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The Cardigans
Anyone else like this excellent band from the 90's and 00's? I think they released some really good singles over the years, like Sick & Tired, Carnival, My Favourite Game, Hanging Around, Lovefool, Rise & Shine, Don't Blame Your Daughter and others. They had a unique sound and singer Nina has a distinctive voice. I know they've got back together in recent years to tour but it would be great if they recorded a new album together too! I'd love to hear new music from them.
A few of my favourites: Sick & Tired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxdJqncir4Y My Favourite Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs Hanging Around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46EwecvbGp8 Carnival http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2y...ardigans_music Lovefool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8dXPfM16vw Rise & Shine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABXb7ccEVnc Don't Blame Your Daughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRyJQ20nFhc |
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didnt like them... and that riff in 'lovefool' is possibly my most hated riff ever...
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Yep great band you have missed my favourite though
Erase/Rewind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WOYnv59Bi8 They love to celebrate negativity on this forum what every anybody likes well get shot down by somebody. |
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Yep great band you have missed my favourite though
Erase/Rewind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WOYnv59Bi8 They love to celebrate negativity on this forum what every anybody likes well get shot down by somebody. sorry i didnt realise this forums for 'love ins' only. |
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Best band in the world, although I couldn't stand them until they released Gran Turismo.
Here are my faves: A Good Horse 3.45 : No sleep One of the most beautiful songs ever. I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer Holy Love Live in 2015 – I didn't realise they'd played together so recently. The last two are from Super Extra Gravity, which has to be one of the best albums ever made and the accompanying videos are superb (as are all Cardigans videos). And here's Nina singing an old Leonard Cohen classic. Famous Blue Raincoat Fragile, haunting and deeply moving. Strange, scary weirdness here from the Cardigans offshoot, A Camp. The Oddness Of The Lord And how about this? Same Old Song |
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Erase; rewind is brilliantGran tourismo is their highlight period probably. I looked at your links but Carnival is horrible ![]()
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Erase; rewind is brilliantGran tourismo is their highlight period probably. I looked at your links but Carnival is horrible ![]() ![]() ![]() I agree about their early stuff though. I really don't know what they thought they were doing. To my ears it's mainly twee nonsense, although I have read comments on YouTube from people claiming that Gran Turismo was the beginning of the end! |
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Yes!! Quality band.
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A few of my favourites:
Sick & Tired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxdJqncir4Y My Favourite Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs Hanging Around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46EwecvbGp8 Carnival http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2y...ardigans_music Lovefool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8dXPfM16vw Rise & Shine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABXb7ccEVnc Don't Blame Your Daughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRyJQ20nFhc 'For What It's Worth' 'You're the Storm' 'Please Sister' 'Lead Me Into the Night'. Their best album is Long Gone Before Daylight, check it out! |
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Lovefool was the very first cd single I bought all those moons ago
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Unfortunately you missed all the best and most important ones!
'For What It's Worth' 'You're the Storm' 'Please Sister' 'Lead Me Into the Night'. Their best album is Long Gone Before Daylight, check it out! Some of the lyrics are ![]() And Then You Kissed Me Man I’ve had a few But they wouldn’t quit blow me like you You gave me your name and sight With a halo around my eye And it hits me like never before That love is a powerful force Yes it struck me that love is as bored So I pushed you a little bit more Love, you’re news to me You’re a little bit more then I thought you’d be A mow in my well fed lawn You’re a nightmare beating the dawn Oh it hits me like never before That love is a powerful force Yes it struck me that love is a sport So I pushed you a little bit more Blue, blue, black and blue Red blood sticks like glue True love is cruel love Red blood say power fuel Sweet love tasty blood My heart overfloods Oh you hit me Yeah you hit me really hard Man you hit me Yeah you hit me right in the heart Lord I’ve had my deal But I never quite knew how it feels When love makes you wake up soar With fists that are ready for more And it hits me that love is a game Like in war no one can be blamed Yes it struck me that love is a sport So I pushed you a little bit more Blue, blue, black and blue Red blood sticks like glue True love is cruel love Red blood say power fuel Sweet love tasty blood My heart overfloods Man you hit me Yeah you hit me really hard Baby you hit me Yeah you punched me right in the heart And then you kissed me And then you hit me Oh you hold me with your violent heartbeat at night Oh you strike me with your silence baby tonight Why you hold me with your violence baby come hit me You hold me with your violent heartbeat |
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You're right.
The lyrics to For What It's Worth really make me break down and mirror exactly how I feel/felt about someone. And her howling at the end is haunting. |
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I copied the lyrics from a website and posted them without reading them through. I'm not sure they've got them entirely right in places.
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I am saddened that radio makes the Cardigans out to have been one-hit wonders with Love Fool. My Favourite Game was excellent, like you said Spaceygal, and so was their version with Tom Jones of Burning Down the House.
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I copied the lyrics from a website and posted them without reading them through. I'm not sure they've got them entirely right in places.
![]() Shame LGBD didn't receive the attention it deserved. There are some beautiful love songs on there.
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Glad to see other Cardigans fans here! I didn't "leave out" all those other songs mentioned, I just posted my some of my favourite singles of theirs. I didn't want to post links to too many songs, I just selected a few. I like Erase/Rewind, although it's not one of my favourites of theirs. I love all their albums. All very different from each other but they all have great stuff on them. Sick & Tired was the first single I ever bought of theirs and I still love it. Been It is probably my least favourite single. Their final couple of albums are very different indeed, from their "fluffier" sounding albums of the 90's. Even when the songs "sounded" light and fluffy though, the lyrics weren't always so. A lot of the lyrics are quite dark, as others have mentioned. I love the song 3.45 No Sleep, it's so good.
Hanging Around is still my favourite single of theirs. It's just brilliant. It's a shame so many people only ever seem to go on about Lovefool, like it's the only thing they ever released! They had lots of other hits! I do like the song, and included the video above, but they have many other songs I prefer. For What It's Worth is another fave single of mine. I forgot to add the link to that one actually. For What It's Worth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01_RTOD9hYc |
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Super Extra Gravity has to be the best. It was just a bit weird that while most albums begin with a killer track, the opener, i'm Losing A Friend was perhaps the weakest track on it.
I always wondered why they used a drum machine on Gran Turismo, as I'm sure it would have been far better with a real drummer. The A Camp albums are also worth investigating, especially this track. Stronger Than Jesus It's odd that they do mention God and Jesus quite frequently in the lyrics, because I'm sure there's no evidence that they're in any way a religious band. Quite the opposite I would have thought. Anyway, keep posting Cardigans comments to keep a decent band at the top of the Music section for a change.
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Strange, scary weirdness here from the Cardigans offshoot, A Camp.
The Oddness Of The Lord And how about this? Same Old Song
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The A Camp albums are also worth investigating, especially this track. Stronger Than Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pg1pfmIuGM Btw, is it just me or does Nina look like Debbie Harry in this video? lol ![]() Song For The Leftovers is really good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNN5QTCwNOg and I like this solo song from Nina too: Food For The Beast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8kv2IPANyE |
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Lovefool is a brilliant pop song which is used to great effect in Romeo and Juliet
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I quite liked them 'back in the day, as I believe young people say these days!
They were a good live band too! |
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Yes, that's a good one and I like Love Has Left The Room too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pg1pfmIuGM Btw, is it just me or does Nina look like Debbie Harry in this video? lol ![]() Song For The Leftovers is really good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNN5QTCwNOg and I like this solo song from Nina too: Food For The Beast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8kv2IPANyE |
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I'm a big fan of "Long Gone Before Daylight". I think it got good reviews at the time but it still seemed to pass everyone by.
I was surprised to read recently, that guitarist Peter Svensson is now one of those Swedish pop hitmaker types who writes/produces songs for all the big chart acts. |
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I was surprised to read recently, that guitarist Peter Svensson is now one of those Swedish pop hitmaker types who writes/produces songs for all the big chart acts.
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A great video here, with double the value for Nin fans.
A Camp - I can buy you Does anybody know where the name A Camp came from? I never know whether it is pronounced purely as a noun (which seems a bit odd), or as a letter of the alphabet. |
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Erase; rewind is brilliant
