Five years ago already.


"Dags att tänka på refrängen" - the review

So, here we are again. The TDR team meets in the 'Virtual-Record-Review-Room' to review the latest album from Gyllene Tider. This time Thomas, Kai, Paul & Colin discuss the album. Find out their thoughts below... Thomas: What strikes me is that this album sounds like it was been recorded in

Marie's 60 for 60. #37 En känsla av regn (A Sense of Rain). What sounds so airy and nice is often something completely different when sung by Marie. This is true here once more. This song, written by Lasse Lindbom and Niklas Strömstedt, is actually an ode to loss and deception. "I could not hold you/So you travel and go/You turn away/And I get a sense of rain" #marie60 http://www.dailyroxette.com/en-kansla-av-regn/


En känsla av regn

Marie's 60 for 60. This is #37 of TDR's hand-picked list of songs from Marie Fredriksson's career.

Marie's 60 for 60. #38 Ett enda liv (One Single Life) is a very personal song for Marie because she wrote it along with Anders Herrlin for a very close friend of hers who committed suicide. "You were our friend/our best friend of them all/You never found home/and you shall know it feels/So strong and yet so weak./If we had only understood/To give you all our strength/for the life you should have had." It shall be noted here that this is the first song in our playlist that received ten points from one of us. #marie60 http://www.dailyroxette.com/ett-enda-liv/


Ett enda liv

Marie's 60 for 60. This is #38 of TDR's hand-picked list of songs from Marie Fredriksson's career.

Marie's 60 for 60. #39 Längtan (Intro) (Longing) Yet another opening track, this time for Efter Stormen. The longer version of it features as track #7 on the album, and without giving away too much information, we will deal with it later, too. For now sit back, relax and listen to this masterpiece, please. #marie60 http://www.dailyroxette.com/langtan/


Längtan

Marie's 60 for 60. This is #39 of TDR's hand-picked list of songs from Marie Fredriksson's career.

Happy Birthday dearest Göran Fritzon, aka. Fritz, aka. The Farfisa Fantom aka. Fritte!

Marie's 60 for 60. #40 Het vind (Hot Wind). We're reaching the Top 40 of our playlist, and we do this in style with the title song of Marie's first solo album. The lyrics, written by Ulf Lundell, are a bit surreal we think. "The fans spin, the curtains sway/In the sea barracudas and sharks swim /Everyone is waiting in the bar's darkness/Semi-closed eyes and thunder rumbles/There is a hot wind blowing in" #marie60 http://www.dailyroxette.com/het-vind/


Het vind

Marie's 60 for 60. This is #40 of TDR's hand-picked list of songs from Marie Fredriksson's career.

Swedish star Avicii has been found dead at 28 years of age. RIP Tim. :(

Marie's 60 for 60. #41 Efter så många år (After So Many Years). Do people sometimes worry about you? Yes? Good! No? Good! You see, it's tricky sometimes. In this song from the 1996 album I en tid som vår you can find both questions and answers that matter. Enjoy this strong song! "Do you have time for yourself?/Do you have time for love?/In a time like ours?/After so many years/I am strong enough./After so many years./After so many years/Feels wonderful to look back./Thank God!/That I have become strong enough." #marie60 http://www.dailyroxette.com/efter-sa-manga-ar/


Efter så många år

Marie's 60 for 60. This is #41 of TDR's hand-picked list of songs from Marie Fredriksson's career.

YouTube won't let us upload this video, so we'll try it this way. It's our version of Why Don't You Bring Me Flowers?. It was supposed to be for the fast version of the song, but the slow version fit better.


Flowers.mp4

Marie's 60 for 60. #42 Tid för tystnad (Time For Silence) This beautiful little ballad from "Den ständiga resan" tells you about the feelings of a couple which can only be together at rare occasions, like you would imagine it to be with one of them permanently touring the world, for instance. And then it's good when you can just sit side by side and say nothing... "We have got to start over/so many times over again/If we only have time for silence/When we look and listen and listen/Give us time for silence" #marie60 http://www.dailyroxette.com/tid-for-tystnad/


Tid för tystnad

Marie's 60 for 60. This is #42 of TDR's hand-picked list of songs from Marie Fredriksson's career.