Rules: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your summer (or winter for those who happen to live down south). Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.
(although I will break the rules enough not to tag anyone: I don't want to oblige anyone to procrastinate. I have some social conscience. :-) Let me know if you want to volunteer)
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At the moment I'm so completely hearting Apocalyptica that facebook and google have started targeting heavymetal ads at me. Yeah. So I could compile my seven just out of cello melancholia, but I have limited myself to two songs: Unforgiven and Life Burns. I have to say I'm not overly enamoured by their videos - the second one in particular just has too many cliches of gothica thrown in for added 'darkness'. Or maybe it's deliberately kitschy and I'm just too beige to recognise it. Either way, the aural trumps the visual in both.
Apocalyptica: Unforgiven
(okay, so it won't let me embed this. Go see it for yourself.)
Apocalyptica feat. Lauri Ylönen: Life Burns
Now, next up a song that can't help but make me smile - partly because it's so happy-sounding and bubblegummy, and partly because it has a lovely aftertaste of anarchy to it.
Mika: Billy Brown
Every now and then I set my mp3 player to play the next song while I walk to the bus stop. It's a song that is at its best when you're moving. Understanding Finnish also helps.
Tyrävyö: Ajetaan me tandemilla
The next two are moderately thesis-related, and are in fact film clips. The first is from Mika Kaurismäki's Rosso, in which an Italian and a Finn, who don't speak the same language, realise they know the same song in their respective languages. The music starts about 45 seconds into the clip. The second is from Aki Kaurismäki's Total Balalaika Show, a documentary of the Leningrad Cowboys/ Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble concert in Helsinki in the nineties.
Olen suomalainen/ l'italiano
Those Were the Days
And finally, a earworm from my Eurovision research. It's glorious.
Marie Myriam: L'enfant et l'oiseau