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Since the ongoing computer programs we've been having mean that only one person in the entire world (me) was able to listen to my radio show this week, I've decided to talk about Kids, the wonderful song from the Concretes' new album, Hey Trouble, on here.

I'll be honest -- the first time I heard this song, I wasn't too impressed. The sound of it really isn't that interesting. I've seen mixed reviews of the album (which I haven't been able to listen to in full since, sadly enough, it doesn't even have a release schedule for the US -- although it's out now in Scandinavia, and will be released in the UK in June). I do agree that their cute boy-girl harmonizing sound is not quite the same with the loss of Victoria Bergsman, but that only means that the new stuff has been endowed with a different quality.

Again -- I didn't like Kids the first time I heard it. But then I found myself listening to it again, for whatever reason, and paying attention to the lyrics -- and it knocked me out. The lyrics remind me so much of my own life that I couldn't help immediately falling in love with it. I still don't like it all that much, but this is a song that will stay with me, and be important to me, for a long time.

As far as I know, this song is not downloadable, but there are a number of places you can go to listen to Kids. I am afraid to say the best-quality version seems to be on myspace. There is also a kind of cute, semi-animated music video which you can watch here.

Speaking of Swedish music videos -- Melody Club has recently (alright, about a week and a half ago) posted a new video, for their song Fever Fever. I don't listen to Melody Club as much any more -- they're a bit more raucous (I mean that in a good way) than what I most enjoy right now -- but if you are a fan of what can, I think, best be described as power disco, they are quite a good band.

The Fever Fever video, likewise, is quite good. It has clips of a bunch of hip indie kids at a party interspersed with shots of Kristofer singing, as well as a few of the rest of the band. Unfortunately, Andy, my favorite Melody Clubber, doesn't get much screen time (perhaps because he's the drummer?) but there is one amazing shot of him straightening his jacket in a very cool way... The day Melody Club comes out with a video that's nothing but Andy will be the day I can die happy. Well, not really, but it would please me very much.

Somewhat similar to the Fever Fever video is The Shaky Hands' new video for the song Why & How Come. The Shaky Hands are not from Scandinavia -- they are, in fact, from Portland -- and I know very little about them. I am making this post for two reasons only: 1) the two videos remind me quite a bit of each other -- well, at least somewhat, and 2) either it's coincidence, or this thing has become wildly popular, because I've seen it in at least three seperate, unrelated places online in the past week -- and I might as well add myself to the group. Yeah, okay, and it's good, too.