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Moderna Tider is the second studio album by Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider, released on 10 March 1981. 130,000 copies were ordered before the album's release. The album peaked at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart and No. 2 on the Norwegian albums chart. [1]
All lyrics and music written by Per Gessle except where noted.
The 150 000 first examples of the LP contained a bonus EP named Swing & Sweet. It contained four Swedish language covers of international well-known pop songs [2] :
Moderna Tider has been remastered and released as CD twice. First time in 1991 and second time in 2004, last time in a digipack version. Both version contained the same bonus tracks. 1991 as bonus tracks, 2004 as bonus record. It was the songs from Swing & Sweet and following songs:
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