Ferdan said on July 10, 2003 02:15:

Heartland cafe is in english (and not the best Gyllene Tider album at all)

He writes better lyrics in swedish...
and it seems he wanted a personal album, so it had to be in swedish, his natural language.

tevensso (moderator) said on July 10, 2003 07:14:

Hey! Lots of info on GT in English for you here: http://www.evensson.com/gyllenetider/ There’s also a section about Modern Times, one of GT’s disguises.

Rich-UK said on July 10, 2003 09:47:

Also there are “I go to pieces” and “Threnody”, both in English, as extra tracks on the “Puls” album.
I bought the Gyllene Tider CDs many years ago for the English tracks but the Swedish music was much better, with a couple of exceptions including the track Heartland Cafe, which is awesome.
On the whole I definitely think that the English tracks lack the passion and imagination of the earlier and later Swedish music.
Best wishes, Rich-UK

ditroia said on July 10, 2003 10:25:

Heartland Cafe Is a Must have for any roxette fan as it is a Precursor to Roxette, you have Per Singing and Marie Doing vocals. Plus you have the Fantastic songs [My Favs in no order]:

Run Run Run

Break Another Heart

Dreaming

Demon Emptiness

Even if it Hurts It’s Allright

Can I touch you

Heartand Cafe [Would Have been better as an Acoustic song like the intro]

Kiss From a Stranger [Should Have been on the album]

Anytime Demo

Cheers

Dave

P.S. GT where going to create another band before HC called Modern Times and sing in english.

Roxoholic said on July 10, 2003 10:53:

I think that the Heartland Café album is great, but I actually think of it more as a Roxette album then a Gyllene Tider album, but it´s great none the less.
Best track are Break Another Heart & Heartland Café.

Santi said on July 10, 2003 11:09:

Ditroia: It’s “Can you touch me?”, not the other way :D
It’s actually the only song from that record I play :s

PerFanatic said on July 11, 2003 21:30:

Well, when I first purched GT’s box set many years ago, I found Heartland Cafe to be the best CD of the 5 and played it a lot more frequently than the others. Sure, there were great songs on the others, but for some reason they just didn’t klick with me as much as HC. I think part of the reason was that it seemed as if the sound quality was kind of low... I’m not sure why, maybe something to do with when they were recorded.

BUT... when they started to release their newer stuff (like Ga & Fiska, Juni Juli Augusti, Det ar over nu, kung av sand), I totally got into the true GT (their Swedish stuff). Actually, Atartaget is probably 1 of my top 5 CD’s of all time... so much energy captured on that CD, it pretty amazing!

I would say that all of GT’s CDs are a must have for true Roxette fans, but if you have to start with a few, I would go with Atartaget & Heartland Cafe. That way you’ll get their best Swedish stuff live plus their English stuff that is closest to the Roxette sound!

LoneGunman said on July 12, 2003 20:16:

Hej

@ PerFanatic - First of all, cool nick name ! :) Second of all... don’t forget about “Konstpaus”, it’s a compilation, but it really ROCKS... It’s my fave Gyllene Tider album.

All the best
LoneGunman

AntiMario said on July 13, 2003 18:53:

I think it’s not demo of Anytime on HC CD. Tev, correct me if I’m wrong ;)

mariok said on July 13, 2003 20:34:

I’m glad that Per did this album in Swedish. OK - I don’t understand the lyrics - but it is great. I was in Lulea (Norrbotten, Northern Sweden) a week ago. When I was at McDonalds they were playing HKAK in background. Suddenly all the Swedes around me started singing or at least moving with the rythm. (at McDonalds!) With an English album he couldn’t have that crazy effect on Swedish people I guess... (Of course I bought a copy of Mazarin and HKAK! Yeah - and it’s No1 now)

ditroia said on July 14, 2003 04:00:

Yes but it should have been marie singing with per.

Dave