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This blog will be written in both English and Danish. If you, as a reader, have trouble with one of those languages and would like a translation, please let me know, and I will do my best to oblige. If you are a Danish reader, please know that I am just learning, and my Danish is far from perfect. If you would like to suggest corrections please do so. Email me at somedayashtrays@gmail.com.

23 April 2008

Ligesom lige heldig

I was really happy all day today, until about six thirty, when it all evaporated. I’d like to blame my international relations textbook, but I didn’t start reading that until later.

Anyway, here is the playlist. Part of it was me wanting to play poppy, happy songs, part of it was chosen at the tail end of the night and rather… less happy, and most of the show is stuff that I initially thought was upbeat but later realized was actually depressed, depressing, or both. Men spillelisten:

1. Sha Sha (How It Should Be) – Ben Kweller
2. We’re Here – Guillemots
3. I Love You, You Imbecile – Pelle Carlberg feat. Ida Maria (SV, NW)
4. Not Enough – Maria Timm (DK)
5. Tell No One About Tonight – Le Sport (SV)
6. Hip – Marybell Katastrophy (DK)
7. I’m Your Matador – Anamia (DK)
8. Quietly (Demo) – Mew (DK)
9. Artboy Meets Artgirl – moi Caprice (DK)
10. Everybody But Me – Lykke Li (SV)
11. Play it for Today – the Legends (SV)
12. Nerves – Citizens Here and Abroad
13. I Always Know I’m Right – Bakers at Dawn (SV)
14. Sweet Bills – Kristoffer Ragnstam (SV)
15. Hyperschlieb – epo-555 (DK)

Several of these songs are quite new (at least to me) meaning you can probably find and download them pretty easily. I was going to put up the Lykke Li one -- Everybody But Me -- for download from here tonight, but I then I realized I have absolutely no idea where this song came from (nor do I know how I managed to wind up with it, rather than one of the singles). In short, I don’t know if it’s legal. But I’ll talk about it anyway.

So… this is interesting. While I’ve been hearing about Lykke Li for some time (who hasn’t?), somehow I have managed to not ever actually hear any of her music until now. Now that I finally have, however, I’m definitely looking forward to hearing more -- at least if this song is any indication of what the rest is like. You can stream Everybody But Me on myspace -- or get it with all the others in the podcast.

Also -- for those of you not already in the know, Lykke Li plays the Doug Fir (in Portland) with fellow Swedes El Perro del Mar and Anna Ternheim on 16. may. Too bad I won’t be 21 for three more weeks. Always everybody but me...

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (23. april 2008)

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