Sven Lindström and Per Gessle were on air with the October episode of Nordic Rox to share their top 2000s songs from No. 10 to No. 6. It’s getting really exciting to enter the Top10.

Before that, the guys play Ifrån mig själv by a band called Dundertåget. Originally they were called Thunder Express, they just moved away from English to Swedish and then they disbanded. The song is from 2010. It’s a great track according to Per.

That’s a Year by Anna Lille from Norway is next. It’s her brand new single and it sounds really cool, Per thinks. Great production on that one.

The next track is Stay with This Song by The Facer from 1999. It’s classic Swedish garage rock, a really great band. The song is taken from their debut album, Go for the Show.

The guys are moving back to Norway with Sløtface. Norway has got some great stuff. Sven thinks she has a really nice, punky attitude. The song is called Magazine.

James Last Experience by The Soundtrack of Our Lives is next from their Behind the Music album. Per loves that album. James Last was big in Germany, but he was big in Sweden as well in the late ’60s, early ’70s. He played pop hits for the guys’ parents’ generation with a big orchestra and singers, who didn’t sing the lyrics, but they just la-la-la through the song. Wonderful, cheesy versions.

Sven and Per get down to the Top10 and the first song they play is Electric by Melody Club. PG thinks it’s a wonderful track. A great pop track and classic one on the Top10 from 2002, taken from their album Music Machine.

No. 9 on the noughties list is You Can’t Hurry Love by The Concretes. Sven asks Per which soul track he thinks of when he hears the title. Per replies, The Supremes track. But this is not a cover version of that. It’s an original tune by this indie group from Sweden, The Concretes. The singer is Victoria Bergsman. The guys think it’s a very cool track.

No. 8 is Per’s absolute favourite band, Sven says. PG says it’s The Beatles. No, The Rolling Stones. No, it’s Roxette, of course and a track from 2003, a pop hit called Opportunity Nox. It was the lead single of a compilation album called The Pop Hits. Sven has just found out that Per is the guy doing the crazy guitar solo. He is a bit knocked out by this info, actually. Haha. Per says he was never allowed to play the guitar solos, but on this particular track, he was. They recorded this track at the old Polar Studios, which was run by ABBA. Led Zeppelin recorded there too. Lots of international bands worked there. Roxette did the Room Service album there and also this track, Opportunity Nox. He remembers playing that guitar solo, it took forever, but it was worth it. Sven says, next time he is going to play a guitar solo, he is going to have whatever Per were having that day. Haha.

No. 7 is Automatic Lover by the Teddybears. Per thinks it’s a wonderful song. It’s a cool track from their commercial breakthrough album called Rock ‘n’ Roll Highschool from 2000. Before that, they were in some sort of metal stuff called grindcore. Sven is not really familiar with this, he hasn’t even heard those albums. But they changed style completely. The band became really cool and they did some great videos as well. They have some great singles, according to Per. The guys considered the song Hiphopper for a while, which is a great track as well, but then Sven and Per decided for Automatic Lover. It’s an excellent track.

On position No. 6 there is a sort of a cousin to this song, because Above the Candy Store by Paola was produced by Klas Åhlund of the Teddybears. She was married to Klas Åhlund. It’s all in the family. Haha. The song is taken from her great album Stockcity Girl, which the guys have been playing a lot. This is by far the best track on it, Per thinks. He thinks it’s a really wonderful song.

Nordic Rox continues with a wonderful song, Everything & Then Some by Melodic Fluke. Then comes I Woke Up in a Dream by Les Big Byrd. The next one is Lilla Lapper by Søte & Rare. Words Enough to Tell You by the Mascots is next. This is the sound of Stockholm in the ’60s, released on a flexi disc with a pop magazine that both Sven and Per bought.

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!

Sven Lindström and Per Gessle are getting ready to sink their teeth into the neverending list of their top 2000s songs on the September episode of Nordic Rox. They are at position No. 15 to No. 11 and the tension is rising.

Before that, they go back to the early ’90s and check out one of the bands that Per was a bit involved in. Brainpool was signed to his publishing company way back. This track is the first song from their debut album and it’s outstanding according to Per. It’s called That’s My Charm from 1994. The band is featuring Per’s current guitar player, Christoffer Lundquist. He was the bass player in Brainpool.

The next song is Knife in the Heart by Lykke Li, a remix by The Magician. The guys are in the remix mood today. The Magician has been working with Lykke Li before, he did I Follow Rivers as well. A highly successful song.

Then comes the remix version of Roxette’s I Call Your Name from 1986, taken from the first album, Pearls of Passion. It’s a Frank Mono remix. It has always been tough to get on the radio and EMI in Europe had this recipe of using European remixers and DJs to do remixes of songs. So they wanted to make a remix of I Call Your Name, which was an album track from Pearls of Passion. Per doesn’t know who Frank Mono was, he never actually met him. Roxette had to wait a couple of more years for everything to kick off in the States. It was with the second album.

Coming up next is Whatever by a fantastic band called Thundermother, consisting of four girls from Växjö, Sven’s old hometown. That’s how tough they are in Växjö. Haha. Per asks Sven if he knows the girls. Sven replies that he thinks he left town some decades before they were born, haha.

The guys are ready to dive deep into the best of the noughties list. At position No. 15 they have a fantastic song called Do You Love Me? by the amazing Amanda Jenssen, who is an outstanding singer. This was her breakthrough song in Scandinavia, the first single from her debut album, Killing My Darlings in 2008. There is something about her personality that’s hooking on. She cuts through the radio. She is really good.

No. 14 is Kent, one of Sweden’s biggest bands in the noughties. They are singing in Swedish. They made an amazing album called Vapen & Ammunition, guns and ammunition, in 2002. That album included several hit singles, including Kärleken väntar (Love Awaits). Per thinks it’s a great track, great production and a really good song as well. Typical Kent sound. He likes it a lot. It’s sung by Jocke Berg in Kent.

No. 13 is Dream On by Atomic Swing. They got quite big when they came out in 1993 with their debut album. They don’t exist anymore, or if they do, they keep a really low profile, haha. Under the radar. This is a great track from their The Broken Habanas album in 2006. It’s a song that’s been covered by other artists as well. Sven loves that guitar solo just merging over into the organ solo. Per thinks it’s very cool.

No. 12 is Running out of Gaz by Pauline. She was born in Zimbabwe and her mother moved to Sweden with a Swedish man who adopted her, so she grew up in Sweden. This is her biggest hit, released in 2003. It’s just a brilliant pop track. Per really likes it.

No. 11 is a song by The Cardigans. It’s a single from their latest / last album from 2005. They are still active, some members of the band and the singer Nina Persson, but the main songwriter Peter Svensson moved to LA and is working out of LA as a writer. I Need Some Fine Wine and  You, You Need to Be Nicer is a great track. The guys love that title. Nina Persson wrote the lyrics for The Cardigans and Peter Svensson wrote the music. That was the recipe of excellent teamwork.

The next artist is Merit Hemmingson. Sven doesn’t think they ever played her on Nordic Rox before. She is getting into her golden years, she is 86. She was really big in the ’70s, a fantastic keyboard player, Hammond organ player. Gammal jämtländsk brudmarsch was a smash hit in 1973 in Sweden, which is pretty rare because it’s an instrumental track and it’s a folk music tune. She made a specialty up by taking folk music, adapting it and modernizing it.

The next song is Death Defied by Will by Eagle-Eye Cherry. Then comes More! by Robin Bengtsson. God Knows by Mando Diao wraps up this month’s Nordic Rox.

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!