Sven Lindström and Per Gessle presented their 550th Nordic Rox show in July. They shared their top 2000s songs from No. 25 to No. 21 in that episode.
The guys are ready to play the best sound from the Nordic countries and kick off with something really greasy, Grease Baby by Clutter, garage rock from Stockholm. A very cool song according to Per.
Then comes Mia Karlsson’s beautiful track, Breathe Now from 2024. PG loves this song and he thinks Mia has a great voice.
The next track is Let’s Go Parking Baby by Caesars from their Youth Is Wasted On The Young album from 1998. Excellent stuff, Sven thinks. He loves their sound.
The guys play two US No.1s in different versions. First of all, Björn Skifs who topped the US Billboard charts with Hooked On A Feeling. Per corrects Sven that he wasn’t called Björn Skifs those days, but Blue Swede and the song was a cover version of Hooked On A Feeling, the ooga chaka stuff in 1974. But the track they play is a Eurovision song from 1975, a big, big, big hit in Scandinavia: Michelangelo by Björn Skifs. It’s a cool song according to PG. It makes you smile.
Then there is an ABBA track in a different version by the group called Pale Honey, a cover version of Lay All Your Love On Me from the Super Trooper album 1980. The guys think it’s a great track and Pale Honey’s interpretation is an interesting, nice version.
No. 25 on the noughties list is a Danish song that travelled the world. It was the theme song for the TV series The Bridge. Hollow Talk by Choir Of Young Believers is a very special track. Per was pretty late watching the series. Everyone saw it around him, except him. He watched all the seasons, and then just before the three last episodes, they took it off Netflix or HBO, whatever it was. So PG hasn’t seen the ending yet and begs Sven not to tell him. Sven laughs and confirms no spoilers here.
Sven knows the next song is one of Per’s favourites. It’s by Lisa Miskovsky. Mr. G thinks she is a great singer, and this is one of her early hits, Driving One Of Your Cars. Per thinks it sounds amazing and he loves it. It’s an excellent track from 2001. It’s getting old. “Just like you”, Per turns to Sven. Haha.
No. 23 is a female singer called Titiyo. She broke through in 1989 with Talking To The Man In The Moon, but her biggest song is Come Along. It’s written by Peter Svensson from The Cardigans and Jocke Berg from Kent. Jocke wrote the lyrics. Kent was a massive band in Sweden, but has never broken through outside. Come Along has got a great sound, and it sounds a little bit like The Cardigans, Per thinks. It’s a very good song, and you can still hear it here and there.
Someone New by Eskobar feat. Heather Nova is next. It was a one-off collaboration between this band from Stockholm and Heather Nova from Bermuda in 2002. It was a big song in Europe, and it still sounds cool.
No. 21 is Wonderchild by Christian Walz, who is a great producer and writer, and he has been around for many years. This was a really big song for him. It’s from the album Paint By Numbers. He is also a very prolific writer for Swedish artist Veronica Maggio. He has written brilliant tracks for her in Swedish.
Sven introduces the next track, Bad Blood, as a song by the touring version of Roxette. Per says it’s not really a Roxette track. It’s sung by Per and Lena Philipsson, who is an amazing singer.
The next song played is Hey Princess by Popsicle. Then comes Fine by The Cardigans. It’s taken from The Cardigans’ second album, Live, which broke them big in Japan in 1995. Sven asks Per what he was doing in 1995. PG has to think about it. He came off a tour. If you can’t remember the ’90s, you weren’t there, Sven says. Per says they did a world tour with Roxette in 1994 and 1995. The Crash! Boom! Bang! tour, so they probably played some big shows in the summer of 1995. Then they recorded more music, because they made their first compilation album in 1996. Per says “it’s all coming back to me now”. Haha. Like Peter Sellers would say.
Sven and Per thank the listeners for joining them and they say goodbye. The show ends with Cigarettes by Anita Lindblom, as usual.
Still is from the Bag Of Trix talks recorded by Anders Roos.
Thanks for your support, Sven!