The Cardigans

[Intro]
Hi there, pop lovers
Allô, tous les fans de pop
Hallo, pop freunde
Hola, amantes del pop
Hej, alla popdiggare
Privet, vsem lyubitelyam muzyki pop
Thank you my dear, once again a big hello from yours truly, Roger Wallis
On this disc I'm gonna present some of the best swingin' sounds that have ever come out of Sweden
Sounds like this

[Verse 1]
Sick and tired, my love
I return
I return [?]
Sick and tired, my love
I return
I return [?]

[Hook]
I never thought I was your kind
You've always been inside my mind
I never knew I was the one
Where have you been, my love?

[Verse 2]
Sick and tired, my love
I return
I return [?]

[Hook]
I never thought I was your kind
You've always been inside my mind
I never knew I was the one
Where have you been, my love?

[Chorus]
Now that you are gonna stand here
See that I'm the one that remembers
Merry-go-round
Think you know what I found
Now that you are gonna stand here
See that I'm the one that remembers
Merry-go-round
Think you know what I found

[Verse 3]
Sick and tired, my love
I return
I return [?]
Sick and tired, my love
I return
I return [?]

[Hook]
I never thought I was your kind
You've always been inside my mind
I never knew I was the one
Where have you been, my love?

[Chorus]
Now that you are gonna stand here
See that I'm the one that remembers
Merry-go-round
Think you know what I found
Now that you are gonna stand here
See that I'm the one that remembers
Merry-go-round
Think you know what I found

[Hook]
I never thought I was your kind
You've always been inside my mind
I never knew I was the one
Where have you been, my love?

[Chorus]
Now that you are gonna stand here
See that I'm the one that remembers
Merry-go-round
Think you know what I found
Now that you are gonna stand here
See that I'm the one that remembers
Merry-go-round
Think you know what I found

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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