{"id":1841,"date":"2013-05-10T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:35:07","slug":"u-137-harifran-till-evigheten-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/u-137-harifran-till-evigheten-7\/","title":{"rendered":"U 137- H\u00e4rifr\u00e5n Till Evigheten 7”"},"content":{"rendered":"

U 137 were a Swedish band, also featuring Mats Larsson (alias Tage Jesus) of\u00a0Stulna Beg\u00e4r<\/a>. They took their name from a Russian submarine that hit a rock in Swedish international waters in 1981, causing further speculation of Soviet influence on Sweden.\u00a0 It’s a very interesting incident, which you can read more about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It seems like this was a collaborative project of\u00a0three like-minded\u00a0Swedish musicians, who swapped instruments for\u00a0each track. Vocalist Michael Andersson would go on to form Sacrilege, a death\/black metal band in the 90s.\u00a0 Andersson and\u00a0Anders Nilsson (aka Nisse) also released a few singles as Andra Sidan<\/a> in the late 1980s.\u00a0 Most notably, all three members were involved\u00a0in\u00a0Total Musak, with a similar cold\/post-punk style and a female singer.\u00a0\u00a0 Total Musak further explored the Cold War\u00a0sentiment covered here, and are just as good.\u00a0 BONUS: you can hear all their recordings (though sadly only at 128 kbps) here<\/a>.\u00a0 Awesome!<\/p>\n

Not sure how many copies of this exist in total (rough guess is 500), but the first 300 copies were pressed on blue vinyl with no center label. This is the version I have.<\/p>\n

Both sides here have something different to offer, likely a product of Larsson and Nilsson swapping string synth\/drum duties for each track.\u00a0Fans of bands like Peyr, Killing Joke, and the Red Rain Coat<\/a> 7” will dig the energy of “En Som Faller,” (A Falling)\u00a0while those who prefer the the cold Seventeen Seconds<\/em>, Names\/Factory\u00a0sound should go nuts for “Baksidan Av Ditt \u00d6ga” (The Back of Your Eye).\u00a0 There is rumored to be an English version of “En Som Faller” on a compilation, re-titled “Trip and Die<\/a>” but not sure where you can hear that version.\u00a0 For now, here’s a fresh rip of this excellent 7”!<\/p>\n

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U 137- H\u00e4rifr\u00e5n Till Evigheten<\/em> 7”
\n1. Baksidan Av Ditt \u00d6ga
\n2. En Som Faller<\/p>\n

*download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n

Thanks to the excellent B-Sound<\/a> website for filling in the gaps of this otherwise mysterious 7”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U 137 were a Swedish band, also featuring Mats Larsson (alias Tage Jesus) of\u00a0Stulna Beg\u00e4r. They took their name from a Russian submarine that hit a rock in Swedish international waters in 1981, causing further speculation of Soviet influence on Sweden.\u00a0 It’s a very interesting incident, which you can read more about here. It seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,124,39,19,776,311,778,777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-124","category-coldwave","category-post-punk","category-stulna-begar","category-swedish","category-total-musak","category-u-137"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}