The final crib-sheet

[hirez]

For those of us having minor trouble with the original Finnish, here's a handy document:

http://www2.lut.fi/~jahuttun/elake/orig_index.html

If nothing else, I see ownership of the 'Joulumanteli' CD in my very near future. It's like all the shit cover versions perpetrated by ham-fisted INDUSTRAIL(tm) and g*th bands ran away and had strange adventures.

Comments

[squiddity.livejournal.com]

I've become addicted to Humppa.
That radio show was hilarious.

I think I ened to research more to make sure I'm getting this neo-Humppa before buyng albumns.
I don't think the old-style Humppa would do much other than bring back nightmares of school holidays living in Bavaria with all the leather clad thigh slapping.

Hmm, actually....

Anyway, let me know which ones you buy so I can streamline my review process...

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Always a life-changing experience, always in an unexpected direction....

[bloodnok.livejournal.com]

Thursday I emailed a friend mentioning how I had spent most of the day listening to "Finnish polka". His response: "You are a very strange man". Friday, I mailed him "Humppaa, saatanat!". Within a short time, I believe that a slab of the Department For International Development was listening to the same, grinning broadly and requesting more.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear I've been soundly abusing the shonky MP3 site that mr_tom pointed at a couple of days ago.

The live versions of 'Light my fire' and 'My generation' are quite startlingly mad.