Daily Archives: July 16, 2008

The true Sweden.

Posted on by Tomas Halberstad
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Now, I’m not dissing Sweden. Sweden is a lovely place. What I’m doing is trying to give a nuanced picture.

This is the picture Sweden wants you to see. This is the picture the Swedish people have of Sweden. For non Swedish reading readers: in the right hand top corner there is a menu which says; orter (citys, places) choose one then click Gå (Go) then you will see the pictures taken and submitted from there.

(Come on, It’s meant to be humorous, don’t be all cranky and stuff. Link tip thank you to Tullan!)

For continued reading I recommend Arga Lappen (new posts found here) which kind of builds on the latter of the two sites linked to above. The downside is that it is in Swedish, and you truly have to understand Swedish to find it funny, so it’s maybe just a reminder for Swedes, a reminder of how we really are.

Songs number 8 and 9!

Posted on by Tomas Halberstad
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Early bird post today. As I am writing the time time is 0957h and I’ve already taken The Boo out for his morning stroll. Early indeed.

So, it seems Rob O hadn’t passed out on his porch, nor on any other porch, nor had he been attacked by a mutant teenage ninja hare. No, seems like my mailbox was full and the imence size of an Mp3 couldn’t fit and bounced back (how 2003 is that!?). Now all is in order.

I’ve received two songs today! The one that bounced back and another one which he finished last night. That makes 9 songs and only 1 to go before me and Rob O are going to sit down for a coffee, a listen and a chat to se what we like and what we do not like. Then we will take it from there.

Ok, let’s do this write-as-I-listen thing.
Hang on, have to press play (on tape)…
Oops, wrong song… there. 
Song 8:  Is a bit of a disco tune (strangely enough). A killer refrain with a bit of rainbow vocals. Bit of an off-on-tune, calm verse, loud refrain and oh… here comes another German bridge, AWESOME! This one is a real hit song. Loving the sounds.
Song 9: This is the first song I wrote with this album, The Anger, in mind. Strange. It’s the most not-me-sounding song. Minor and sad verse but if I can say so (and I can) a really nice piece of work. It sounds pretty straight forward, acoustic guitar, synth and mostly acoustic drums. I think it was the lyrics for this song which set the standard and theme of the whole album (the title tatter telling about which). Stone hard drums in the ending.

That’s it.