The Raveonettes

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The Raveonettes in October 2007
The Raveonettes at the Roskilde Festival , 2005

The Raveonettes is a Danish garage rock duo consisting of singer , guitarist and songwriter Sune Rose Wagner and singer and bassist Sharin Foo.

Band history

Wagner and Foo, both born in 1973 in Denmark, met during the recording of an album by the band "Pleasure Machine". During a stay in Los Angeles in 1999 Wagner wrote the first tracks for his new band "Girl on Death Row". But only a few concerts were given under this name before the band renamed itself "The Raveonettes". Most of the "Girl on Death Row" tracks were released on the first album Whip It On .

In autumn 2001 the band began recording Whip It On in Copenhagen . The work on it was finished within three weeks. After recording guitarist Manoj Ramdas and drummer Jakob Hoyer, The Raveonettes played one of their first gigs at the SPOT Festival in Aarhus . The band is also supported on tours by bassist Anders Christensen.

Musical influences are mainly the beat and psychedelic music of the sixties from bands like The Who and the Everly Brothers , but also protopunk groups like The Velvet Underground and The Stooges .

Chain Gang of Love

Chain Gang of Love was the band's first "real" album. It was produced by Richard Gottehrer and is kept in B flat major throughout. It was recorded in various Danish studios and in New York from October to December 2002 and mixed in London in early 2003. The thirteen songs on the album were all written by Wagner, with the exception of That Great Love Sound , which he wrote together with Gottehrer. With two exceptions, all pieces are shorter than three minutes.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DK DK UK UK US US
2003 Chain Gang of Love DK5 (6 weeks)
DK 		UK43 (2 weeks)
UK 		US123 (2 weeks)
US
2005 Pretty in black DK3 (15 weeks)
DK 		UK71 (1 week)
UK 		US152 (2 weeks)
US
2007 Lust lust lust DK20 (1 week)
DK 		- US108 (3 weeks)
US
2009 In and out of control DK5 (6 weeks)
DK 		- US126 (2 weeks)
US
2011 Raven in the Grave DK4 (3 weeks)
DK 		- US126 (1 week)
US
2012 Into the night DK36 (1 week)
DK 		- -
Observator DK7 (4 weeks)
DK 		- US110 (1 week)
US
2014 Pe'ahi DK4 (5 weeks)
DK 		- US161 (1 week)
US
2017 Atomized - - -

More albums

  • 2002: Whip It On (8-track mini-album)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DK DK UK UK US US
2002 Attack of the Ghostriders - UK73 (1 week)
UK 		-
2003 Beat City - UK83 (1 week)
UK 		-
That great love sound - UK34 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
Heartbreak Stroll DK3 (7 weeks)
DK 		UK49 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
2005 Ode to LA - UK78 (1 week)
UK 		-
Love in a Trashcan - UK26 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
2009 Last dance DK24 (5 weeks)
DK 		- -

More singles

  • 2002: Evil LA Girls
  • 2007: Dead Sound
  • 2008: You Want Candy
  • 2008: The Raveonettes Remixed (EP)
  • 2008: Sometimes They Drop By (EP)
  • 2008: Beauty Dies (EP)
  • 2008: Wishing You a Rave Christmas (EP)
  • 2008: Blush
  • 2012: Into the Night

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Denmark UK US

Web links

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