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| Mar.05 Cover - The Soundtrack of Our Lives |
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| Written by Jeff Clark | |
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Page 1 of 4  The Days of the Years ofThe Soundtrack of Our Lives At some point, in between sips of lager at an Edinburgh, Scotland pub prior to a show one recent February night, Ebbot Lundberg realized his band's tenth anniversary was imminent. The point came when I asked him, over the phone, if they had anything special planned to mark the occasion, specifically March 3rd, the ten-year mile-marker of the debut gig from The Soundtrack of Our Lives. "I have to tell the other guys!" he blurts excitedly. "We need to try to find out what we're gonna do. I'm not quite sure if we're doing a gig that day. We probably are." I suggest to him that, at whatever European location they're performing at that evening, they play the exact same setlist from their debut gig, but he seems nonplussed by the notion. "As far as I can remember, I think we had five songs at the time, and then we did Union Carbide stuff," the singer says, referring to the pre-Soundtrack band which included many of the founding members of TSOOL. "I remember we started the whole concert with ‘April Come She Will,'" he chuckles, referring to the Simon & Garfunkel chestnut. "It was pretty cool! That's the only cover we ever did, actually." The band's relatively lengthy history may come as a surprise to many of their American fans, who only discovered the Swedish ensemble upon the Stateside release of their third album, Behind the Music, in 2002. It was their first album to receive distribution on this side of the Atlantic, and upon its pickup by Republic/Universal Records, rewarded them with a US tour opening for Oasis, where (at their Atlanta debut at the Tabernacle, at least) many fans unfamiliar with the upstart Swedes came away feeling like they blew the Gallagher brothers off the stage. "Yeah, well, that's what Oasis told us as well," Lundberg laughs. "Which was very humble. We were kind of surprised. They were not interested in what they were doing, they were just interested in Soundtrack of Our Lives, and they were doing our promotion. It was kind of funny." The momentum to follow up such a breakthrough resulted in a lengthy recording session that generated close to fifty songs, Lundberg claims. Tentatively planned as a double album, the band eventually chose to release material from the Origin sessions in two installments. The rockin', anthemic 14-song Origin Vol. 1 hits our shores March 15th (it's been available in Europe since October), and Lundberg insists that a "more lysergic, mellower" second volume is to follow at some point. "It will be a little bit more flipped out, I think, hopefully," he predicts. "If I get my will though! We'll see. We'll have to discuss this!" |
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