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Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Bracket 4.1.5
Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisältäni portin löysin

Bracket 4.1.6
Atalyja - Gervele

Bracket 4.1.7
Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner

Bracket 4.1.8
Ólöf Arnalds - Innundir Skinni

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Hey Honorio, if you don't mind I could send you the 8 songs slightly ahead of time so you can update the Spotify playlist and I'll include it in the first post.

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Stephan
Hey Honorio, if you don't mind I could send you the 8 songs slightly ahead of time so you can update the Spotify playlist and I'll include it in the first post.

Sure, Stephan. My mail adress is hbarranco@telefonica.net. Anyway I downloaded already your Excel file and I did some Spotify playlists in advance (I got right the ones for Western Africa and Caribbean, both awesome by the way). But if you send me to my mail the brackets I can post the playlists with the song correctly ordered.

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisaltani portin loysin 8
Mari Boine Prson - Diamanta Spaillit 9

I love the delicate stringiness of Sisaltani, but Diamantta has this sort of haunting medievalness to it that really gets me.

Atalyja - Gervele 7
Tenhi - Kuoppa 5

Atalya also has that medievalness, but it comes off as too directionless to be haunting, and even a little gimmicky. However, I've seen Celticish violins work really well with metal growling, but it doesn't work here.

Clas-Goran Hederstrom - Det borjar verka karlek, banne mej 4
Jakob Hellma - Vara Vanner 5

(Abstain)
Stephan: If this vote turns into a tie, consider this a vote for Vera Vanner.

Clas-Goran, 1940's American pop music called, even it thinks this is nauseatingly croony. Also, Jakob, the Kinks called. It's about your horn section. They can pull it off, you can't.

Bob Hund - Dusseldorf 5
Olof Arnalds - Innundir Skinni 5

I'm going with Arnalds because I like the vocal melody, but it needed more interesting guitar stuff going on.

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Bracket 4.1.5
Mari Boine - Diamántta Spáillit

Bracket 4.1.6
Atalyja - Gervele

Bracket 4.1.7
Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner

Bracket 4.1.8
Bob Hund - Düsseldorf

It's a pity, my two favorites songs this week are both in the last bracket.

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Bracket 4.1.5
Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisältäni portin löysin 4
Mari Boine - Diamántta Spáillit 3.9
Very close, I'll go for the simpler song. More emotional power in the first too, more musical skills in the second.

Bracket 4.1.6
Atalyja - Gervele3.9
Tenhi - Kuoppa 3.75
here again, close call. I'll go for my nomination because it's a little less dark and more melodic.

Bracket 4.1.7
Clas-Göran Hederström - Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej 3.9
Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner 3.75
2 gentle pop songs. I like oldies, so we'll go for the first

Bracket 4.1.8
Bob Hund - Düsseldorf 3.75
Ólöf Arnalds - Innundir Skinni 4
Great simple folk song with a jolly voice is what I like. First one is OK but a little twisted

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Bracket 4.1.5
Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisältäni portin löysin
Mari Boine - Diamántta Spáillit

Beautiful piece with amazing vocals.

Bracket 4.1.6
Atalyja - Gervele
Tenhi - Kuoppa

A bit melodramatic, but this is not necessarily a bad thing!

Bracket 4.1.7
Clas-Göran Hederström - Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej
Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner

Hederström has more flare in his delivery. And sometimes I think I shouldn't be watching these videos, because Hellman's dancing got on my nerves.

Bracket 4.1.8
Bob Hund - Düsseldorf
Ólöf Arnalds - Innundir Skinni

Arnauld's song is excellent from a technical standpoint, but I prefer the weirdness of Bob Hund here.

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Bracket 4.1.5
Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisältäni portin löysin
The first is simply beautiful, Mari Boine is too folksy for me

Bracket 4.1.6
Tenhi - Kuoppa
Atalyja again is too folksy, the second is more contemporary.

Bracket 4.1.7
pass - both very irritating people

Bracket 4.1.8
Bob Hund - Düsseldorf

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Bracket 4.1.5
Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisältäni portin löysin

Pekka Streng has probably affect half of my Finnish favorites more than any other (Finnish) artist at least vicariously.
The song is also very beautiful and timeless. Mari Boine is also good but Streng will be one of my biggest favorites in the game.


Bracket 4.1.6
Tenhi - Kuoppa
To be honest I listened to this song first time when Mindrocker voted for it in 00s poll (and I'm from Finland if someone didn't know that). So these songs in the game are definitely not from the best selling artists of their countries which is very good. Honorio said it already. doom metal + folk = Dark folk. Sounds like my thing in theory and also in practise. (and again the competing song is very good too).

Bracket 4.1.7
Clas-Göran Hederström - Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej
Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner
I wait if there's need to make difference between these songs. I'm not going to listen to these again now.

Bracket 4.1.8
Bob Hund - Düsseldorf

Two amazing tracks (I don't even know if this bracket is better than the one with Pekka Streng). I vote for Bob Hund but if Ólöf Arnalds qualifies I'll probably vote for it in forthcoming rounds.

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Bracket 4.1.5
Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisältäni portin löysin
Mari Boine - Diamántta Spáillit
"Sisältäni portin löysin" is beautiful. "Diamántta Spáillit" is good too, but the combination of Nordic folk and modern production is a little problematic for me.

Bracket 4.1.6
Atalyja - Gervele
Tenhi - Kuoppa

Bracket 4.1.7
Clas-Göran Hederström - Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej
Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner
Two feelgood songs. Well, if you like that - sad comments from BillAdama and Antonius. Before this game I had no idea I would get so easily upset by negative comments about the Swedish songs. Anyway, this is a cult schlager song (which has really become a personal favorite since I posted it in my Swedish music thread) against the lead single from the best Swedish album ever according to the only(!) Swedish critics poll, in 1996. I like the album "...och stora havet" but it has never been close to #1 for me so I have always felt that Hellman is a little overrated. Nevertheless, the jazzy "Vara vänner" is wonderful and is my pick after all.

Bracket 4.1.8
Bob Hund - Düsseldorf
Ólöf Arnalds - Innundir Skinni
My favorite Bob Hund song, with some of my favorite lyrics.

"Jag gillar sånt som ingen bryr sig om. När jag blir nyfiken står tiden still. Då blir jag pigg och orkar lite till."

(I like things that no one cares about. When I get curious time stands still. Then I get alert and can do a little bit more.)

Well, it works better with the rhyme...

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

Maybe I was a bit harsh with my comments on those songs Henrik, but I just listened to the two again, and the former still strikes me as very big band croonery. And the latter I'm finding impossible not to constantly compare to Sunny Afternoon.

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

That's fine, Bill. There are similarities between "Vara vänner" and "Sunny Afternoon". Usually Hellman is compared to Elvis Costello though.

Re: AM Foreign World Cup: Round 1 - Northern Europe (Part 2)

I decided to vote for Mari Boine too, but it didn't matter anymore as it was already 7-5. The rest of the results, in the closest overall week I believe we've had so far:

Bracket 4.1.5
Pekka Streng & Tasavallan Presidentti - Sisältäni portin löysin - 5
Mari Boine - Diamántta Spáillit - 8

Bracket 4.1.6
Atalyja - Gervele - 8
Tenhi - Kuoppa - 5

Bracket 4.1.7
Clas-Göran Hederström - Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej - 4
Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner - 6

Bracket 4.1.8
Bob Hund - Düsseldorf - 7
Ólöf Arnalds - Innundir Skinni - 6