Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg

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

Music and lyrics

Musically, the album has been 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 are often bittersweet or melancholic reflections of unrequited love, decadent youth culture (including drug use) or the feeling of being an outsider. For example, the song "Atombomb" contains references to Morrissey's "Everyday Is Like Sunday"^[1] and The Smiths' "William, It Was Really Nothing", while "Uppsnärjd i det blå" refers to Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue" and "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", Feel No Sorrow 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", We Two, 17 Years
6. "Uppsnärjd i det blå", Tangled Up in Blue (Hellström/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 one week before the album with "Ge mig arsenik" (a demo version of "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg") as B-side.

"En vän med en bil" was released on 19 February 2001 as it was on the soundtrack 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.

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