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Another Finnish polka more known through Internet culture[0] is Ievan polka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yh9i0PAjck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yh9i0P

Another Finnish polka more known through Internet culture[0] is Ievan polka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yh9i0PAjck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yh9i0PAjck I remember having the original Flash clip on loop on for entire days back when. [0]: Leekspin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-N1yJyrQRY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-N1yJyrQRY

codeulike 6y ago
This is great
rtfeldman 6y ago
For a heavier version, here's the Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani's cover of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZpmFORHBA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZpmFORHBA
- mar77i 6y ago
  I found this article about Ensiferum's "Finnish Medley", which among other things, compiles the tunes they cover in it: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/finnish-medley-forging-folk-metal https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/finnish-medle... Another band, Moonsorrow, covered a song called "Valkoakaasiat" (white acacia) in a crushingly heavy mood titled "Matkan lopussa" on their Kivenkantaja album. I heard it sung by a Finnish choir and think it may have originated in Russia, from a Soviet movie. I love this stuff, and pairing the modern incarnations with their original counterparts is kind of a cool sport.
9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
In case you were wondering, the lyrics are half strongly dialectal (Savonian) Finnish, and half just scat-style musical nonsense.
krebs_liebhaber 6y ago
The Finns contributed more to early Internet culture than we give them credit for. They invented IRC, and about half of the weirder memes on 4chan.
- ganzuul 6y ago
  Sometimes I wonder if I have yet to escape the Fennosphere to the real internet. All this stuff about Finland being the happiest place on Earth... Maybe it's just like the great firewall of China!
- httpsterio 6y ago
  We forked the pedobear memes into an entirely different thing called spurdo spärde. Some of the first and most rare Pepe memes also comes from Finland, I personally created the first Feels Bad Man / Feels Batman Pepes back in January 2008 during a LAN-party at my high school.
- saq 6y ago
  And Linux
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - vsipuli 6y ago
    And Git (kind of, although that happened after Linus moved away from Finland)
    - Eyght 6y ago
      MySQL in the same vein.
      - welfare 6y ago
        MySQL is actually of Swedish origin.
        cfinnberg 6y ago
        Well, at least Michael Widenius, the most visible head of MySQL and one of two cofounders, is finnish. He also created the MySQL's fork MariaDB. Both names came from Michael's daughters My and Maria.
therein 6y ago
Yup. Can confirm I listened to this in loop in early 2000s.

codeulike 6y ago

This is great

rtfeldman 6y ago

For a heavier version, here's the Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani's cover of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZpmFORHBA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZpmFORHBA

mar77i 6y ago
I found this article about Ensiferum's "Finnish Medley", which among other things, compiles the tunes they cover in it: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/finnish-medley-forging-folk-metal https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/finnish-medle... Another band, Moonsorrow, covered a song called "Valkoakaasiat" (white acacia) in a crushingly heavy mood titled "Matkan lopussa" on their Kivenkantaja album. I heard it sung by a Finnish choir and think it may have originated in Russia, from a Soviet movie. I love this stuff, and pairing the modern incarnations with their original counterparts is kind of a cool sport.

9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago

In case you were wondering, the lyrics are half strongly dialectal (Savonian) Finnish, and half just scat-style musical nonsense.

krebs_liebhaber 6y ago

The Finns contributed more to early Internet culture than we give them credit for. They invented IRC, and about half of the weirder memes on 4chan.

ganzuul 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder if I have yet to escape the Fennosphere to the real internet. All this stuff about Finland being the happiest place on Earth... Maybe it's just like the great firewall of China!
httpsterio 6y ago
We forked the pedobear memes into an entirely different thing called spurdo spärde. Some of the first and most rare Pepe memes also comes from Finland, I personally created the first Feels Bad Man / Feels Batman Pepes back in January 2008 during a LAN-party at my high school.
saq 6y ago
And Linux
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- vsipuli 6y ago
  And Git (kind of, although that happened after Linus moved away from Finland)
  - Eyght 6y ago
    MySQL in the same vein.
    - welfare 6y ago
      MySQL is actually of Swedish origin.
      - cfinnberg 6y ago
        Well, at least Michael Widenius, the most visible head of MySQL and one of two cofounders, is finnish. He also created the MySQL's fork MariaDB. Both names came from Michael's daughters My and Maria.

therein 6y ago

Yup. Can confirm I listened to this in loop in early 2000s.