Szczecin), the band was simultaneously negotiating with Rock'n'roller productions, especially with its boss - Zdzisław Jodko. Being one of Czekała's longtime friends, Jodko willingly agreed to release the album under Rock'n'roller label. Meanwhile, the band had just been able to give itself a name: The Analogs.