Jakob Hellman had a brief life in the limelight in Sweden at the end of the 1980’s with his 2 hits from the album “…Och det stora blå”, with Vara Vänner (would translate to Be Friends) being one of the hits. Vara Vänner is a song about a guy who’s having more feelings for a female friend than just friendship. He wants to tell the friend how beautiful she is but he can’t because, as the chorus would translate to, “we can talk about anything because we should just be friends”. It’s a very sad song, sung in a very happy and upbeat tempo, which makes it more difficult to place. It’s not a song you would listen to when you’re happy because it would bring you down, and when you’re feeling like in the song it actually weighs even heavier on your shoulders, in the sort of “if I was more ignorant I would be happier” kind of way.
Dunder Tåget is a new Swedish band rising in The Great Hellacopters Wake. The singer, Robert Dahlquist, actually played guitar in the Hellacopters, but now he has also taken on the singer and songwriter roles. He does it really well too. The songs, which are written by Robert together with singer/songwriter Stefan Sundström, actually sound quite rock’n'rolly even though they are in Swedish.
Pink Floyd, a band with such an incredible and amazing mystique. It must have been excellent to be a part of that music scene. I wonder what the likes are in todays music. What current bands could possibly be as musically brilliant, be so creative and psycadelic, and still make a huge following and fantastic stage shows. Anyways, todays song is from their Wish You Were Here album, and it’s called Have A Cigar.
The video below plays Have A Cigar and use clip from their movie The Wall.
My interest in Sebastien Tellier has been reignited since I saw him live at Debaser Medis in Stockholm a couple of days ago. So today I’m picking a song of his that’s been going under my music radar until the live performance. The song is Kilometer. That’s all I know about it. Check it out at Youtube.
Mars Volta was named “Best Prog-Rock Band” by The Rolling Stones magazine in 2008. I haven’t listened a lot to them yet but I love their song L’Via L’Viaquez. It exists in a number of versions, with the album version being more than 12 minutes long and featuring 3 guitar solos and at least one piano solo.
Yesterday I was reminded of the song Poupée de cire, poupée de son performed brilliantly at the ESC 1965 by France Gall. The song is written by Serge Gainsbourg and is about how young pop stars sing about love and loss and situations they’ve barely experienced themselves.
Today it’s time for the most often played song on my computer. Write You A Letter by Ray LaMontagne, weighing in at 203 plays. There’s not a lot of lyrics in this song but it is still a song I can really relate to. Youtube.
I first heard Les Champs-Elysees at the end of The Darjeeling Limited, a quite typical Wes Anderson movie. And like any Wes Anderson movie there are alot of interesting music. So today I’m recommending Joe Dassin singing Les Champs-Elysees. Youtube and Spotify.
Pink Floyd, a band with such an incredible and amazing mystique. It must have been excellent to be a part of that music scene. I wonder what the likes are in todays music. What current bands could possibly be as musically brilliant, be so creative and psycadelic, and still make a huge following and fantastic stage shows. Anyways, todays song is from their Wish You Were Here album, and it’s called Have A Cigar.
Mars Volta was named “Best Prog-Rock Band” by The Rolling Stones magazine in 2008. I haven’t listened a lot to them yet but I love their song L’Via L’Viaquez. It exists in a number of versions, with the album version being more than 12 minutes long and featuring 3 guitar solos and at least one piano solo.
