Etikett: musik
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Song: Hanging on a Heart Attack Artist: Device Year: 1986 Hanging on a Heart Attack is the oldest song on the list. Back in the 80’s, long before Internet and the media deluge that surrounds us now, hearing new music wasn’t so easy. Especially if you had a taste in music that heavily deviated from…
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Song: Cose della vita Artist: Eros Ramazzotti with Tina Turner Year: 1997 Cose della vita was originally a solo single from Eros Ramazzotti, sung completely in Italian, and released in 1993. I liked the original, but didn’t think it was anything super special. The duet version with Tina Turner was released in 1997 and I didn’t actually…
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Song: Sunny Came Home Artist: Shawn Colvin Year: 1996 Most of the music I listen to has no relation to me lyrically. The lyrics can be about anything really, and the only thing that matters is how the song sounds. Vocals are just an instrument among others. But then there are songs which I actually love…
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Song: No Light, No Light Artist: Florence + The Machine Year: 2011 I can’t remember how I discovered Florence + The Machine, but I remember hearing No Light, No Light for the first time. It just completely floored me. Some songs take a long time to grow (there are a lot of such songs on…
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I just finished a big project of building a huge jigsaw puzzle of 6000 pieces and now I suddenly have a lot of time in my hands so I thought I’d take my blog to a sidetrack for a moment. I’m not creating any new pictures for various reasons so I can’t spend time on…
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Should we download whole albums or just selected songs? Even if the music industry as a whole has finally accepted the fact that music downloads are here to stay, some artists still argue against it. Apparently, the possibility of downloading just selected tracks instead of the whole album is an insult to their artistic integrity…
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I recently got the sad news the Savonlinna School of Translation Studies (Kansainvälisen viestinnän laitos, KVL) is going to be moved to Joensuu to be housed together with the rest of the University. I spent five years of my life at KVL studying translation and Savonlinna has always had a special place in my heart.…
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Carola. I must admit that the song has grown a little bit on me, but it’s still a purebred Swedish schlager song and I still can’t see it win over many points in Europe and I can’t see myself ever really like it, even if it’s better than last year’s entry. My favourites, Rednex, finished…
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Back in the 80’s and 90’s I loved the Eurovision Song Contest. Those days are over, but I still make sure to catch it every year. Here in Sweden, it’s almost impossible to miss it anyway. The Swedes sure love their Melodifestivalen (the Swedish qualification for the ESC) and every year the contest sparks a…
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One of my all time favourite songs is Tänään tahdon laulaa by Kaija Kärkinen & Ile Kallio. For those of you who don’t speak any Finnish, the literal translation is ”Today I want to sing”. Now, I can’t actually sing to save my life. I might occasionally hum quietly when the music is playing so…