#the cardigans

Songs that turn 30 this year

No Diggity - BLACKstreet and Dr. Dre | Don't Speak - No Doubt | Killing Me Softly With His Song - Fugees | Punk Rock Song - Bad Religion | Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton | Quit Playing Games With My Heart - Backstreet Boys | The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson | Lovefool - The Cardigans | It's All Coming Back to Me Now - Céline Dion | Wannabe - Spice Girls

and this is not a case of lust, you see

it's not a matter of you versus me

it's fine the way you want me on your own

but in the end it's always me alone

The Cardigans - My Favourite Game 1998

"My Favourite Game" is an alternative rock song written by Peter Svensson and Nina Persson for Swedish band the Cardigans' fourth studio album, Gran Turismo. The song was released as the album's first single on 14 September 1998 and achieved international success, reaching number one in Greece, number three in Sweden and number 14 in the UK. It also charted within the top 40 in several European countries and New Zealand. It peaked at number 16 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was included in the 1999 video game Gran Turismo 2.

The music video caused much controversy when it was first released. Many European channels, including MTV UK, only played an edited version of the video where all of the car crashes and depictions of reckless driving were removed despite director Jonas Åkerlund's attempts to meet the censorship standards by making five differently edited cuts of the video with varying degrees of violence and blood. The reason MTV UK rejected the video was because of fears that the video could encourage joyriding and cause car accidents amongst teenage drivers, so ending five was most played on MTV UK. A more graphic cut was shown on the Cardigans website on a one-time-only basis four days before the single's release. But in the US the music channels were less restrictive, as many of them either played the completely uncensored version of the video or a slightly censored version with only a few of the car crashes removed. Despite the controversy, the video has appeared on many "Greatest Music Video" lists including ranking at 68 in Slant Magazine's "100 Greatest Music Videos", and ranking 95 in Channel 4's "100 Greatest Pop Videos".

"My Favourite Game" received a total of 78,4% yes votes! Previous The Cardigans polls: #135 "Lovefool".

yes so what everyone needs to have happy petey the cat every now and then.