This was a chapter that didn't make it to the finished manuscript.
I asked people I talked to about their favourite Pretty Maids song. I knew it'd be hard to chose, but I don't think I was prepared to see such a diversity. The songs are listed in alphabetic order!
Back To Back - Angel Schleifer, guitarist
Don’t Settle For Less - Hiroko Hayashi, long time fan
Enter Forevermore - Mats Ödman, long time fan
Fantasy - John Darrow, original bass player
Fantasy - Chris Laney, guitarist
Fly Me Out - Nikolas Krofta, fan and tour manager
For Once In Your Life - Andrew Middleton, long time fan
Future World - Allan ”Stevie” Owen, keyboard player and original member
Future World - Maiko Bové Japanese translator who read Burrn! out loud for me
If It Can’t Be Love - Henrik Hildebrandt, photographer
INVU - Jacob Hansen, producer
Lethal Heros - Niges Page, long time fan
Little Drops Of Heaven - Mario De Russo, Frontiers Records
Love games - Rene Shades
Never Too Late For Love - Ronnie Atkins
Never Too Late For Love - Steffen Jungersen, journalist
No Messiah - Søren Slaug, long time fan and contributor to this book
Please Don’t Leave Me - Per Olsson, contributor to this book
Red, Hot And Heavy - Christina Brix, Long time fan and contributor to this book
Red, Hot And Heavy - Birthe Pedersen, Erik Thomsens assistant at ET Concerts
Red Hot And Heavy - Muggi, worked with ET Concerts
Red, Hot And Heavy - Ken Anthony
Red, Hot And Heavy - Janne Stark, did the layout for this book and guitarist
Savage Heart - Lars Schmidt, long-time fan and journalist, editior of this book
Savage Heart - Martin Stark, journalist and fan
Savage Heart (Stripped version) - Hiromi Ito Sivertsen, Fan Club president
Waiting For The Time - Rickard Nilsson, photographer and contributor to this book
Waiting For The Time - Jörgen Holmstedt, journalist
Wasted - Flemming Odvig, long-time fan and contributor to this book
We Came to Rock - Paul Martin Nielsen, photographer and guitarist
We Came to Rock - Allan DeLong, bass player
With These Eyes - Sanne Grau, long-time fan and contributor to this book
Yellow Rain - Aska Haneda, fan and contributor to this book
The fans votes
The Kingmaker Nation on Facebook (now re-named Pretty Maids Worldwide Fan Club) had a poll in the end of 2018, where everyone could vote for their favourite song on every album.
The results:
Pretty Maids (EP): Fantasy
Red, Hot And Heavy: Back To Back
Future World: Future World
Jump The Gun: Savage Heart
Sin-Decade: Please Don’t Leave Me
Stripped: Savage Heart
Scream: Walk Away
Spooked: If It Can’t Be Love
Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing: Hell On High Heels
Carpe Diem: Clay
Planet Panic: Virtual Brutality
Wake Up To The Real World: Another Shot Of Your Love
Pandemonium: Little Drops Of Heaven
Motherland: Mother Of All Lies
Kingmaker: Kingmaker
Beginners Playlist
My ambition was to make a playlist that you could listen to as a beginner, not yet knowing, Pretty Maids. But it just took too much time and it is so hard to pick just 15 songs. I still don't know what songs I would pick. Maybe everyone's favourite songs from the top of this page? Or, the live album It Comes Alive - Maid in Switzerland from 2012. I think it is a fantastic album and it really capture the essence of Pretty Maids.
