Kings of Convenience - "Misread"

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This song is pretty good, nice acoustic song. Sounds a little dated but other than that it could definitely do something at AAA in the States.

Anyway, I believe this is a duo from Norway and this song is getting some airplay throughout the continent.

[Sean]

This was all over radio and TV when I was in Italy a few weeks ago so it reminds me of my holiday!

It's quite good... I like the music in the song but the vocals are a bit dreary and depressing. Still a good song and the kind of song people on this board normally go crazy about for some reason!

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Sean, how'd you like Italy? Where'd you visit?

[Sean]

Italy was OK... too hot at this time of year, if I go back I will go at another time of year because it was unbearable and zapped all my energy!

I went to Venice (nice, but too crowded with tourists, would love to explore it more at a quieter time of year), Milan (stayed for a few days and did day trip to Switzerland), Pisa, Cinque Terre (small place on the coast but my favourite place in Italy definitely), Florence and Rome. We drove from Milan to Rome via Pisa and a bunch of other smaller places over a week so I saw a fair bit of the country.

I went to other places on my trip too and the best place was Mykonos followed by Paris. The worst was Athens.

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Glad to hear you had a good time. Cinque Terre was definitely one of my favorite places too. Love Rome, Florence is also fun, and I agree that Venice is way too touristy... still worth seeing though. Did you drive through Umbria at all on the way to Rome?

Athens was pretty crazy? I was there back in March and there was construction all over, in prepartion for the Olympics... but yeah I'd imagine it to be a madhouse at this point. Never made it to Mykonos, heard great things though.

And yeah, Paris is also a great city.

[Sean]

We did not drive through Umbria... we ended up doing the drive from Pisa to Rome all in one day... quite a long way! We stopped at a few places along the way, including Siena. Umbria was a possibility but then we decided to just go all the way to Rome that day rather than tour around because we had problems a few days before finding accommodation and didn't want the same thing to happen again.

We drove on this small country road on the way from Parma to La Spezia and it was absolutely stunning with the small towns and the scenery/mountains etc.

Cinque Terre was so good... if anybody was going to Italy I would recommend that over a lot of the bigger more touristy cities which would be worth skipping.

Athens is just not a beautiful city at all, unlike many other places in Europe, or indeed Mykonos. All the buildings look from the 60's or 70's and dirty/rundown. I was there about 10 days ago so very close to the Olympics. Let me tell you - they were STILL building things everywhere, the place was still a construction site! Who knows if they'll finish everything on time... I don't think so. For most of the world Im sure we won't notice the difference but if you're on the ground in Athens for the Olympics then I bet you'd notice all the problems... and it definitely won't be as good or smooth as the Sydney 2000 Olympics! They switched on the tram system from the town centre to the airport the day I was leaving so we tested that out and there were a lot of delays and problems we were freaked out as we were delayed getting to the airport.

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In Norway, "I'd Rather Dance With You" was the first single, instead of this. And I prefer the Norwegian single

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Wow, the video for this is really good... really simple but fits the song well.

Watch it here:
www.mtv.it/music/esclusive/esclusiva.asp?id=C68473757019436389236A663E1B6090
Just click "Misread"