Sick & Tired (The Cardigans song)

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"Sick & Tired"
Single by The Cardigans
from the album Emmerdale
B-side"Plain Parade"
  • "Laika"
  • "Pooh Song"
Released1994
Recorded1994
Length3:24
LabelTrampolene
Songwriter(s)Peter Svensson, Magnus Sveningsson
Producer(s)Tore Johansson
The Cardigans singles chronology
"Rise and Shine"
(1994) 		"Sick & Tired"
(1994) 		"Carnival"
(1995)

"Sick & Tired" is a pop song by Swedish band The Cardigans. It was released in September 1994 as the third single from their debut album Emmerdale in Sweden and as their first single in Japan. It was subsequently featured on the international release of their second album Life and issued as the first single from it in March 1995. A reissue later the same year became the group's first top-forty hit in the United Kingdom. In February 1996 the song reached number one in Iceland, staying at the summit for four weeks.

The song addresses the aftermath of a summer love affair which ended badly, leaving the narrator "sick and tired". In the chorus, the narrator addresses her former lover, suggesting that "you can always say you did no major harm", before immediately rejecting such a notion with "oh spare me if you please".

All of the B-sides from both issues of the single were later included on the compilation The Other Side of the Moon. All except the cover of "The Boys Are Back in Town" also appeared on the 2CD edition of Best Of The Cardigans.

Track listing[]

Sweden CD single (1994) and international CD single (1995)

  1. "Sick & Tired"
  2. "Plain Parade"
  3. "Laika"
  4. "Pooh Song"

UK CD single (re-issue) (1995)

  1. "Sick & Tired"
  2. "Pooh Song"
  3. "The Boys Are Back in Town"
  4. "Carnival (Puck version)"

Charts[]

Weekly charts[]

Chart (1995–1996) Peak
position
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[1] 1
Scotland (OCC)[2] 37
UK Singles (OCC)[3] 34

Year-end charts[]

Chart (1996) Position
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[4] 25

References[]

  1. ^ "Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 (10.2. – 16.2. '96)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 10 February 1996. p. 26. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  4. ^ "Árslistinn 1996". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 2 January 1997. p. 25. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
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