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1. Your New Cuckoo

2. Been It

3. Heartbreaker

4. Happy Meal II

5. Never Recover

6. Step On Me

7. Lovefool

8. Losers

9. Iron Man

10. Great Divide

11. Choke

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5.0 out of 5 stars cheesy-motel-supper-club-lounge-pop..., Aug 6 2006

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Steve Bennett (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Band On The Moon (Audio CD)

...is what an interviewer mentioned as a ridiculous label he had heard for them way back when. Too bad somebody said that because if you bought that label for them, you probably dismissed them and missed out on a lot of great material. This album is amazing, and I still think it's underrated even among some Cardi-fans. This album was refreshing then, and still is. The more you listen, then more you marvel at the music, the arrangments, the melodies, and the lyrics.

This album was very unique in it's time. I can't think of other bands in that year using flutes, bells, strings, and all other sorts of sounds. You definitely need to here this whole album, not just lovefool, which is still a great song, it just got too much radio play.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Much More than a "Lovefool", underrated in US, July 6 2004

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andy (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Band On The Moon (Audio CD)

This is a nice Swedish Pop/Rock CD with touches of dance/disco. Very undrrated here in US.

Most songs here are very catchy, and happy, but with rather depressing lyrics here and there. "Lovefool" of course was their big hit (very much over-played on radio at that time, and they even performed it live on Beverly Hills 90210 as I can remember), and it's a very nice clubby dance song. "Been It" was also rather popular.

But as I said this album has way more potential hits, like for example "Never Recover", "Step on Me", "Losers", "Great Divide", "Choke" and "Your new cuckoo" (also an upbeat song) are all Great songs with great distinct melodies, and with a lot of Hit Potential.

For a bit darker trip hop sound check out their 1998 album "Gran Turismo".
And for a more down-to-earth simple Pop/rock sound check out their 2002 album "Long gone before daylight" which was recently released in US.

Peter Svensson, I believe, is the composer of all the melodies. A talented man.
It's simply Great Music from a very underrated Swedish band.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Irresistible pop chock full of playful irony, July 1 2004

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Beketaten "beketaten" (Pangea) - See all my reviews

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This album is a shining example of the Cardigans' mastery of the retro yet fresh sound they had been churning out since the beginning of their gifted career.
Though known mostly for the hit song "Lovefool", this is no banally sugary collection of candied schlock that so many would assume.
The songs are delightfully subversive with immediately catchy melodies, ingenious arrangements...and despite this, are mostly centered around stories of a woman willingly accepting abuse from a partner who obviously couldn't care less. Tales of the unfortunate, made amusing by the obvious self-depracating quirks of the main character. These songs do include Lovefool, but also the aptly titled "Step on Me", and the song "Heartbreaker" in which a self-proclaimed loser speaks of her willing self-debasement with random men.
Elsewhere, are clever and tounge-in-cheek descriptions of people's feelings about the nature of love, giddy preparations for a "kinky" meeting between new lovers, and a tale of a wary and bitter attitude of hearing a previous lover use the same words on another na�ve target.
There isn't one song on here that I couldn't listen to again and again.
With all this plus an amusing yet spot-on cover of Black Sabbath's Iron Man, you can't miss this piece of 90s delight.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Where are they now?
"The Cardigans" were one of those bands that got popular suddenly, and then vanished the same way, in the US anyhow. Read more

Published on Feb 17 2004 by H3@+h

4.0 out of 5 stars wow... like red raspberry chocolate cake
yeah i thought it was gonna be a typical wash out out record until i popped it in and the monsoons let it shake the floor with it's ubiquidous beats and it took me 4 seconds to... Read more

Published on Feb 14 2004