Hit-makers gone wild

November 28, 2003 4:00 PM

Why Isn't Ted Gärdestad's Beautiful Music More Well Known? Everyone has a favourite musician who, for some reason, remains unknown and unfairly overlooked. At least for some swedes it might be this musical giant who worked alongside with the well known Benny & Björn of ABBA fame. warning: first link a 2.7 meg mp3
posted by lazy-ville (8 comments total)

that's hysterical! and begging to be remixed : >
posted by amberglow at 4:04 PM on November 28, 2003

Genius.

[Via Quonsar?]
posted by kickingtheground at 4:14 PM on November 28, 2003

[quonsar is just providing bandwidth for the .mp3]
posted by quonsar at 4:22 PM on November 28, 2003

Eat your heart out, Ketchup Song.
posted by waxpancake at 4:53 PM on November 28, 2003

Hahaha haahaha hah ha... it's.. funny... because it's like... Miguel's post... and..

I got nothing.
posted by The God Complex at 9:32 PM on November 28, 2003

Haha. You got me! Good one. And my mouth was open!
posted by HTuttle at 10:26 PM on November 28, 2003

Ted's dead, baby, Ted's dead.

You shouldn't mock the afflicted, so I'm not going to.

Whiny Abba fans and poor web design, colour me unsuprised.
posted by asok at 10:40 AM on November 29, 2003

I loved this song. It sounded like military cadence (which you can actually buy CDs of to run or exercise to). Not to mention Mark Johnson's famous, "King of Love." As soon as I heard "Hubba-Hubba-Zoot-Zoot" on the posted link, I was ready to run out and get every single Ted Gardestad CD on the market, and make him my favorite star. Then I read that he had killed himself. That always creeps me out. Nick Drake. Elliot Smith. Larry Williams. The Badfinger boys. Love 'em. but I can't give myself over to them wholeheartedly. There's always that suicide thing...
posted by Faze at 5:13 PM on November 29, 2003