Finnish Music https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/t6364 Runboard| Finnish Music en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:46:03 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:46:03 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p111061,from=rss#post111061https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p111061,from=rss#post111061Finnish Christmas music can get pretty dark now and then. Sometimes it's for comedic effect, but quite often also enough to make a grown man cry. To begin with, a classic children's carol "Hey elf-men, jump around" has among the cheerful stuff this line (in chorus no less): "only a moment lasts life and that too dark and sad". One old beautiful song is called "Sparrow at Christmas morning". It tells how a girl feeds a bird in the cold morning, how lovely. Then comes the twist: the sparrow starts talking and tells it's "not a bird of this earth, but comes from Heaven" and the gift to a poor creature was actually given to "her little brother from the land of angels". One of the earliest tragicomic songs was "Santa bites and hits" about a classic drunken Santa. (Like in various other European countries, in Finnish tradition Santa comes in Christmas Eve to straight up hand the presents. As a neighborhood might have a designated Santa guy who visits dozen houses and everyone offers the guest a drink, that may not end well.) Biggest funny classic "Pig" (referring to Christmas ham) isn't particularly sad, but uncle slaughtering the pig and drinking blood - "that brings Christmas spirit" - is a bit dark. Nor is comparison of Christmas shoppers to the animal uplifting and the final punchline is "man is what he eats". The folk-pop-rock group Leevi & The Leavings - some of greatest poets in Finnish music and we have more than out share of notable lyricists - made a whole concept album about dark Christmas called "Thieving Santa". Some of the songs: - "Very sad Christmas" wishes you "dark*, gloomy*, cold, dark* and very sad Christmas" (although that's more cheerfully comedic one) - "drunk at Christmas Eve" is also humorous, but with some social commentary and a strong finish of "if somewhere I see rope hanging, I'll put the end around my neck; I wonder if I'm still alive at new year when I'm already growling drunk at Christmas Eve" - "Christmas Carol" is a story about elderly couple who prepare to spend yet another Christmas by themselves, when out of nowhere comes their daughter with her child. They are overjoyed, the child gets to play with her mother's old toys, all seems idyllic. But there are some dark undertones: why did the mother and child come unannounced apparently after years? And it's unclear if the couple knew of grandchild; the phrasing could just mean "how time flies", but the way they say their child can't already be mother herself sound like they didn't know. Nothing is said about the child's father. And there's a phrase about the mother being "too fragile" that could just be grandma saying "you should eat more", but also sounds like she's not OK, mentally or physically. All in all, my interpretation is that they are here because they had nowhere else to go and the fact that she hasn't been in contact with her parents for long suggests very sad things. - "To grandma's for Christmas" is the peak of it all. It's about children - girl and little brother - on the way to grandma's. Guess why? Because they're running away from mommy and daddy's drunken fighting. Straight from start: "why lies Christmas tree fallen, why do you cry, little Leena, hiding from parents in closet?" Continue to broken gifts and vomit. And the way children ask Christmas star to lead them to grandma's suggests to me they may be too young to know how to get there, out there in snow because "they had to get away". *=Finnish has so many words for dark and gloomy that my English vocabulary runs outnondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Tue, 27 Dec 2022 18:32:56 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p110945,from=rss#post110945https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p110945,from=rss#post110945As a sad continuation to the previous post, the original singer and songwriter of Yö Jussi Hakulinen has now also died. His "Joutsenlaulu" is basically the Finnish equivalent to Stairway to Heaven or Bohemian Rhapsody, the absolute all-time classic. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:39:19 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p109239,from=rss#post109239https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p109239,from=rss#post109239Olli Lindholm, beloved singer of Yö, one of greatest Finnish bands by any scale, has unexpectedly died at 54. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:07:21 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p108549,from=rss#post108549https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p108549,from=rss#post108549What did Finland listen in the 90's? Weekly single chart #1s 1994-1999, some known to whole world, some really locals: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:35:39 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p108479,from=rss#post108479https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p108479,from=rss#post108479For some reason there's been lately several documentaries on TV about Gösta Sundqvist and his band Leevi and the Leavings. The band is unique phenomenon in Finnish music history. As the eccentric genius singer-songwriter wanted no publicity, the band never did any concerts and even on most music videos made for song Sundqvist doesn't appear himself. Yet several songs of their long career are among the best known in Finland (particularly among my generation and older). They are often melancholy stories about troubled people; typically lonely men. There is brutal honesty, not really sympathizing or blaming or taking sides with anyone. (I am posting this particular song because it was pretty much only one of their songs I could find with English lyrics...) These two are among their biggest classics: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:15:15 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p108411,from=rss#post108411https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p108411,from=rss#post108411"Summer '86" nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:10:04 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106940,from=rss#post106940https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106940,from=rss#post106940Typically cheerful Finnish music: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:34:07 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106500,from=rss#post106500https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106500,from=rss#post106500Another 80's song stuck in my head: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:28:10 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106396,from=rss#post106396https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106396,from=rss#post106396Right now stuck in my head... nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:03:01 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106345,from=rss#post106345https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106345,from=rss#post106345Some 80's punk rock: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:21:23 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106321,from=rss#post106321https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p106321,from=rss#post106321The one girl band I rather like: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:17:47 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p98441,from=rss#post98441https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p98441,from=rss#post98441This is Finnish heavy alright nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:23:09 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p97214,from=rss#post97214https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p97214,from=rss#post97214In honor of Tarantino's second Oscar, let's see a video reminding of the first... nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:01:47 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p94838,from=rss#post94838https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p94838,from=rss#post94838I'll finish this topic - and I fear my whole office here - with this recent hit with a more positive tone. Song name translates to "More duo than solo". nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:33:13 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p94386,from=rss#post94386https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p94386,from=rss#post94386Another unusual surprise hit: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:48:29 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p93838,from=rss#post93838https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p93838,from=rss#post93838Music and videos are getting strange... nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:10:45 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p93079,from=rss#post93079https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p93079,from=rss#post93079Time to remember a great artist we lost this year. A voice to be remembered: Topi Sorsakoski nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:48:10 +0000 Re: Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p92528,from=rss#post92528https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p92528,from=rss#post92528This classic is called November, "Marraskuu": Chorus: through September, by ragged October beer case of yearning rattles over the sky days drag themselves like murder of crows I'm troubled by sorriest of sorrows when baby will you come back don't you know a lonely man can be taken by Novembernondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:06:43 +0000 Re:https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p90817,from=rss#post90817https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p90817,from=rss#post90817The "official" summer hit of 2011: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:55:00 +0000 Re:https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p90777,from=rss#post90777https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p90777,from=rss#post90777Latest from my old fav Apulanta: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:16:08 +0000 Finnish Musichttps://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p90645,from=rss#post90645https://banythinggoes3.runboard.com/p90645,from=rss#post90645I guess it's about time to start again my Finnish music topic... even if I can't listen these myself. If sometime a video doesn't work, any of you do me favor and find a good one. We'll start with a metal ballad: Problem: "Embed YouTube" button doesn't work for me. It gives the popup, but when I click it no code appears. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Kaunisto)Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:22 +0000