Just doing our usual tonight, you know, chilling, watching Old School (sooo funny), playing on the wii (no Johanna wasn't beating me) and listening to some tuneskies.
Interestingly enough Johanna found a band I used to listen to called Millencolin, who unbeknownst to me are indeed meatballish (Swedish for non natives). They are kind of punky and actually listening to the guy sing, it's fairly logical that he sings like a Swede (you can just tell somethings 'wrong'- you know).
So between us we tried to come up with a list of famous Swedish bands etc. We didn't get far, but again surprising to me, Eric Prydz is a Volvo driver. Yes, the 'talented' song stealing bastard (Ok, the video is good) reminded me about the class English act (Ok, he's a Brummie, so only half English) he robbed: the legend that is Steve Winwood. Now most of my generation even thinks Eric Prydz's song is most definitely his own: that Take That wrote and in no way shape or form stole EVERY single song they 'sang'.
But in that magical year of 1982 (yes when I was almost concieved) one Steve Winwood blew us away with this:
May be blown away isn't quite the right word. It only reached #51 in UK charts, which is actually quite pants. Nonetheless it has become a cult classic, thanks (but no thanks)to Mr. Prydz.
However, this hero of a singer actually had 5 number 1's in the states, which is no mean feat. I mean the Beatles (however crap I think they are) didn't conquer the states. To do such a feat is worthy of great honours, yet no-one seems to know about such things: just a mere shadow of 3 words that Mr. Prydz has butchered, 'call on me'.
Who else is on the hero list from Sweden then? Well ABBA, Roxette, Ace of Base, Europe and the Cardigans are the big 5. (Shamefull Europe are in there I know). Then for the younger generation we have The Hives, Millencolin and Basshunter, Eagle Eye Cherry (sort of), sadly stuff some Brits might know like the Ark or Mando Diao. That's about it though.
Well it's not all doom and gloom is it? Well probably, but hey, what can you do? On a slightly more varied note, we've been trying to find some examples of weird accents from around the World (it sees fitting as I'm on an international Masters taught in English) so we went on line and found some classics here. (Just play around with different countries etc)
Spurring us on to hear how stupid we sound, both me and Johanna read passages in English from her book- yes we recorded them (I should put Johanna's on here-classic!) and had a giggle. For some weird reason Johanna tends to read words that aren't actually there....may be it's a boredom thing or just wants to make it more exciting, needless to say if she was a reporter, she'd definitely be good working somewhere like at Aftonbladet (The Sun equivalent): you know, making up stories.
Don't worry, it's my turn soon- I'll be reading Swedish at a 4 year old level, in the mean time, another classic from Sir (I made that bit up) Steve Winwood
Interestingly enough Johanna found a band I used to listen to called Millencolin, who unbeknownst to me are indeed meatballish (Swedish for non natives). They are kind of punky and actually listening to the guy sing, it's fairly logical that he sings like a Swede (you can just tell somethings 'wrong'- you know).
So between us we tried to come up with a list of famous Swedish bands etc. We didn't get far, but again surprising to me, Eric Prydz is a Volvo driver. Yes, the 'talented' song stealing bastard (Ok, the video is good) reminded me about the class English act (Ok, he's a Brummie, so only half English) he robbed: the legend that is Steve Winwood. Now most of my generation even thinks Eric Prydz's song is most definitely his own: that Take That wrote and in no way shape or form stole EVERY single song they 'sang'.
But in that magical year of 1982 (yes when I was almost concieved) one Steve Winwood blew us away with this:
May be blown away isn't quite the right word. It only reached #51 in UK charts, which is actually quite pants. Nonetheless it has become a cult classic, thanks (but no thanks)to Mr. Prydz.
However, this hero of a singer actually had 5 number 1's in the states, which is no mean feat. I mean the Beatles (however crap I think they are) didn't conquer the states. To do such a feat is worthy of great honours, yet no-one seems to know about such things: just a mere shadow of 3 words that Mr. Prydz has butchered, 'call on me'.
Who else is on the hero list from Sweden then? Well ABBA, Roxette, Ace of Base, Europe and the Cardigans are the big 5. (Shamefull Europe are in there I know). Then for the younger generation we have The Hives, Millencolin and Basshunter, Eagle Eye Cherry (sort of), sadly stuff some Brits might know like the Ark or Mando Diao. That's about it though.
Well it's not all doom and gloom is it? Well probably, but hey, what can you do? On a slightly more varied note, we've been trying to find some examples of weird accents from around the World (it sees fitting as I'm on an international Masters taught in English) so we went on line and found some classics here. (Just play around with different countries etc)
Spurring us on to hear how stupid we sound, both me and Johanna read passages in English from her book- yes we recorded them (I should put Johanna's on here-classic!) and had a giggle. For some weird reason Johanna tends to read words that aren't actually there....may be it's a boredom thing or just wants to make it more exciting, needless to say if she was a reporter, she'd definitely be good working somewhere like at Aftonbladet (The Sun equivalent): you know, making up stories.
Don't worry, it's my turn soon- I'll be reading Swedish at a 4 year old level, in the mean time, another classic from Sir (I made that bit up) Steve Winwood
