''Behind the Music'' is the third album by the Swedish
rock band
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
The Soundtrack of Our Lives, often abbreviated T.S.O.O.L., was a Swedish rock band that formed in Gothenburg in 1995 and disbanded in 2012. The band's style draws heavily from sixties and seventies rock and punk, such as Rolling Stones and Igg ...
. It was originally released in Europe in February 2001, and subsequently around the world over the next two years. The album was the band's breakthrough record outside of their native Sweden, and was nominated for the
Best Alternative Album award at the
2003 Grammy Awards
The 45th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 23, 2003 at Madison Square Garden in New York City honoring the best in music for the recording of the year beginning from October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002. Musicians accomplishments ...
. Among their newly found fans was
Noel Gallagher
Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the chief songwriter, lead guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis until their split in 2009. After leaving Oasis, he formed ...
, who proclaimed ''Behind the Music'' to be "the best album to come out in the last six years"
and invited The Soundtrack of Our Lives to join on
Oasis
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The location of oases has been of critical imp ...
's UK and European tour in 2002.
The front cover features alginate masks of the faces of the six band members, cast by Swedish artists Per Svensson and Anna Strid. Svensson and the group's frontman
Ebbot Lundberg had previously collaborated in an experimental sound and art project called 'Audio Laboratory'.
'Audio Laboratory' page on Per Svensson's official website
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Track listing
''Bonus Future Excerpts'' EP
# "We're Gonna Get It Right" – 4:01
# "Can't Control Myself" – 3:18
# "Slow Drift Away" – 2:51
# "Hang Ten" – 4:37
# "We'll Get By" – 1:59
*This special limited edition bonus EP came bundled with the original release, and later appeared with special tour editions of the album in some territories. All five tracks of the EP also appeared on '' A Present from the Past''.
Personnel
* Mattias Bärjed – guitar, backing vocals, slide echoes and "additional instruments that makes us too pretentious to mention"
*Åke Karl Kalle Gustafsson – bass, backing vocals, double bass violin and cembalo
*Martin Hederos
Martin Hederos is a founding member of Nymphet Noodlers and The Soundtrack of Our Lives. He is also a member of the duo Hederos & Hellberg together with Mattias Hellberg, as well as ex-Esbjörn Svensson Trio bassist Dan Berglund's Tonbruket c ...
– piano, Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. ...
, organ, backing vocals and string arrangement
* Ebbot Lundberg – lead vocals, sitar
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, harmonica and dulcimer
The word dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments.
Hammered dulcimers
The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...
*Ian Person – guitar, backing vocals, percussion, Spanish sound effects and space slide
*Fredrik Sandsten – drums, percussion and spiritual guidance
Additional personnel
*Arpad Carlesäter – handclaps on "Independent Luxury"
*Eva-Tea Lundberg – horns
*Martin Wingate, John Löfgren, Märja Tokkola, Sigvard Järrebring and Kajsa Ivars – string quintet
*Salmaan Rasa – tablas on "Can't Control Myself"
References
External links
Official siteOfficial US siteVH1 artist siteMTV artist site
2001 albums
The Soundtrack of Our Lives albums
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