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Today isn't only pocky day (I sadly forgot to buy any omw home TAT) but as I was reminded by my RSS feed, it was also the first time Loke performed his album by the same name as today's date, 14 years ago. Way back in high school my friend Ren introduced me to his music, and I still have so many of his songs on my hard drive — some saved from a computer completely dying by the grace on an old iPod.
Until recently, several of his songs could only be found online as live recordings (existed a long time ago, since I had them on my iPod, but very hard to find online until the end of last month), so I'm very glad he released more of his discography online. I may not have ADHD but I feel his song about it hard. It's one of my favourites of his. Along with 'Sommarkatt', 'Freaks och original'...
His song 'Hjältekväde' is the only song I've ever played with my dad in the car where he's raised the volume. So I can safely assume he liked that one. It's a song about a troubadour who's getting paid to write a song about a duke; about a battle where he was a total hero (read: battle might be fake entirely) but he's trying to make it a bit different from every other epic (the historical use of epic) so he's singing about how the duke dies in increasingly dumb ways, after which he is corrected on how the duke did in fact not die because of even dumber reasons (a horse falling in love with a moose rather than getting trampled to death by said horse, for one). I've translated some of his lyrics before (one about depression comes to mind), maybe I should translate that one too...
Currently my favourite of his songs is a song called 'Ingen och Jag', a song about homelessness.
His songs are very popular among people who go to anime conventions in Sweden, especially if you've been doing it for a while, as he performed there a few times, years ago, though I unfortunately never got to catch him live - hence the RSS feed, to see if he ever performs not as far away as in Göteborg, where he usually performs.
If you want an entire room to sing along with you in the karaoke room at a Swedish anime convention, pick one of his (Not applicable early in the morning when people are still sleepy though).
Until recently, several of his songs could only be found online as live recordings (existed a long time ago, since I had them on my iPod, but very hard to find online until the end of last month), so I'm very glad he released more of his discography online. I may not have ADHD but I feel his song about it hard. It's one of my favourites of his. Along with 'Sommarkatt', 'Freaks och original'...
His song 'Hjältekväde' is the only song I've ever played with my dad in the car where he's raised the volume. So I can safely assume he liked that one. It's a song about a troubadour who's getting paid to write a song about a duke; about a battle where he was a total hero (read: battle might be fake entirely) but he's trying to make it a bit different from every other epic (the historical use of epic) so he's singing about how the duke dies in increasingly dumb ways, after which he is corrected on how the duke did in fact not die because of even dumber reasons (a horse falling in love with a moose rather than getting trampled to death by said horse, for one). I've translated some of his lyrics before (one about depression comes to mind), maybe I should translate that one too...
Currently my favourite of his songs is a song called 'Ingen och Jag', a song about homelessness.
His songs are very popular among people who go to anime conventions in Sweden, especially if you've been doing it for a while, as he performed there a few times, years ago, though I unfortunately never got to catch him live - hence the RSS feed, to see if he ever performs not as far away as in Göteborg, where he usually performs.
If you want an entire room to sing along with you in the karaoke room at a Swedish anime convention, pick one of his (Not applicable early in the morning when people are still sleepy though).
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