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* ReligionRantSong: "Godspell" is a Type 3, aimed at a particular strain of evangelical Christianity common in Nina Persson's hometown.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: On the Swedish edition of ''Life'', the final track "Closing Time" tells us what happened to some of the characters from the other songs.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: On the Swedish edition of ''Life'', the final track "Closing Time" tells us what happened to some of the characters from the other songs. (In brief: they all lived HappilyEverAfter).
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** ''Super Extra Gravity'' was much rockier.
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* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Life'' [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags it]]. The title drop occurs in the track "Closing Time", which was only featured on the original Swedish issue and dropped from the international releases.
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* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Life'' AlbumTitleDrop:
**''Long Gone Before Daylight'' is a line from the album's closing track "03:45: No Sleep".
**''Life'' [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags it]]. The title drop occurs in the track "Closing Time", which was only featured on the original Swedish issue and dropped from the international releases.
**''Long Gone Before Daylight'' is a line from the album's closing track "03:45: No Sleep".
**''Life'' [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags it]]. The title drop occurs in the track "Closing Time", which was only featured on the original Swedish issue and dropped from the international releases.
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* WanderlustSong: "Daddy's Car"
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* WanderlustSong: "Daddy's Car"Car"
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: On the Swedish edition of ''Life'', the final track "Closing Time" tells us what happened to some of the characters from the other songs.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: On the Swedish edition of ''Life'', the final track "Closing Time" tells us what happened to some of the characters from the other songs.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Junk of the Heart" tells us, "The junk of the heart / is the junk of the heart". Repeatedly.
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Lovefool" has both "love" and "fool" in it many times, but never together. "Been It" lists many things the narrator has "been" but the title phrase never appears.
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Lovefool" has both "love" and "fool" in it many times, but never together. "Been It" lists many things the narrator has "been" but the title phrase never appears. "Travelling With Charley never mentions Charley by name, "Pikebubbles", "Country Hell" and "Happy Meal" are all straight-up non appearing titles.
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* UncommonTime: "Pikebubbles" is in 5/4.
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* ForeignLanguageTitle: ''Gran Turismo''.
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* ''First band on the Moon'' (1996)
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* ''First band Band on the Moon'' (1996)
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* BlackSheepHit: "Lovefool" has an almost disco-ish musical feel, and stands out as unusual even on its parent album. However, unlike many Black Sheep Hits, the band never turned against it.
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* CreatorBacklash: Magnus Sveningsson doesn't like some of his early lyrics. This is why the singles "Black Letter Day" and "Hey! Get Out Of My Way" aren't on their ''Best of'' album.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The group's first two releases were extremely rare privately-pressed 7" [=EP=]s, ''The World According to The Cardigans'' and ''In Pursuit of Pooh''. They're badly-recorded, suffer enormously from EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (not least because although FaceOfTheBand Nina is present, she only sings lead on one track) and are incredibly fascinating historical artefacts. They've never been officially reissued, and only two of the eight songs ever reappeared (in re-recorded versions: "Pooh Song" and what was arguably their SignatureSong before "Lovefool" came along, "Rise and Shine").
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* ShoutOut: In its album version, "Black Letter Day" has a spoken verse with a shout out to the astronomer Tycho Brahe.
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* CluelessDetective: "Travelling With Charley" is about the narrator's "detective darling" who "has never solved a case" but "has always style".
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* CreatorBacklash: Magnus Sveningsson doesn't like some of his early lyrics. This is why the singles "Black Letter Day" and "Hey! Get Out Of My Way" aren't on their ''Best of'' album.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The group's first two releases were extremely rare privately-pressed 7" [=EP=]s, ''The World According to The Cardigans'' and ''In Search of Pooh''. They're badly-recorded, suffer enormously from EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (not least because although FaceOfTheBand Nina is present, she only sings lead on one track) and are incredibly fascinating historical artefacts. They've never been officially reissued, and only two of the eight songs ever reappeared (in re-recorded versions: "Pooh Song" and what was arguably their SignatureSong before "Lovefool" came along, "Rise and Shine").
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The group's first two releases were extremely rare privately-pressed 7" [=EP=]s, ''The World According to The Cardigans'' and ''In Search Pursuit of Pooh''. They're badly-recorded, suffer enormously from EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (not least because although FaceOfTheBand Nina is present, she only sings lead on one track) and are incredibly fascinating historical artefacts. They've never been officially reissued, and only two of the eight songs ever reappeared (in re-recorded versions: "Pooh Song" and what was arguably their SignatureSong before "Lovefool" came along, "Rise and Shine").
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* LyricalDissonance: The lyrics in the earlier albums were often much darker than the music would suggest ("Lovefool" is a prime example). Later on, the lyrics remained dark, but the music was more likely to match them.
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* LyricalDissonance: Particularly on ''Emmerdale'' and ''First Band On The Moon'' (and to a certain extent on ''Life'', though lyrically it's somewhat LighterAndSofter then the albums before and after it), the lyrics in the earlier albums were often much darker than the music would suggest ("Lovefool" is a prime example). Later on, the lyrics remained dark, but the music was more likely to match them.
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* SoundEffectBleep: A guitar lick stands in for the word "whore" in the "Censored Radio Edit" (well, at least they were honest about it) of "Been It". Something of a BleepDammit, since the word rhymes with "more".
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* SoundEffectBleep: A guitar lick stands in for the word "whore" in the "Censored Radio Edit" (well, at least they were honest about it) of "Been It". Something of a BleepDammit, since the word rhymes with "more"."more".
* WanderlustSong: "Daddy's Car"
* WanderlustSong: "Daddy's Car"
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* [[EpicRocking Epic... er, Rocking?]]: "Cocktail Party Bloody Cocktail Party". Nearly 16 minutes of a lounge piano medley of tunes from ''Life'' with cocktail party sound effects in the background.
** "Closing Time" on the original Swedish version of "Life" is over ten minutes, though three minutes of it are just ambient sound from the recording studio.
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Lovefool" has both "love" and "fool" in it many times, but never together. "Been It" lists many things the narrator has "been" but never uses the actual title.
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Lovefool" has both "love" and "fool" in it many times, but never together. "Been It" lists many things the narrator has "been" but the title phrase never uses the actual title.appears.
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Lovefool" has both "love" and "fool" in it many times, but never together. "Been It" lists many things the narrator has "been" but never uses the actual title.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The UK edition of "Super Extra Gravity" has a [[MinisculeRocking 22 seconds long]] bonus track called... "Bonus Track".
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The UK edition of "Super Extra Gravity" has a [[MinisculeRocking 22 seconds long]] bonus track called... "Bonus Track".
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* SofterAndSlowerCover: A favourite trope, arguably to the point of being a RunningGag. They made loungecore versions of Music/BlackSabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Iron Man", Ozzy Osbourne's solo track "Mr Crowley", and Thin Lizzy's "The Boys ARe Back In Town".
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* SofterAndSlowerCover: A favourite trope, arguably to the point of being a RunningGag. They made loungecore versions of Music/BlackSabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Iron Man", Ozzy Osbourne's solo track "Mr Crowley", and Thin Lizzy's "The Boys ARe Are Back In Town".
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* SofterAndSlowerCover: A favourite trope, arguably to the point of being a RunningGag. They made loungecore versions of Music/BlackSabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Iron Man", Ozzy Osbourne's solo track "Mr Crowley", and Thin Lizzy's "The Boys ARe Back In Town".
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* SoundEffectBleep: A guitar lick stands in for the word "whore" in the "Censored Radio Edit" (well, at least they were honest about it) of "Been It". Something of a BleepDammit, since the word rhymes with "more".
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* LyricalDissonance: The lyrics in the earlier albums were often much darker than the music would suggest ("Lovefool" is a prime example).
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* LyricalDissonance: The lyrics in the earlier albums were often much darker than the music would suggest ("Lovefool" is a prime example). Later on, the lyrics remained dark, but the music was more likely to match them.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The group's first two releases were extremely rare privately-pressed 7" [=EP=]s, ''The World According to The Cardigans'' and ''In Search of Pooh''. They're badly-recorded, suffer enormously from EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (not least because although FaceOfTheBand Nina is present, she only sings lead on one track) and are incredibly fascinating historical artefacts. They've never been officially reissued, and only two of the eight songs ever reappeared (in re-recorded versions: "Pooh Song" and what was arguably their SignatureSong before "Lovefool" came along, "Rise and Shine").
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!!Discography:
* ''Emmerdale'' (1994)
* ''Life'' (1995)
** The international edition of ''Life'' is a selection drawn from both of the above albums.
* ''First band on the Moon'' (1996)
* ''Gran Turismo'' (1998)
* ''Long Gone Before Daylight'' (2003)
* ''Super Extra Gravity'' (2005)
* ''Emmerdale'' (1994)
* ''Life'' (1995)
** The international edition of ''Life'' is a selection drawn from both of the above albums.
* ''First band on the Moon'' (1996)
* ''Gran Turismo'' (1998)
* ''Long Gone Before Daylight'' (2003)
* ''Super Extra Gravity'' (2005)
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* LongRunnerLineUp: A shining example; the band's line-up has remained unchanged since 1992.
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* MultipleEndings: The video for "My Favourite Game". After placing a rock on her car's accelerator and causing havoc on the freeway, Nina crashes her car into a van coming the other way. You then get one of four endings:
** She is thrown over the top of the van and lands in the road, then gets up and walks away.
** She is thrown over the top of the van and lands in the road, dead.
** She is thrown over the top of the van and starts to get up, but is then hit by the rock and killed.
** She hits her own windscreen and is decapitated. Only the head ends up in the road.
** She is thrown over the top of the van and lands in the road, then gets up and walks away.
** She is thrown over the top of the van and lands in the road, dead.
** She is thrown over the top of the van and starts to get up, but is then hit by the rock and killed.
** She hits her own windscreen and is decapitated. Only the head ends up in the road.
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* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Life'' [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags it]]. The title drop occurs in the track "Closing Time", which was only featured on the original Swedish issue and dropped from the international releases.
* ClingyJealousGirl: The narrator of "Lovefool".
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!Tropes associated with The Cardigans:
* BlackSheepHit: "Lovefool" has an almost disco-ish musical feel, and stands out as unusual even on its parent album. However, unlike many Black Sheep Hits, the band never turned against it.
* LyricalDissonance: The lyrics in the earlier albums were often much darker than the music would suggest ("Lovefool" is a prime example).
* NewSoundAlbum:
** ''Gran Turismo'' was DarkerAndEdgier than what they'd done before, and had more of a focus on electronics.
** ''Long Gone Before Daylight'' - if not actually full-on alt-country, then certainly heavily influenced by that style.
** ''Super Extra Gravity'' was much rockier.
* BlackSheepHit: "Lovefool" has an almost disco-ish musical feel, and stands out as unusual even on its parent album. However, unlike many Black Sheep Hits, the band never turned against it.
* LyricalDissonance: The lyrics in the earlier albums were often much darker than the music would suggest ("Lovefool" is a prime example).
* NewSoundAlbum:
** ''Gran Turismo'' was DarkerAndEdgier than what they'd done before, and had more of a focus on electronics.
** ''Long Gone Before Daylight'' - if not actually full-on alt-country, then certainly heavily influenced by that style.
** ''Super Extra Gravity'' was much rockier.
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Swedish pop group formed in 1992. Their big US airplay hit was "Lovefool" from their third album ''First Band on the Moon'' (and perhaps more pertinently [[BreakawayPopHit featured in the ''Romeo + Juliet'' soundtrack]]), though their big hit album internationally was the DarkerAndEdgier follow-up ''Gran Turismo'', featuring the European hits "My Favourite Game" and "Erase/Rewind".
