I'm looking for some Swedish artists to listen to as I'm learning the language. I'll listen to pretty much any genre but anything rock [esp hard rock, alternative rock, punk/grunge, that kinda vibes] is ideal.

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I am obsessed with this beautiful stunning scene from Roy Anderson's "pigeon sat on a branch...". So much so that I would be eternally grateful if someone transcribes the lyrics of the song sung, in the original Swedish. I can only find the lyrics in English, but want to memorize the original.

https://youtu.be/jX87rVZ0Vag?si=CS9HPIxg5aJieP19

Jag har satt ihop en spellista som jag har döpt till Svenskt Vemod. Tanken är att samla den där speciella, lite melankoliska men vackra stämningen som bara svensk musik kan få till.

Just nu har jag med artister som Kent, Lars Winnerbäck, Håkan Hellström och Victor Leksell, blandat med lite mindre och större guldkorn. Perfekt musik nu när mörkret börjar smyga sig på.

Länk till listan: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4R8ukiF6n1c8TqZMKLvlac?si=559ddUQNQ_KZeBFGslfRIg&utm_source=copy-link&pi=aQRrAEFqSUqV1

Jag vill gärna bygga ut den ännu mer! Vilka är era absoluta favoritlåtar när det kommer till svenskt vemod, melankoli med bra svenska texter? Tar tacksamt emot alla tips!

Hej hej! Jag och mitt band har precis släppt en singel från vår kommande debutskiva! Om ni gillar svensk musik åt rock/pop-hållet, och om ni vill höra ett färskt ljud, tycker jag ni skulle kunna ge oss några få minuter av eran tid. Hade verkligen uppskattats.

Tack på förhand! Hade uppskattat att få höra lite åsikter massvis!

It was in a 7” single vinyl made by MCA Records and is not on Discogs

Hot take: Gluee is Bladee’s best album and Unknown Death 2002 is Yung Lean’s best album.

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I'm a fan of the Martin Beck books. One of the things that hooked me on the series early on was there was an American detective from Nebraska who played a key role. He was named "Elmer B. Kafka." This is a glorious name, but I was born and raised in Nebraska and that is a very unlikely name for a Nebraskan. I've often wondered how Sjöwall and Wahlöö came up with it. I have two theories. The first theory is that they researched as much as was easily possible from Sweden in the 1960s and picked "Elmer" because it was a very common boys name in America forty years prior to their writing and picked "Kafka" because they learned that there are many Czech emigrants in Nebraska. My other theory is that "Nebraska" was just their way of saying "some place past the edge of the earth" and they didn't think it was detail that was important to their readers, not knowing they would be translated into English.

Hi there! I’ve been studying Swedish for around six months now, and I noticed that I really suck at the listening part. I want to add more Swedish to my everyday life.

Do you have any recommendations for Swedish video games? I want them to have original Swedish VO for authentic experience.

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Jag läste en bok på svenska, min första i mitt hela livet, tror jag eftersom vi inte läste hela böcker i skolan (1970-talet, Finland). Den var Åsa Liabäcks "Tills sommaren kommer." Enkelt svenska med smalt ordval. Kan r/swedish rekommendera något litet tungare (r/svenska bottade posten)? Mikael Niemi är för hårt, det vet jag. Jag läser mycket på engelska, författare som Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, John Irving osv. och deckare också. Finska litteratur naturligtvis men jag är inte van med numera svenska författare.

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Swedish language epic science fiction poem first edition hardcover from 1956. Picked it up today. No idea it even existed and a movie too!

Okay so i found a meme on TikTok that seems to be a parody of the Hi-Ho song from Snow White, except with kebab store workers singing abt the kebabs. I’m an American, never been to Sweden, and I don’t speak Swedish at all, and i don’t even know for sure if this is Swedish, i’m just guessing since the creator has the location to “Stockholm”. Can anyone provide lyrics to this ? I will say, for people of Middle Eastern ethnicities, this might be a hard one, cause they all have like super exaggerated features and i feel like i shouldn’t like the meme as much as i do. But enough rambling, here’s the video
https://youtu.be/pqBfc_zwic0?si=x851PyQN-TWVsU7y

Is there a traditional Swedish singer or band in a similar vein to franzl lang? I’m specifically looking for a traditional band or artist that sings and makes folk music as a rule rather than just an ancient single from a band who never recorded anything else or whose records have been lost to time or a band or singer who did one album or song in a traditional style and everything else is pop. Any recommendations for a good artist or band that fits?