Rigtheous Boy
....nombre bajo el cual Magnus Sveningsson ha realizado su primer trabajo como solista.
El nombre del álbum es ¨I Sing Because Of You¨.
El álbum incluye 12 canciones y fue grabado en los estudios Tambourine y en el Lab Studios en Malmo con el productor Batti (Sebastian Borg). La banda incluye a Jens Jansson ( Brainpool), Nathan Larson , Patrick Bartosch ( Eggstone) y Henrik Andersson (Ray Wonder).
El primer single del álbum se llama Long Among Friends y fue realizado en Suecia en Diciembre.
Hablando con NME.com, Magnus dijo que su material habia sido influenciado por nombres como Leonard Cohen, Beck y Spiritualized. ¨
Hablando con NME.com, Magnus dijo que su material habia sido influenciado por nombres como Leonard Cohen, Beck y Spiritualized. ¨
Es un gran hit con las chicas- las mujeres se vuelven locas cuando escuchan, es mi voz profunda lo que las hace delirar ¨.
Las canciones son muy orgánicas, la mayoria de ellas no han sido programadas y pueden servir como indicadores de los que esperamos de The Cardigans, dice Magnus. ¨
Es una reacción a nuestro último álbum ¨( 1998- Gran Turismo) que tenía un sonido muy frío¨ explica Magnus. También dice que existe la posibilidad que material de los trabajos de Nina Persson ( A Camp) y de Magnus sean incluídos cuando The Cardigans salga de gira.
Magnus recomienda usar e-shop para obtener el nuevo material si no eres de Suecia. Probablemente no haga ningún tour ¨correcto ¨ para el álbum ya que estara trabajando con los Cardigans.
Magnus no es sólo el bajista de The Cardigans, es el hombre detrás de Righteous Boy.
Magnus recomienda usar e-shop para obtener el nuevo material si no eres de Suecia. Probablemente no haga ningún tour ¨correcto ¨ para el álbum ya que estara trabajando con los Cardigans.
Magnus no es sólo el bajista de The Cardigans, es el hombre detrás de Righteous Boy.
Ese trabajo como solista muestra el gran talento de Magnus como compositor y como cantante. El primer paso para este álbum fue el single Loved Among Friends. La mezcla fue trabajo de Michael Ilbert.
Si te gusta la música ¨ moody ¨, pero hermosa con fuertes melodías , Righteous Boy es la banda que debes descubrir.
Si te gusta la música ¨ moody ¨, pero hermosa con fuertes melodías , Righteous Boy es la banda que debes descubrir.
1. LOVED AMONG FRIENDS 3.45
2. VIEW FROM A SATELLITE 4.23
3. NO MORE LOVE 3.57
4. RIGHTEOUS BOY / RIGHTEOUS GIRL 4.03
5. I MADE IT HARD FOR YOU TO LOVE ME 3.32
6. ALL MY EVILS 4.11
7. IM NOT SHIELDED 1.10
8. ELEPHANT MAN 4.34
9. I FEEL APART 3.59
10. LONE AMONG FRIENDS 4.13
11. STRAIGHT SONG 4.03
12. YOU BETTER DO GOOD 4.49
De este album se desprende un solo sencillo titulado "Loved Among Friends" el cual despliega 1 solo B-side Titulado Isle of the Colourblind, y en este mismo un video para su sencillo, y la edicion de su track "No More Love"
Ahora Righteous Boy, trabaja en lo que será la continuación de este proyecto, personal del bajista de The Cardigans .
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Notas y Letras
-Loved Among Friends
Though I can´t see the good in meI could never take your placeI would never stand the sightTo stand in front of meThen someone´s on the telephoneSays; let´s hit Reflections BarI check my troubles at the doorWon´t need them anymoreI´m loved among friendsI hope that it never endsThough I can see the good in griefI learnt to know its faceIt´s where I lost my faithI started out this wayNow someone´s on the telephoneSays; let´s hit Reflections BarI left them bitches long agoI´ll never let them knowI´m loved among friendsI hope that I´m loved among friendsI hope that it never endsThough I won´t see the good in meI see the good in youThough you won´t see the good in youYou see the good in meYou should see the good in youAnd I should see the good in meYou should see the good in youAnd I should see the good in me
Comentarios de Magnus
Loved among friends is my favourite track but I never knew it’d turn out to be the first single. Peter from the Cardies joined me in the mastering studio up in Stockholm and as an honour; he was allowed to make a song order. We ended up keeping the major part of his suggestions, might he have a good ear for music? Anyway, the songs were made in my bedroom studio along with all other songs. I think I wrote it back in April 2000. It used to have a waltz beat and spoken word lyrics until we started to record it at Tambourine. Bengt did the first takes on the drums, playing gently with brushes. Along with the jumpy bass line that you can hear at the end of the song, we just couldn’t make it swing. The entire song collapsed and was put aside for quite some time. Later I decided to have another go down at LAB studios with Henrik Anderson. He’s far from being a drummer but then again, he’s not afraid of playing drums. He came up with the 4/4 beat and the pumping bass which gave the song a swing feel. Still it sounded a bit rubbish though I truly enjoyed the direction the song had taken. I decided to take it back to Tambourine and have Jens Jansson to play the drums. There we decided to mix the 4/4 beat with the 6/8 beat which lead us to the final version. Henrik plays both guitar and bass, Patrik Bartosch plays the grand piano which carries the nice folky melodies. This song is about the feeling you get sometimes, believing that everyone thinks you’re a looser and that you better get a one way trip to the city dump. This is most of the time not true, if you got true friends with great patience. Reflections Bar is our fave hide-out here in Malmö, a hotel bar round the corner where you never meet anyone you know. A perfect place for a secret date, if it wasn’t for its total lack of glamour and romance. Nina and Nathan are the ones who always called me for a hit at Reflections. Thanks to them.....?
-View From A Satellite
You were so beautiful at such an ugly time, todayYou were so beautiful, so untouchable, todayYou say, I did you wrongI did you wrong againYou were so beautifulYou made me understandThe measure of your heartWon't hold the lot of meYou were so beautifulYou made me understandI did you wrongI did you wrong againView from a satelliteView from a satelliteView from a satelliteYou were so beautifulYou came to get your thingsTodayYour secret loneliness will take you anywhereI did no wrongI did no wrong at allView from a satelliteView from a satelliteView from a satelliteDid no wrong at allI did no wrong, no wrong at allView from a satelliteView from a satelliteView from a satelliteView from a satellite
Comentarios de Magnus
This one is from the first set of songs I wrote in my bedroom studio. I made the music not knowing what the vocal melody/lyrics would be like (as most songs on the record). I got the verse chords from Nina´s kidbrother Claes and then put in a bridge and a chorus. I seem to like two chord-verses or choruses, unlike the Cardigans musical language. Unlike most other songs, I wrote this on guitar. I am quite crap on guitar but I can get around whenever I need to. The demo didn´t include the mandolins obviously, but apart from that, it sounds exactly as it did back in the demo days. The lyrics is kinda straight on target, when my ex girl came to get her things and we exchanged christmas presents a month after her breaking up. It was a very dreadful afternoon. It´s a very simple recording, drums by Jens, I play the hammond organ, batti playing the slide guitar and the mandolins (he had to work on those). Then Helena came in later to do the dreamy background vocals= done!
-No More Love
Only you can make it right againOnly you can make it rightNo more love until I find youNo more love until I find youTill I find youOnly you can make it right againOnly you can make it rightNo more love, no more loveNo more love, no more loveTill I find you...I wish I could turn, try to turn back timeFix all the errors that were mineI let myself hang on toI never felt a deeper loveHow I wish you felt the sameI'll never feel the same againAll them people try to talk me throughThat you were never being kind to meOnce I think of you, once I think of youYeahNo more love, no more loveNo more love, no more loveTill I find you...
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This I did very quickly in my bedroom studio. Due to my great love of 70´s roots reggae and dub, I felt I had to do something moody dubwise. The demo version is even more monotonic, nothing happens for some 3 and a half minutes, same chords throughout the entire song. When I played it to Henrik, he fooled around with the arrangement, changed the chord progress a bit and gave it new harmonies on the chorus. The original is of course what you hear in the verses, steady bass with very little else going on. We recorded the first version with me playing drums, then Henrik cut it up in weird loops. We added a lot of loops, courtesy of Nathan but kept the rest of the LAB recordings. Mikael Ilbert made a stripped down mix which we liked, we just thought he had excluded too many of our darlings. Therefore we let Marco Manieri do a dubmix which is included on the album. The song is about obsessions, the way you might glamourize someone you once had, or never really got. The love you would possibly have gotten there would overcast every other relation, in the future and in the past. Of course this is not true, but I am a sucker for these kind of fantasies.
-Righteous Boy/Righteous Girl
Righteous girl justifies, she knew her part wasn't meant to lastRighteous boy petrified, stoned to the ground into her pastShe aimed to be the glossy kindTo make her past yellow time by timeThe girl has come to end, everythingThe girl has come to end, everythingThe girl has come to end, everythingRighteous girl justifies, she knew her part wasn't meant to lastRighteous boy petrified, stoned to the ground into her pastShe couldn't see the harm she's doneCause she never hurt anyoneThe girl has come to end, everythingThe girl has come to end, everything...
Comentarios de Magnus
This was the very first song I wrote after my 6 year creative sleep. It was made as a slow bossanova with a very nice single note piano thing in the choruses. This has been transferred to the strings on the new version. I never found a place for the song in its original version so me and Henrik had a discussion of what to do with it. Out of nowhere, this crazy bassline comes out of my head and then it took off in a totally different direction. We did the drums, bass and guitars down at the Cardigans rehearsal space. My drumming and the loops made out of it wouldn´t really hold the song together so Nathan was called in to program some additional drums and simply fuck up the rhythm tracks. The freaked out mid part is all his work. The lyrics are quite simple, though I am very pleased with "she aimed to be the glossy kind to make her past yellow time by time". Maybe sometime, I´ll record the original version of the song. I am still amazed how it came out, very differently from where it all started. This is where I got my artistname from obviously.
-I Made It Hard For You To Love Me
Never knew for sure what my intentions wereMust have wanted youMust have been aloneThe first time you took me inI felt overwhelming gratitudeHow was I supposed to feelI made it hard for you to love me...How could I behave in any other wayStill I felt afraid at a shattered timeI tried to hide my fearsI got the same result through every tryOh dear, I wonder whyI made it hard for you to love me...Never knew for sure what my struggles wereThat I learnt to knowThat I'm not to countYou poke me at my weakest spotsCursed me at my lowest pointSo, is it you or really meThat made it hard for you to love me...
Coemntarios de Magnus
This one has caused me more headache than all other songs all together. I had the chorus thing clear to me for so long. I tried many different verses and melodies until I settled with this one. As many other of my songs, it just has two parts. because it took so long time to finish it, I never got to love it as I did with the other songs. As you can hear, I really push myself as high as possible in the vocal range, higher than I´d rather have it actually. A nice twist is that the chorus melody changes throughout the song. Another thing is that I use tremolo on the bass, which makes it nice and blurry. We did this down at the rehearsal space aswell and then added Jens´drums and Filip´s strings on top. Nathan came in at the end to give me a push for those high pitch notes. The lyrics is again, straight and rather autobiographial. I suppose this was my try on making a Dusty Springfield like grand ballad, you tell me if I even got close…
-All My Evils
So, I've worn you outI turned my will against youJust to let it bleedI lost all my compassionGod, I lost myself in youI wish I could have stayedSteady as a rock, won't let it showAll my evils must goSteady as a rock, won't let it showAll my evils must goThough I choke through many timesI kept it all inside meI thought I'd find a wayThrough my obsessionsGod, I lost myself in youI wish I could have stayedSteady as a rock, won't let it showAll my evils must goSteady as a rock, won't let it showAll my evils must go...So, will I ever changeI wish I'd found a better selfA simpler selfAn easy self for I lost myself in youSteady as a rock, won't let it showAll my evils must goSteady as a rock, won't let it showAll my evils must go...Rock… Steady… Rock… Steady… Rock… Steady...
Comentarios de Magnus
After getting in contact with batti, I used him as a test on my new songs. He really loved this one when it was still instrumental. It took him a lot of time to actually enjoy the vocal melody, because it puts the sweet vibraphone melody out of focus. Strangely, the melody sounds fine straight through the song. It´s the same notes in the verse and in the chorus, a very simple even childish melody. The verse´s in A flat major- G minor, which to me is strange, maybe just business as ususal for you? The lyrics are a mix of regret of how I treated people near me and a wish for a change of manners. This hasn´t very much to do with ex girlfriends actually! :) Or has it? A nice twist is the end which I owe to Aretha Franklin, you know "Rocksteady" ?
-I´m Not Shielded
I'm not shielded like you areI'm not shielded like you are, like you areI wish I was sometimesI'm not shielded like you are, like you areAnd it makes me happy
Comentarios de Magnus
I thought I needed a piece to give the listener some air halfway through the album. In the vinly age, this break would come naturally from flipping the record over from side A to side B. Some say it´s a bit psychadelic, might just be my crappy guitarplaying. Henrik did all intruments on this down at the rehearsal space, including the strange violin parts which are looped and reversed. Notice the teasy glockenspiel melody in the middle. Strange song indeed. The lyric is about certain people who seem to keep everything that´s not superficial away from themselves, just like I used to do back in the days. Still such an approach makes day to day life easier, at least it seems that way for a while.
-Elephant Man
Keep looking at me, keep looking at me
Keep looking at me, keep looking at me
Don't you feel ashamed
You came to see the elephant man
The elephant man
Don't you be afraid
It's plain to see the elephant man
The elephant man...
Comentarios de Magnus
I suppose this reveals my indie-pop self? As a huge fan of Ride, Charlatans and Stone Roses back in the days of pre-Cardigans years, this came about as a My Bloody Valentine rip-off.
The first couple of songs I wrote were a little bit moodier, such as I feel apart, Lone among friends, then the straight soul ballad types that came in later. Anyway, this stood out completely then and it still does. Since I couldn´t come up with any complete lyric that was any good, I just kept on repeating "keep looking at me" over and over till I decided to stay with it.
I quite often come up with a title first, so the thing with elephant man made this complete itself pretty fast. I guess the metephor of the elephant man is sort of self pity, blame and hatred mixed up. Of course directed at a very special someone.
Bengt from cardigans played drums on this one first, but we realized that it needed the toughness from programmed drumsloops. When we play this one live, it goes more into Charlatans groove than the white-noise MBV stylee that appears on record. I also get to play the melodica live.
The voice at the end is a guy called Juan, who´s Argentinian. Him and I wrote some phrases/curses in spanish of which I can´t tell you. Let´s just say, he ain´t saying any nice stuff.
-I Feel Apart
What a lot to feel, as neon lights glow
The steady flow
Throughout the ordinary
So, what's left to feel
When I'd hate the sight of me
So, what's left to know
What is yet to show
I feel apart
But I try and I try
Nothing is for sure
But I try and I try
I feel apart
But I try and I try for you
What a large defeat
When I'm measured there beside you
Such indifference
Aren't we treasured there inside you
Got a lot to deal with
Afraid to see you
Afraid I never knew you
You never knew me
I feel apart
But I try and I try
Nothing is for sure
But I try and I try
I feel apart
But I try and I try for you
A walk into the woods where no one ever goes
Where no one ever went
I strive towards the end
Not much left to do
And not much left to ask for
It's better than before
I'll go through this alone
I feel apart
But I try and I try
Nothing is for sure
But I try and I try
I feel apart
But I try and I try for you
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This was possibly the first one I wrote that actually sounded like a real tune, in an interesting style. The demo sounds like a gothic Massive Attack, very similar to the album version. It also has a mid-8 segment, the first one I ever wrote! It will always be batti´s fave song, maybe because it´s been there since the very beginning.
We had so much trouble with this one cause it was recorded on tape, not directly into computer. The live drums we recorded didn´t work out so we chose to program drum loops. Then we discovered that the meter wasn´t correct, the taperecorder had been slightly out of pitch. I don´t envy Stefan who had to fix the rhythm track manually for ages till it actually worked out. This was the first one me and batti recorded, back in Sep 2000.
I remember being so proud of that recording, guess we both needed that to feel that this could become a real recording project. It´s a bit tricky to go from the low whispery voice to the high note chorus in a blink. I´m always nervous to catch awkward notes when I sing this one live.
Lone Among Friends
Would you say that I aimed too high
If she knew what choice I had
Would you settle for a lesser try
If you'd fail to be glad
Would you worry if the years went by
With a sense of a silent cry
Would you rather wait around to die
Or would you rather know why
Would you know when the time is right
When I've hurt myself enough
Would you keep me at a safer spot
And praise what I got
Don't you ever feel the greatest loss
Of what you had or never got
Would you stutter if you hurt a lot
Or would you shut off
You're lone among friends
You fail to be glad in the old fashionable way
You're lone among friends
You're lone among friends
You don't know how to think
Don't know how to feel
You're lone among friends
It's never happened before...
Comentarios de Magnus
This sounds like a gothic AIR song. It´s probably the bassline that carries the similarity. This sounded exactly the same on demo, so we just copied the playing when we got into Tambourine studios.
This was also recorded on tape which is why the beat is like seaweed. I love the vibraphone and melodica melodies in this one and maybe it sounds good just because of the drowsiness. Henrik´s massive background vocals are truly great, but we had to hide it a little, other wise my lead vocals would have drown.
The lyric actually breathes a bit of angriness. it´s sort of an explanation of how one can feel when emotions and fear set in. Sort of a reflection on how to dignify one´s precious situation when there´s a lot to feel.
Although it might be the least catchy song on the record, it´s one of my favourites. It was one of the very first songs I wrote in my bedroom studio.
Straight Song
Will I feel this cold in a year or two
Will I feel this cold when I'm old
These uncertain days
Feelings out of place
Through despair and doubt
Will it even out
There's an ocean between
What you perceive and how I feel
I reason differently
But if you could see me through and if I let you to
I got lots of lots of love for you
Equal blessing, equal curse
Will I grow from here
Or to the worse
This uncertain deal
How I'd rather feel
When I cease to be, how will you remember me
There's an ocean between
What you perceive and how I feel
I reason differently
But if you could see me through and if I let you to
I got lots of lots of love for you
I got lots of lots of love for you
I got lots of lots of love for you
There's an ocean between
What you perceive and how I feel
I reason differently
But if you could see me through and if I let you to
I got lots of lots of love for you
I got lots of lots of love for you
I got lots of lots of love for you...
Comentarios de Magnus
This was ignored a long time, wasn´t really meant to be on the record at all. Not until I made it into a soul-bluesy song. Before it was kind of dark, gothic and less pleasant.
The title comes from the fact that it`s straight with no twist, no surprising parts in it. It was one of the first four songs I wrote and I really like it nowadays. I am real happy with the lyrics, not that it´s great literature but it breathes of some hope at the end of the tunnel.
We recorded this one late, possibly the last one to be completed at Tambourine Studios. Jens came in to do the drums really quickly and then Per and Patrik from eggstone played bass/electric piano. Henrik made a background-vocal arrangement for Helena which reminds me of Annie Lennox for some reason. I really like Patrik´s freaky piano solo, seems that all his solos on my record has been sort of tacky-lounge style. Batti and I think they fit, Patrik seem to laugh about it.
Everyone I´ve played the record to have their own fave songs but no one seems to favour this one. At least I tried for once to sing the blues…
You Better Do Good
You better do good while you can
You better do good for your fellow man
I have seen it slip right through
Through my palms away for good
Cause no one's here to claim your will
You're free to do what's there for you
You better do good while you can
You better do good for your fellow man
You better do good if you want someone to hold
You better do good before you're bitter and alone
There's no defeat in feeling small
Our fall is shorter than the tall
They will find it slip right through
Through their palms away for good
You better do good while you can
You better do good for your fellow man
Cause they are gonna fall someday
Just wait and see, just wait and see
Ever so patiently
Then someone will take their place
It's their defeat eternally
Just aim at the stars, stay who you are
Just aim at the stars, be what you are...
Comentarios de Magnus
This was the last one to be written for the record. I know it´s a little out of place. Batti always pictures me as the Reverend in an american church, when listening to this tune. Guess it´s the only message song I will ever write, I actually came to think that Cardigans never done any of this kind either.
Some people love this song, like my dad and some think it´s sort of rubbish. We had troubles to find out whether it´d be ok to not have a real chorus in it.
The grand background vocals by Helena had always been the thing for the B part and I just couldn´t find a strong melody line to go with it. After a few months we decided to keep it the original way, but we cut the bridge thing and made it into the last chorus/outro vocals. We should never consider doing this live, we´d only fail to copy the choir parts. Michael the mixer thought that some Memphis style horns would lift the song so we recorded these at the end of the mix period and along with it, added new drums.
The lyric is pretty obvious but I won´t tell you to whom it´s aimed at. It could be myself…
Isle Of The Colourblind
Isle of the colourblind
I've been transparent
I've been flourescent
While out looking for me
I've been a sparrow
I've been a pharaoe
I've been hiding for you
I've been so shallow
I've been so hollow
But will you share my sorrow?
I've been gone onto the Isle of the colourblind
And I've been gone so long I don't know when
I've been so needy
I've been so weary
But would you ever need me?
I've been so sorry
I've been so worried
But will you share my story?
I've been gone onto the Isle of colourblind
And I've been gone so long I don't know when
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This is written by the eggstone, mainly their drummer Maurits I believe. I heard it way back when I worked at the Tambourine. I actually wrote the lyrics for them to use, which of course never happened. I asked for permission to record it and was happy to recieve and positive reaction from the guys in the band.
We did it at Tambourine well before we had all songs written, think we had four down on tape by then. We left it for a long time cause I never thought it would fit the record, we thought of it as a B side basically.
Jens jansson played drums along with some funky percussion by my friend Jon Rudberg. We had some troubles fitting the verses to the chorus, tempo wise. As you can hear, it gets a bit awkward right before the second verse. Not much to do about that, the up tempo choruses were so good that we wanted to keep them that way. I am perticulary happy with the vibes and the bass, as funky as I can get I suppose :-)
The lyrics about the wound up state I have been in for very long, possibly until winter 1998 when I stopped running. Isle of the colourblind is a metaphor for the lack of emotion one can get stuck in after years of running away from something. You run so fast, you can´t even smell the good in life, can´t even feel the beauty in an ordinary day-to-day moment. you become emotionally colourblind, just the size and look of things matter.
