Of course they do. Never trust a Nordic country with fish. They do horrific things with fish (speaking as a daughter of a Dane). We are the loony nations who though lutefisk was a good idea. Also, they put black licorice on everything, to yummy effect.
If a Swede offers you Surströmming, run away. Far, far, far away.
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The Chills album last year was on of my favourites. And "Pink Frost" is a playlist mainstay. The Datsuns are another one I can remember being played a lot by my kid.
Isn't Kimbra from NZ?

I became a hug fan when MuchMusic was airing them in the early nineties. I had always been an anxious kid, but my teenage years were hell, so any reprieve I could get was a godsend. The Monkees absurdity played to my unusual sense of humour. It aired at 6 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, and I would get up each time and…

Very sweet. My boyfriend is also glad you're married. He's a Yankees fan who doesn't get my devotion to the usually hapless Cubs. And he's a Peter guy. We make it work.

I want to put in a vote for "Laugh", because I'm a sucker for "ba ba ba" and "sha la la" lyrics. (But thanks for "Sweet Young Thing", which is one of my all time favourite songs.)
I'm a Monkees obsessive. I love a good pop song. I got that from my mother, who tried (and failed) to convince me that Herman's Hermits were…

I cannot watch the episode where Lucy and Carter get stabbed- or any episode of ER after that. My mother's favourite show was ER, and it was the one thing she kept insisting on watching while she was in palliative care because it brought her comfort. She went into a coma the night the stabbing episode aired- and died…

"Morning is Broken" actually dates from the 1930s. Cat/Yusuf just popularized it and gave us the definitive arrangement. One of the hymnals my childhood church used had it- arr. by Cat Stevens, lyrics by Ellen? or something I don't want to Google…)

I ordered the vinyl. Because, you know, vinyl. Frankly, the vinyl/cd/digital package is one of the best deals I've seen in music in a long while.

That is identical to my list.

That is identical to my list.

I can't help it. I love SVH because they are lame, poorly written, and completely ridiculous. I have daughters, so I gave them my collection. They hate them. But I still pull one off their bookshelf and read it. Hey, the copy of Infinite Jest that has been on my bedside table for a year and half takes time. A SVH book…

I'm gonna miss you, RANDYJACKSONMFm in the off season.

I'm not going to watch the Tuesday show because I cannot put up with midtempo cheesy Country ballads with a Lawrence Welk twist anymore.

I love R.E.M. completely and unironically. I ahve since I was a kid and heard them for the first time at my best friend's house. Her older sister was a fan.

It was about someone dying of Alzheimer's. And it was cheesy.

I just call it "shit rock".

Naveed was awesome. The song "Thief" off of Happiness is Not A Fish You Can Catch hits an emotional chord with me. everything else sucks. Which makes me upset, because I like Jeremy Taggart when he drums for anyone who is not Raine Maida.

She was terrible on Doctor Who. Worst. Christmas. Who. EVER.

First three Pearl Jam albums are the pinnacle of early 90s music. I still think my favorite of the three is Vs. It take me back to my last year of high school, listening to it on my ancient, dying walkman as I took the bus too and from school every day because we lived in the middle of fucking nowhere Alberta and my…

I'm not apologizing for Nickelback again. It's too fucking exhausting.