[Leningrad Cowboys - Sauna / 2:08]From my previous entries¤ on "Suomalainen Kevät" or "Finnish Spring," you may have concluded that musically Finland only deals in broody atmosphere and sullen spirits. That is only one facet of the country's production.Finland is also the land of 1,000 tangos and other merrymaking such as Vappu on 1st May. It is an occasion for Finns to show their true festive .
I was listening to old mix cd's yesterday and I heard "Happy Together" by the "Leningrad Cowboys":http://www.leningradcowboys.fi/. I should've posted this yesterday since just about all this Finnish group produces are cover songs. They seem like a strange and lively bunch. I want to hear their version of "Stairway to Heaven". In case you are wondering on the two tracks I'm posting they're s...
After being dragged along to see them in a club on the reperbahn, Hamburg by a german girlfriend in 90/91(I'm really bad with dates)I had a brillant time dancing around drunk on good beer and snapps. I now realise that they sound like a cross between the Darkness and the Blues Brothers alternately playing mad Eastern European folk music and American classic rock covers, the band flirted with ma...
Gives all new meaning to "Play that funky music 'TIL YOU DIE!" For a really good mind boggle, I hope you will go back to my two posts 5 months ago: A full review of Zombie's Paradise with the eye-popping video of Goldfinger and the You're My Heart sci-fi animation video. You won't be sorry. Have funky fun!
First off... sorry to all my Finish friends who hate these guys..."The Leningrad Cowboys":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Cowboys came to my attention due to my having seen the cover of the VHS (remember that format?) tape of the film "Leningrad Cowboys Go America":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Cowboys_Go_America at a local video store in my home town. One of the great things my...
Get a load of this mind-boggling video of Leningrad Cowboys performing GOLDFINGER! This song is from their ZOMBIES PARADISE album. This Finnish band is best known around the world as the ones from the movie, Leningrad Cowboye Go America and the ones who staged the masive concert in Helsinki with the Alexandrov Red Army Chorus and Orchestra when the Soviet Union disolved. Like all of their ear...
http://video.mail.ru/mail/hyenaz/167/168.html This is a great video of Leningrad Cowboys You're My Heart from a Russian (I'm pretty sure) site called MAIL.RU. Someone posted a vid from this site of a cover of Arthur Brown's Fire. I think it was a comment on Mick the Knife's post. I'd like to thank that person and MOG some more with them. Also, I'd like to know how they did it, because MOG g...
Tuesday I am off to Sweden and Finland for 2 weeks. Going to see my friends in Sweden, see Radio Birdman in Finland, and hopefully hang out with The Flamin' Sideburns, The Patsy Walkers and Thee Ultra Bimboos. It's going to be music everywhere, and I hope to bring back cool stuff and be able to write about music related stuff here on MOG when I return... so to that end I have prepped my note bo...