The Best Act (from Finland)

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If Geir gets his own poll, I want mine too!

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Bomfunk MCs	16
Vladislav Delay / Luomo	13
Circle	9
Pan Sonic	6
Lordi	5
Islaja	4
Leningrad Cowboys	3
Hanoi Rocks	3
Jean Sibelius	3
Ural 13 Diktators	3
Jimi Tenor	3
Pharaoh Overlord	2
22 Pistepirkko	2
Värttinä	2
Kimmo Pohjonen	1
Impaled Nazarene	1
Magyar Posse	1
Nightwish	1
Redrama	0
Giant Robot	0
Children of Bodom	0
Amorphis	0
Alamaailman vasarat	0
Waltari	0
Kuusumun profeetta / Moon Fog Prophet	0
The Rasmus	0
HIM	0
Pekka Pohjola	0
Jori Hulkkonen	0
Ovuca / Astrobotnia	0
Op:l Bastards	0
Husky Rescue	0
Wigwam	0

― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 April 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

No Kemialliset Ystävät? Tivol?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Never heard of those, sorry.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

It's a toughie between Hanoi Rocks, Pan Sonic, Pharaoh Overlord, Circle and Islaja.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

Avarus! Pekka Streng!

― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

I was considering Pekka Streng, but I didn't think anyone outside Finland would even know him.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Deep Turtle, Aavikko, Brothomstates, Can Can Heads...

But I'll vote for Circle anyway after letting the mouse pointer linger over 22Pistepirkko and Kimmo Pohjonen for a while, just like I might have even if the above were on there.

(I see there is new Ovuca soon, which I'm looking forward to.)
(ILM being ILM, I guess Luomo is going to win, which is not fair because those aren't even his best projects listed. Sistol!)

― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

what is "finland"

― cutty, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't care to list all of Mr. Ripatti's side projects. Since he uses the name Vladislav Delay on most of them, you can just vote for him if you think some of them is better than Luomo/Delay.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ditto for Jori Hulkkonen.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

(I see there is new Ovuca soon, which I'm looking forward to.)

I've got this, it's pretty good! (Not under the Ovuca name so I only assume we're talking about the same thing. On Rephlex.)

I vote for Circle anyway I think

― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, too close to call between Hanoi Rocks and the Leningrad Cowboys!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

gotta be those 22-P guys. their albums are totally mad and wonderful.
however, they dont make me laugh quite as much as the Leningrad Cowboys

― mark e, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

No Finntroll?

― the next grozart, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

artists from Finland that i have bookmarked on del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/djmartian/artists%2Bfinland

― djmartian, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

list needs more kuupuu. also shogun kunitoki.

― zappi, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Man if we listed every finnish underground band that gets on Foxy Digitalis/Aquarius Records mailing list , we would never be able to decide!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

My vote's for 22-P, too. Fantastic band.

― braveclub, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

re: Man if we listed every finnish underground band that gets on Foxy Digitalis/Aquarius Records mailing list , we would never be able to decide!

only david keenan [and his Volcanic Tongue customers] listens to those artists in the UK

― djmartian, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

I listen to both Avarus and Kemmialiset Ystavat way more than I do circle.

― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

only david keenan [and his Volcanic Tongue customers] listens to those artists in the UK

That's me!

I voted Pharaoh Overlord because I thought more people would choose Circle. Same with Hanoi Rocks.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

no korpikaani no kredibility

http://www.fotogriausmas.lt/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=46399&g2_serialNumber=3

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

Will Nightwish quietly win this with no one actually admitting on here that they like them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

my heart says moonsorrow

http://www.metal-rules.com/interviews/images/Moonsorrow-pic2.JPG

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

you just know that Battlelore are gonna sweep this thing though

http://www.digitalmetal.com/graphics/battlelore_band.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://aquariusrecords.org/images/vapsphincd.jpg
V/A Psychedelic Phinland (Love Records) 2cd 27.00
The current Finnish psych
phenomenon -- Avarus, Kemialliset Ystavat, Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Kiila, etc. etc. is of course a major AQ obsession. As is vintage psych from, well, heck just about anywhere, but certainly Scandinavia. So this double-disc compilation, subtitled "Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974" has got us all excited. There's 29 tracks from almost as many artists, a fantastic trip into the early daze of the Finnish freak-scene. Perhaps another good subtitle would have been: "When Drugs Came To Finland". There's even a few songs about marijuana to set the mood, starting off disc one. But Psychedelic Phinland is just as political, and parodic, and perverse as it is potheaded. There's plenty of Flower Power pop and/or fuzzed-out blues rock, but you'll also find jazz-damaged prog and mystic folk, revolutionary theatre and electronic insanity. There's so much here, we can't mention it all, but look out for heavy psych jammers Baby Grandmothers, "rocking lavatory anarchists" Suomen Talvisota 1939-40, and progrock pioneers Wigwam... then there's there's Eastern-inflected psych-folk from Pekka Streng and the Yippie ranting of Markku Uto...
And then on disc two things get REALLY weird. Yeah this one's even further out, crossing over a bit into "Arktinen Hysteria" territory (you maybe remember, that great collection of early Finnish avant-weirdness from a while back, also released by Love Records). It starts off innocently enough with our new favorite band(name), Those Lovely Hula Hands. Really, that's their name, and they included several 13 and 14 year old sisters playing violins and recorders, singing gently amidst tape-recorded bird-twitter... a song about Tarzan! Then we hear from Pekka Airaksinen and also his band The Sperm, doing extended feedback and tape music experiments. We remember The Sperm from that Arktinen comp and had wanted to hear more. Later on, there's some wonderfully primitive, ceremonial hippy jamming, particularly from a band called Sikiot, who have a krautrockish vibe like Siloah or Amon Duul. And there's plenty more, some other names of note on these cds include J.O. Mallander, Charlies, Topmost, Juice Leskinen & Coitus Int, Apollo, Blues Section, Hector & Oscar, and Kruunuhaan Dynamo...
All of this is pretty much totally obscure, in fact a lot of it consists of previously unissued archival recordings from the vaults of Finland's Love label and other sources... A true labor of Love. Comes with a twenty page, full color cd booklet with English-language notes on each track and tons of cool old photos and graphics.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

seriously though, enochian crescent ALONE, are better than 95% of american bands. finland rules.

http://www.suezine.fi/pic/ecfoto2.gif

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

and the new ensiferum album rules by the way

http://www.ensiferum.com/Pressikuvat/Dragonheads/enska.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

You people scare me even more than Ed's historical reenactment mates.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

best metal band from Finland:

Shape of Despair
http://www.myspace.com/shapeofdespair

― djmartian, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

fonal rules:

http://www.fonal.com/

Kemialliset Ystavat are very cool.

with the exception of Battlelore, I really do love those bands above. Moonsorrow, Enochian Crescent, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani. Can't wait to hear the new Korpiklaani album. New Moonsorrow album is one of the best albums of the year so far. Amazing.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

so much amazing stuff and tuomas probably doesn't listen to any of it! oh well. his list is still pretty good. i do like bomfunk MCs, children of bodom, circle, hanoi rocks, him, impaled nazarene, pan sonic, sibelius, luomo, varttina, and wigwam.

never really liked amorphis strangely enough. and i'm not a lordi fan.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

JARI KURRI PWNS!!

(I've never heard Pekka Streng, actually. Always meant to check him out though...)

― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Where is Eppu Normaali? (Best early-80's-indie-thingy-øhhh-band ever)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIGgTmOHE_Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIGgTmOHE_Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIGgTmOHE_Y

― MRZBW, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

what do you mean by "the best act"

― am0n, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

NO BEHERIT NO CREDIBILITY

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.metal-observer.com/covers/cov4431.jpg

― Jordan, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Well. Not a bit fan of Bomfunk MCs but at least I have heard of them and they're OK at times.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

big even

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Lau Nau

― admrl, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

cats on fire
le future pompiste

― keythkeyth, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, Kimmo Pohjonen is one of the greatest "I have no idea what this is"purchases I have ever made. Otherwise, Lordi.

― John Justen, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

I was actually hoping there would be one of these so I could vote for Nightwish. And I did!

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

I knew you would!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Lordi all the way even though Leningrad Cowboys were a close second!

― kv_nol, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

c i r c l e

― m the g, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Finland is by far my favorite country for metal, and I even love a lot of their more rock acts (The 69 Eyes, Poets of the Fall). I have this four CD compilation of Finnish rock music, and there's some great stuff on there, including a jazz group that has black metal drumming!

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

i]a jazz group that has black metal drumming![[/i]

name names!

― m the g, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

gah! bloody tags.

― m the g, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Alamaailman Vasarat. I'm not sure if they're exactly jazz, I just called them that because I didn't know what else to call them... they basically sound like Finntroll slammed together with Apocalyptica without vocals. Death polka, maybe? It's pretty awesome.

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, they're on the list.

I don't know that much about Finnish metal, so I only listed the acts I know for sure have gotten international fame.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 7 April 2007 08:59 (eighteen years ago)

NO ARMI & DANNY -- NO CREDIBILITY

(i voted for luomo)

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 7 April 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

For the friends of Pekka Streng and other Finnish folk I'd recommend searching for Nostalgia, the debut album of by Hector, from 1972. Hector is known mostly as a rocker, but his first solo album is a brilliant piece of folk pop, kinda like Pekka Streng but more straightforward, and one of he best Finnish albums ever, even if you don't understand the lyrics.

(I would YSI, but it's still forbidden, right?)

― Tuomas, Saturday, 7 April 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Hows the new Islaja?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Sibelius seems definitely, and unfairly, underloved on this threaddah.

― t**t, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Geir would've picked Sibelius I'm sure. I remember hearing Finlandia at school and loving it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

So much greatness here! I'll drop my vote for Kuusumun Profeetta before I scroll down any further.

― Jena, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

es?

― swwan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

People make some good comments in these nation-threads, but as far as the poll itself..., well they'll just vote along party lines (meaning genre), won't they?

― Rich Smörgasbord, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

But we always do, don't we?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

luomo vs islaja vs sibelius is a pretty good three-way choice at the top...obv went for luomo :)

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Einojuhani Rautavaara. God bless 'im.

― Rich Smörgasbord, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

New Islaja album is really good.

Also Paavoharju got missed out in the poll too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Bump.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

Why? No Arja Saijonmaa? :)

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

No Matti Nykänen either.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas are Taipuva Luotisuora any good?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

I remember I had a short bit of an Eppu Normaali track on my C-64 sometime in the late 80s. It's not that I found the song good in any way, just that back in the day the idea of an actual recorded song having been scanned into a computer file was so... Wow!!! Hi-tech of the day :)

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 12 April 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Eppu Normaali is good in a very peculiar way. The poll misses it.

― MRZBW, Thursday, 12 April 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, this is a surprise winner!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Admittedly, they have released some undeniably great dance singles. Did any of the others besides "Freestyler" get much airplay outside Finland though?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Where's the Nightwish love?! Lame.

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

Did any of the others besides "Freestyler" get much airplay outside Finland though?

Norwegian hitlists statistics for Bomfunk MCs:
http://lista.vg.no/artist_info.php?ArtistOp=show&artistId=1

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

The guy who did the music for "Freestyler" (Jaakko Salovaara aka JS16) also co-produced Darude's "Sandstorm", so he's behind two of the biggest Finnish dance hits ever.

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't realise Darude were Finnish, but Bomfunk MCs is considerably more tolerable than Darude anyway.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

These were also big hits here, off their first album:

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And this is their latest single from 2004:

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Maybe too much inspired by "Hey Ya"?

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck, I thought the linking thing was fixed! Well, here's the URLs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDD4ino0ibE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjG8-lWMv10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05xF5VmxegQ

And the 2004 song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7gL6P1dmro

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

Christ, I didn't know they also covered "I know There's Something Going On":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7gL6P1dmro

The previous Eurodance cover of that song (by Co.Ro feat. Taleesa) was better though.

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

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