I saw Billy Bragg at a festival some years ago and he talked a lot in between songs, very funny it was too.

Is that a mayonnaise joke, @retropath2?
Took me a while to make the connection – at first I thought that Google Translate had seriously failed you! 😀

Om hon är ett fan av den första så kommer hon säkert att älska den nya med, den låter precis som man förväntar sig att en ny Jakob Hellman-skiva ska låta.

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If I keep up my “read-six-pages-a-day” scheme for the Obama tome, I’ll probably go through his precidency (again) in real time…I’m a little more than half-way through at the moment. Still prefer Michelle’s […]

Dina grannar kommer att ÄLSKA dig… 😀

The only painfully loud gig I can recall at the moment was an outdoor festival gig by Anna Von Hausswolff. I’ve seen AC/DC but as I was in the nose-bleed section under the ceiling of the Stockholm Globe Arena, if […]

To answer your call about the fourth video: Nils Ferlin is the poet, and AFAIK it was Lillebror Söderlund that wrote the music, at least his version is the one I always heard on the radio growing up. Which I’ve […]

*bites toungue – with a full set of teeth – to avoid making a snarky joke about the state of British teeth*
😀

Yes, of course. She was always there all through my childhood and well into my adulthood too. (Your link confused me for a while, as I distinctly remembered her dying many years ago and I thought it was a link to […]

@retropath2 – are you really talking about Maynard’s Soft Nougat?? That stuff was so soft it could never pluck teeth or fillings out no matter how much you ate or how enthusiastically you chewed! Unless, possibly, […]

Can you still get Maynards Soft Nougat (the pink and white one) in Britain? It must have been ten years since I last saw it in a Swedish shop. I used to bloody love that one, especially the large packet, around 25 […]

The last Swedish artist I thought I’d be able to get the Afterword (well, @salwarpe and @kaisfatdad at least, which is two more than I expected) to enjoy was Anders F! This development cheers me up immensly! […]

You mentioned Evert Taube in the OP, so let’s give the rest of the Afterword a chance to hear him.
Eldarevalsen is one of my favourite Taube songs about the life at sea, and holds the distinction of being one of […]

Not a big Dolls fan, but I remember this track from a mix tape I had in the early 80s. Took a while to find it on YouTube as I’d forgotten the name, and listening to it now it isn’t the greatest song ever […]

Well, I really enjoyed that, but at the same time I’m not sure I’d necessarily want to hear it again.

Wonderful post that brought a few tears to my eye, possibly enhanced by the two phone conversations I had today with my soon to be 95 year old dad, about something that happened that made him confused, and sad and […]

You mentioned Austen; I read (believing a recommendation, unfortunately) the novel Charlotte last year, which easily was the worst book I read in 2020! It was sold to me as the story of Charlotte Lucas from Pride […]

Actually, @Kaisfatdad, A Thousand Moons did slightly disappoint me. It is still a good novel, but it wasn’t great, like its parent novel. No spoilers, but it felt a bit unnecessary to me. Where Days Without End […]

JUST READ: Jeff Tweedy – How To Write One Song (short, charming and sometimes funny book of tips for future songwriters to get started. Not something I plan to do – I read it as a Jeff Tweedy completist – but […]

Perhaps Trump’s refusal to go to the inaugaration isn’t just a churlish protest, perhaps he knows about something being planned by his followers and doesn’t want to risk taking a stray bullet…