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Peter Bjorn and John are a Swedish indie rock band, formed in Stockholm in 1999. The current members are Peter Morén on vocals, guitar, and harmonica; Björn Yttling on vocals, bass and keyboards; and John Eriksson on drums, percussion, and vocals.
To date they are best known for the 2006 single "Young Folks", which featured Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes and was a top 40 hit in the UK Singles Chart. It was also named
NME's second best track of 2006, beaten only by "Over and Over" by Hot Chip. In Australia it was voted number 16 in the annual Triple J Hottest 100 for 2006.
"
Young Folks" is the first single off of Peter Bjorn and John's third album
Writer's Block. It features
Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes as a guest vocalist. It was ranked at #5 on Pitchfork Media's list of the top 100 songs of 2006 after they gave it a track review of three out of five stars on July 19, 2006. The song has gained much of it's popularity from YouTube after the music video was featured on the website.
- "Young Folks" was featured in the Grey's Anatomy episode "Let the Angels Commit".
- "Young Folks" was also featured in the How I Met Your Mother episode "Monday Night Football", which aired February 5, 2007.
- "Young Folks" was used in MTV Australia's Christmas Throwie campaign, which consisted of throwing 2000 glowing LEDs to light up Sydney buildings.
- Peter Bjorn and John are currently touring to promote the album Writer's Block and they will be accompanied by Victoria Bergsman. Bergsman will be a solo opening act, and join the band for "Young Folks".
Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John (Feat. Victoria Bergsman)
Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John
(Feat. Victoria Bergsman)
if i told you things i did before
told you how i used to be
would you go along with someone like me
if you knew my story word for word
had all of my history
would you go along with someone like me
i did before and had my share
it didn't lead nowhere
i would go along with someone like you
it doesn't matter what you do
who you were hanging with
we could stick around and see this night through
and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about our own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care about is talking
talking only me and you
usually when things has gone this far
people tend to disappear
no one would surprise me unless you do
i can tell there's something goin' on
hours seem to disappear
everyone is leaving i'm still with you
it doesn't matter what we do
where we are going to
we can stick around and see this night through
and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about our own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care about is talking
talking only me and you
and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about our own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care about is talking
talking only me and you
(repeat)
talking only me and you
talking only me and you
talking only me and you
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