Your own Freewheel

Despite being a bona fide pop classic, the video for Starfriend by Freewheel has only been viewed a paltry 752 times on YouTube since December 2009. That's barely twice a day. Pitiful. Meanwhile the presumably autobiographical Baby by Justin Bieber has been viewed in excess of four hundred and fifty six million times, despite the fact that he's only about seven, probably. Anyway, a ridiculous state of affairs, I'm sure you'll agree.

So what do you say, let's redress the balance a bit, shall we? Simply by clicking on the video below you'll be ensuring that the difference between the number of times these respective videos of Freewheel & Bieber have been viewed, will have been reduced by one; and if just four hundred and fifty six million, eight hundred and fifty three hundred thousand, seven hundred and sixty five of us do the same, we can make that disparity a thing of the past! (Except for the fact that another three hundred million or so people will doubtless have watched the Bieber vid by that time. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.)



Freewheel - Starfriend mp3

That's Snowbiz

Oh goody, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names have recorded a live version of 1999 for PSL - in the snow! (Scroll down to last week's SKWBN post for the original, #4 EP version as an mp3.)



Oh, and I'll never get a better chance to give this lost classic another run out:

Freewheel - Sweet Swedish Winter mp3

And we can't possibly give that song an encore without doing the same for this one - i.e. arguably the best Swedish pop track I've ever featured here:

Freewheel - Starfriend mp3

Click on the label below for a bit more about Freewheel.

Everyone is gorgeous and so are you

More Swedes on the menu today. A couple of the finest songs of the past decade or so, these, for me. First off, there's Starfriend by Freewheel, which is quite possibly the best song you've never heard; three minutes and forty seven seconds of pure pop perfection (honestly!). Mere words can't do justice to its sheer wondrousness, so I won't even try. Just suck it and see. The fact that the song - which is now 10 years old - never became a worldwide smash is, and shall remain, a complete mystery to me. Was it even a hit in Sweden? If not, then there really is no justice. Pah!

Secondly, it's fellow Swedes Ray Wonder with We Got To Be Good To Each Other, a supreme, life-affirming blast of indie powerpop,
which fans of The Wannadies and Eggstone might well appreciate. I've only heard one album of RW's - A New Kind of Love - but I must say I do like the cut of their jib. (What strange phrases the English language often throws up - not literally, that would be hideous. Aha! etc)

Anyway, as with so many other bands you'll find on this blog, both Freewheel and Ray Wonder are sadly no longer together. Yet still Robbie Williams sells millions of records. The God of pop's a funny bugger, and no mistake.

Freewheel - Starfriend.mp3

Ray Wonder - We Got To Be Good To Each Other.mp3

Buy Freewheel stuff here

Buy Ray Wonder stuff here