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"Called Out In The Dark" - Snow Patrol. Back in 1997 I blamed this band for their role in 'dreary-pop' thanks to the drea...

"Love Love" - Take That. The all-conquering legends continued to prove they're still a force to be reckoned with, although if ...

"Love In Rewind" - Dino Merlin. We're at the halfway point of the chart already - doesn't time fly! The Bosnian music leg...

"Rope" - Foo Fighters. At a time when guitar bands/rock bands appear to have become extinct in the eyes of TV and radio, it’s nic...

"Don't Know Why" - Soundgirl. The summer hit which inexplicably never was. This is just a great pop record which joyfully plun...

"Kärlekens Tunga" - September. She was the breakthrough artist from last year's "Så mycket bättre" of course, and ...

"Breaking Up With God" - The Ark. This year we said goodbye to one of Sweden's greatest bands of the last few years - no, mak...

The remaining artists appearing in next year's Melodifestivalen were announced this morning. Here is the line-up for semi finals 3 and 4...

"Fest Hos Mange" - Mange Makers. In a year characterised by bad music, some may think this is among the worst. You probably wonde...

"Lifeline" - Jamiroquai. Ideally I'd have had the title track of "Rock Dust Light Star" as it was one of my most pla...

"Hollywood Hills" - Sunrise Avenue. Good to see this Finnish band are still around. Although I didn't really like the song to ...

It's been a while since I listened to this multinational trio whom I loved in the 1990s, and I decided it was time to rediscover them al...

"Paradise" - Coldplay. You'd think that I'd be very familiar with the long-awaited and recently released Coldplay album f...

"Something In Your Eyes" - Jenny Silver. Or as I like to call it, "the great lost Abba song". It took me a long time to...

"Angel In Disguise" - Musiqq. Contemporary (in a pleasant sense of the word) Latvian Eurovision entry which I liked from the firs...

"Taken By A Stranger" - Lena. Ms Meyer-Landrut returned to the Eurovision stage to represent Germany for the second consecutive y...

"Warrant" - Foster The People. In a year where exciting new musical discoveries were extremely rare, and bands seemed to become an...

"Good Enough" - Father McKenzie. They're a Finnish-Swedish band who caught my attention earlier this year when they supported ...

This morning SVT revealed the names of the acts who will be singing the songs in the first two MF semi-finals. Semi-final 1 - Växjö 04.02.20...

"Depend On Me" - Babel Fish. Yes it was slushy and over-sentimental, but this father-to-son lullaby surprisingly thawed my hard he...

"No One Else Could" - Sebastian. It was one of my most long-awaited moments of the year: the return of Sebastian Karlsson to Melo...

"Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO feat.Lauren Bennett & Goon Rock. Yes I know. At this point you're probably thinking that I...

Traktor - Wretch 32. One of the few rap songs I could really be bothered with this year. It's one of those records which I've never ...

"Fade Into Darkness" - Avicii. You will probably recognise the riff here. Yes, this is the original vocal version of the song whic...

"What You Want" - Evanescence. A rockin' comeback which immediately grabbed me from first listen, but predictably missed out o...

"Wall of Sound" - Bressie. First (but not last) appearance in my chart for one of this year's brightest new solo artists. Of ...

"Not A Love Song" - Wonderland. On paper, this girl band formed by Westlife's Kian Egan and Louis "you made that song you...

Jag Kommer - Veronica Maggio. Veronica made her long-awaited comeback this year to both critical and popular acclaim. This catchy pop song w...

"Feel So Close" - Calvin Harris. Did someone mention Calvin Harris???? 'Disappointment' was one of the most appropriate wo...

"Changed The Way You Kiss Me" - Example. Apologies to the man here, but I'd always viewed Elliot Gleave - a.k.a Example - as a...

"Yeah Right" - Dionne Bromfield. 15 year old Londoner Dionne Bromfield is probably best known for being the god-daughter of the la...

Firstly, this is my 2000th post on EuropeCrazy, so it's highly appropriate that it should be devoted to introducing what has become an a...

Today Serbia and Belgium announced the names of the singers who will represent their countries at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Due to f...

The annual Swedish Music Publishers awards took place on Friday 11th November at Berns in Stockholm, honouring the country's most succes...

Today brought the exciting announcement of the song titles and songwriters for Melodifestivalen 2012. This is the guesswork stage, where we ...

The backlog of blog posts are all written and posted, and my work here is done. Yes, I'm going to take another blog-break until mid-Nov...

...yes it's that time again to start reading the Swedish tabloids and guessing how many of the rumours are true. Today Aftonbladet poste...

Regular readers of this blog will be aware of how much I loved "Sounds of Europe" which was a weekly radio show on student radio s...

I previously blogged about London-based Irish singer Bressie (Niall Breslin) back in September, http://europecrazy.blogspot.com/2011/09/int...

If the rumours are to be believed, this could be the last series of "HARRY HILL'S TV BURP" (ITV1, Saturday). I suppose all goo...

On the second day of our holiday, poor faithful travelling companion was floored by a very nasty stomach bug which made him very ill, he cou...

We are only 7 days away from the launch of the 2nd series of one of the most exciting reality TV formats ever! http://www.tv4.se/1.2137245/2...

Lots of good intentions to get up very early failed to materialise. (Oh, and talking of 'good intentions': my plan for today was to ...

Courtesy of Aftonbladet, here's what the contestants will be singing this week...you'll have guessed that the theme is Swedish-langu...

Lots of thoughts going round in my head today which I thought I'd pull together into some kind of blog post. Been thinking about my annu...

One of my favourite blogs is Scandipop . Now the blog is about to become a TV show from tomorrow. Dance Nation TV (channel 376 on Sky) will ...

Three years on from a chilly November weekend, we returned to the Irish capital for a brief late summer break. It may be a long way from the...

In the "old days" when I had much more time to blog than I do now (although I really don't know why I don't have as much ...

In keeping with the Irish theme which has dominated recent weeks, I thought it would be very fitting to feature the ultimate Irish music/dan...

On 22nd September, Tomas Ledin began his 55-night residency at Rondo in Liseberg, Gothenburg. The 1 hour 50 minute show mixes live performan...