Prayer for the Weekend [Import]

Ark | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ais
• ASIN: B000OMD3SU
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #453,033 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prayer for the Weekend

2. The Worrying Kind

3. Absolutely No Decorum

4. Little Dysfunk You

5. New Pollution

6. Thorazine Corazon

7. I Pathologize

8. Death to the Martyrs

9. All I Want Is You

10. Gimme Love to Give

11. Uriel

Editorial Reviews

2007 release of the fourth album by the Swedish glam-rock band. It's their first album with keyboard player Jens Andersson in the personnel lineup. The songs include the album's lead single "Absolutely No Decorum" as well as "The Worrying Kind" which took top honours at in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2007. Jewelbox edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it, April 28, 2007

By 

platonica (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prayer for the Weekend (Audio CD)

The Ark are really made to be enjoyed live. Calling Ola Salo charismatic is no way near enough; seeing him on stage has been described as a religious experience by the most unexpected people.

However, if you can't see them live, you can still enjoy Ola Salo's song writer skills, incredible voice intelligence and sense of humour on Prayer for the Weekend. The album is brilliant, with a little bit of everything for everyone. It actually didn't stick the first time I heard it, but the second time I fell so much in love.

My favourite tracks on this album are... nearly all of them. But don't miss

- The Worrying Kind - really, it's just one of those songs that puts a big smile on your face as soon as you hear the intro.

- Absolutely No Decorum - the first single from the album, and it's really the Ark at their best.

- Little Dysfunk You - definitely a favorite, largely due to the provocations in the first verse and a chorus that just sticks like glue immediately.

- Death to the Martyrs - serious in a way, but if you don't spend too much thought on it, it's hilarious.

- Gimme Love to Give - this one's pretty hard to describe because I don't know exactly what it is about it that gives me this warm, fuzzy feeling. It just does.

- Uriel - the album's only ballad, and I really didn't think it was all that impressive first time I heard it. But that changed somehow, now I cry like a baby every time I hear it.

Buy it, it's great!

4.0 out of 5 stars Great CD!, June 15, 2009

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Brian Ferrari - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prayer for the Weekend (Audio CD)

The Ark has produced consistently terrific CDs, and their latest is no exception. They should be huge in the US. Hopefully in time, this will happen, especially with renewed interest in glam-rock. Fans of everyone from T-Rex to Scissor Sisters to Adam Lambert should check them out.

5.0 out of 5 stars Prayer for the Weekend, June 7, 2007

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Bjorn Viberg (European Union) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prayer for the Weekend (Audio CD)

Prayer for the Weekend~ The Ark is great album from the Swedish glamrock band. Ola Salo is a very accomplished singer and an accomplished artist in his own right. The production value is amazing and the worrying kind is a great track. To think that they decided to sing at the eurovision song festival is a shame since the song is to smart for such a shallow show. The lyrics are well-written and one can definetely say that they sing all their lyrics with a glimps of self irony. The book-let is well-produced I love what they are wearing. Totally cool outfits. The photos inside the book-let are well done and look awesome. The font is easy on the eye and the colors match their kind of music. Highly recommended indeed and I definetely give it 5 out of 5 stars.