Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg is the debut album by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 musician Håkan Hellström

Håkan Hellström

Håkan Hellström is a Swedish musician. He got his Swedish breakthrough in the year 2000 with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg"...

. It was released on 16 October 2000. Until today the album has sold over 80,000 copies , which equals a platinum certification

Music recording sales certification

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 in Sweden.

Music and lyrics

Musically, the album was described as a Swedish version of Born To Run-era Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...

, with upbeat songs, ringy guitars, trumpet leads and vocal harmonies. Lyrically Hellström drew inspiration from his musical and lyrical heroes such as Morrissey

Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...

 and Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, and the topics were often sad or melancholic reflections of unhappy love, decadent youth culture (including drugs) or the feeling of being an outsider. For example, the song Atombomb (Nuclear bomb) contains references to Morrissey's Everyday Is Like Sunday while Uppsnärjd I Det Blå refers to Dylan's Tangled Up In Blue and the more obscure I Think We're Alone Now by Tommy James & the Shondells

Tommy James & the Shondells

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Track listing

All songs written by H. Hellström except when otherwise stated

1. "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg", Don't Feel Bad For Me, Gothenburg
2. "En vän med en bil", A Friend with a Car
3. "Ramlar", Falling
4. "Nu kan du få mig så lätt", Now You Can Get Me So Easily
5. "Vi två, 17 år", You and Me, Seventeen
6. "Uppsnärjd i det blå", Tangled Up In Blue (Hellström/Daniel Gilbert/Neckvall/Räisänen
   Timo Räisänen
   Timo Räisänen is a Anglo-Indian Swede Indie pop musician, born in Gothenburg on 25 July 1979. He was previously part of Håkan Hellström's band, and has played in the band Her Majesty. In 2004 he started his own career....
   
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7. "Jag var bara inte gjord för dessa dar", I Just Wasn't Made For These Days
8. "Magiskt, men tragiskt", Magical, But Tragical (Hellström/Källman)
9. "Atombomb", Nuclear Bomb
10. "Dom dimmiga dagarna", The Foggy Days (Hellström/Theodor Jensen, Swedish version of "Foggy days", later released by The Plan
    The Plan (band)
    The Plan is a Swedish band created by Broder Daniel-bass player and guitarist Theodor Jensen.Originally the band consisted of four members but after by the time for their second record two of the members had left. For their third record it was only Jensen left...
    
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Singles

The first four tracks were also issued as singles. "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" was Hellström's first single, issued on 8 May 2000. Its B side was "Vi två, 17 år". "Ramlar" was released on week before the album with the demo version of "Ge mig arsenik" as B side.

"En vän med en bil" was released on 19 February 2001 as it was on the sound track of the Swedish movie Festival. The B side, "Här kommer lyckan för hundar som oss", returned on the second album, Det är så jag säger det

Det är så jag säger det

Det är så jag säger det, released on 28 October 2002, is the Swedish pop artist Håkan Hellström's second album. In English, the title would be: "That is how I say it."...

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The last single from this album was "Nu kan du få mig så lätt", released on 18 June 2001. "Jag var bara inte gjord för dessa dar" was the B side.