The First Song I Remember Hearing
AC/DC – 'For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)'
“The might be editing My Childhood Subconsciously But the Remember Hearing 'For Those About To Rock' By AC/DC On One of These Slimline Cassettes Recorders in Nicholaus' [Arson, The Hives guitarist and Almqvist’s brother] Room. I Remember it feeling cool and dangerous, Kind of like an action movie. If I'm Not Going by Memory, it's probably a Swedish Children's Song Called 'Imitse Vimse Spindel' Which is 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' But With Swedish Lyrics. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fpf6l0xnvm
The First Album I Bought
Skid Row – 'Skid Row'
“I Went To the Local Record Store With My Own Money and Bought 'Skid Row' – and then Whatever Emf Record That 'Unbelievable' Song is on [‘Schubert Dip’]. The Store was in My Local Town, It was Called Playman – Maybe The English Name Was Cool, But It Makes No Sense, Right? The Skid Row Record was the Thing – There Was Tight Leather Pants and Hair, Which I Thought LookeD Cool. I Think That Record IS Still Good, It Still Holds Up. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rieycixk8
The First Gig I Went To
Kreator at Folkets Park, 1989
“I Forced My Dad to take Me To See German Thrash Metal Gods Kreator in My HomeTown With Swedish Doom Metal Metal Kings Candlemass Supporting, Who Were My Favourite Band at the Time. For Some Reason, at 11 Years Old, I Was Really Into Doom Metal. I Put On My Coolest Clothes and Went. It was at Folkets Park, Which is like a community center that every swishing town had.
What Did Your Dad Think of the Show?
“I Think He Thought it was funny but it was pretty serus to me. As an adult, the Think His Impression of Doom Metal Was Very Different. Who are these grown Men Stomping Around in Robes on Stage Like Druids?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnu0pqmab9u
The Song That Reminds Me of Home
Sator – 'I Wanna Go Home'
“It's Kind of a power pop hit, but it was playing on a Million Road Trip Vacations when I was a Kid. They're from the Same Area of Sweden That We are, I know the Think That's Why. It was probably big in Germany and Sweden, but they never Really Broke the UK. Really Good Song. But I Also Think Songs About Home Always Feel The Same to Everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1smjnfvt2e
The song I Wish I'd Written
Karen Dalton – 'Reason to Believe'
“Sometimes, the Think Songs Are OverRed. In Our Genre, A Good Band With A Shit Song Will Usuary Win Over a Good Song From A Shit Band. But A Song Where It Doesn'T Matter Who Performs It and I'll Like It? Karen Dalton's 'Reason to Believe'. A Super Sad Love Song. I Feel Like Her Music Was Discovered When We Broke Through AS A Band, and Somebody Told Me About It.
“The If I'm going with a song that I'd Written for the Hives, That's Way Harder. Stooges Songs Make No Sense Without the Stooges. Rock 'n' roll [songwriting] is different, for me. Rolling Stones Songs – They Work for the Rolling Stones, But Whenever Somebody Else Plays Them, they sound like shit to me! “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaiukmwayq0
The Song I Can't Get Out of My Head
Gershon Kingsley – 'Popcorn'
“There's a coupe – but the old synthesiser hit 'popcorn', that's constantly on repeat in my brain. The Think, Ironically, 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' by Kylie Minogue Shows Up Once Or Twice a Year. And then for Some Reason, 'Don't Worry be Happy 'by Bobby McFerrin. Trick on your brain. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCCEMF2JHC
The Song I Can No Longer Listen to
Radio Pop
“Ninety for cent of all mainstream pop on the radio, The Whole time I've Been Alive. I Think That's Gonna Have To Be My Answer. I Don't have a Specific [song] – It's all of it. I'm Just Leave It at That. “
The Song That Makes Me Want To Dance
The Hives – 'Try It Again'
“Anything by the Hives, Played Live. 'Try it Again' has Got a Pretty Good Groove. The problem is That i have to sing all the fucking time, so there's very little room for dancing in Hives Songs. I Wish there were more instructal bits Where i couuld cut a rock. figures that out on the next album. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tertpfguds
The Song That Makes Me Want to Cry
Gordon Lightfoot – 'If You Could Read My Mind'
“Howlin 'leather Don't Cry, Obviously. I Feel The Same Emotions, But I Don't Cry. That Gordon Lightfoot Song, It's Like How I Was Talking About Songwriting Before. It Doesn'T Matter Who Plays That Song, It's Equally As Good. It's Not Tied to Performance Like Rock Music is.
Have You Ever Cried to That Song?
“Maybe If Somebody Pepper-Sprayed Me While I was listening to it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiu2Lrgnt7u
The song I do at karaoke
The Champs – 'Tequila'
“I do 'Tequila', Where it's Just Instrumental and Goes 'Tequila!' to how. [take a shot]. It's very hives. Maybe That's the song I Wish I'm writer! “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jflb1iitm
The Song I Want Played at My Funeral
Tom Waits – 'As on up to the house'
“IT Seems Very Well Suited For That. I Think It Might Be About Dying, Some Line About 'Does Life Seem Nasty, Bruish and Short?', But I Love That Song. It's Beautiful and I Think It Wound Work At A Funeral. Every Waits Song on 'Mule Variations' is 'is' is Good, and that's probably my favouritis. Was Too Young.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfrqclcm8pu
The Hives' New Album 'The Hives Forever Forever The Hives' Is two out August 29 via pias
