Friday Tradition!

[theweaselking]

Finnish Folk-Metal band Turisas decide Boney M needs an update.

(And yet, the last Friday was apparently in April sometime. I need to have Fridays more often.)

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[krfsm.livejournal.com]

Yay! (I'm subscribed to a collaborative playlist on Spotify for covers, with the good, the bad, and the weird - everything from this one (now) and a couple of Avantasia's and Therion's ABBA covers to a bunch of stuff by Hellsongs (lounge-y metal songs - try to find their version of "Blackened"!) and all the way to a couple of William Hung "songs", and I use the term in its widest sense.)

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

*throws the horns* Yeah! Go my countrymen, go!

Have you heard of the Finnish band called "Eläkeläiset" ("The Pensioneers")? They are famous for making polka (the closest approximation of Finnish "humppa") versions of various songs, with their own lyrics... like, oh, Gangsta's Paradise, Hotel California and No Limits.

Truly, you have not lived 'till you hear Paranoid played with an accordion.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I love these.

[jerril]

I'm familiar with humppa from Finntroll's interpretation - so tuba, accordion, kazoo, a base electric guitar and two tennors, drummer, and one or more guys roaring into a microphone :) They also do sea chanties, '20s dance hall music, and folk songs.

Most North Americans are familiar with the German "oompapa" which is not quite humppa but related.

[yendi]

Boiled in Lead updated them back in the '90s quite nicely, too.

[kytheraen.livejournal.com]

I love Turisas :D

Saw them live supporting Lordi.

[possbert.livejournal.com]

Oohhh, those Finns! Love Gjallarhorn too.