mp3 : The Cardigans - Rise & Shine
The debut single by The Cardigans released in Sweden in 1994. But this is the more widely known re-recorded version from the following year that reached #29 in the UK charts. The CD single came backed with these two tracks:-
mp3 : The Cardigans - Pike Bubbles
mp3 : The Cardigans - Cocktail Party Bloody Cocktail Party
The latter is a very strange release. It is 15 minutes long and is a medley of songs written and recorded by the band. Except, as the title perhaps indicates, it is delivered exclusively via piano in the style you would associate with a cocktail bar. It sounds live as you get to hear the occasional background noise, including the clinking of wine glasses and ripples of applause as the pianist ends one tune and starts up another. But I'm sad to say the joke wears off all too quickly....
The title however, comes from this rather cute cover version:-
mp3 : The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
I don't own the original. I'm no fan of metal. But I do know it from it getting put on the turntable that was in the school common room which we got access to once we reached 5th and 6th year:-
And I can't let this posting go without a glance at the gorgeous Nina Persson. So here's the promo of the original and quite different version of Rise & Shine:-
Happy Listening. And viewing.
5 comments:
I'm partial to a bit of Sabbath now and again, especially War Pigs
I'm surprised, because I've always thought of "Rise And Shine" as a very dark song. Maybe I'm reading stuff into it that isn't there.
They also did a cover of 'Iron Man' which I quite liked (not having ever heard the original though)
Nina Persson's two albums with A Camp are well worth checking out. Saw them live last year and she is lovely as ever.
I'm thinking that the cocktail song doesn't get a whole lot of air time chez JC. All it did for me was make me want to get a drink!
Liked the others, though, being the pop-leaning gal that I am.
Don't think I could listen to that cocktail thing again.
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