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Russianbear
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 Message 137 of 261
24 May 2009 at 8:58pm | IP Logged 
JS-1 wrote:
Estonia was my favourite, although I liked Bosnia too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5InsOMjClxk


Same here. Estonia was my favorite, too. And I thought Bosnia was good, too. The thing about songs in Serbocroatian is that I understand just enough for me to think the lyrics may be profound, and at the same time I don't understand enough to be disappointed.

I also liked Portugal quite a bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNYBYH3bZFI&feature=related


JS-1 wrote:
It's hard to believe that decent performers and song-writers used to enter the
Eurovision before it became the silly celebration of tackiness that it is today.

FRENCH:
This became famous as an easy-listening instrumental. It was originally a Eurovision
song from 1967 sung by Vicky Leandros for Luxembourg, who astonishingly enough came
fourth.

Vicky Leandros L'Amour est bleu video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIH7mjqhkiw

Contest footage of the same song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY


I know this song from Sicko, Michael Moore's latest movie. This song is used in one of the scenes where he discusses health care in France.

Anyways, I think there were several decent song this year - it was probably a pretty good year for Eurovision in terms of music content.

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Russianbear
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 Message 138 of 261
24 May 2009 at 10:39pm | IP Logged 
Some recommendations for RUSSIAN:

Kino - Хочу перемен! ("I demand change!"). The following video has this late-80s song translated into sign-language - and performed over the closing credits of a recent movie. It is kinda cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9dpPdbnTHA&feature=related

ДДТ (DDT):

Ленинград ("Leningrad"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvF261iUf0c

Метель (Snowstorm):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrGM66VMojs

Это всё (That's All):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvNoctAa6HI
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Lindsay19
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 Message 139 of 261
28 May 2009 at 10:36pm | IP Logged 
I don't know if it's been posted here already, but I recently stumbled across the Swedish musician Håkan Hellström, and I really like him!

Kom igen Lina!

En vän med en bil

^^My two favorite songs


Nun kan du få mig so lätt

För en lång lång tid

*Oh, and I just found another - and man is it catchy =D

Kristian Anttila - Smutser

Edited by Lindsay19 on 29 May 2009 at 9:58pm

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kottoler.ello
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 Message 140 of 261
29 May 2009 at 5:04am | IP Logged 
Lindsay19, you are by far my favorite person of the day. Yay Swedish music!

Has anyone else noticed the propensity for Swedish music to be either super happy and gleeful or some of the heaviest metal?
I mean, contrast Suburban Kids with Biblical Names with Amon Amarth (both sing in English, unfortunately [except SKWBN has one song in Swedish]). You'll see what I mean.
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mick33
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 Message 141 of 261
29 May 2009 at 10:25pm | IP Logged 
kottoler.ello wrote:
Has anyone else noticed the propensity for Swedish music to be either super happy and gleeful or some of the heaviest metal?
I mean, contrast Suburban Kids with Biblical Names with Amon Amarth (both sing in English, unfortunately [except SKWBN has one song in Swedish]). You'll see what I mean.
Yes, I've noticed this same propensity; but you can find melancholy Swedish pop if you're willing to really look for it.

I know Säkert has already been mentioned here, but here is another song by them that is definitely not happy or gleeful at all Säkert! - Det var tre månader sedan idag. If you know any Swedish or can find a translation of the song "Vi kommer att dö samtidigt, du och jag" (I think there is a link to it in somewhere in this thread, but it's a few pages back)you'll notice that the title means "we will die at the same time, you and I". This can hardly be called cheerful, though the song is more humorous than depressing.

Here's another example Vapnet Plötsligt händer det inte. This one seems to be more contemplative, and probably more like what is called "indie pop" in the US.

Edited by mick33 on 20 November 2009 at 9:09pm

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kottoler.ello
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 Message 142 of 261
30 May 2009 at 8:23pm | IP Logged 
That's true, but even "Vi kommer att dö samtidigt" sounds sooo poppy and happy (although the music video is a little disturbing).
But that's right, I was forgetting Säkert!.

Yah, if it has a glockenspiel, it's definitely indie pop here in the US.
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 Message 143 of 261
01 June 2009 at 11:20pm | IP Logged 
Here's another one in Swedish: Björn Afzelius, "Tusen bitar" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-ZcFgDj-4

He was one of my mum's favourites in my childhood so I've heard this a million times and heard him mentioned again today, beautiful song...
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 Message 144 of 261
01 June 2009 at 11:45pm | IP Logged 
No one has mentioned Basshunter or Opeth recently? Both are Swedish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzWIFX8M-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQUsp-jxDQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6K8-axf3U


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