In my euro investigations and wandering on music networks I came across this track from a good friend which convinces me that Sweden is the Japan of Europe. New Wave in a Blondie/Devo/Kraftwerk/Björk kind of way and probably some other stuff that I can't reference at the moment. Throw in some 8bit electronic sounds ala Commodore 64 and you get this nice weirdswede pop gem. I think Travis may hate this.. but I never know.. he likes weird stuff.
isn't this a jose gonzalez song?
Posted by: jason | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at 05:29 PM
the jose gonzalez is a cover of this one.
Posted by: kyle | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at 07:42 PM
this is wack gonzales version is atleast listenable
Posted by: rick | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at 11:07 PM
gonzalez is actually whos makint it a cover. the knife wrote heartbeats.
/the swede
Posted by: Kristoffer | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 01:40 PM
yeah.. Jose covered this song.. this came first.
Posted by: shelbot | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 04:58 PM
If you like this(and especially if you like the Jose Gonzales version), you should check out Honey is Cool. Same singer, more folky.
Posted by: robbo | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 07:29 PM
dude, the first time i heard Heartbeats i probably listened to it 47 times. thank you for posting this.
i have more info on the jose gonzales version vs. the knife version here - as well as a link to the video that features' jose's version:
http://celestronica.blogspot.com/2005/12/knifes-heartbeats.html
Posted by: celestronica | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 11:41 PM