April 16, 2007

closet removals, [best] swedish lyrics, Paradise Lost

lets start with the second part of that header
shall we, people generally hail Kent,
Lars winnerbäck, Bellman and Cornelis Wreeswijk
of writing best Swedish lyrics, which is horsecrap,
best lyrics is written by Eddie Bengtsson !
And i also like "800 grader" by Ebba Grön,
oldtime Swedish punkband led by Thåström,
hes sorta known internationally

Page (ie Eddies band duh) "Tiden Går" --
"Man föds med gråt och skrik
och ingen av barnen e den andra lik
Man har pappas ögon och mammas mun
men den övriga kroppen den e späd och tunn
Månader går och du kan prata och stå
där inga tänder fanns har du plötsligt två
du kan leka hela dan och äta mosad banan
Rätt va de e så kan du hoppa och gå

Tiden den går och du ser åren rinna iväg..

Så börjar du skolan lär dig matte och fysik
biologi får dig att tänka på erotik
Det tar slut med en flickvän men du blir kär igen
ni vill ha mer och mer så ni får gifta er
Sen när skolan e slut ska du i arbetslivet ut
Du vill va glad och rik men du får jobb i en fabrik
och din fru e med barn och får gå hemma hela dan
Du som nyss var så ung har blivit gammal och tung

Tiden den går och du ser åren rinna iväg.."

a whole life summarized in one tune ;)
Okay it isnt Ian Curtis nor Oscar Wilde quality
exactly, but Eddie Bengtsson (Swedens most underrated
song/lyrics-writer ever) writes these "små guldkorn"
about kinda trivial things, which i kinda like : )

Hugh laurie rules as Gregory House in House !
Finally someone has noticed, besides me that is,
that hes a good actor and given him lead role
in a series, ok so its in a hospital enviro BUT its NOT
like that totally awful, hideous and utter GAY ER crap
series, anyhow without Hugh this series wouldnt be a tenth
as good, thats fer sure, but as said its nice that the constant
sidekick to Black Adder got his own series :D
He was good as the Prince Regent in Black Adder 3,
Lt George in Black Adder 4 (I doubt anyone could
portrait a semiretarded stupid slightly over middleclass
kinda englishman as he did there ;) ) and of course
as Jeeves in Jeeves & Wooster series, based on the books
by PG Wodehouse (i used to have a couple of those
but they vanished hmmmm, maybe I should call
Hercule Poirot huh)

Now playing --
Paradise Lost -
"Reflection"
a compilation of their first six albums,
spanning a decade of a band with an exciting
evolution from their 'Metallica-ish' first releases
into their more electronicish stuff from "One Second"
and"Host" (two immensly great albums ffffs !!)

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