SPECIAL ALL SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC EPISODE PART 1! 1 The LK (Malmo, Sweden) "Private Life of a Cat" vs. The Snow (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar: Shout Out Louds 2 3 El Perro Del Mar (Gothenburg, Sweden) "Jubilee" and "You Can't Steal a Gift" From the Valley to the Stars (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar: Frida Hyvönen, Taken by Trees 4 Gro Anita Schønn (Oslo, Norway) "Oslo" Takk for Glitter Og Stas (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar: Flowers (Icelandic) 5 Sigur Ros (Reykjavik, Iceland) "Gobbledigook" Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (iTunes, Amazon MP3) similar: Múm 6 I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper (Helsinki, Finland) "So 2001" The Lemonade Ocean (buy online) similar: Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band 7 Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band (Copenhagen, Denmark) "Garbage Structure" X-Ray Spirit (Amazon MP3) similar: I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper 8 Edson (Stockholm, Sweden) "148020" Every Day, Every Second (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar: Pelle Carlberg 9 10 Strip Squad (Malmo, Sweden) "You Cream My Pants" and "Unreliable Narrator" The Adventures of Strip Squad (buy online) like a cross between: Stereo Total and The Moldy Peaches 11 12 Irene (Göteborg, Sweden) "Seaside" and "Back to Back" Long Gone Since Last Summer (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3) similar: Pelle Carlberg 13 salut!machaut (Malmo, Sweden) "The Fastest Boy in School" Myspace (download from their Myspace page) kinda similar: I'm from Barcelona 14 The Lovekevins (now The LK) (Malmo, Sweden) "Max Léon" Max Léon EP (iTunes) similar: Shout Out Louds ALSO ON THIS SHOW This episode features clips from Air America Radio's The Rachel Maddow Show (7/31/08) where she brilliantly explains the slight of hand use by the Republican Party to conflate "America" with "American-in-Name-Only-Oil-Companies-with-Banks-in-Cayman-Islands" to justify their policy positions on domestic and foreign matters. Less