Swedish
vocals
International relevance: **
It's not often that a seven-inch finds its way to the blog, but this is is one of them. (It's not that I don't care about singles, it just hasn't happened very often yet.) Then again, it's almost like half an album, with five tracks running at 33 1/3 rpm. It's the second volume of two, with volume 1 being released by Manifest the previous year, 1977. It features a couple of lesser-known outfits, as well as members from familiar bands from Sweden's Northern regions, such as Rekyl, Skottes Musikorkester and Anton Swedbergs Svängjäng.
The weakest track shares the A-side
with the best one. Lule Stassteater, a local independent theatre
group, contributes a 'funny' stinker called ”Flyttvisa från
Norrbotten” quickly followed by the excellent "Snålblåst" by members of Rekyl's, Skottes Musikorkester
and Det Rivna Pianot collectively named Snålblåstgänget. If ”Snålblåst”
sounds familiar, it's probably because you've heard songwriter Tomas Forsell's own version of it on his second album ”Nya tider” from
1980. Forsell's recording is the better of the two, but the song is
simply excellent you just can't fail with it. To my ears, it's one of
the Great Songs of the progg era.
The B side offers up three
tracks, none of them particularly good. Folket I Ton's ”Vi vägrar
att flytta” is run-of-the-mill shout-your-propaganda-message crap;
Pyramid's contribution ”Arbete och liv” sounds like a late 70s
Christian MOR track with the religious theme replaced by unexeciting
political lyrics, and Anton Swedberg Svängjäng's ”Kom igen!” is
probably their weakest ever outing and another
”shout-your-propaganda” track even worse than Folket I Ton.
If you like ”Snålblåst” as much
as I do, you might want to seek this one out, otherwise you can
safely pass on this.
Lule Stassteater - Flyttvisa från Norrbotten
Folket I Ton - Vi vägrar att flytta
Pyramid - Arbete och liv
Anton Swedbergs Svängjäng - Kom igen!
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