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!