The Tracks Quest –
Documenting the 80s Vinyl Hits From Swedish Radio Show Trackslistan

Tommy Nilsson’s 1988 single “Miss My Love” is an exquisite slice of Swedish AOR that deserves to be pulled out of the crate and heard again. It’s a song that represents a dramatic turning point for the artist, a triumphant return to his home country…

It’s hard to remember a time when “Thriller” wasn’t a Halloween staple. The song and its iconic video feel as permanent a fixture in pop culture as trick-or-treating itself. But what if I told you that the song was never meant to exist, its music…

We, the youth of Scandinavia, were always obsessed with the big, sleek pop sound pouring out of the UK and the US in the 1980s. But something else was creeping in, a certain kind of German melancholy, sung in perfect, if slightly stiff, English. It…