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Slowdown TownThe Cardigans

Producer: Tore Johansson

Should come snow
But we got rain and it's leaking in
I think of Paris
How that ugly tower stands 3 years of wind

Now don't it seem like we're living in a slowdown town
(Seem like we're living in a slowdown town)
I feel like we're living in a slowdown town
(Slowdown town)
And on and on it goes
On and on it goes

Billions of people be happy
Living like the way we do
With the world in our hands
Believing that we're small and true

But sometimes I feel like we're living in a slowdown town
(Feel like we're living in a slowdown town)
Yes, I feel like we're living in a slowdown town
(Slowdown town)
And on and on it goes

I'll be here and the wind and the rain will be
Hammering down the building over me
I'll be here in my tower of mistrust
I built this myself with nails that don't rust

Don't you feel like we're living in a slowdown town
Oh honey, I feel like we're living in a slowdown town
(Feel like we're living in a slowdown town)
So people, come on, let's just blow it
And get out of this damn town
Or on and on it goes
(Feel like we're living in a slowdown town)
Or on and on it goes
(Feel like we're living in a slowdown town)
Or on and on it goes

The Cardigans

One of the most pleasing pop groups of the ‘90s, the Cardigans specialized in sugary confections that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren’t backed by solid musicianship and clever arrangements. The band’s 1995 breakout album, Life, reflected the Cardigans at their most saccharine – the sunny disposition of vocalist Nina Persson being the major argument in favor – and critics inserted the group into the space age pop revivalist camp. the Cardigans later proved that they were more difficult to pigeonhole, however.

Even the band’s origins showed that their later appearance was quite misleading; two heavy metal fanatics formed the group in October 1992 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Guitarist Peter Svensson met bassist Magnus Sveningsson in a hardcore group, though he had previously trained in music theory and jazz arranging. The two later grew tired of metal and decided to form a pop band with vocalist Nina Persson – an art-school friend who had never sung professionally – plus keyboard player Lars-Olof Johansson and drummer Bengt Lagerberg.

All five Cardigans moved into a small apartment in 1993 and began recording a demo tape that entered the hands of producer Tore Johansson later that year. He liked what he heard and invited the group to record at his Malmö studio. Signed to the dance-oriented Stockholm label, the Cardigans released Emmerdale in May 1994. The single “Rise & Shine” became a hit on Swedish radio soon after the release of the LP, and a readers poll in Sweden’s Slitz magazine voted Emmerdale the best album of 1994.

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