The major Gothenburg band along with
Nationalteatern who they often collaborated with. Both were part of
the grandiose Tältprojektet, and at times the two bands were almost
like siamese twins. Nynningen was founded in 1970 by Bertil Goldberg
and Tomas Forssell, and included several noted members such as bass
player Nikke Ström, keyboard player Bernt Andersson, guitarist Bengt
'Bengan' Blomgren, and singer Torsten 'Totta' Näslund.
Man mognar med åren (MNW, 1972)
Swedish vocals
International relevance: *
”Man mognar med åren” is to
Nynningen what ”Ta det som ett löfte... ta det inte som ett hot”
is to Nationalteatern, i.e. an album very different to the sound the
band's best known for. ”Man mognar med åren” is largely acoustic
and in a style akin to Fria Proteatern and other political
independent music theatre groups. It's an inferior album with
unmemorable songs and rather poor performances.
För full hals (MNW, 1973)
Swedish vocals
International relevance: **
”För full hals” is a collection of
poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky set to music by Nynningen and remains
their best known album. It's considered a progg classic with the
heavy and soul inspired title track topping it off. That track's pretty amazing, and although it's the best track in this lot by far, this remains their best album.
1974 (MNW, 1974)
Swedish vocals, instrumental
International relevance: **
Similar to ”För full hals” but
with a few more progressive touches as on the instrumental ”Marschen
till Caobans rike” and on Tomas Forssell's ”När så tingen
börjar klarna”. A couple of songs were written with
Nationalteatern's Anders Melander. Still nothing here to explain why
Nynningen is held in such high regard by so many. "Ingenting händer mekaniskt" is a track written by Leif Nylén and was originally intended for Blå Tåget who turned it down for being too politically questionable. Instead, Nynningen took it on without further questions.
Äntligen en ny dag! (Nacksving, 1975)
Swedish vocals
International relevance: **
Last chance for Nynningen to
demonstrate their alleged excellence. Unfortunately they fail to do
so. The vocals were now mostly handled by Sam Westerberg, with Totta Näslund a member of Nationalteatern at this point in time. Regardless, this is bad blues, blues in name only, stiffly performed and forced
into political sloganeering. For this album, Nynningen changed label
from MNW to Nacksving, and the dull lifeless sound typical to the
label's releases certainly doesn't help Nynningen to a more inspiring
achievement.
In 1977 Nynningen released an album
together with Nationalteatern, music from the stage play ”Vi skall
leva igen”. A 1973 Swedish Radio session is included in
”Progglådan”. Nynningen has since reunited whithout Totta Näslund who died in 2005.
Man mognar med åren full album playlist
För full hals full album playlist
1974 full album playlist
Äntligen en ny dag! full album playlist
Tonkraft 1973 full album playlist (tracks 1-7)
Hejsan! Ny till bloggen, superkul att läsa den. Smaken är som baken men en liten justering: På Äntligen En Ny Dag finns inte ett spår av Totta (han hade flyttat över till Nationalteatern då), den som sjunger mest är Sam Westerberg. Titellåten tycker jag tillhör "proggens" höjdpunkter just för dess poetiska vardagsbeskrivning, inga plakat så långt ögat når, men ändå med sådan kraft. Och Sam sjunger som en gud.
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