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* ExcitedShowTitle: "Hey! Get Out Of My Way."
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Several problems; 1) it's a ZCE ("X has this"), 2) any example that refers to another part of the page is frowned upon, and 3) it's troping people IRL, not their work (which is also frowned upon).


* BoyishShortHair: Nina usually has this (including in the picture above.)
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* BoyishShortHair: Nina usually has this (including in the picture above.)
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* TheWallsAreClosingIn: "Erase And Rewind". The video has two versions: In one version (used to promote the film 13thFloor), they manage to stop the walls in time; in the other, [[DownerEnding they are flattened]].

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* TheWallsAreClosingIn: "Erase And Rewind". The video has two versions: In one the VideoFullOfFilmClips version (used to promote the film 13thFloor), made for ''Film/TheThirteenthFloor'', they manage to stop the walls in time; in the other, [[DownerEnding they are flattened]].
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** The intro and outro to "Heartbreaker" are meant to sound similar to "Black Sabbath" by Music/BlackSabbath.
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually 2, but maybe ''Gran Turismo'' cracks a 3. Maybe.
** Their hardest song, "My Favorite Game", barely cracks a 4.
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* AlternateMusicVideo:
** "Erase & Rewind" features the band in a room where TheWallsAreClosingIn. Two versions of the video exist: One where they are saved in the nick of time, and another where they are crushed.
** The more famous version of the "Lovefool" video, with the band inside a bottle floating over water, is actually the second version of the video. The original, less TV-friendly version features elderly women in lingerie.
** Because the original version is quite violent, five different cuts of the video for "My Favourite Game" were made with varying amounts of censorship and different endings. Three of them end with singer Nina Persson dying in a car accident (in three different ways), while she survives the accident in the fourth version. The fifth version eliminates all of the violence in the video including the accident, and just shows Nina driving down the road the whole time.
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* DeathByMusicVideo: In the original video for "My Favourite Game", a suicidal Nina Persson drives recklessly at high speed down a desert highway, causing numerous accidents as other drivers swerve and crash while trying to avoid her, before deliberately plowing head-on into a van carrying the rest of the band. The final shot is of her broken body lying dead on the pavement. Because the original version was so violent, several alternate versions were also prepared, some of which had her survive the final crash or even removed it completely.

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* {{Bowdlerize}}: The "My Favourite Game" video has a tamer version where Nina is just seen driving. Although that version still shows she occasionally lets go of the steering wheel completely. There’s also a two variations of the ending where she crashes into a van carrying the rest of the band, in one she dusts herself off and walks away, in the other she starts to get up only for the rock that was holding down the accelerator to land on her head.

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The "My Favourite Game" video has a tamer version where Nina is just seen driving. Although that version still shows she occasionally lets go of the steering wheel completely. There’s also a two four different variations of the ending where she crashes into a van carrying the rest of the band, in one she dusts herself off and walks away, in the other she starts to get up only for the rock that was holding down the accelerator to land on her head.band (detailed below).



* MultipleEndings: Two of their videos have multiple endings:
** 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.

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* MultipleEndings: Two of their videos have multiple endings:
endings.
** 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:
endings, depending on the cut:
*** "Walkaway": She is thrown over the top of the van and lands in on the road, then gets up and walks away.
*** "Dead": She is thrown over the top of the van and lands in on the road, dead.
*** "Stone": She is thrown over the top of the van and starts to get up, but is then hit by the rock and killed.
*** "Head": She hits her own windscreen and is decapitated. [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]]. Only the head ends up in on the road.
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* WordSaladLyrics: Good luck trying to figure out what "Pikebubbles" is supposed to be about.

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* WordSaladLyrics: Good luck trying "Pikebubbles", being a WholePlotReference to figure out what "Pikebubbles" is supposed a somewhat surreal children's book, comes across as this even though it's very faithful to be about.the original.

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* TemporarySubstitute: * Oscar Humlebo has been the group's regular live lead guitarist since 2011, but he is still officially a temporary substitute. Peter Svensson remains, and most likely will always remain, their official lead guitarist even though he no longer performs with them.


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* TemporarySubstitute: Oscar Humlebo has been the group's regular live lead guitarist since 2011, but he is still officially a temporary substitute. Peter Svensson remains, and most likely will always remain, their official lead guitarist even though he no longer performs with them.
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* TemporarySubstitute: * Oscar Humlebo has been the group's regular live lead guitarist since 2011, but he is still officially a temporary substitute. Peter Svensson remains, and most likely will always remain, their official lead guitarist even though he no longer performs with them.
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** "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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** "Closing Time" on the original Swedish version of "Life" ''Life'' is over ten minutes, though three minutes of it are just ambient sound from the recording studio.
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Add more content to Album Title Drop - The album title Super Extra Gravity is dropped in a single line in a song as well.

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** ''Super Extra Gravity'' is a line from the album's track "Holy Love".
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* ACappella: They perform a cover of {{Muisc/Ozzy Osbourne}}'s "Mr. Crowley" in this style.

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* ACappella: They perform a cover of {{Muisc/Ozzy Osbourne}}'s Music/OzzyOsbourne's "Mr. Crowley" in this style.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: The "My Favourite Game" video has a tamer version where Nina is just seen driving. Although that version still shows she occasionally lets go of the steering wheel completely.

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* {{Bowdlerize}}: The "My Favourite Game" video has a tamer version where Nina is just seen driving. Although that version still shows she occasionally lets go of the steering wheel completely. There’s also a two variations of the ending where she crashes into a van carrying the rest of the band, in one she dusts herself off and walks away, in the other she starts to get up only for the rock that was holding down the accelerator to land on her head.
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* MurderBallad: The first two verses of "Closing Time" deal with the murder of a baker. [[TheCameo Charley the detective (first mentioned in "Travelling with Charley") solves the case,]] [[NoEnding but we aren't told who actually committed the crime.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: With Nina's soft vocals and her band's laid-back instrumentals, it's sort of shocking to hear her say "They're '''fucked up''' and annoying but somehow you seem to care" on "Losers".

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* PrecisionFStrike: With Nina's soft vocals and her the band's laid-back instrumentals, it's sort of shocking to hear her say "They're '''fucked up''' and annoying but somehow you seem to care" on "Losers".
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* ACapella: They perform a cover of {{Muisc/Ozzy Osbourne}}'s "Mr. Crowley" in this style.

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* ACapella: ACappella: They perform a cover of {{Muisc/Ozzy Osbourne}}'s "Mr. Crowley" in this style.
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* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Best Of'', taking over a decade into their career to actually get one released.
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* {{Instrumentals}}: "Laika" and "Emmerdale".
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* ACapella: They perform a cover of {{Muisc/Ozzy Osbourne}}'s "Mr. Crowley" in this style.


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* LonelyPianoPiece: "After All..." and "Carnival (Puck version)" feature only vocals and piano.


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*** And he sings lead on the b-side to "Hey! Get Out of My Way", "Carnival (Puck version)".
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* ''Best Of'' (2008(

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* ''Best Of'' (2008((2008)
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** Their first (and so far only) GreatistHitsAlbum featuring singles and fan-favorite album tracks.

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** Their first (and so far only) GreatistHitsAlbum GreatestHitsAlbum featuring singles and fan-favorite album tracks.

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* ''Best Of'' (2008(
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* [[NewSoundAlbum ''Gran Turismo'']] (1998)

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* [[NewSoundAlbum ''Gran Turismo'']] Turismo'' (1998)
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* ''Gran Turismo'' (1998)

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* [[NewSoundAlbum ''Gran Turismo'' Turismo'']] (1998)
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* ''The Other Side of the Moon'' (1997)
** A collection of b-sides and rarities, only released in Japan and Australia.



* 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 "Mr. Crowley", and Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town".Town".
* TheSomethingSong: "Pooh Song", the b-side for the "Sick and Tired" single.
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* CoverVersion: {{Music/Black Sabbath}}'s "Iron Man" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", {{Music/Ozzy Osbourne}}'s "Mr. Crowley", and {{Music/Thin Lizzy}}'s "The Boys are Back in Town". Covered in the band's signature lounge-pop style with the same words leads to massive amounts of LyricalDissonance.

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* CoverVersion: {{Music/Black Sabbath}}'s "Iron Man" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", {{Music/Ozzy Osbourne}}'s "Mr. Crowley", and {{Music/Thin Lizzy}}'s "The Boys are Back in Town". Covered in the band's signature lounge-pop style with the exact same words lyrics as the originals leads to massive amounts of LyricalDissonance.
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* CoverVersion: {{Music/BlackSabbath}}'s "Iron Man" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", {{Music/OzzyOsbourne}}'s "Mr. Crowley", and {{Music/ThinLizzy}}'s "The Boys are Back in Town". Covered in the band's signature lounge-pop style with the same words leads to massive amounts of LyricalDissonance.

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* CoverVersion: {{Music/BlackSabbath}}'s {{Music/Black Sabbath}}'s "Iron Man" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", {{Music/OzzyOsbourne}}'s {{Music/Ozzy Osbourne}}'s "Mr. Crowley", and {{Music/ThinLizzy}}'s {{Music/Thin Lizzy}}'s "The Boys are Back in Town". Covered in the band's signature lounge-pop style with the same words leads to massive amounts of LyricalDissonance.

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