straight outta Stockholm: grown men dressed as teddybears

[Jimmyshimmy]

[B]Teddybears STHLM [/B]
[IMG]http://www.digitallife.se/dl/wp-content/uploads/teddybears.jpg[/IMG]
A Swedish band formed in 1991, known for mixing pop, rock, hip-hop, electronica, reggae, punk and many other genres.

They began as Skull, a grindcore group.
"If you're familiar with the Swedish or Norwegian black metal scene, you know back then every band was called things like 'Corpse Grinder From Hell,' Joakim Åhlund says. "So we called ourselves the Teddybears as an 'anti' thing."

Joakim Åhlund about the name and the image of the band.

Teddybears are:
* Patrik Arve – Synthesizers, vocals, vocoder, bass, programming, percussion, keyboards
* Joakim Åhlund – Bass guitar, bass, programming, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals, guitar
* Klas Åhlund – Guitars, bass, programming, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals

Former members

* Erik Olsson – Drums, vibraphone
* Glenn Sundell – Drums
[B]Discography[/B]
Year Album Band name
1993 You Are Teddybears Teddybears STHLM
1996 I Can't Believe It's Teddybears STHLM
2000 Rock 'n' Roll Highschool
2004 Fresh
2006 Soft Machine Teddybears
2010 Devil's Music (TBA)

(shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia)

[B]Some of their more famous work
Hey Boy (feat. Swing-fly)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23C34wt8Qi8&feature=related[/media]

Cobrastyle
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRc_7blSJBM[/media]

Hiphopper (feat Thomas Rusiak)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr-u2cPJhYw&feature=related[/media]

Rock'n'Roll highschool
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRxtEi55sA[/media]
[/B]
One of my favorite bands/groups, just thought i'd make a thread and see if i could spread some Swedish stuff around :sweden:

[jesse194]

guitarist looks like angus young in a teddy bear suit

[Triumph Forks]

Reminds me of this show I went to where the guitarist was wearing a fur jumpsuit thing

[Rad McCool]

Aahhh the good ol' ZTV-days. How I miss thee..

[Cuel]

Going to bump this a little since they're a great band.

Teddybears - Get mama a house
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXp0RM1ZMcg[/media]

Teddybears feat. Eve - Rocket Scientist

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bXroKTtVKc[/media]

saw them live this summer, it was p. awesome

[mikeyt493]

well thats quite a change from grind lol. Pretty cool though.

listening to something for the first album, it's cool stuff. Sounds more like hardcore than grindcore though.

[Jimmyshimmy]

Hey look its my thread!

[MachiniOs]

Cobrastyle remains one of the catchiest songs ever.

[Gyroburner]

I now like this band.

Also I knew I had heard Cobrastyle somewhere, it was in Chuck.

[TheGuru]

Very cool.

[Jimmyshimmy]

Well, the new album Devil's Music is out, so far it sounds great, il try to upload it all to youtube since its not available at the moment.

[B]Get Mama a house[/B]
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXp0RM1ZMcg[/MEDIA]