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"   The cover of Peter, Bjorn &amp;amp;amp; John&amp;#039;s new album, Gimme Some.  Peter Bjorn and John are about to release their sixth album, Gimme Some, a back to basics collection of rock and punk infused tracks that make them a top contender for best album of the year. Given the trio&amp;#039;s now lengthy career, we peppered Peter Mor\u00E9n with questions about his first Lollapalooza festival, what he hopes listeners will do after listening to Gimme Some, and how he forgives over-zealous fans. ELLE: What did you want to give your fans through Gimme Some?PM: We wanted to do an album that was relatively short and without ballads, that would burst with energy and reflect more how we&amp;#039;ve always sounded live as a three-piece and that would bounce back to the roots of our first two unknown albums, but with the experience of being twelve years in a band as well. We wanted to sound younger than yesterday\u2014I think we succeeded in all these respects. ELLE: &amp;quot;Second Chance,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Eyes,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Down Like Me&amp;quot; are great tracks. Is there one song on the album that&amp;#039;s most personal for you?PM: I think we all have different favorites and they change and differ. But you picked three really good ones I think! &amp;quot;Eyes&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Down Like Me&amp;quot; are maybe my favorites to play live. One of my personal favorites is definitively &amp;quot;May Seem Macabre.&amp;quot; It has really absurd lyrics. It paints a couple of dreamlike pictures of a burial and the weird thing is it&amp;#039;s your own burial; so you have an out-of-body-experience. And it&amp;#039;s a positive experience because even though your friends and relatives are mourning you are being buried with your spouse. It&amp;#039;s like an indie-disco-version of &amp;quot;When the Saints,&amp;quot; trying to be positive about the inevitable fact that we&amp;#039;re all going to go someday. Which is hard &amp;#039;cause I love life! I also love the beat and the guitars on that song. ELLE: What&amp;#039;s your most memorable performance?PM: I love to tell people about our first Lollapalooza show. The power went out for 40 minutes but everyone stayed around until we could start playing again! That&amp;#039;s amazing when you think of how many bands that were on at the same time. I also fell into a barrel of ice-cold water, which must have looked fun, but it was not so fun for me. ELLE: What song or band on your iPod would most surprise people?PM: If they knew me they wouldn&amp;#039;t be surprised, since it&amp;#039;s the best party music ever! It&amp;#039;s some songs from an album called Bordellmammas Visor (The Songs of a Brothel Mother). It was made in the sixties by this guy called Johnny Bode who was this unsuccessful cabaret artist who also had some mental problems. He made cabaret-30\u2032s-style-songs, extremely authentic sounding, but with very, very rude lyrics, stories mainly about drinking and fucking, nothing I&amp;#039;m going to tell you about here. But the combination of that happy innocent sounding music with those lyrics is just hilarious. ELLE: What&amp;#039;s been the funniest encounter you&amp;#039;ve had with a fan?PM:Maybe not funny, but one girl obviously wanted to get in touch, but kind of used the wrong method. She copied my girlfriend&amp;#039;s MySpace profile and then wrote me and said that my girlfriend had a venereal disease, but I forgive her. It&amp;#039;s easy to get mixed up when you&amp;#039;re young. This was four years ago so maybe she feels better now. ELLE: You had us whistling nonstop after &amp;quot;Young Folks,&amp;quot; what would you like us to do for Gimme Some?PM: Do something you&amp;#039;ve wanted to do for a long, long time but haven&amp;#039;t had the nerve to do! Break a chair or tell your boss to sod off. Or why not call up someone you fancy even though it&amp;#039;s scary? Demonstrate! Change the world! We want action! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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