''Vive La Différence!'' is the third album by Swedish

indie pop Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with a DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and s ...

band

Eggstone Eggstone is a Swedish indie pop band, formed in 1986. They have been called the "godfathers of Swedish pop." History The three members of Eggstone -- Per Sunding (vocals, bass), Patrik Bartosch (guitar) and Maurits Carlsson (drums) -- were raise ...

, released in Sweden and Japan in January 1997. It was the first and only full-length release by the band on their own record label Vibrafon. The album was preceded by the single "Never Been a Better Day", as well as the sheet music for the entire album, in December 1996. ''Vive La Différence!'', along with the two previous Eggstone albums, ''Eggstone in San Diego'' and ''Somersault'', were re-issued on vinyl in 1997 by Vibrafon Records.

Track listing

* All songs written by

. # "Head Around" – 5:11 # "Supermeaningfectlyless" – 3:20 # "Birds in Cages" – 4:48 # "Never Been a Better Day" – 4:40 # "Taramasalata" – 4:32 # "Il Trascurato" – 4:17 # "April and May" – 3:30 # "Marabous" – 4:26 # "Still All Stands Still" – 3:00 # "Neil" – 4:29

Personnel

*Patrik Bartosch –

Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

Backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

, Keyboards,

Vibraphone The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...

*Maurits Carlsson –

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, Backing vocals *Per Sunding –

Lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

Bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

* Åsa Håkansson –

Violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

on "Birds in Cages" and "Taramasalata" * Anna Bergström – Violin on "Birds in Cages" * Gabriele Freese – Violin on '"Birds in Cages" * Stefan Pöntinen – Violin on "Birds in Cages" * Ronny Weber – Violin on "Birds in Cages" * Sofi Sykfont –

Flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

on "Birds in Cages" * Johan Fransén –

Clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

on "Birds in Cages" * Gabriel Litsgård –

Bassoon The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuosity ...

on "Birds in Cages" * Ing-Marie Aronsson-Litsgård –

Cor anglais The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn (mainly North America), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially ...

on "Birds in Cages" * Susanne Holmström – Violin on "Taramasalata" * Inga Zeppezauer – Violin on "Taramasalata" * James SK Wān – Bamboo Flute on "Taramasalata" * Anna Sundborg – Violin on "Taramasalata" * Petter Lindgård –

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

on "Taramasalata", "Still All Stands Still" and "Neil" * Jens Lindgård –

Trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

on "Taramasalata" and "Neil" * Peter Dahl – Trombone on "Still All Stands Still"

External links

Eggstone web site
Eggstone albums 1997 albums {{1990s-alt-rock-album-stub