Number of tracks: 11
Duration: 42:53
Best song: Absolutely No Decorum
It seems pointless (!) to keep on trying to figure out what went wrong for Swedish band The Ark in the Eurovision Song Contest. Maybe it suffices to simply say that Ola Salo and Co. could not deliver what Europe wanted this time around.
When listening to The Ark´s recently released album it becomes more than evident that the band has no reason to feel depressed by the “Eurovision failure”. As always The Ark delivers a briliant mixture of catchy easy-to-so-sing-along-to rock songs and lyrics that make you rethink a lot of things that you have always taken for granted. Title track Prayer For The Weekend and the first hit from the album, Absolutely No Decorum, both show The Ark from the band´s very best side.
And however much I appreciate this year´s Swedish Eurovision entry I cannot help getting the feeling that The Worrying Kind does not really fit the rest of the songs on the album. The rest of the new material seems more genuine and somehow more honest. Just to illustrate what I mean: The Worrying Kind is currently used in a commercial for men´s clothes and in fact it is quite suitable for that purpose. Something which none of the other songs would have been.
Prayer For The Weekend may not be The Ark´s best album but it is undoubtedly the most easily accessible musically and by far the one with the greatest hit potential. Eurovision may not have been ready for The Ark, but I think that Europe is.
Grade (0-5):
Prayer For The Weekend can be bought at CDON.
The Ark´s website can be found here.
5 responses so far ↓
Catherine // Monday, 16 July, 2007 at Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:48:24 +0000
I think The Ark should have won Eurovision this year – I definitely put my money on them! Was gutted when they didn’t win. Am hoping the guys come to the UK soon as I really want to go to one of their gigs!
Peter Tai Christensen // Tuesday, 17 July, 2007 at Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:29:18 +0000
Thanks Catherine for your comment! I hope that you will be able to see The Ark live sometime soon!
Jansku (Finnish) // Monday, 27 August, 2007 at Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:16:40 +0000
I love The Ark and Ola Salo so muth!!!<3333 <33 <33 This is best band forever!! <33 The Ark<33333 Ola Salo <33333333 The Worrying Kind is best song for Eurovision song contrest!!<33 Bye Bye!!
ronja larsson // Monday, 10 September, 2007 at Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:25:13 +0000
jag är 9 år och älskar er THEARK!!!!!!!! Ni är än del av mitt hjerta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Lisa // Wednesday, 19 September, 2007 at Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:44:35 +0000
I Love the ark, and I’m lucky that I’m live in Sweden so I can go to there’s concerts often.