A busy and expensive month, replacing a dead computer screen among other dull but necessary expenses that of course happened all at once. And then onto Christmas shopping…got it all done in a day last week (and […]

Another member of the Subway fanclub here, so much so that I’ve watched it in every dubbed language included on my DVD of it (surprisingly many). First saw it in the cinema and was hooked from the pre-film […]

OK, I’m starting with @mike_h since his CD arrived first.

1. A live recording of a brass orchestra sounding a bit like an enthusiastic but under-rehearsed New Orleans high school marching band at first, but […]

Well I thought that was rather lovely, but Marc Almond can do no wrong in my book (and I absolutely love his voice).

When I see Greta Thunberg I don’t think about her famous opera-singing mother, but her grandfather, the actor Olof Thunberg. He was always on TV and in films in my childhood, and I’ve seen him on stage as well. […]

Or, in my case, a pdf of a book about my favourite band, Wilco, which I reviewed earlier this autumn and gave a decidedly lukewarm report because it disappointed me. I also clearly stated that it had been given to […]

By “humorous clip” I assume you’re referring to the Swedish lyrics and not the fact that he’s clearly singing some other song in that clip!
I suspect that Neela is too young to have had to endure Östen on the […]

The Swedish band Bob Hund did a tour where they borrowed instruments from fans in each city they played, because they’d sold their own when they lost their rehearsal space.

This comment made me laugh so much that I almost choked on a peanut…

Very cool, but now I can’t stop humming it…

Indeed, and disco rules… 🙂

Que Sera Mi Vida – The Gibson Brothers
Wrapped In Grey – XTC
Hood – Perfume Genius
Sports – Viagra Boys
Wings of Karma – Mahavishnu Orchestra

I’m also almost done, just some final decisions to make about the final tracks and the cover art. Should be able to send them out later this week.

I love this track by Pugh, a love song to an excavator – and not in hokum blues style – it’s actually about an excavator.

If that “something very solid” is only in that one spot I guess you could put a long piece of (possibly painted to look better) wood/plank/strip (unsure of the correct term in English) as long as needed for the […]

The very first one was Schlager, the ironically named Swedish pop mag that came with a free cassette of new music and dubious sound quality. I think I bought it simply because it was the first music magazine I’d […]

I have to admit that I never ventured beyond the hit singles blasting out of radios everywhere. The 90s is a decade I’ve had to catch up on in later years, buying CDs at Myrornas from bands I never listened to at […]

I remember a guy I knew when I was nine or ten who asked me how I could like The Beatles, because “they took lots of drugs”. I found that to be rather funny as he was a big fan of Ace Frehley.

Well, it depends on your definition of “famous” – mine is “famous in Sweden, the rest of Scandinavia and among diehard ESC fans”…
In 1982 I saw the band Standby fronted by the young singer Carola Häggqvist […]

Your version of “letting it all out” reminds me of a person in a job interview saying that his weak point is working too much…

I’ll show you how it’s supposed to be done:
“Kokomo is one of my favourite Beach B […]