Whale was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 group

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

 in the 1990s, that wrote songs in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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Career

The group was formed by Henrik Schyffert

Henrik Schyffert

Per Henrik Schyffert is a Swedish comedian, actor, musician and radio and TV personality.Schyffert was a VJ for MTV Europe in the late 80's. In 1992 he hosted the comedy TV show I Manegen Med Glenn Killing, also starring Robert Gustafsson and Johan Rheborg...

, Cia Berg

Cia Berg

Cia Berg , now known as Cia Soro, is a Swedish television presenter and singer. She was at one time the lead singer of the Swedish rock band Whale, who released the single "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe"....

 – more recently known as Cia Soro – and Gordon Cyrus

Gordon Cyrus

Gordon Cyrus is an Afro-American Cherokee Scandinavian born in Swedish performer, record producer, sound engineer and designer. Cyrus is best known as a member of the rock/pop group Whale along with Cia Berg and Henrik Schyffert, and for having discovered The Latin Kings. He was heavily involved...

. The band enjoyed some success, particularly in the European market. Their first single

Single (music)

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, 1993's "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" achieved critical acclaim, heavy spins in the Euro dance club scene, saturation airplay on MTV

MTV

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 and reached the Top 10 in Denmark and Norway, Top 30 in Holland and Austria, Top 40 in Sweden, and #24 on the US

United States

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 Modern Rock Tracks chart. It also reached #46 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 chart in 1994, and when reissued in 1995, reached #15.

In the late 1990s, a presentation of the band on its official website stated that its original name was Southern Whale Cult 1987, and that several albums had previously been released in that name. This was later admitted to have been a joke - the band had copied a presentation of The Cult

The Cult

The Cult are a British rock band that was formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk band with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love...

 and simply changed the name of the band in the text.

Albums

Date of release	Title
1995	We Care We Care We Care is the debut album by Swedish alternative rock group Whale. The album was produced by Whale with some tracks produced by Whale and Falcon, and some by Whale and Tricky.-Track listing:# "Kickin'" – 3:47...
1995	Pay For Me (mini album)
1998	All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones All Disco Dance Must End in Broken Bones is an album by Whale, released in 1998.-Track listing:# “Crying at Airports” – 5:22# “Deliver the Juice” – 5:11# “Roadkill” – 4:17# “Smoke” – 5:25# “Losing CTRL” – 4:12# “Four Big Speakers” – 3:52...