Desire Avenue

Hello friends,

I'm going on holiday to Norway with a couple of friends this summer. To shorten the ride to Norway we decided to compile an album with songs you either like or dislike. My friends are fairly familiar with my taste in music (I plug Stina all the time), so I decided to do it differently.

I would like to ask your suggestions for a couple of songs. I would like to find a bit weird but very catchy songs. The only thing what's important that it shouldn't be much longer than 4 minutes.

I hope that I'll get some nice ideas from you!

Paul

Two Summer songs by Kings of Convenience: Summer on the Westhills and Gold in the Air of Summer.
Jens Lekman: The Opposite of Hallelujah.
Emiliana Torrini: Summerbreeze.

Weird but catchy?
Anja Garbarek-Last trick
Very catchy and mildly weird -and Norwegian!
Norway...envy envy

and anything much by Robert Wyatt might fit the bill.

Definite road-trip songs in my book.

- The Cardigans, My Favourite Game
- Aimee Mann, Goodbye Caroline
- Ryan Adams, Let it Ride

But hey, I think I'm the only one in this forum who's into these artists. Or am I?

The Cardigans and I go way back ;) I still have to get their new one, though. Have you heard it?

Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
Not A Virgin - Poe
Portions For Foxes - Rilo Kiley

Rilo Kiley's a bit poppy, but the lyrics are great and the music is good and Jenny's voices is perfect. I recently fell in love with the band.

Ah, to Norway! that's great, i'm going there myself (like every year )

so some summer tunes that you may like/dislike:

Bertine Zetlitz - Snow on a hot Day (always hear this one on the ferry and norwegian too!)
Deep Dish - Say Hello
Gabriel Rios - Broad Daylight (lots of that when the clouds are not there! )
Tiga - Hot in herrre
De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Watskeburt (dutch rap )

and if you need sightseeing ideas let me know...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will try to download some of the songs. I'm also checking out Coco Rosie.

As for sightseeing spots: thanks for the offer Wirbel, but I've been to scandinavia quite a few times myself. I know exactly what spots I want to see this summer.

hehe, well make sure to make some nice pictures and post them somewhere