When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
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When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog is the 2004 debut album by Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman
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Service Records release
Secretly Canadian release
Jens Lekman
Jens Martin Lekman is a Swedish musician. His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, with lyrics that are often witty, romantic, and melancholic. The English lyrics reflect an advanced knowledge of the language and its idioms...
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Track listing
All songs were written by Jens Lekman.Service Records release
- "Tram #7 to Heaven"
- "Do You Remember the Riots?"
- "You Are the Light (By Which I Travel into This and That)"
- "If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing at Your Wedding)"
- "Maple Leaves"
- "Silvia"
- "The Cold Swedish Winter"
- "Julie"
- "Happy Birthday, Dear Friend Lisa"
- "Psychogirl"
- "When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog"
- "A Higher Power"
Secretly Canadian release
- "Tram #7 to Heaven" – 3:05
- "Happy Birthday, Dear Friend Lisa" – 3:31
- "Do You Remember the Riots?" – 2:30
- "You Are the Light (By Which I Travel into This and That)" – 3:23
- "If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing at Your Wedding)" – 3:18
- "Silvia" – 4:56
- "The Cold Swedish Winter" – 3:49
- "Julie" – 2:53
- "Psychogirl" – 5:28
- "When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog" – 4:38
- "A Higher Power" – 3:43
Personnel
- Ulrika Mild – backing vocals
- Lilian Olsson – backing vocals
- Emma Bates – backing vocals
- Mikaela Robsahm – celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Ellen Hjalmarsson – violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Stefan Sporsén – trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
, althornAlto hornThe alto horn is a brass instrument pitched in E... - Ben Swanson – drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Marcus Cato – trumpet
- Björn Almgren – saxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
- Peter Noos Johansson – tromboneTromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
- Lars-Erik Grimelund – drums