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Where to start with Mando Diao
Start with Cut the Rope — Hurricane Bar, 2004. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 26 Mando Diao tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 26 Mando Diao tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 26 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 14 of the 26 tracks come from Hurricane Bar alone.
The years need a caveat: 26 of 26 dated tracks land in the 2000s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under garage rock; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Cut the Rope — Hurricane Bar, 2004. Of the 26 Mando Diao tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
Only one entry point is offered for Mando Diao. The knob readings across these tracks sit too close together to mark out honest opposite ends, and inventing two would be worse than admitting it.
Where Mando Diao sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Mando Diao's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Hurricane Bar | 2004 | 14 |
| Bring 'Em In | 2002 | 12 |
Every Mando Diao track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bring 'Em In | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Lady - 2002 Remastered Version | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Lauren's Cathedral | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Little Boy Jr - 2002 Remastered Version | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Motown Blood | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Mr Moon - Remastered | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| P.U.S.A. | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Paralyzed | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Sheepdog | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Sweet Ride | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| The Band | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| To China with Love | Bring 'Em In | 2002 |
| Added Family | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| All My Senses | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| Annie's Angle | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| Clean Town | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| Cut the Rope | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| Down in the Past | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| God Knows | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| If I Leave You | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| Kingdom and Glory | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| Next to Be Lowered | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| Ringing Bells | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| This Dream Is Over | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| White Wall | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
| You Can't Steal My Love | Hurricane Bar | 2004 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Mando Diao's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with The Pogues — folk punk, 18 tracks
- Where to start with Jimi Hendrix Experience — psychedelic rock, 14 tracks
- Where to start with Weezer — alternative rock, 11 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Mando Diao as a group, from Borlänge, Sweden and formed in 1999. Its contributors tag the artist alternative rock, indie rock, rock, synthpop and garage rock. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Mando Diao tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 26, across 2 albums. 26 of them carry a date, running from 2002 to 2004. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 26 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 26 of these 26 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.