Let's go all Swedish on this list. Since I'm a Swede in Sweden after all.
Evert Taube - Fritiof och Carmencita
The most classic of Swedish classics. With the profoundest of life wisdoms:
Carmencita, lilla vän, akta dig för rika män!
Lyckan den bor ej i kalvar eller kor
och den kan heller inte köpas för pengar!
Olle Nyman - Don't Let Those Bastards Reel You In
A discovery from Staden's interview with Mattias Alkberg. The resistance knows no borders.Christian Kjellvander - Portugal
I just finished reading José Saramago, so I've spent some weeks in a melancholic 1930s Lisbon, parallell to the city of my birth.
All that I love will disappear
even if I stay
Freddie Wadling - Trubbel
One of the best Swedish songs ever, in a version by one of the best Swedish singers ever. It might not be evident from a first listen, but this is so, so devilishly good. It also chimes remarkably well with another good novel I read in the past few days: Lena Andersson - Wilful Disregard
Och trots all kärleks brist och trasighet och fransarDig ska jag älska livet ut, dig har jag kär...
Jan Johansson - På ängen stod en björk
The right way to collude with Russia.
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