Scandopop questions

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

1. Cover connections: what is the sleeve of the new Margaret Berger alBUM reminding me of? The typeface used for the artist/title is really familiar. Something French perhaps? Or possibly it's a movie poster homage.

2. Spur of the moment purchases: I just ordered said Berger LP from cdon. To make the purchase feel more cost-effective I also bought the Marie Serneholt alBUM, as cdon are virtually giving it away. I have no idea who Serneholt is or what her music sounds like. Did I do good?

(This post calls for my first ever LJ 'mood', I think, although I was hoping for a "carefree" option.)

Comments

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Marie Serneholt used to be in the A-Teens (swedish pop band that started out doing ABBA covers but then moved onto original stuff). I haven't heard the album but the songs I've heard (That's the way that my heart goes, I love making love in the morning) are very good if you like that sort of thing - very mainstream pop music.

[koganbot]

I know what you mean about the cover but nothing is coming to mind.

Serneholt was in the A-Teens, whom I never warmed up to, and I haven't warmed up to her voice solo, either, but "That's The Way My Heart Goes" is such an excellently catchy song that the lack of feeling is almost overcome.

skyecaptain, piratemoggy, and I have been in love with Margaret Berger's "Robot Song" for months now, as she is the only one that makes us feel a thing. (Rest of album is variable.)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

lovely robot song. it was my final choice (after much mimbling) for the lollards!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I much much prefer Will You Remember Me Tomorrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOSpmGhF5o). As well, something about the video gives me a real lift. In fact I like this enough that I would buy jauntyalan a beer just for putting me onto it.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

The typeface and feel remind me of this cover: http://www.marina.com/ma21.html but I suspect both are borrowing the 'feel' from something older.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

possibly it was this (http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=pkt3n6m8kf) or another CD from that series I was thinking of ahem

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hmm, not quite, is it? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoa%2C_Nelly%21)

Anyway, hurray for Madge B, she's an ace pop lady.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

more important than typography, what sort of a hat is it that MB is wearing that obscures the face so?

[therealjo.livejournal.com]

It's possibly reminding you of the posters for the Jacques Tati films Jour de Fete or Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot?

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Marie isn't an 'omgiloveher'-inducing popstar as Margaret is, but her album is surprisingly consistent in quality. I bought it not expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. Margaret is amazing though, you'll definitely love her CD.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Marie Serneholt is totally worth it (I might pick this up too...is CDon the place doing FREE internat'l shipping = Amy Diamond's "Still Me Still Now" for less than ten bucks American?), about a 70% success rate with a few great non-singles thrown in there..."The Boy I Used to Know," "Calling All Detectives" (Frank didn't like the toothpaste flava, but I dig it), and if ya hadn't heard it I still think "I Need a House" is her best.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

is CDon the place doing FREE internat'l shipping = Amy Diamond's "Still Me Still Now" for less than ten bucks American?

No, that's CDWOW

cdon may only ship to Scandanavia and the EU judging by their homepage

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

The Marie's pretty good, yeah. "That's The Way My Heart Goes" is a lovely Swedish sugary confection with a tiny bit of R&B in it, but it works. "I Need A House" sounds like DEBBIE FUCKING GIBSON ca "Electric Youth", so that's great too. "I Love Making Love In The Morning" is totally Gina G. "Oxygen" is a good ballad at the end. "Can't Be Loved" is good. It's a tiny bit iffy in places but always pretty listenable.

another time, another place, another world

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Margaret Berger is great and has an Eminem reference in there somewhere. It was my #2 album of 2006 only falling to mad violin industrial.

Really good bits include 'Seek I'll Hide,' which I thought was a bit rub but then put it in my set at Indiesoc awhile ago and decided I liked it a lot; 'Samantha,' which is all about drinking a lot of gin and forgetting the fvckwit or something and she wears a TENT on a spaceship in the video and still looks good; 'Robot Song,' which as koganbot mentioned is divine, it's this massive love story about her and a robot in a dystopian future and it just shimmers and aches in this completely glorious manner whilst also managing pop squelching etc. and 'Have You Never Ever,' which has actually become my favourite song on the album: lonely, streetlight rave of a sort Rachel Stevens approached but didn't quite scale on 'Funny How.'

Re: another time, another place, another world

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Not just an Eminem reference...HI, my name is...my name is...my name is Margaret! (Or is she saying Margot? That might be even better)

Re: another time, another place, another world

[gingermint.livejournal.com]

her name is MARBLE. i just figured that out. look: http://www.myspace.com/fansofmargaretberger