Gran Turismo (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Gran Turismo
Type = Album
Artist = The Cardigans


Released = October 1 1998
Recorded =
Genre = Rock, Alternative rock, Pop, Electronic
Length = 42:36
Label = Stockholm Records
Producer = Tore Johansson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:eq8m961ogep2 link]
*"NME" (6/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/237.htm link]
*Pitchfork (7.0/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16019-gran-turismo link]
*Review-Christgau|hm1|album=3523
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/122815 10/29/1998]
Last album = "First Band on the Moon" (1996)
This album = "Gran Turismo" (1998)
Next album = "Long Gone Before Daylight" (2003)

"Gran Turismo" is the fourth studio album by the Swedish band The Cardigans, released internationally on October 1 1998 and in November 1998 in the U.S..

Track listing

# "Paralyzed" (Nina Persson, Peter Svensson) – 4:54
# "Erase/Rewind" (Persson, Svensson) – 3:35
# "Explode" (Persson, Svensson) – 4:04
# "Starter" (Persson, Svensson) – 3:49
# "Hanging Around" (Persson, Svensson) – 3:40
# "Higher" (Persson, Svensson) – 4:32
# "Marvel Hill" (Persson, Magnus Sveningsson, Svensson) – 4:16
# "My Favourite Game" (Persson, Svensson) – 3:36
# "Do You Believe" (Persson, Svensson) – 3:19
# "Junk of the Hearts" (Persson, Sveningsson, Svensson) – 4:07
# "Nil" (Lars-Olof Johansson) – 2:18

ingles

*My Favourite Game (10 October 1998, #14 UK)
*Erase/Rewind (28 February 1999, #7 UK)
*Hanging Around (17 July 1999, #17 UK)
*Gran Turismo Overdrive EP (The Cardigans remixed by Naid) (19 November 1999, released outside the UK)

Charts, awards and certifications

Album

*Swedish Top 100 Albums: Debuted at #1
*UK Top 200 Albums: #8, spent 92 weeks in the Top 200
*Billboard Top 200 Albums: #151
*Grammis Awards 1998: Album of the Year and Pop/Rock Group of the Year.
*Certified gold in Sweden.
*Certified platinum in the UK.
*Certified sales of more than 3 million copies worldwide.

ingles

*Swedish Top 100 Singles: "My Favourite Game"; #3, "Erase/Rewind"; #12,
*UK Top 75 Singles: "My Favourite Game"; #14, "Erase/Rewind"; #7, "Hanging Around"; #17
*Billboard Modern Rock Tracks: "My Favourite Game"; #16
*Canadian Singles Chart: "My Favourite Game"; #19

Audio sample

Miscellaneous

* The album's name is explained by the band on an advanced copy of this CD's track number 15 Explain The Title Of The Album ' Gran Turismo': "The title can be interpreted in many ways but I think we only thought of a few ones we liked" Nina says, "we talked about having like Italian or French title and Gran Turismo came up and it sort of felt really good and you know I can think of music sometimes as tourism and traveling. So to me Gran Turismo is sort of the way to describe music sometimes or spending time with music" Peter says, "and I think that also the title suits this very album extremely well because the album is pretty much about trying to find your place in the world. I think sometimes you can always compare living to being a tourist in the world" Nina finishes.

* The song "My Favourite Game" opens the racing game Gran Turismo 2. In the European version, the song was a remix.
* The song Erase/Rewind is featured in the end credits of the movie The Thirteenth Floor.
* The song Erase/Rewind is also featured in the Drew Barrymore film Never Been Kissed during a scene at a high school dance.
*The song "My Favourite Game" was used in Chris Haslam's part of , a popular skateboarding film of the team, Almost.
* Also reference in the video game Grand Thefto Auto IV which it is one of the fastest cars

External links

* [http://static.cardigans.com/microsites/gran.turismo Gran Turismo microsite]
* [http://cardigans.marvelhill.vze.com/disco/ The Cardigans' Complete Discography @ Marvelhill] 2/6/2007: Link to discography page on Cardigans web site is down.
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thecardigans/discography The Cardigans' Complete Discography @ Rolling Stone]
* [http://www.ifpi.se/ IFPI Sweden]
* [http://www.polyhex.com/music/chartruns/chartruns.php Polyhex UK chart information]