Finnish music videos

Finnish music videos from the vaults part 4: Summer

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The theme of the evening is summer and these three bands have been part of my summer soundtrack for a long time.

Karkkiautomaatti: Seikkailuun
The lead single of their third and last album Suudelmilla that was released in 1998. Suudelmilla was and still is one of the greatest finnish albums ever released. Eventhough Seikkailuun isn’t my favourite track of the album, it’s still a marvellous song.
 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYTiBy-Tgm8]
 

Poverty Stinks: Summer Will Never End
Poverty Stinks is also a perfect music for sunny outdoor picnics. A criminally overlooked band that created a bunch of great pop albums and a huge amount of perfect pop songs. This single Summer Will Never End from 1993 is certainly one of them.
 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz79FHfw9jc]
 

Aknestik: Kesällä ei mennä nukkumaan
Aknestik is a band that I rarely listen to during the other three seasons, but in the summertime albums like Onni and especially Säätiedotuksia merenkulkijoille seem like the best thing ever. This summer anthem is from the album Onni which was released back in 1994.
 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPduW3zTHBE]

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Janne Laurila & Nopat

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As previously mentioned, Janne Laurila’s album Kultaisia pisteitä is due out in september. However, you can already take a sneak preview, because today Janne added three new songs from the upcoming album to his myspace. Oh and now Janne’s band has a name. It isn’t called Nopat eventhough that made a good sounding title to this blog entry. It’s called Tuhlaajapojat. So look out for Janne Laurila ja Tuhlaajapojat concerts next fall if you want to see some of the finest live performances this country has to offer.

Janne Laurila at myspace

Nopat also added some great new songs. Tune in their myspace to experience their greatness. Or come to Flavour Of The Month’s summer edition where Nopat share the stage with College Fall (aus) and Jaakko Söderström (Ben’s Diapers frontman’s first solo gig). The event will take place at Pikku Torre, Turku on 27th of june. More information about this FOTM event later on, but now you can already mark it to your calendars. See ya there.

Nopat at myspace

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Drew Danburry: Lynette I Love You

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Tonight’s favourite song and music video is Drew Danburry’s Lynette I Love You. I have some of his older material and noticed his myspace bulletin about Weezer cover I Do. I enjoyed it a lot (you can watch video of it here or download it for free…read his myspace blog and you’ll find the link) and therefore I went to see what other things he has done recently and found this beauty. It’s a really lovely bit of “Jonathan Richmanesque” pop music.

 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGydR68CsFA]

Drew Danburry at myspace

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