''Prayer for the Weekend'' was released on 11 April 2007 and is the fourth studio album from Swedish rock band the Ark. It is their first album with the sixth member, keyboard player Jens Andersson. The album contains, along with the lead single " Absolutely No Decorum", the song "

The Worrying Kind "The Worrying Kind" is a rock song performed by the Ark, written and composed by Ola Salo. It was released as the second single from their fourth album, '' Prayer for the Weekend''. On 10 March 2007 the song won Melodifestivalen 2007, becoming ' ...

", with which the Ark participated in the

Eurovision Song Contest 2007 The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Helsinki, Finland, following the country's victory at the with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" by Lordi. Organised by the European Broadcasti ...

, where the song finished 18th. The singles released from the album are; "Absolutely No Decorum", "The Worrying Kind", "Prayer for the Weekend" and "Little Dysfunk You".

Track listing

All songs written by Ola Salo. #"Prayer for the Weekend" – 4:24 #"

" – 2:56 #" Absolutely No Decorum" – 3:47 #"Little Dysfunk You" – 4:09 #"New Pollution" – 4:31 #"Thorazine Corazon" – 3:44 #"I Pathologize" – 2:54 #"Death to the Martyrs" – 3:54 #"All I Want Is You" – 2:58 #"Gimme Love to Give" – 3:59 #"Uriel" – 5:42 #"Any Operator Will Do" – 3:37 (Bonus Track, digital album only)

Personnel

The Ark are: *

Ola Salo Ola Salo (born Rolf Ola Anders Svensson; 19 February 1977) is a Swedish rock musician, and the lead vocalist of Swedish glam rock band The Ark. Early life He lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child, where, in 1991, ...

–

Lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

and songwriting * Martin Axén –

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

and

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

* Jepson –

and

* Leari –

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and

* Sylvester Schlegel –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

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and programming * Jens Andersson –

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, additional percussion and

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Additional personnel

*Jens Lindgård –

Trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

*Petter Lindgård –

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*Sven Andersson –

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and

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

*Filip Runesson –

Strings String or strings may refer to: *String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian anim ...

*Måns Block –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

*Mauricio Canivilo –

*Christopher Dominique –

Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

*Elisabeth Fornander, Oskar Humlebo, Maria Lilja, Simon Koudriavstev and Kristian Pehrsson – Additional

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...

*Jonas Nydessjö & Ola Salo – String arrangements *Marco Manieri – Producer,

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and mixing *Thomas Berger and Björn Lindgård – Mastering *Oskar Humlebo – Additional production 2007 albums The Ark (Swedish band) albums {{2000s-pop-rock-album-stub