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This is a more well known swedish classic. Just played on the radio so I remembered this thread. Under Ytan by Uno Svenningsson (under the surface) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnK5RW9r7UA
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More swedish classics in the same style Du får göra som du vill (you can do whatever you want) by Patrik Isaksson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JdnG6y6UWI Oh Kent... Kent! I forgot Kent. Actually one of my favorite bands. Their lyrics are in swedish and sorta incomprehensible even to those who speak it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FuL-YmPFYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRCR1QIhB4 Kent has a lot of good stuff IMO so hard to not link everything. ... EDIT: Well gotta add this one too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkhCH5I7e94 I noticed the spanish speaking world seem to like Kent, which remind me Eddie Meduza seems to be popular in Mexico for some reason. Who was Eddie Meduza? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Meduza quote:He was also a popular performer of so called Raggarmusic. Norstedt's other persona was the far more vulgar E. Hitler.[1] In this guise he generally recorded more offbeat or even puerile recordings like "E.Hitler skiter" (a recording of his own bowel movements) to sexually explicit material. The E. Hitler recordings were only available on tape, that customers would order by mail directly from Norstedt. He did, however, have a certain deeper humorous line as well. On tour (as Eddie Meduza) he urged his audience to drink vodka, and become just as drunk as he usually was himself during his performances, to the tunes of his "Mera brännvin" ("More booze!").[2] More booze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8IiNrfVLA In this video he sings about how booze is actually good for you. Eddie meduza died unrelatedly of liver failure. His Divine Shadow has a new favorite as of 19:43 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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This is a helluva thread, just discovered ya'll yesterday Kent did translate one album to English waaay back in the mid 90's. It just happens to be one of the best ones; isola Here's "747" from isola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2npGuZKdhgE E: forgot, the part everyone remembers only begins at 4min40s. Sad swedish songs are a mood I guess Another classical song of the other classical swedish category is the band ATTACK's one hit wonder - if someone really wanted to get drunk swedes to sing with them nothing beats this. It's famous in Finland too, and is apparently a standard curriculum item in 2nd language swedish class. I present, "Ooa hela natten" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--EOazgwM0 'Ooa' is boomer slang for masturbating. The chorus goes "i will masturbate all night, masturbate all day, masturbate all night and frighten half the city - masturbate all the night long until you discover me. Aao. AaoAoAoo." The lyrics is specificly about a woman being horny on a beautiful person and is singing at them, and that she would like to "bang" them, as it were. ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 07:56 on Oct 27, 2021 |
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quote:Another classical song of the other classical swedish category is the band ATTACK's one hit wonder - if someone really wanted to get drunk swedes to sing with them nothing beats this. It's famous in Finland too, and is apparently a standard curriculum item in 2nd language swedish class. I present, WTF lol. That can’t be right. Here’s a japanese song I like. I have no idea whether or not it’s a hit or what the lyrics are about. https://youtu.be/T9aTZQi8cMg
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Tac Dibar posted:WTF lol. That can’t be right. That's what all the Finns speaking Finnish in the youtube comments are saying anyway. Finland is strange and Sweden is perpetually  doesn't seem that unusual
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Some classic Polish hits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCrR7od_fck This is a song about TV weather forecasts. In pre-1989 times TV was people's main pastime, and everyone would watch the weather forecast broadcast after the main news programme; if you looked outside, you'd see "windows painted blue with the light cast by TVs". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeU-7dYMXBU A song about a girl who is cold and closed off to the world around her and her own feelings, the 'protagonist' expresses frustration that they are very much alike and yet a wall remains between them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAqRF5F2Kq0 I will admit I have no idea what this song is about. It's either gibberish or so high-brow that it goes over my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-OBu1nHwI4 This one is about going to a club to escape the lovely reality outside by losing yourself in the music and dance. Our contemporary popular music is terrible, but I like this song well enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weeZJTHKgtc I suppose it's about contemplating suicide.
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BA BA BA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXUlmP5MvnE Bank robbery The natural solution if you have not had a Schnitzel in your belly for some weeks. So they say. Austrian band, EAV = Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung = First General Uninsurance/Insecurity. Im not Austrian but they are popular enough here so it counts  They have soooo many more, what are your favourite EAV songs, D/A/CH posters?
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Another old classic that never leaves the airways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BD7pi77S8w My translation posted:SPARKS - Fortisakharof By popular demand has a new favorite as of 20:22 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:That's what all the Finns speaking Finnish in the youtube comments are saying anyway. Finland is strange and Sweden is perpetually Cant speak for Finland but never heard anyone in Sweden sharing that intepretation of the songs lyrics, neither is it slang for masturbation (in Sweden anyway). So, doubtful that it is the interpretation intended by the Swedish music group at least. Interesting that some Finns intrepet it that way, that certainly puts another spin on the song. But "Ooa" in the context of the song is, in the ears of most Swedes, onamatopoetic, a dog-like howling which they kinda imitate in the song's refrain. Pretty straight forward and silly song if you take the lyrics at face value, about pining for someone and literally howling all day for their attention, with one paragraph going into stalker territory. Falukorv has a new favorite as of 04:49 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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Falukorv posted:Cant speak for Finland but never heard anyone in Sweden sharing that intepretation of the songs lyrics, neither is it slang for masturbation (in Sweden anyway). So, doubtful that it is the interpretation intended by the Swedish music group at least. Interesting that some Finns intrepet it that way, that certainly puts another spin on the song. Falukorv, du har faktiskt fel här. Absolut; de flesta vet inte att ooa betyder runka, men det är exakt vad det beyder och det är vad sången skrevs med för avsikt. Allt enligt trummisen i Attack i ett avsnitt av musikbyrån för typ 20 år sen. Så det så 
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Figures that the only good swedish songs are about jacking off.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Falukorv, du har faktiskt fel här. Absolut; de flesta vet inte att ooa betyder runka, men det är exakt vad det beyder och det är vad sången skrevs med för avsikt. Allt enligt trummisen i Attack i ett avsnitt av musikbyrån för typ 20 år sen. Åfan. Trodde verkligen att ett sådant avslöjande hade varit mindre obskyrt. You are being serious right? This feels like a joke but hard to tell over text (and the subject matter). Falukorv has a new favorite as of 04:38 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Tac Dibar posted:THE STONE-COLD CLASSIC: "Sommartider" by Gyllene Tider I was always a fan of "När vi två blir en": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_cdAYydf50
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Here's a completely Finnish Original that isn't at all a cover of a Kent song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uj9QeNX6G4
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This may be outside the remit of this thread, because I'm not and do not speak Japanese, and I don't know how popular this was in Japan. But Youtube just recommended me this album, and it's too good not to share. (It also contains the occasional English lyric, but it's almost all Japanese.) Takako Mamiya 間宮貴子 - Love Trip ラブ・トリップ (1982)
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There was a very prolific Finnish songwriter Juha Vanio, who made many touching songs like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfUUtjCsucc "Kotkan poikii ilman siipii" or "Sons of eagles without wings", the name is a pun on his home city of Kotka (the word also means eagle), about how life tends to break your dreams and how the wounded wings of an eagle cub didn't carry far. And the he did some very very vulgar ones, like Kumi-Roope (Rubber-Robert), which is a parody of Rosvo-Roope (Robert the Robber/Pirate). The original is a song for a movie about the pirate, this version is about a man who sells condoms in the countryside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5tsXXmMvyg It feature lyrical wonders like "ei kuminsyönti vienyt lapsentekokykyä / mut paska tulee paketissa tätä nykyä" (eating rubber didn't stop me from procreating / but nowadays my poo poo comes in a capsule) about a duden who doesn't understand how condoms work. And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FviEFAOB8_I ´ "Always in my mind", where the thing always in the mind of the song person is a vagina. Vainio had serious issues with alcohol and while he did manage to stay sober for years later in his life he died in his fifties. He had real talent for singing super vulgar songs with a straight face.
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Cornelius was perhaps Swedens most successful and influential troubadours or his time, he was a dutch immigrant that moved to Sweden with his family when he was 12 years old, as I understand it he also made songs written in Dutch as well but I've never heard any of these and as I understand it he wasn't very popular in the Netherlands, he was quite huge here in Sweden however. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga går med trasiga skor (some people walk in broken shoes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWHxsqOl_v0
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Kamrat posted:Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga går med trasiga skor (some people walk in broken shoes) Vreeswijk is hella fantastic Here's a song that is simultaneously in Swedish (Anna Nordell) and Danish ("Johnny Deluxe" idk his real name). It's corny as hell (litt tråkig förstås) but I reallly like how our languages work together. "I dream of you, but there's a hundred thousand miles between Copenhagen and Malmö (actual distance 30 km)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usn7Ue8r-F0 And since I'm on it, The Swedish Björn Afzelius cover of Danish Anne Linnet's song "Tusind Stykker". I like the cover, but whoever directed the video should be fired out of a cannon. It's not a comical song. "Everything can break / a heart can break into a thousand pieces / if you say that you are my friend / then maybe i am that" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-ZcFgDj-4 Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 03:29 on Dec 11, 2021 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:And since I'm on it, The Swedish Björn Afzelius cover of Danish Anne Linnet's song "Tusind Stykker". I like the cover, but whoever directed the video should be fired out of a cannon. It's not a comical song. "Everything can break / a heart can break into a thousand pieces / if you say that you are my friend / then maybe i am that" Had no idea this song was a cover, going to have to take a listen to the original, and yeah the video sucks, I have no idea how this was greenlit.
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Kamrat posted:Had no idea this song was a cover, going to have to take a listen to the original, and yeah the video sucks, I have no idea how this was greenlit. It's so weird. It's a serious ballad about heartbreak, but for some reason the band is made out to be clowns & it makes Björn & Anne look ridiculous. I guess some exec was bored
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Time for some stone cold chinese classics (ok maybe some are just my taste) First is Tian Mi Mi which is like, the ballad to know. If you know only one classic Chinese megahit, make it this one. This was basically the "we can have a music industry???" for mainlanders and is a great tune to boot https://youtu.be/0l9y1Dw1_0g Next we have https://youtu.be/x-vvcbaqkr4 which, just, watch this thing. Its a fun, upbeat clap along poppy little 80s track but really you gotta see the dance. I'm biased since I had to learn this and all the dance steps. For a more modern song might I recommend Nan Shan Nan https://youtu.be/kqJ9a_EoBx8 which again Im biased and can't find on youtube the goddamn stage show performance that made me really love this song. A but of an odd song as it doesn't do the part every one thinks of when they think of this song until, like, the very end.
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I listen to this song every once in a while. It's a Danish song that screams 80's, I don't know why but I love it so much. I have no idea if it was big over here in Sweden but with over 3 million views on youtube I'm sure this was a hit in Denmark. Laban - Kold som is (Cold as ice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4eIROnBQow Barudak posted:Next we have https://youtu.be/x-vvcbaqkr4 which, just, watch this thing. Its a fun, upbeat clap along poppy little 80s track but really you gotta see the dance. I'm biased since I had to learn this and all the dance steps. This is great. 
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Here's a Finnish 90s classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H69tJmsgd9I organburner posted:Figures that the only good swedish songs are about jacking off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-DfTFHlI4 "Wank me with white gloves on" e: Also gently caress YOUR NO ENGLISH RULE HERE'S AN AMERICAN SONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj7-yplYbJs
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Again, a language I don't speak from a country I'm not from. But I've been watching the Swedish show Så mycket bättre lately, which involves musicians doing covers of each other's songs. This season put out some real bangers. My favourites: Maxida Märak's cover of the Arvingarna song Eloise. Märak's version is much better if you've heard how Beach Boys-y the original is. Daniel Adams-Ray's cover of Maxida Märak's song Jåhkåmåhkke (Jokkmokk). The original, which is lovely, has no words (I think it's a joik ?), so Adams-Ray's cover is essentially an original song. The guest singer at the end is Märak's mum. The Finnish version of the show, Vain Elämää, has also resulted in some good stuff. Pyhimys and the Teflon Brothers' cover of Anne Mattila's Perutaan Häät is my favourite just because everyone's reactions make me laugh.
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Here's some popular Japanese songs you've probably heard in memes but didn't know much about. Yoshi Ikuzo - Ora Tokyo sa Iguda (I'm going to Tokyo) This got a fairly recent EDM remix but this is the original. It tells the story of a man who is unfulfilled by his antiquated home town, vowing to move to Tokyo. However, being from so far out in the country he has no idea about city life, and his plans for Tokyo life include keeping cattle and pulling a horse and cart. For most of his career the singer was a rather straight faced Enka singer but this is one of his rarer upbeat hits. EDIT: Almost forgot, very recently he did a special version to advertise Resident Evil: VIllage which plays on the lyric "I hate this village" ("Konna mura iya da") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmL_LzDtl4k Hopefully this works in all regions Kohmi Hirose - Promise The song from the "Get Down" meme is actually a love song about (possibly empty) promises of eternal love. The lady herself has a fairly interesting back story as well, she mainly got into singing because she wanted to meet Michael Jackson, going so far as to move to LA and take lessons from his vocal coach. She recently got a second wind of popularity in Japan thanks to her Youtube channel where she does slightly unhinged piano covers of popular songs. And finally, not a great song (definitely not timeless at least) but worth mentioning in this context: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - PON PON PON I think this was passed around a lot at the time as a "lol Japan is weird" type thing but they missed the point that this song and the video was made specifically to be as weird as possible (without being offensive) and for the few short years that Kyary was bankable she milked that aesthetic as hard as she could. RillAkBea has a new favorite as of 12:56 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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What is even real anymore. Aaa
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A local staple, Traktor Alban (finnish swedish dialect, puns and the like) by Sås & Kopp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nEkxgOSdJA Som en gummiboll kommer jag tillbaks till dig (like a rubber ball I come back to you) by M.A. Numminen, a finn who decided to sing in swedish as well. Also called the human auto-tuner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy7FxPJca-4 His Divine Shadow has a new favorite as of 16:09 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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I don't speak Japanese but city pop is my jam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S81DjBZEsk
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Carthag Tuek posted:I don't speak Japanese but city pop is my jam 
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Here's a classic from bästa talet, 80-talet. Jag vill ha en synth farsan (I want a synthesizer dad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUnRLaWemME Down in the comments there's a translation.
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Here's a music video done by the finnish-swedish radio X3m morning crew (at that time) teaming up with more known artist Pandora to make a humoristic song where they argue that Pandora should be made the queen of Åland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlKJ8DCH6U Radio x3m does a lot of parody songs... Grani Style (riffing on Grankulla, it's our rich people place) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7B-Y2RndZY Gung i Kajutan, this one's not an actual parody but an original tune (afaik), about summer and boating, again it's the radio hosts who are doing the singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD6zWVhMJds I can't find the one where they ripped on Eric Amarillos song "Om sanningen ska fram" I remember it was probably a bit too offensive to remain up, lyrics went something like "if your mother smells like butt sex, who will want you sleep with you?"
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His Divine Shadow posted:Radio x3m does a lot of parody songs... There was some lady on YleX or Radiomafia (can't remember how long ago this was) who used to do parodies of songs, and I'm sad I can't find a clip because turning "Shake it like a polaroid picture" into "meikatessa kolaroit pikkasen" ("you crashed your car a bit while applying make-up") requires some skillz.
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Just rediscovered this one on accident. Not sure if it ever really was a local "hit", but apparently it was big / popular enough to get a music video that aired on television on VIVA (which was a local rival to MTV, back when they still aired actual music). Anthony Rother - Hacker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwALo2TpO-Y Rather minimalistic electro, dark, dirty and powerfully retro-futuristic. And despite what title and artist sound like (and the artist has some English songs), this one is not an English song. Hacker tradition muss ewig weitergehen.
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Swedish country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB0o6G2v3R8 Änglahund (angel dog) Google translation quote:It was late one night we had played in a market And so on.
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Thåström - Fanfanfan (Fuckfuckfuck) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U5-OOZ1cVs The song is about missing one of your long lost lovers and wanting to go back in time to change things.
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Some 70s Ukrainian funk songs, how much "pop" and "classics" or "hit" they are is a bit questionable but I thought someone might find this interesting regardless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EOir2NFZk4
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mobby_6kl posted:Some 70s Ukrainian funk songs, how much "pop" and "classics" or "hit" they are is a bit questionable but I thought someone might find this interesting regardless Gotta say... this is great
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mobby_6kl posted:Some 70s Ukrainian funk songs, how much "pop" and "classics" or "hit" they are is a bit questionable but I thought someone might find this interesting regardless this rules. reminds me of this mix of soviet movie soundtrack funk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVbVD3cJZMw
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:this rules. reminds me of this mix of soviet movie soundtrack funk Awesome. Holy poo poo 20:42
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