There were not metal songs as this is a video about "Suomirokki", a sub-genre of rock music, Finlands own flavor of rock. An interesting idea for a video could be you picking out songs from this that sound interesting, and finding a full version of it to hear the whole thing. And your analysis at the end was pretty spot on about it being "popular rock".
Funny thing about finnish music is that almoust all of these songs are still popular and relevant. I was born in 1999 and still know almost all of these songs from the heart. Love to you, you're doing awesome job
3:24 actually that song "Marilyn" is original Finnish song about Marilyn Monroe :) The artist is the most popular songwriter in Finland, Juice Leskinen (rip).
"Hetki lyö" was originally "Beat the clock by the McCoys". And yes translating US and British songs into finnish versions was a huge thing for a long time in 60s and 70s.
For decades, we used to make our own finnish version of new hit songs or evergreens, then the stars of the time performed them. That ended little by little after the knowledge of the english language became common. We've also had the habit of making humorous versions of these songs.
A sad fact from 1995 about a musician named Aki Sirkesalo. Aki Pekka Antero Sirkesalo (25 July 1962 Toijala - 26 December 2004 Khao Lak, Thailand) was a Finnish musician and music journalist. He and his family perished in Thailand during the Tsunami
There were a couple of bands in there that are metal. HIM, Nightwish and Teräsbetoni as I recall. Lordi is on the verge of metal but would call it just heavy rock. I was born in '84 and the song I think was Levoton Tuhkimo by Dingo who are from my hometown of Pori and some classify the music as Pori-Rock.
They did a great job with that. I think they did the project to celebrate Finland 100th independence day. They got the idea for it when they had toured the schools introducing Finnish rock music to school kids. Finnish rock being a pretty broad genre. There were Finnish artists and groups, who made careers performing American songs in English too. Chances to see the original performers live in Finland were rare, so there were demand for those artists and bands. When Paul Anka performed in Finland in 1959, it was a huge thing. That's how it has gone with most of the genres, which usually have originated from somewhere else than Finland. First bands buy the foreign albums, learn to play the songs, often perform them with Finnish lyrics and then someone comes along and makes original Finnish songs within that genre. That's pretty much how it goes everywhere-including in the UK since it's not like rock n roll originated from there. Even Beatles went to Chuck Berry school of rock n roll. At that point if the early 80s there was already a lot of bands making their own songs and performing in Finnish. Finnish artists were performing American country songs in Finnish already in the 30s, but in the 70s there was already popular Finnish country. music made: "Jarno Sarjanen - Pienen pojan haaveet (1971)".
the made a few metal songs but the guitars wasnt distorted enough so that might be why u didn't noticed im born in 1987 and i have 2 brothers (one older and one younger, 4 years between both)
The covers on this one (if I'm correct and I didn't miss something) 1960: Elvis "Let's Have a Party" (excellent cover by Rock-Jerry btw) 1962: Buzz Clifford "Baby Sittin' Boogie" 1963: Clay Cole "Twist Around the Clock" 1963: Little Richard "Long Tall Sally" 1964: The Beatles "All My Loving" 1965: Rufus Thomas "Walkin' the Dog" 1966: PJ Proby / Tom Jones "To Make a Big Man Cry" 1966: The Lovin' Spoonful "Summer in the City" 1967: The McCoys "Beat the Clock" 1967: Simon Dupree and the Big Sounds "Kites" 1973: Elton John "Crocodile Rock" 1974: Chuck Berry "Reelin' and Rockin'" (the dirtier version. The Finnish version is quite well true to that, and was really pushing the boundaries that what can be said in a mainstream song) 1989: The Hollies "Bus Stop"
You should listen more Dingo. They were early 80's band in finland and the original band was active only 3 years but it made the news with a name "dingomania" so they literalle made people crazy about their music and even to this day they are one of the most popolar bands ever in Finland.
I was born in 1986 and these songs were my teen years :D Oh it was fantastic...so much goo memories. And even if i was born later than these early songs they were still the main stream music when i was teenager. And behind all of this was the whole heavy/symphonic metal culture like nightwish, stratovariius etc. So these songs are just the public radio top finnish songs :)
There was Clifters who made Beatles, Hollies etc. songs in finn, but it was after 80' and the singer of that band is the huge fan of Beatles. And it was not like translation in 60'. Clifters also made their own music and singer Jiri Nikkinen is very good music maker 😊 these excamples is so short, that you can't get the hole picture 😅 2006 was heavymetal, but it didn't sounds like that in this video, original version was made by band Lordi and it was the first finnish winner in Eurovision song contest and that was HUGE here!
Suomirock, suomirokki, is a genre of it's own, not just all the rock in Finland. So not metal, which is a different genre of music :) Suomirock has even subgenre, which is manserock - rock spesifically from Tampere.
In the decades before teh internets, and the way it has made English much more common in every day use, YES, it was a common thing for Finnish artists to translate and cover songs that were originally in English. But many of those covers were actually really good interpretations and original takes on the songs, not just one-on-one translations. It was a moment in our pop history, fondly remembered.
Dingo was the most fan-favored band in Finland at the time, the girls were fainting at the concert and some of them climbed into the attic of the singer's home. Pure hysteria. Thats not very common in Finland. th-cam.com/video/AWLjSGxYgzk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=z2t90Ft79b8upRxY
Most of fifties and sixties pop and rock in Finland were covers of international artists with Finnish lyrics. Finnish language rock only kicked in in the 70s.
There were a lot of songs translated from other languages to Finnish. Primarily from English, but a lot from other european languages too. But songs you thought were translations were in fact not, there just was so short sample of each song that it is hard to tell how they really sounded like. I recommend you listen each song in this list in full lenght to really get to feel them. It could even be a video series for you, reacting to 10 songs each time, you could go one decade at the time. 😊
It was very common to just translate or create altogether new lyrics for foreign songs. Like 90% of our popular childrens songs are just translations. And rest are extremely old
Metal and rock are different genres tho😅 I think that most of these songs were more like "pop rock" songs and songs that many Finns has heard maybe from the radio or something🤔
dont think there was anyone who made their entire career out of singing "finnished" versions of foreign songs, but sure there were artists who had lots of those :)
You are wrong but also right, i mean most of these sing are just their own, of course similar to something you rememember, but also in 80's there was some kind of era when a lot of songs were translated to finnish and sang it all around.. nowadays that is just silly as heck...
Metal was on top 40 list years. Not number one. Sentenced one song was there years. Maybe most bought or most radio plays. Lil metalheads burned or taped their favourite bands. And we had estonias bootleg market,some bring that to here,livingrooms full of cds
You sort of missed part of the metal bands. It was understandable, while the takes were so short and the "metal sound" is a bit hard to create "on the fly" while most of the music is softer "suomirock". However, among the songs metal, or at least hard rock is represented from 2000 forward. With bands like Timo Rautiainen & Trio niskalaukaus, Nightwish, Teräsbetoni. An extreamly condensed and simplified look at the birth of heavy metal in Finland is this. The 70's hardrock and punk music inspired new bands to play a more aggressive type on music. NWBHM and the early speedmetal bands where also a big inspiration for muscians in Finland. One can claim, that 80's is starting point of the metal scene in Finland. First the music was quite in the margin with the pioneers like Tarot (still playing), Zero Nine, Stratovaius (Still playing) and Airdash and Stone. The scene just kept on expanding while metal became acceptable even in USA. Suddenly there were a market for all the bands, that either survived to the 90's or started during it. Bands like Nightwish, Children of Bodom and the aforementioned Timo Rautianen. From there the scene just exploded! Happy to give your more insights, if your interested.
Finnish evergreen genre was and still is all about remaking classic American or english songs whatsoever in Finnish, there are tens of artists so yes, it is a thing
Heavy metal is not in this video because it has never been main steam radio music. All these songs in this video are the top radio songs. Bands like nightwish were much more popular in asia or south america. They were the "main" finnish bands but not very popular in finnish radio.
Also please do check out a band called Von Hertzen Brothers who are amazing and also influenced by Kingston wall. Three brothers playing progressive rock and they are sooo good, they have also toured a bit in the US and Europe.
Hector made a lot of cover songs, like 50+. For an example, Kissojen yö is year of the cat by al stewart, Suomi-neito is american pie by Don Mclean, suzanne is suzanne by Leonard Cohen etc.
As the top comment says, it's good to understand that "suomirock" refers to basically to a whole other genre specific to Finland. It's a specific sound, theme and image.
Metal isn’t really rock and especially not suomirock. If you are interested in hearing finnish heavy metal Turmion Kätilöt is one band that comes to mind
Yeah finlands music in 70-80 was just lot of stolen beats from other countries. Not always usa or britain. Must have been easy when internet didnt exist and the producers just went to other countries to listen to their top songs and mimic them.
There were not metal songs as this is a video about "Suomirokki", a sub-genre of rock music, Finlands own flavor of rock. An interesting idea for a video could be you picking out songs from this that sound interesting, and finding a full version of it to hear the whole thing. And your analysis at the end was pretty spot on about it being "popular rock".
Nightwsh and Lordi
its not really sub genre it is just just rock not metal
@@jk1886jk True and Teräsbetoni as well.
I want to see Dwayne reacting to a Kingston Wall concert.
That would be fun.
Funny thing about finnish music is that almoust all of these songs are still popular and relevant. I was born in 1999 and still know almost all of these songs from the heart. Love to you, you're doing awesome job
3:24 actually that song "Marilyn" is original Finnish song about Marilyn Monroe :) The artist is the most popular songwriter in Finland, Juice Leskinen (rip).
And Kim Wilde Kids in a America was released 1981, about 8y later
"Hetki lyö" was originally "Beat the clock by the McCoys". And yes translating US and British songs into finnish versions was a huge thing for a long time in 60s and 70s.
Not forgetting the huge amount of italian songs into finnish durin 50-70’s
rock ain't really same as metal. Different genres :D
rokki on rokkii ja rollii ... ja metalli on erilaista rokkii..
For decades, we used to make our own finnish version of new hit songs or evergreens, then the stars of the time performed them. That ended little by little after the knowledge of the english language became common.
We've also had the habit of making humorous versions of these songs.
A sad fact from 1995 about a musician named Aki Sirkesalo. Aki Pekka Antero Sirkesalo (25 July 1962 Toijala - 26 December 2004 Khao Lak, Thailand) was a Finnish musician and music journalist. He and his family perished in Thailand during the Tsunami
There were a couple of bands in there that are metal. HIM, Nightwish and Teräsbetoni as I recall. Lordi is on the verge of metal but would call it just heavy rock. I was born in '84 and the song I think was Levoton Tuhkimo by Dingo who are from my hometown of Pori and some classify the music as Pori-Rock.
Pori represent
They did a great job with that. I think they did the project to celebrate Finland 100th independence day. They got the idea for it when they had toured the schools introducing Finnish rock music to school kids. Finnish rock being a pretty broad genre. There were Finnish artists and groups, who made careers performing American songs in English too. Chances to see the original performers live in Finland were rare, so there were demand for those artists and bands. When Paul Anka performed in Finland in 1959, it was a huge thing. That's how it has gone with most of the genres, which usually have originated from somewhere else than Finland. First bands buy the foreign albums, learn to play the songs, often perform them with Finnish lyrics and then someone comes along and makes original Finnish songs within that genre. That's pretty much how it goes everywhere-including in the UK since it's not like rock n roll originated from there. Even Beatles went to Chuck Berry school of rock n roll. At that point if the early 80s there was already a lot of bands making their own songs and performing in Finnish. Finnish artists were performing American country songs in Finnish already in the 30s, but in the 70s there was already popular Finnish country. music made: "Jarno Sarjanen - Pienen pojan haaveet (1971)".
arno Sarjanen - Pienen pojan haaveet (1971)". hieno kappale
at 3:30 No that wasn't Kim Wilde's "Kids in America".
the made a few metal songs but the guitars wasnt distorted enough so that might be why u didn't noticed
im born in 1987 and i have 2 brothers (one older and one younger, 4 years between both)
The covers on this one (if I'm correct and I didn't miss something)
1960: Elvis "Let's Have a Party" (excellent cover by Rock-Jerry btw)
1962: Buzz Clifford "Baby Sittin' Boogie"
1963: Clay Cole "Twist Around the Clock"
1963: Little Richard "Long Tall Sally"
1964: The Beatles "All My Loving"
1965: Rufus Thomas "Walkin' the Dog"
1966: PJ Proby / Tom Jones "To Make a Big Man Cry"
1966: The Lovin' Spoonful "Summer in the City"
1967: The McCoys "Beat the Clock"
1967: Simon Dupree and the Big Sounds "Kites"
1973: Elton John "Crocodile Rock"
1974: Chuck Berry "Reelin' and Rockin'" (the dirtier version. The Finnish version is quite well true to that, and was really pushing the boundaries that what can be said in a mainstream song)
1989: The Hollies "Bus Stop"
1963 Les Chats Sauvages ”Twist à Saint Tropez”
It’s suomi rock, not suomi metal
Please take note all this is still only a small portion of Finnish pop and rock music of those years, especially the later ones.
You should listen more Dingo. They were early 80's band in finland and the original band was active only 3 years but it made the news with a name "dingomania" so they literalle made people crazy about their music and even to this day they are one of the most popolar bands ever in Finland.
Oh my... People from my family were mentioned. Got all nostalgic listening to a couple of "snippets" from the 80's...
The props the lead singer takes occasionally, are 'trademsrks' of those iconic artists. For wxample rhe hat of Irwin Goodman... erc.
I was born in 1986 and these songs were my teen years :D Oh it was fantastic...so much goo memories. And even if i was born later than these early songs they were still the main stream music when i was teenager. And behind all of this was the whole heavy/symphonic metal culture like nightwish, stratovariius etc. So these songs are just the public radio top finnish songs :)
There was Clifters who made Beatles, Hollies etc. songs in finn, but it was after 80' and the singer of that band is the huge fan of Beatles. And it was not like translation in 60'. Clifters also made their own music and singer Jiri Nikkinen is very good music maker 😊 these excamples is so short, that you can't get the hole picture 😅 2006 was heavymetal, but it didn't sounds like that in this video, original version was made by band Lordi and it was the first finnish winner in Eurovision song contest and that was HUGE here!
Suomirock, suomirokki, is a genre of it's own, not just all the rock in Finland. So not metal, which is a different genre of music :) Suomirock has even subgenre, which is manserock - rock spesifically from Tampere.
In the decades before teh internets, and the way it has made English much more common in every day use, YES, it was a common thing for Finnish artists to translate and cover songs that were originally in English. But many of those covers were actually really good interpretations and original takes on the songs, not just one-on-one translations. It was a moment in our pop history, fondly remembered.
In the evolution of the genre the role of professional record company producers grew a bit later than internationally.
That is actually funny what songs they picked because those one at 0:45 - 1:10 are my main song in finnish karaoke :D
Dingo was the most fan-favored band in Finland at the time, the girls were fainting at the concert and some of them climbed into the attic of the singer's home. Pure hysteria. Thats not very common in Finland.
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There are soooo many old songs that were finnish adaptions of American tunes, some of which I like more than the originals haha
"Suomirock" is not as broad of a gendre as rock is, at least I woud not categorize metal or anything else super heavy as suomirock
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If you ever wanna do more of a deep dive into Finnish music from the 70s to the 2000s. ;)
I've got two little siblings born in 1999 and 2000, and my favourite band is Eppu Normaali.
Love that Dwayne after a Rock band 2006 LORDI say he have not herd a Rock music
i was born 1966 and like listen 50-60- 70- and 80 rock music
Yes we have a lot Artists singing translated songs especially in schlagers, that was the usual way at some point 😄
Most of fifties and sixties pop and rock in Finland were covers of international artists with Finnish lyrics.
Finnish language rock only kicked in in the 70s.
Also, it wasn't only American or British songs they covered. Italian, French and Brazilian pop was covered well too.
Before -60's here covered Italian ja Germany "pop" songs.
2:21 that's a cover of Beat The Clock by The McCoys😊
The props - hats, wigs etc. are trademarks of the original singers of the songs.
Just for curiosity, pick few random songs from this list and listen them from the start to fi(n)nish. These short clips were just a tiny samples.
-80's came "Suomi-rock" Band started to do their own songs and sings finnish.
15:27 it's because the band is pretty shittily equipped for that style. At this point you have heard at least 3: Nightwish, Teräsbetoni and Lordi.
There were a lot of songs translated from other languages to Finnish. Primarily from English, but a lot from other european languages too. But songs you thought were translations were in fact not, there just was so short sample of each song that it is hard to tell how they really sounded like. I recommend you listen each song in this list in full lenght to really get to feel them. It could even be a video series for you, reacting to 10 songs each time, you could go one decade at the time. 😊
Good video
It was very common to just translate or create altogether new lyrics for foreign songs. Like 90% of our popular childrens songs are just translations. And rest are extremely old
Translated international hits were a staple of Finnish music for a long time. "Marilyn", however, was not one.
Metal and rock are different genres tho😅 I think that most of these songs were more like "pop rock" songs and songs that many Finns has heard maybe from the radio or something🤔
Interesting coincidence I was actually born in 1989 as well and my sister was born in 1994 so we have that in common ha ha
dont think there was anyone who made their entire career out of singing "finnished" versions of foreign songs, but sure there were artists who had lots of those :)
You are wrong but also right, i mean most of these sing are just their own, of course similar to something you rememember, but also in 80's there was some kind of era when a lot of songs were translated to finnish and sang it all around.. nowadays that is just silly as heck...
There is a thin (quite bolk) line between these radiohits and metal (or even good rock).
-94, and man do I love CMX. So much.
Metal was on top 40 list years. Not number one. Sentenced one song was there years. Maybe most bought or most radio plays. Lil metalheads burned or taped their favourite bands. And we had estonias bootleg market,some bring that to here,livingrooms full of cds
You sort of missed part of the metal bands. It was understandable, while the takes were so short and the "metal sound" is a bit hard to create "on the fly" while most of the music is softer "suomirock". However, among the songs metal, or at least hard rock is represented from 2000 forward. With bands like Timo Rautiainen & Trio niskalaukaus, Nightwish, Teräsbetoni.
An extreamly condensed and simplified look at the birth of heavy metal in Finland is this. The 70's hardrock and punk music inspired new bands to play a more aggressive type on music. NWBHM and the early speedmetal bands where also a big inspiration for muscians in Finland. One can claim, that 80's is starting point of the metal scene in Finland. First the music was quite in the margin with the pioneers like Tarot (still playing), Zero Nine, Stratovaius (Still playing) and Airdash and Stone.
The scene just kept on expanding while metal became acceptable even in USA. Suddenly there were a market for all the bands, that either survived to the 90's or started during it. Bands like Nightwish, Children of Bodom and the aforementioned Timo Rautianen. From there the scene just exploded! Happy to give your more insights, if your interested.
A Heavy Metal Civilization: The History of Finnish Heavy Metal
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This would be one special reaction and my parasocial ass would be there every second of the way
2010 and I'm out of the chart. :D
Loads of songs have been translated to Finnish
If you think musically all my siblings are born on different times from -87 to -08 :D Kinda funny if you would think it from the music point of view
We definitely did have artists that went big just by taking english songs beats and singing in finnish over it
84 but my music was bruce springsteen,eric clapton and eppu normaali. Mid 90s rap take over me and punk from skate videos
Really a matter of choice. Well put together but so many other alternatives. The early cover stuff and late 70's, early 80's punk was most accurate.
Finnish evergreen genre was and still is all about remaking classic American or english songs whatsoever in Finnish, there are tens of artists so yes, it is a thing
suomi rock is what you would be able to hear in most radio channels but metal is diffrent
1968 :D Finland
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Heavy metal is not in this video because it has never been main steam radio music. All these songs in this video are the top radio songs. Bands like nightwish were much more popular in asia or south america. They were the "main" finnish bands but not very popular in finnish radio.
Those translation songs have to be approved to original writers and "arranger". Before publication.
I was born in 86 and was in Pohjois-Karjala few weeks ago 😁😁 HIM, Nightwish and Lordi are basicly Metal bands
Don't forget Kotiteollisuus, Timo Rautiainen and Teräsbetoni.
Kauko Röyhkä Lauralle. ❤
Both the big hat and the wig are to represent the original singer. (no siblings, born around Mikko Alatalo, unfortunately.)
i thiung this is scholl final expam or something for music school not sure thou
I realized one day that I had heard mostly crappy translations of famous pop songs of other countries and never real original ones
4:12 et ole väärässä :D
Bra artistet Gamla eller ä de ny Mycket bra musik
Kids In america is way much later published than 1974
I love you, I will allways love you
please can you react to finnish band called kingston wall?????
Also please do check out a band called Von Hertzen Brothers who are amazing and also influenced by Kingston wall. Three brothers playing progressive rock and they are sooo good, they have also toured a bit in the US and Europe.
Vesa-Matti Loirin tuotannosta voisi tehdä oman videosarjan
Danny stil songs :)
Hector did not do covers. For the longest time I thought "Olen Hautausmaa" was a cover but it is not.
Hector made a lot of cover songs, like 50+. For an example, Kissojen yö is year of the cat by al stewart, Suomi-neito is american pie by Don Mclean, suzanne is suzanne by Leonard Cohen etc.
Finland was a China or like North Korea in music until 90's.
As the top comment says, it's good to understand that "suomirock" refers to basically to a whole other genre specific to Finland. It's a specific sound, theme and image.
Metal is its on genre so no metal songs for this perfomance. Only rock.
Metal isn’t really rock and especially not suomirock.
If you are interested in hearing finnish heavy metal Turmion Kätilöt is one band that comes to mind
Most trends came to Finland about decade later than in the us and uk till the ninenties.
To be fair this video was about history of finnish rock not finnish heavy metal
Nu behöver ja ine säga det mer kram å et alla medmänsklig som leder till vänlighet och inget annat medmänsklig kärlek kram
Oh gods I was waiting for 1988 because that's when I was born, and of course it's the stupid song about women always falling for the bad guys ='D
Piono typ som piano Har en sån i fårådet
Rock and Metal is not the same thing.
Col stil har de
1984 gamalt mwn bra Äldrw män nu 50 ellet 60 ca om de va ca 20 eller 39 innan
Litw mindre Kanske ska testa spwla
Yo, you really have to check Kingston wall. Their music is still years after affecting Finnish rock music.
Your mind will be blown.
Yeah finlands music in 70-80 was just lot of stolen beats from other countries. Not always usa or britain. Must have been easy when internet didnt exist and the producers just went to other countries to listen to their top songs and mimic them.
Svårt veta
there are no metal songs because it's a different genre. that being said I wouldn't consider all these songs as rock either.
Rock is not metal and metal is not rock??
Spwlar på gwhör Nej glr ja inte Gör någon av desa mäm det visa kan det
Flömt av det spela piano ett tag lärde mig men borde gpt 5 år minst
This is most part total not rock
Fuska med skriva ut bokstäver på tangenterns så kan ja spela bra utan notet
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