Popsicle was a Swedish pop group in Piteå, Sweden, which together with This Perfect Day, The Wannadies and Brainpool started the 1990s indiepop wave in Sweden.
The band's four members, Andreas Mattsson (vocals, guitar), Fredrik Norberg (guitar, vocals), PA Wikander (drums) and Kenneth Wikstrom (bass), later replaced by Arvid Lind, formed the band in Stockholm in 1991 and released their first mini-album Template (1992) on Skellefteå label A West Side Fabrication. Later that year they issued Lacquer which reached number 34 in the national charts[1] and included the song "Hey Princess". The album was well received by both critics and record buyers and won a Grammis Award.[2] The group was given major publicity when the group's guitarist Fredrik Norberg said he wished that the members of dance band Arvingarna would die in a bus accident.[3][4]
The songs were written by Norberg and Mattsson and was initially influenced by British guitar-based shoegazer band My Bloody Valentine and Ride.[citation needed] Popsicle may have laid the foundations of the Swedish indie scene, but it was not until four years later as the band played through to a wider audience, that they had their biggest hit - the single "Not Forever" from the self-titled third album.[5]
Popsicle broke up in April 1999 when Fredrik Norberg, after a Japanese tour, announced that he would quit the band.[citation needed] Six years later the band reunited after a request from the record store Pet Sounds[citation needed] who wanted them to play on the store's 25th anniversary. The band liked the idea[citation needed] and also played an exclusive farewell gig at the Cirkus, Stockholm on 4 April 2005.[6]
Discography
Albums
Template (1992) (mini album)
Lacquer (1992)
Abstinence (1994)
Popsicle (1996)
Stand Up and Testify (1997)
The Good Side Of Popsicle (2005) (2-CD, compilation)
^"Popsicle - Not Forever". Swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
^. Archived from the original on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
^"Popsicle". Discogs.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
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