Singles

This is not the same as the "Singles" CD released
in 2000.


Maybe Broder Daniel's strongest impression on the
public mind is the singer Henrik Berggren's
star-spangled face. But merging the outsider
perspective of the Smiths with a frantic energy and
simple lyrics, few bands had the same influence on
the Swedish indie scene in the mid-'90s.

The band was formed in the late '80s by schoolmates
Henrik Berggren and Daniel Gilbert. But not taking
things too seriously, it took until 1995 to get the
first single, "Cadillac," out. Two months later,
the debut album Saturday Night Engine was released,
and knowing the publicity it would later get, it is
hard to think that it only sold around 5000. Soon
after the release, Gilbert quit the band and was
replaced by Theodore Jensen. When Broder Daniel was
released in 1996, the band had gathered a large
number of fans and a reputation of smashing hotel
rooms and turning up drunk to concerts, a rumor
(well-founded or not) that made a number of
arrangers boycott them. If equaled with the
desperation they showed on stage