The Soundtrack of Our Lives

The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Singer Ebbot Lundberg (right) in the crowd with two fans at the Meredith Music Festival, December 2006
Background information
Origin	Gothenburg, Sweden
Genres	Alternative rock, neo-psychedelia
Years active	1995–2012
Labels	Telegram Records (Europe) Universal Music (USA) In-Fidelity Recordings (Aus) Haldern Pop Recordings (Germany, Switzerland, Austria)
Website	Official website
Members	Fredrik Sandsten (Drums) Martin Hederos (Keyboards) Ebbot Lundberg (Vocals) Mattias Bärjed (Guitar, vocals) Åke Karl Kalle Gustafsson (Bass, violin, vocals) Ian Person (Guitar, percussion, vocals)
Past members	Björn Olsson

The Soundtrack of Our Lives, often abbreviated T.S.O.O.L., was a Swedish rock band that was formed in Gothenburg in 1995 and disbanded in 2012. All lyrics are sung in English. The band's style draws heavily on sixties and seventies punk and rock, such as Rolling Stones and Iggy and the Stooges. Psychedelic rock forms another strong influence, and psychedelic and mystical references are also prominent in the band's lyrics and aesthetics. The abbreviation 'OEOC', which features on all their albums, refers to the phrase "as above, so below" from Hermeticism.

The Soundtrack of Our Lives was originally formed by Torbjörn "Ebbot" Lundberg, Björn Olsson, Ian Person, Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm, Fredrik Sandsten and Martin Hederos. Several members, including vocalist Ebbot Lundberg, had previously played in the punk rock band Union Carbide Productions. Olsson, who as guitar player had helped craft the band's sound, left T.S.O.O.L. after its first release, Welcome to the Infant Freebase—which found wide acclaim in Sweden—to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by Mattias Bärjed, who, like other members, has also engaged in solo and spinoff projects.

The band found critical success in the United States in 2002, with their third album Behind the Music, released the previous year in Sweden. It was nominated for the Best Alternative Album award at the 2003 Grammy Awards. They toured the US in 2002 with Oasis in support of their album Behind the Music.

Their double album Communion was released in November 2008. After a tour of the US the band announced that they were working on their next record Throw It Into the Universe. In October 2010, the band announced it would be releasing their first 'Best Of' compilation entitled Golden Greats no. 1. According to a statement on their website: "The band has spent much of the summer of 2010 in Svenska Grammofonstudion [sic] where they remastered the original recordings and in part picked up nuances that somehow went missing. With the carefully restored and remastered versions we are invited to TSOOL classics in a way we never heard them before."