Monday, July 15, 2024

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Låtar från Knuff (MNW, 1973)


Kabikiklas / Kenneth Nyström, Lars Garpenfeldt, Kurt Skoog & Finn Sörensson / Eftertryck Förbjudes / Urban Nilsson & Per-Olov Åström / Finkelmans Lakejer / Risken Finns / Hem Igen Med Maritha / Thomas Fahlander & Mats Rendahl / Konjak Och Ljummet Vatten / Halv Sex / Kul 67-gänget / Bristande Vardag
Swedish vocals
International relevance: **

This early MNW release is most notable for featuring the vinyl debut of Risken Finns, predating their first LP. ”Knuff” was a TV series discussing ”sex, gender roles, unemployment, school, life in the big city, and what it is like being young, for example” as the liner notes read. The track ”På strövtåg genom björnens dungar” by Bristande Vardag had previously been featured in radio show Bandet går but wasn't included on the ”Blandat band” album. ”Låtar från Knuff” is like a cousin to ”Blandat band”, as most of the featured artists were non-professionals and never released anything beyond this volume. The three Risken Finns tracks aren't actually the best on the album – that award goes to the quartet of unknowns Kenneth Nyström, Lars Garpenfeldt, Kurt Skoog and Finn Sörensson whose ”Tacka mina vänner” is anti-capitalist storytelling at its musical best, while Hem Igen Med Maritha's ”Den stora maskeraden” is a feminist intervention, oddly catchy with its light groove – much better than what political pamphlets usually are. Eftertryck Förbjudet in turn delivers a slice of pretty heavy proto-punk on "Vi är ju endast produkter".

Obviously not a masterpiece, this is still a valuable peak into a bygone era (with some sentiments still valid). At least if you know Swedish. In the ear of a non-Swede, this will probably sound just like an occassionally bad, sometimes decent and in a few cases very good compilation of bands and artists mostly long lost to oblivion. Which it is.

Eftertryck Förbjudes - Vi är ju endast produkter
Hem Igen Med Maritha - Den stora maskeraden
Risken Finns - Sexualdebatten
Konjak Och Ljummet Vatten - Över-rock

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