''Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg'' is the debut studio album from Swedish musician
Håkan Hellström
Håkan Georg Hellström (; born 2 April 1974) is a Swedish musician. He made his breakthrough in Sweden in 2000 with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" and the album with the same name. He has released nine studio albums to date wit ...
. It was released on 16 October 2000. The album has sold over 40,000 copies, which equals a
platinum certification in Sweden.
Music and lyrics
Musically, the album has been described as a Swedish version of ''Born to Run''-era
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, with upbeat songs, ringy guitars, trumpet leads and vocal harmonies. Lyrically, Hellström drew inspiration from his musical and lyrical heroes such as
Morrissey
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and
Bob Dylan, and the topics are often bittersweet or melancholic reflections of unrequited love, decadent youth culture (including drug use) or the feeling of being an outsider. For example, the song "Atombomb" contains references to Morrissey's "
Everyday Is Like Sunday
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" and
The Smiths' "
William, It Was Really Nothing", while "Uppsnärjd i det blå" refers to Dylan's "
Tangled Up in Blue" and "
I Think We're Alone Now" by
Tommy James & the Shondells
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.
Accolades
The album won the 2000
Rockbjörnen in the category "Swedish record of the year", and was nominated for six
Grammis the following year,
winning one. Swedish music magazine ''
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'' named it the second best Swedish album ever in June 2013.
Track listing
All songs written by H. Hellström except when otherwise stated
# "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg",
Feel No Sorrow For Me, Gothenburg''
# "En vän med en bil",
A Friend with a Car
# "Ramlar",
Falling
# "Nu kan du få mig så lätt",
Now You Can Get Me So Easily
# "Vi två, 17 år",
We Two, 17 Years
# "Uppsnärjd i det blå",
Tangled Up in Blue (Hellström/
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People and fictional characters
* Gilbert (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
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Places Australia
* Gilbert River (Queensland)
* Gilbert River (South ...
/
Neckvall/
Räisänen)
# "Jag var bara inte gjord för dessa dar",
I Just Wasn't Made For These Days
# "Magiskt, men tragiskt",
Magical, But Tragical (Hellström/
Källman)
# "Atombomb",
Nuclear Bomb
# "Dom dimmiga dagarna",
The Foggy Days (Hellström/Theodor Jensen, Swedish version of "Foggy days", later released by
The Plan)
Singles
The first four tracks were also issued as singles. "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" was Hellström's first single, issued on 8 May 2000. Its
B-side
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was "Vi två, 17 år". "Ramlar" was released one week before the album with "Ge mig arsenik" (a demo version of "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg") as B-side. The second single, "En vän med en bil", was released on 19 February 2001 and appeared on the soundtrack for the Swedish movie ''
Festival''. The B-side, "Här kommer lyckan för hundar som oss", returned on the second album, ''
Det är så jag säger det
''Det är så jag säger det'' is the second studio album by Swedish pop artist Håkan Hellström, released on 28 October 2002. In English, the title would be: "That is how I say it."
Musically, the album evolved from Hellström's debut and a d ...
''. The third and last single from the album was "Nu kan du få mig så lätt", released on 18 June 2001, while "Jag var bara inte gjord för dessa dar" was the B-side.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
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Håkan Hellström albums
2000 debut albums
Swedish-language albums