Swedish vocals
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The liner notes read:
This isn't an ordinary record. We're neither skilled nor commercial - you have to be that to get an album released by an established label. That's why we've made this record ourselves. /.../ We can't allow the music being taken over completely by a flock of professional musicians while the rest of us hardly dare play to ourselves, let alone to others. MUSIC BELONGS TO ALL OF US!
How cute. Too bad
it's all progg baloney. It sounds just like something those nine
members of Gruppkorsbandet had repeated like a mantra to get it right
like a quote from Mao's little red book, probably in front of the
mirror so that they could strike the perfect progg pose while
parroting the tired old progg credo to any old person unlucky enough
to be around to hear. It's all nonsense, because nobody stopped
anyone from playing anything. Not even in the 70's.
Take a look at the
cover. The typeface looks like something off an information brochure
from the official Don't Have Fun Institute saying Eat Brown Rice And
Be Boring. Look at the nine regular people and their regular people
postures. Look at the dull, washed out greyness of it all. Take the
record out, put it on. It sounds exactly like you'd expect from the
yummy-yummy brown rice munchers with regular people postures pictured
in forty shades of grey. Nothing wrong with regular people or brown
rice or even the colour grey, but hey...
It's all acoustic
folk styled songs with a typical political bent (needless to say,
there's an Eisler/Brecht track, mandatory to albums like this).
Several members sing simultaneously,
Vietnam-solidarity-action-group-with-righteous-placards style. If you
want to sing along yourself, a lyric sheet is included. Just yell
away.
And, the final nail
in the coffin of a stillborn album: a Fria Proteatern cover.
Music belongs to
everybody. Fine and dandy, but please keep me out of this.
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