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Released
  
April 11, 2007

Prayer for the Weekend(2007)
  
In Full Regalia(2010)

Release date
  
11 April 2007

Genre
  
Rock music

Length
  
42:58

Artist
  
The Ark

Label
  
Roxy Recordings

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Nominations
  
Grammis Award for Lyricist of the Year

The Ark albums
  
State of The Ark, We Are the Ark, In Full Regalia, In Lust We Trust, Arkeology

Prayer for the Weekend was released on April 11, 2007 and is the fourth album of the 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.

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

The ark prayer for the weekend


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:

  • Ola Salo – Lead vocals and songwriting
  • Martin Axén – Guitar and backing vocals
  • Jepson – Guitar and backing vocals
  • Leari – Bass and backing vocals
  • Sylvester Schlegel – drums, electronic drums and programming
  • Jens Andersson – keyboards, additional percussion and sound engineering

    • Additional personnel

  • Jens Lindgård – Trombone
  • Petter Lindgård – Trumpet
  • Sven Andersson – Saxophone and clarinet
  • Filip Runesson – Strings
  • Måns Block – percussion
  • Mauricio Canivilo – percussion
  • Christopher Dominique – Piano
  • Elisabeth Fornander, Oskar Humlebo, Maria Lilja, Simon Koudriavstev and Kristian Pehrsson – Additional background vocals
  • Jonas Nydessjö & Ola Salo – String arrangements
  • Marco Manieri – Producer, engineering and mixing
  • Thomas Berger and Björn Lindgård – Mastering
  • Oskar Humlebo – Additional production

    • Songs

    1Prayer for the Weekend4:23
    2The Worrying Kind2:55
    3Absolutely No Decorum3:46

    References

    Prayer for the Weekend Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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