I am Lars-Erik Nilsson, coach. You might say I was brought up on music since my mother was always singing (guess she had to since I kept her awake through the nights as a baby) and I had al those old jazz and schlager records to listen to at home. Musicways I'll eat almost anything but I admit to me music is situated, I couldn't listen to heavy metal riding a car. Blends into the motor sounds, gets blurry and gives me the creeps. And I couldn't listen to psychedelic pop or atonal jazz on the dancing floor. I know some poeple can dance to anything but to me it has to have rythm.

Five tunes - the top five of all times. Nah I can't, but I'll try to share musical feelings around some songs. I confess they will probably not end up on any experts' top five chart but it doesn't really matter. When I played them they meant something to me.

Where I grew up and spent my summers there was a kind of tent camp. People went out of the city and stayed the weekends to enjoy summer. In the evening they went to an outside dance floor, dancing as day passed into night and darkness. That's where I learnt to dance when I was nine and ten. I still remember trying to slow fox to Smoke gets in your eyes. There is something special with the feeling of dancing slowly with the girl you secretly love to such a tone. Ah the mysteries of love.

I grew older and I was kind of a slow developer when it came to popular music. In Sweden it was Elvis against Tommy, that is Elvis Presley against Tommy Steele. Any sane person would have course have picked Elvis which history proves. But me, sucker went for Tommy and spent the late 50s listening to Water. It wasn't the last time I bet on the wrong horse. But then taste is individual and I have liked tunes through the years that even the critics have found acceptable.

As a teenager I was a passionate Blues fan going to all the Folk Blues festival concerts that hit Copenhagen the Danish capital that I live close to. I had my favorites like, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Robert Johnsson, Howling Wolf, Lightning Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. Later it was the guitar heroes like Mike Bloomfield, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and many others that caught me.

There are so many tunes I've loved so I'll settle for East-West with Paul Butterfield blues band - a terrific journey from the east New York to the West. I spent many nights sitting on the floor with my friends listening to that tune. Ah those first university years:-)

With the seventies came the first genuine Swedish rock'n roll. Bands tried to write in Swedish and some even took up old folktunes and played them with electric instrumenst and modern tempo. Kebnekajse was a Swedish band named after the highest mountain in Sweden. One of their tunes was an old folktune called Barkbrödslåten. I used to dance around to that tune holding my then about two year old son in my arms. He fell in love with it as I already had.

In fact he loved it so much that he tried to clean the record as he had seen me do but in his case with a brush. It took me some years to buy a new copy. By then he was around twenty. It was not a successful investment for me. He saw it when he was visiting, borrowed it and it was gone. A couple of years later I found it again and now it's in my collection.

Most couples have their song. I don't know if me and my wife has. There has been so much music through the years. But I remember the time when we had just met. Doctor Hook was popular and we went to his concerts when he came to Sweden. We played his records a lot. One song caught on more then any other. It was a love song of course. I guess we all have a romatic heart somewhere. The song was "A little bit more." A slow and beautiful tune suited for two people who had newly fell in love. Something to get close together to.

The strange thing to me is that when I look at this list there are lot's of songs missing. But none is from the 90's and only a couple from the 80's. As I think about it music is my youth. I still listen to music but then music was life. Today life is filled with so many things maybe it doesn't catch on the way it did. So time to make ammends. Reaching for my record player to play Gera Samba - But what is this. The kids have been changing records in the cd tower. From the loudspeakers I hear Don Mclean's, "American Pie." So music spans generations. This really isn't the worst of choices. Singing as I send ...we started singing bye bye Miss American pie.....(fading out as the message hits the net)

Lars-Erik Nilsson