Cross-posted from the art news thread…
It’s an interview from the 80s, BTW…
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I’m not really feeling the holiday season this year. I used to make sure I had the lights on and a curated playlist of seasonal music on every day before anyone else came down but I’m not feeling the energy this year.
Here’s a fantastic tune.
Please help me out by giving me new stuff to add to playlists that spark joy. I don’t want to derail the winter holiday thread and while this might be a derail o was thinking of it as a seasonal diversion but feel free to change.
BTW
Nothing says traditional Christmas (Santa and all) like Asian throat singing. It’s right on the money with an out of tune children’s choir, jangly stuff, crowd participation, and the sinister threatening later verses of “we wish you a merry Christmas” without which the irritainment content of the insistent repetitive melody makes no sense.
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This always brings…well, not joy as such, but memories of bygone (and perhaps more joyful) Christmases.
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For non-holiday favorites, I’ve loved MIA for years:
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How about the whole Low Christmas album…
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Midnight Pulp just dropped a long Spotify playlist list of “weird, offbeat, and fun” Christmas songs. Hopefully you can find something enjoyable in it.
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This is one of the first videos I remember after I got cable as a kid…
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I would translate that as “Hey, Elf Geezers, jump.”
Words aren’t exactly the same, but the chorus (or whatever) remains.
Life only lasts for a moment
And that is dark and tedious
Finnish xmas happy as ever.
From:
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I love it. I tried to find it in Tidal, but…Hei tonttu-ukot hyppikää must also be a traditional Finnish children’s Christmas song or something? Because what I found definitely was not this!
Old Cchristmas carol.
https://tidal.com/browse/album/182563419
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smh. I was just listening to other Herra Ylppö songs. It was right there. Thanks
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Of the very few bands I have seen live, I’ve seen Maj Karman Kauniit Kuvat [Beautiful Pictures of Maj Karma] twice. The band is led by Herra [Mister] Ylppö.
Nowadays, the band is called Maj Karma.
Teatime by Ann-Maj Kaarina ”Maija” Karma
I think Herra Ylppö took his name from Arvo Ylppö, who might have had sympathies for the Nazis and eugenicists. This was not known when he took that name.
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