Here's the place to post your favourites!

My favourites:

Albums:

Bob Hund - Omslag: Martin Kann
Atomic Swing - A Car Crash In The Blue
Ebba Grön - 1978-1982 * (collection)
Komeda - What Makes It Go?
Cardigans - Life *
Cardigans - First Band On The Moon *
Abba - Arrival*
Pugh Rogefeldt - Ja Dä Ä Dä


Songs:

Ebba Grön - Staten & Kapitalet* (huge single)
Magnus Uggla - Hallå *
Magnus Uggla - Kung För En Dag *
Bob Hund - Istället För Musik: Förvirring*
Bob Hund - Det Skulle Vara Lätt......*
Bob Hund - Sommaren Rasar
Bob Hund - Upp, Upp, Upp, Ner
Komeda - Feeling Fine
Komeda - A Simple Formality
Atomic Swing - In The Dust
Abba - S.O.S.*
Abba - Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Pugh Rogefeldt - Här Kommer Natten
Pugh Rogefeldt - Små Lätta Moln *
Peter, Björn & John - Young Folks (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Remix)
Kenta - Just Idag Är Jag Stark
Lars Winnerbäck - Stort Liv!
Nationalteatern - Livet Är En Fest *


* means widespread appeal in my book.

All ABBA from 73-80
Ace of Base- The Sign (The whole album!)
The Cardigans- Lovefool and a couple other songs
Robyn- Robyn and a couple songs off the other one
Hives- Veni,Vidi,Vicious
Mando Diao- God Knows (Song)
The Knife
Shout Out Louds- The Comeback (Song)
Millencolin- No Cigar (Song)
Soundtrack of Our Lives- Behind the Music (Album)
Dungen

The Moneybrother and Johnossi albums.

My favourite Swedish song would be Millencolin - No Cigar with Refused - New Noise coming very close and Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks coming third
Also in my top 200 : 2 Hives songs (Abra Cadaver and Love in Plastic) and 2 Millencolin songs (Twenty Two and Happiness for Dogs)
And I guess my favourite album would be Tyrannosaurus Hives

The Merrymakers
Eggstone
Dungen
Jens Lekman
The Wannadies
The Hellacopters
Peter,Bjorn&John
El Perro Del Mar
Peter Von Poehl
The Hives
Mando Diao
The Concretes
The Cardigans

Anything Jens Lekman touches

Being from Sweden, my knowledge about Swedish music is embarrasing. Nevertheless, here are my favorites (off the top of my head).

Albums
1. Jan Johansson - Jazz på svenska (1964)
2. bob hund - Omslag: Martin Kann (1996)
3. The Cardigans - Emmerdale (1994)
4. Studio - West Coast (2006)
5. Stina Nordenstam - And She Closed Her Eyes (1994)
6. Di Leva - Rymdblomma (1989)
7. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Tio vackra visor och personliga Person (1968)
8. The Knife - Deep Cuts (2003)
9. ABBA - Arrival (1976)
10. LoopTroop - Modern Day City Symphony (2000)
11. Pugh Rogefeldt - Ja dä ä dä (1969)
12. Lisa Ekdahl - Lisa Ekdahl (1994)
13. The Cardigans - Gran Turismo (1998)
14. José González - Veneer (2003)
15. The Knife - Silent Shout (2006)
16. Fleshquartet - Flow (1993)
17. Eric Gadd - On Display (1993)
18. Tages - Studio (1967)
19. John Holm - Veckans affärer (1976)
20. Bo Kaspers Orkester - På hotell (1994)

+ special mention: Philemon Arthur & the Dung - Philemon Artur & the Dung (1971)

Songs
1. Studio - West Side
2. The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So
3. The Knife - Heartbeats
4. Fred Åkerström - Jag ger dig min morgon
5. Jan Johansson - Visa från Utanmyra
6. Ebba Grön - Staten och kapitalet
7. bob hund - Dusseldorf
8. Magnus Uggla - Varning på stan
9. The Cardigans - Rise and Shine
10. Imperiet - Märk hur vår skugga
11. ABBA - Dancing Queen
12. Di Leva - Vi har bara varandra
13. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Turistens klagan
14. Peps Blodsband - Hög standard
15. Atomic Swing - Stone Me into the Groove
16. Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner
17. Håkan Hellström - Känn ingen sorg för mig, Göteborg
18. Thomas Rusiak - Hiphopper
19. Just D - Rökringar
20. Nationalteatern - Livet är en fest

The Knife
Jens Lekman
Robyn
Dungen
Peter Bjorn and John

Haven't heard that much Swedish stuff overall.

I know I had Arrival on my top 100 but I think I should have put Abba:The Album there instead (or both). That might be a better album. Both are solid throughout but I think I like The Album a little more.

hehe, I know I'm supposed to throw some credible names into this thread (still waiting for the inclusions of I'm From Barcelona, Jenny Wilson, The Field and... ehhhm.. Basshunter), but this lil smashee seriously saved the early 1990's for me..



PS: Kärlek & Uppror is plain fun. too...

and hell... them, too.

Whale !!! "Hobo humpin' slobo babe"
I loved this song at the time of his release (somewhere between 1993 and 1995 ?).
I hadn't heard it for ages. It sounds very '90s but I still like it !
Does the band still exist ?
I didn't know they were swedish.

does the band still exist?

apparently not, dumbangel, and the group got already quite mixed up for the second and final release in 1998. still great to know someone to join this piece of funostalgica, though. I've almost posted this early tricky mise-en-scene masterpiece from Michel Gondry as well, but then I realized that Lucas is from Denmark. but then again... oh, whatever

Another Swede with a limited interest in Swedish music, but anyway... Here's my list:

1 Jakob Hellman
Och Stora Havet

2 Ebba Grön
1978-1982

3 Kent
Hagnesta Hill

4 Popsicle
Lacquer

5 Kent
Kent

6 The Cardigans
Emmerdale

7 Stina Nordenstam
And She Closed Her Eyes

8 Håkan Hellström
Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg

9 Di Leva
Rymdblomma

10 The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Welcome to the Infant Freebase

I amvery limited in my knowledge of Swedish music... I barely even know a good number of Abba's hits (couldn't even hum "Waterloo").

However, I got very into the Cardigans in the mid-90's, and still admire them. I saw them live a couple of times, and they are deceptively tight musicians, with a keen sense of how to arrange their music. First time i saw them, they just had their first US release. Saw them in a smallish NYC club that was full of Swedes. Second time was at the height of their "Lovefool" popularity. Bigger club and smaller percentage of Swedes.

I've kind of lost track of them and their more recent releases, but still turn to Life, First Band on the Moon, and Gran Turismo occasionally.

You guys should really check out Johnossi and Moneybrother. Here's a taste of what you're missing:

First Johnossi:


Then Moneybrother:

The Cardigans are one of those bands that's a lot better than their hit.

Jakob Hellman is a baker now, if you wanted to know. I also saw Nina in Stockholm, twice in the same day.

Not to mention selling an apple and a banana to Carolina Klüft at the grocery store where I worked, me thinking "you can't hide from a true sports fan behind that monk jacket" ALSO thinking the sum of the fruits "not making any noise if it was a long jump as the cost was 5.63 or something".

The true classic was serving Pete "Who" Townsend. That guy look familiar. He was next in line. He saying: Do you know where the elevator is? Me saying as I figured it out who he was..."The...The Hiss (swedish for elevator...) is over there...cool as I am I was trying to find something funny to say getting me out of the black hole (Hiss, wtf). One tenth of a second too late the answer in my head was..."Who's Next! (their best album) to the next no. 1 in line.