Sweden (album)

Sweden
Studio album by the Mountain Goats
Released 1995
Recorded Winter 1994-1995
Genre Lo-fi
Length 45:19
Label Shrimper Records
Producer John Darnielle
the Mountain Goats chronology
Zopilote Machine
(1994)		 Sweden
(1995)		 Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg
(1995)
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Sweden is an album by the Mountain Goats released on Shrimper Records in 1995.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by John Darnielle, except where noted. 

No. Title Swedish alternative title Length
1. "The Recognition Scene"   "Vi var på väg hem före regnet" 2:50
2. "Downtown Seoul"   "Han är yngre än jag" 2:53
3. "Some Swedish Trees"   "De flyende var oskyldiga" 2:05
4. "I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone" (Buddy Johnson) "Inga gröna löv" 2:35
5. "Deianara Crush"   "Är du inte min vän?" 1:53
6. "Whole Wide World"   "Fast han hade förändrats så mycket kände jag genast igen honom" 2:13
7. "Flashing Lights"   "Den kallaste vintern" 2:30
8. "Sept 19 Triple X Love! Love!"   "Vi gör vad vi kan" 2:24
9. "Going to Queens"   "Vi visste inte vad som skulle hända" 2:26
10. "Tahitian Ambrosia Maker"   "Han har känt igen dig" 1:47
11. "Going to Bolivia"   "Huset var vackert beläget, vilket gjorde mig väldigt glad" 1:37
12. "Tollund Man"   "Han sov tydligen" 2:34
13. "California Song"   "Flickan som var hans vän sa adjö" 1:55
14. "Snow Crush Killing Song"   "Huset brändes ner utav den unga mannen" 2:46
15. "Send Me an Angel"   "Han är lika trött som jag" 1:47
16. "Neon Orange Glimmer Song"   "Vi träffas på gatan i morgon" 3:08
17. "FM" (Steely Dan) "En vit klänning" 1:45
18. "Prana Ferox"   "De gjorde det själva" 4:05
19. "Cold Milk Bottle"   "Jag skall tala i kväll" 2:06
Total length:
 45:19

Notes

Despite the title, cover, Swedish alternative titles, and the humorous mini-essay about "The Swedish conspiracy" in the liner notes (written by Paul Lukas, though he was only credited a year later in the liner notes to the band's next release Nothing for Juice), none of the lyrics are explicitly about Sweden itself. Various other locations, such as Seoul, Korea, California, Queens, New York City, Bolivia and Denmark are however all mentioned in the songs. "Duke Ellington" (which appears on the rarities compilation Protein Source of the Future...Now! and the Harriet records compilation The Long Secret), which does mention Sweden, is described as "one of two pieces written for the song-cycle Sweden and intentionally left off of the album".

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
The Mountain Goats
Studio albums
Cassette releases
EPs & singles

Songs for Petronius · Chile de Árbol · Beautiful Rat Sunset · Philyra · Orange Raja, Blood Royal · Songs for Peter Hughes · Songs About Fire · Nine Black Poppies · New Asian Cinema · Isopaniṣad Radio Hour · On Juhu Beach · Devil in the Shortwave · Jam Eater Blues · See America Right · Palmcorder Yajna · Letter from Belgium · Dilaudid EP · Babylon Springs EP · Satanic Messiah
Split albums

Why You All So Thief? (with Simon Joyner) · Tropical Depression EP (with Furniture Huschle) · Bedside Recordings Vol. 1.2 (with John Vanderslice) · Black Pear Tree EP (with Kaki King) · Moon Colony Bloodbath (with John Vanderslice)
Compilation albums
Unreleased
Former members

Franklin Bruno · Richard Colburn · Nora Danielson · Lalitree Darnielle · Alex Decarville · Maggie Doyle · Alastair Galbraith · Erik Friedlander · Christopher McGuire · Scott Solter · John Vanderslice · Rachel Ware
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