Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg

Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg
Studio album by Håkan Hellström
Released 16 October 2000
Genre Pop
Length 38 minutes, 23 seconds
Label Virgin Records
Producer Mattias Glavå
Håkan Hellström
Håkan Hellström chronology
Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg (2000) Det är så jag säger det (2002)

Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg is the debut album by Swedish musician Håkan Hellström. It was released on 16 October 2000. Until today the album has sold over 80,000 copies , which equals a platinum certification in Sweden.

Contents

Music and lyrics

Musically, the album was described as a Swedish version of Born To Run-era Bruce Springsteen, with upbeat songs, ringy guitars, trumpet leads and vocal harmonies. Lyrically Hellström drew inspiration from his musical and lyrical heroes such as Morrissey and Bob Dylan, and the topics were often sad or melancholic reflections of unhappy love, decadent youth culture (including drugs) or the feeling of being an outsider. For example, the song Atombomb (Nuclear bomb) contains references to Morrissey's Everyday Is Like Sunday[1] while Uppsnärjd I Det Blå refers to Dylan's Tangled Up In Blue and the more obscure I Think We're Alone Now by Tommy James & the Shondells.

Track listing

All songs written by H. Hellström except when otherwise stated

  1. "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg", Don't Feel Bad For Me, Gothenburg
  2. "En vän med en bil", A Friend with a Car
  3. "Ramlar", Falling
  4. "Nu kan du få mig så lätt", Now You Can Get Me So Easily
  5. "Vi två, 17 år", You and Me, Seventeen
  6. "Uppsnärjd i det blå", Tangled Up In Blue (Hellström/Daniel Gilbert|Gilbert/Neckvall/Räisänen)
  7. "Jag var bara inte gjord för dessa dar", I Just Wasn't Made For These Days
  8. "Magiskt, men tragiskt", Magical, But Tragical (Hellström/Källman)
  9. "Atombomb", Nuclear Bomb
  10. "Dom dimmiga dagarna", The Foggy Days (Hellström/Theodor Jensen, Swedish version of "Foggy days", later released by The Plan)

Singles

The first four tracks were also issued as singles. "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" was Hellström's first single, issued on 8 May 2000. Its B side was "Vi två, 17 år". "Ramlar" was released on week before the album with the demo version of "Ge mig arsenik" as B side.

"En vän med en bil" was released on 19 February 2001 as it was on the sound track of the Swedish movie Festival. The B side, "Här kommer lyckan för hundar som oss", returned on the second album, Det är så jag säger det.

The last single from this album was "Nu kan du få mig så lätt", released on 18 June 2001. "Jag var bara inte gjord för dessa dar" was the B side.

References

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r525478