Prayer for the Weekend

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Prayer for the Weekend
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Studio album by
Released11 April 2007
Genre Rock
Length42:58
Label Roxy Recordings
The Ark chronology
State of The Ark
(2004)
Prayer for the Weekend
(2007)
In Full Regalia
(2010)
Singles from Prayer for the Weekend
  1. "Absolutely No Decorum"
    Released: 2007
  2. "The Worrying Kind"
    Released: 2007
  3. "Prayer for the Weekend"
    Released: 2007
  4. "Little Dysfunk You"
    Released: 2007
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Prayer for the Weekend was released on 11 April 2007 and is the fourth studio album from Swedish rock band the Ark. It is their first album with the sixth member, keyboard player Jens Andersson.

Contents

The album contains, along with the lead single "Absolutely No Decorum", the song "The Worrying Kind", with which the Ark participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, where the song finished 18th.

The singles released from the album are; "Absolutely No Decorum", "The Worrying Kind", "Prayer for the Weekend" and "Little Dysfunk You".

Track listing

All songs written by Ola Salo.

  1. "Prayer for the Weekend" – 4:24
  2. "The Worrying Kind" – 2:56
  3. "Absolutely No Decorum" – 3:47
  4. "Little Dysfunk You" – 4:09
  5. "New Pollution" – 4:31
  6. "Thorazine Corazon" – 3:44
  7. "I Pathologize" – 2:54
  8. "Death to the Martyrs" – 3:54
  9. "All I Want Is You" – 2:58
  10. "Gimme Love to Give" – 3:59
  11. "Uriel" – 5:42
  12. "Any Operator Will Do" – 3:37 (Bonus Track, digital album only)

Personnel

The Ark are:

Additional personnel


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