Finnish Disco?

[Videoskooter]

Jussik, I think you have some explaining to do here!!!

[Rugger57]

I didn't get a photo with the post there......

Why, was there some disco left undone???

[JussiK]

Jussik, I think you have some explaining to do here!!!

This performance by a Finnish relative of Borat Sagdiyev dates back to the dawn of time and I quite cannot recall his name.
My own ensemble of yellow NMKY=YMCA sleeveless t-shirt and imitation satin boxer shorts is also long gone.
Sigh.

[fabbathanabba]

That was hysterical you had me in stitches:icon_lol:

Found this one.. not as funny but entertaining all the same:icon_smile:


YouTube - Finnish Disco Dancing Mash-Up

[Videoskooter]

I quite cannot recall his name

Ehmm, it's Gregorius :icon_biggrin:

Quite frankly, I do like the keyboard player in the beginning who is utterly cool and if I ever make it to your country I can ask for the En-Em-Ko-U!

BTW, after this guy and Lordi, the Finnish really have to do something good now!

[Videoskooter]

Found this one.. not as funny but entertaining all the same:icon_smile:

Here's another version of that 1. It's becoming so cult that even contemporary artists like Cassius are using it in their vids!

[JussiK]

BTW, after this guy and Lordi, the Finnish really have to do something good now!

Well, Pamela Anderson, who is of Finnish descent, is buying a summer house not too far away from where I live. If that's not good enough then what is.

[Feisty Diva]

Hmmm... I'll be right over..... lol...


Actually, caught this thread as I was listening to Den Harrow on Finnish station Radio KLF .... Some good radio over there. Often listen to this one despite the odd 'dodgy' tune.

[Dayna]

OMG Johan~!! I am LMAO~!!
Thank you I needed to laugh

[InvisibleMan]

strange post but some of that stuff above made me laugh. Learn how to disco dance with Cassius :icon_mrgreen:

Bogart Co - All the best girls, I like this one, but it's more of an 80's funky dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGP1xtVQHwM

[Videoskooter]

Never heard that Bogart track and it's not bad at all.

BTW, is there some good Finnish Disco we missed? Tracks that were pretty Ok but didn't cross over?

[JussiK]

YouTube - Tinni - LENTOON

This is kind of okay(ish), by the guys who recently worked with Warren Schatz with that orchestral thing staged in Tallinn Estonia that Bernie posted a clip of.
The best Finnish 70's disco track is "Auringonmaa" by Anneli Pasanen, no Youtube clip available yet. This borrows from Santa Esmeralda and Bimbo Jet, with a pouding rhythm and snappy handclaps.

[InvisibleMan]

Satu Pentikäinen - Soi Soi
YouTube - Satu Pentikäinen - Soi, Soi
is this a cover song or original? Awesome tune with strings and all

Ota tai jätä
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSK7Sp1l2Xw

and some others from her from 80's

YouTube - Satu Pentikäinen - Ei huolet paina

YouTube - Satu Pentikäinen - Haluun vapauteen

[JussiK]

Soi, Soi is a cover of a German schlager tune called Don't Stop The Music from 1979. The rest are originals from Le Baron, a Finnish jazz musican who tried his hand at disco during the 70's and moved on Modern Talking-style low tempo hi-nrg during the early 80's. I interviewed him a while back and he complained that he just wasn't able to get the feel he wanted for the productions....

[InvisibleMan]

Jussik, here is a 1983 song that's labeled by discogs as "Disco Schlager"
Sonja Lumme - Ratsasta Luoksein
YouTube - Sonja Lumme - RATSASTA LUOKSEIN
or there is her Eurovision song Eläköön elämä

is this the type of Finnish Schlager you were talking about in the ABBA thread? To me it sounds not much different than some of Kim Wilde's or even Frida's 80's solo work, with a more Scandianvian touch

another one I came across on youtube is Eini - Tyydytys, also an 80's schlager song from Finland with over the top vocal melody

[InvisibleMan]

a thread some Finnish people are probably trying to forget....sorry heh heh heh
here is more pseudo-Disco Scandinavian way, a pretty catchy tune. And those sure look like mom-jeans

Meiju Suvas - Oot Paha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB5hGCtvjhc

[JussiK]

Meiju Suvas and "Olet Paha/You're Evil"...truth obliges me to confess I went out with her some time before she started doing Stuff Like That. The girl used to be a dj back in the day and she was quite a dancer as well.

As for Finnish disco, there's something people here should remember:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NlqTFbZO4

[JussiK]

Damn I accidentally posted a wrong video, that's not a disco track of course! Here's the right one called VOODOO quite a cult item right now, your for a mere 200€ or something at Discoqs etc. - I still don't know how to get a vid embedded right...

[mrkick20000]

Meiju Suvas and "Olet Paha/You're Evil"...truth obliges me to confess I went out with her some time before she started doing Stuff Like That. The girl used to be a dj back in the day and she was quite a dancer as well.

As for Finnish disco, there's something people here should remember:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NlqTFbZO4

Hey, I purchased the other day her 2CD set 'Juhlalevy Pure Mua' ---the Finnish titles in which I don't understand at all--- on the spur of the moment at eBay, and it has reached me. Not bad, as the tunes remind me of Japanese Kayou-kyoku (popular musc)... are they typical European shlarger tunes?? In particular ''Oot Paha'' and ''Ota Kii'' (probably the remake of Mordern Talking's ''You're My Heart, You're My Soul'') are nice to listen to. Anyway, my wife, a 5-year Fnnish learner, and I both took a fancy to them.

[JussiK]

Yes, Mr Kick, these are fairly typical and timeless examples of what people here dance to especially this time of the year, the time before Christmas, the time of Office Parties! Drunkeness, unwanted pregnancies, karaoke everywhere, stale beer, etc. - I have been avoiding the subject of music whenever I bump into Meiju but this I got to tell her the next time. I don't see her too often though, not because she's very short even on her ten inch louboutins, but because she hangs out where they got like plastic palm trees and such.