Maktens män
1972 · Befria BS-4 · Sweden
- Artist
- FNL-Grupperna
- Title
- Maktens män
- Release
- Vietnam är nära
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Befria # BS-4
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- Genre
- Nordic Music · Progressive Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — European Songs
Swedish. Anti-war. Album of Vietnam songs - 15 in total. Befria Södern # BS-4 Vietnam Är Nära ("Vietnam Is Near") En vietnamesisk bonde ("A Vietnamese Farmer") Rag om den nordvietnames-iska invasionen ("Rag on the North Vietnamese Invasion") - mentioned Spiro Agnew, Hitler Vid läsningen av Ett tusen poeters antologi ("At the reading of One thousand Poets anthology") - poem by Ho Chi Minh Internationella brigadens sång ("International Brigade Song") - reference to Vietnam. Anti-imperialist, anti-American. Socialist. Haiphong - reference to North Vietnamese city bombed heavily by US. Nixon reference Befrielsemarsch ("Relief Cruising") - reference to bombing and Nixon En kamp på tusen slagfält ("A Fight in a Thousand Battlefields") Militära mål ("Military Targets") - reference to Nixon bombing campaign Vapenhandlarens sång ("Weapons Dealer Song") - military-industrial complex Roten till det onda ("The Root of Evil") - criticism of US democracy, 'imperialism' Avskedet ("Farewell") - Vietnam reference. Maktens män ("Forces Man") - reference to bombings Befria södern ("Liberate the South") - live version Sång om dammarna - Vietnam related??
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Song groups of De Förenade FNL-grupperna (DFFG / United NLF Groups), the Swedish solidarity movement with the Vietnamese NLF; active late 1960s to mid 1970s, releasing albums on the movement's own Befria Södern label. Based in Sweden (groups in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala). [Source: Wikipedia / Discogs]