Reaction To Finnish Music Evolution (1950-2020) 

Tapio Rautavaara was multitalent. E.g he won Olympic gold medal in 1948 in the javelin throw.

The 1973 song "Lumi teki enkelin eteiseen" by Hector is often voted the best Finnish song ever. You should listen to the full version. The lyrics of the song are very sad but capture a certain period of time perfectly. It talks about poverty, suicide and people moving from Finland to Sweden in search of a better life.

If you'd like to react to evolution of Finnish rock music, please react to this video ''Suomirokin evoluutio - 100 suomirokkibiisiä, 1 otto'' it has 100 finnish rock songs from years 1960-2016

funfact: Leevi and the leavings was and still is VERY common to play in the radio and their records were one of the most sold ever in finland, however what makes it different is not only the style of their music but the fact they never made a single live gig, not a single! but only one live concert BEFORE they become the leevi and the leavings! i dont know why but feels like they just magically got into the top of music scene in finland and they still are there even Gösta died long time ago and they have not been doing any records after that.

Schlager (Iskelmä) music is listened to a lot in Finland. Especially among the older age group, but nowadays also among younger people to an increasing extent. You can go and listen and dance to it on the spot. At the same time, it is a social event where you see friends and get to know new ones. Maybe even find a spouse. And Dancing is also hard exercise and practicing body coordination.

Eppu Normaali started out as a punk band, but turned more into a rock and melodic Manse-rock. Manse = Tampere. As Tampere is "Manchester of Finland." They took their name from Mel Brooks movie Frankenstein Junior, where Abby Normal was translated to Eppu Normaali.

These clips were way too short to grasp anything about the individual songs. Also some of the clips were chosen from really awful parts, not representing the songs to their fullest.

While the stereotype is that heavy metal is huge in finland and all that, in reality pop is still something most people listen to and metal is just sort of somewhere on that level. It's not like everyone listens to metal and metal is something you hear everywhere. It's not exactly niche but it isn't something for everyone either. So yea when it comes to finnish people most remember their "Eppu normaali"s and such more fondly as a result. Thats at least how I see it as someone living here.

In this list you get actually very difrerent picture of finnish music, than it is actually in real life. There should be artists like Dingo, Lordi, Elastinen, Nightwish, Kotiteollisuus, Hurriganes, Tehosekoitin, Ultra Bra, HIM, Diablo, Amorphis, Stratovarius, Children of Bodom, Cheek, Darude, Bombfunk Mc's ofc in 2023 Käärijä

Oh dear.. This is tops the evolution of oldish finnish folk music.. Very little anything else. The biggest genres and bands are missing. Finlands been a pioneer in punk, metal, glam rock, electronic music, experimental rock. But mainly inside Finland of course 😅 We have many popular bands world wide, but nobody knows they are from Finland.

Leevi and the Leavings and Irwin Goodman have so many good songs, I recommend listening more of their music

That's not Finnish "music" evolution at all, just someones private view of the style heard..

You who made the original video, the sound snippets are too short

There was rock in the 70's in Finland already, one of those artists in this list being Irwin Goodman, also one of my favourite rock bands from the 80's, Eppunormaali. We have a wide variety of artists and music genres indeed throughout the years, 70's forward. Before that it was bit stale.

5:44 I will tell you something about this song and the man singing it. The song's name is "Olen suomalainen" (in english "I am Finnish") and it is like a hymn for the Finnish people. Everyone knows the song and everyone has sang it atleast once in their life😄 The man in the picture is the one and only, LEGENDARY Kari Tapio. He is one of the most successful Finnish singers of all time. He's called "Sinivalkoinen ääni" which translates to "The Blue and White Voice" and "Iskelmäkuningas" (Schlager King). He was a living legend and toured nearly 40 years. Sadly he passed away on 7th of December 2010, aged 65.

We call that music genre iskelmä or in English hit music. Kinda similar to pop music, but not same. Iskelmä is more traditional, down to earth and more love song than pop music. Also more music you would dance to with someone while pop music is more something you would dance to alone. And while rock etc. is relatively more popular in Finland than else where, it isn't the dominating music genre topping the listings. Iskelmä and pop music dominates the lists, radio and charts and are top sellers mostly.

It's a list full of random songs from popular artists of that time period. Definitely not based on charts.

You might have heard some Nylon Beat covered, for example korean S.E.S and Aespa have covered them.

These couple ones are my favorites, i recommend listening to these songs: - irwin goodman- kieltolaki - irwin goodman- terveisä perseestä - irwin goodman- mutakuono ja lakupelle - veikko lavi- silakka-apajilla - rauli badding somerjoki- ikkunaprinsessa - Mutkattomat- Jätkän humppa

Seems like a super subjective and very one dimensional list focused solely on pop/iskelmä music. However, apart from the last entry, they are all well known and popular songs in Finland And, as you noticed, all the other genres are missing completely. Finnish music and listening habits have always been extremely varied and genre crossing.

Maeby chekout Hurriganes (Get on, Roadrunner), Lordi ( Would you love a monster man, the Riff, Scare force one), Apulanta (Pahempi toistaan, Valot pimeyksien reunoilla), Delta Enigma ( Cleopatra, All I want is you)

Olavi Virta was definitely one of my grandparents favourite Tango singers.

Everything up to 80's and partly after that as well would be called "Iskelmä" here. It's name that covers the old pop songs, often translations from mid europe hits to finnish and then local production in similar style. Maybe the common nominator would be melodies in minor keys. If you listen metal this can be seen in a rich variety of melodic metal songs. It's not that uncommon to play metal and still listen that old melody rich music (my self included).

BEHM is quite a recent artist, but her music became incredibly popular very quickly (and for a good reason).

And who made this list must hate heavy metal😥😥

Tapio Rautavaara is also Olympic Gold medalist in Javelin throw in 1948 summer olympics

A lot of good songs on this list, including a few of my personal favourites: the 1974 song Paratiisi, the 1980 song Viidestoista yö and the 2002 hit Vielä on kesää jäljellä. If you want to dive into finnish rock, bands like Eppu Normaali, Popeda and Apulanta are good starting points. However, I would also like to mention some of the bands/artists that were not mentioned on this list (and some of my personal favourites in brackets): Hurriganes (Get on), Dingo (Autiotalo, Levoton tuhkimo), Anna Eriksson (Kun katsoit minuun) and then my all time favourite Nightwish (most songs actually but Ghost love score with Floor Jansen is close to my heart).

i work in a karaoke bar in Tampere Finland and people still sing songs from EVERY decade you listed. I think almost every song has been sang that is in this list

They have forgotten most popular groups lika Dingo, Yö etc. Where is Darude/ sandsstorm, Bomfunk ms, Nightwish, JVG…. This list was terrible😮😮😢

I'm now 69 years old and when I was young in the 60's and 70's I listened english and american rock. From finnish bands I listened to Wigwam, Tasavallan Presidentti, Tabula Rasa. None of these mentioned in this video were my favorites.

And Raskasta Joulua tour (= jeavy christmas) songs! That is a group of well known heavy metalists in Finland performing our most traditional chrristmas songs in a rock style. Our christmas songs are usually quite melancholic compared to the rest of the world. Christmas has a different feel to it here ❤. One of the best from Raskasta joulua are Marco Hietala singing "Varpunen jouluaamuna"(sparrow on a christmasmorning), the whole group singing "Tulkoon joulu" (let there be christmas) and "Heinillä härkien kaukalon". Try out those ❤❤ You would also love a finnish band called sonata arctica, good songs are "Tallulah" and "The last drop falls" You should also check out a video titled "Northern kings - finnish heavy metal medley" those guys that perform there are like the backstreet boys of finland (you'll see what I mean 😂)❤

I missed the big hits made by Bomfunk Mc, Nightwish, Rasmus, Darude, HIM, Sunrise avenue and all the metal bands. I think the most streamed finnish songs are Freestyler and Darudes Sandstorm.

Eppu Normaali is something I would recommend. Vuosi 85 is probably my favorite one from them. They have sort of rock-esc songs and ballads. Wouldn't call it rock per say, but it's not pop either. Other band I would recommend is Klamydia, Finnish punk rock band. Lastly I would recommend a specific song. Teräsbetoni, hetken tie on kevyt. I'm a metalhead through and through but this ballad has stuck with me.

As you know finland is known for metal music so i also recommend checking out bands like nightwish and HIM :D From nightwish i think the safe ones to start with are ”Nemo”, ”Amaranth” and ”Noise”. They all have different singers (they have had 2 vocalists before their current one) Nightwish is one of the most succesful Finnish bands in history and their style has changed alot over the years. First albums with their first singer Tarja were more operatic and symphonic (mostly because Tarja is classically trained and aimed to become an opera singer) with the next singer Anette, they got a more folky and mainstream sound and currently theyre a kind of a mix of those two with Floor Jansen. From HIM id go with ”Join Me In Death” or ”Right here in my arms” HIM doesnt do music anymore but their singer Ville Valo is still working on his solo career :) I chose these bands because they are pretty good to start with if youre not familiar with metal yet. Theres many more its actually a big rabbit hole :D

There's just few songs from each year on that list so you shouldn't base your thoughts too much on a selection. With different artists or songs the list would sound entirely different. Most of those artists on the list have decades long careers and they've done songs from different genres. E.g. in the 80s Disco was so popular, that many artists had to do Disco songs just to make a living. Eppu Normaali is the all-time best selling band in Finland. They've been around since 1976. A live from them: "melodikakofoniko Eppu Normaali - Kitara, taivas ja tähdet". This is the song which has sold the most note sheets: "Lasse Mårtenson - Myrskyluodon Maija", One for the sentimental moments: "Dave Lindholm - Pieni & hento ote". The most popular Finnish music outside Finland are Classical, Metal and Folk music. Probably the genres in which the Finnish language, idioms etc. don't play a factor so much. Hundred Finnish Rock songs in 10 mins: "Suomirokin evoluutio - 100 suomirokkibiisiä, 1 otto".

To put together a 70 year retrospective of Finnish music and not include a single metal song is pretty telling of whoever did the compiling. Metal music absolutely dominated the charts for well over a decade after the turn of the millennium. All of the songs listed here are well known and were hits at the time they were released, but this list paints a very narrow and biased picture of Finnish music. At the very least HIM, Nightwish and Lordi should be represented here, no matter how much you hate heavy rock and metal music.

I think this list is comprised of songs that were the most popular that year. While heavy metal is pretty popular in Finland and many internationally known finnish bands are heavy, you can't really see it on the charts that much, Average person listens what is playing on the radio = pop and iskelmä (schlager), also finnish rap is pretty popular nowadays. And of course ppl listen other than finnish music.

Samuli Edelman (1994) is also an actor. You can see him as villian in Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol movie.

It's iskelmä mostly, same as schlager, but not quite. The English translation for iskelmä is schlager.

No bomfunk mc's fffffreestyler ot darude sandstorm? So bad list 😂

i dont' know who made the original video but it's cut too short from the songs. you miss a lot of things with this

Do a reaction Finnish Eurodance bands! :D "Movetron, Waldo's People, Aikakone" and bands like that. No one has ever done.

A lot of the older finnish songs were versions of foreign music, like italian or french. Tapio Rautavaara's "Yölinjalla" (on a night drive) talks about dangers and work of a man driving truck in the middle of the nights, long distance, loneliness. The song is otherwise Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" to the tea except for the lyrics. Nightwish, Don Johnsson Big Band, Mokoma, Kingston Wall and Hurriganes are some of my recommendations. But above all, for me, Leevi and the Leevings. Most depressing lyrics ever but singed in jolly fashion.

Im finnish and i dont know abt this list other than that it is not based on sales or popularity in the world. Cause if it was, nightwish would dominate this list from 95 to 2023

1982 Paula koivuniemi. Aikunen nainen is famous song in karaoke

3:55 Wtf this song is from the 70's? LOL I thought it's earliest 90's or 2000's and I've never seen the artists face xd just remember hearing this song in the early 2000's when i was a kid. I guess he was ahead of his time, in terms of music and hairstyle :D

Those clips are too short to get any understandig of the songs..... make a new one, with longer bits of the sogs. Thank you. This is so NOT WORKING

You should listen to some songs of Haloo Helsinki! And also songs from Hassisen Kone. ☺️

This was actually pretty bad list of finnish music, lacks total variety of genres. Someone should do a proper list, and pick 3-4 different types of songs from each year.

Metal is big in Finland.... but they dont play it much on the radio. I like both, i think our pop music from around the 90s is amazingly good for a such a small country and some of our metal is world class, such as: "Wintersun - Time (TIME I Live Rehearsals At Sonic Pump Studios) REMASTER" on youtube. So good.

the legends of all are leevi and the leavings and Irwin goodman! may they rest in peace 😢❤

Surprisingly many of the songs from the late 50's to the early 80's are actually translations of (mostly then recent) songs from other countries, and not only from English even. I did google a bit to check my facts, but here's a list of the translated songs and their original counterparts. There are of course many more Finnish songs of foreign origin, that were not on the list in the video, but this proportion already shows how much Finland "leeched" culturally from other countries, especially Italy. Suklaasydän ('56) = Mama's Pearls (Margaret Whiting, '55) Lazzarella ('57) = Lazzarella (Aurelio Fierro, '57) Sataman valot ('59) = Harbour Lights (Frances Langford, '37) Hopeinen kuu ('60) = Guarda Che Luna (Fred Buscaglione, '59) Muisto vain jää ('68) = Only a Fool Breaks His Own Heart (Tom Jones, '68) Kuljen taas kotiin päin ('69) = Wenn die Kraniche zieh'n (Heidi Berndt, '68) Vain kotka lentää aurinkoon ('70) = El Cóndor Pasa (instrumental, '13; Simon & Garfunkel, '70) Rakkaustarina ('71) = "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" (Andy Williams, '70; from the movie Love Story) Puhu hiljaa rakkaudesta ('72) = Speak Softly, Love (Andy Williams, '72; from the movie Godfather) Aikuinen nainen ('82) = Maledetta primavera (Loretta Goggi, '81) Olen suomalainen ('83)= L’Italiano (Toto Cutugno, '83) Also, notice how Irwin Goodman first appeared in the list in '66 and again in '88 with 22 years in between. :)

The 1968song is the most used song in finnish ads

Wintersun! Sons of winter and stars ❤

and Hanoi Rocks is the best rock band in Finland and the world. Without it, there wouldn't be Guns N Roses, Mötley Crue, Skid Row, Poisone, Backyard Babies, Negative, Hardcoresuperstar and I'll stop here because the list is damn long. Learn about the history of Hanoi Rocks

Mainly the style there is what we call "iskelmä". I believe the english term is schlager?

Look for Aki Kaurismäki "Leningrad Cowboys", and then also "Steve Seagulls"

I would say that the most of those -50-60-70 and some of -80 finnish (slchalger) music is covers of Russia, Italian, French music. I really love music of that time. Rock,metal music came little later. Late -80´s and -90 and-2000 came metal music more.

This is mostly iskelmä-music from 50-70s, light, very light and traslated song from other countries. This list has lighter music like pop and stuff. There was a wave of pop, rock and punk just before 70's, even before that. But yes, mostly radio played this. Finnish Metal is very connected to this kind of music in Finland, melacholy, darkness, loss, perseverance, you name it.

It's so disappointing that sandstorm by Darude isn't here!! Edit: AND NO ROBIN IS CRIMINAL

I think heavy metal doesn't work so well when listening radio. These all were super-popular radio songs. Yes, some heavy metal songs work but not all. And some Finnish people just don't like metal so these are safe choices when radio channel decides what to play. I'd guess these were most selling artists per year or most played artists/bands per year. Haloo Helsinki has few quite heavy rock songs also but they're mostly pop-rock. And it's really hard to get a feel about any song when listening only 3secs per song. Should have been 10-15secs per song. And basically you have so sing in Finnish if you want to be popular in Finland. There are only few exceptions, like Nightwish, HIM, etc. Many amazing artist started in English but they had to change Finnish, after this their popularity skyrocketed.

Please, hear Jarkko Ahola or his Teräsbetoni-band (some kind of heavy). At Christmas Time Jarkko's Ave Maria is so beautyfull ❤

I'm finnish and I don't like rock music. Can't name any specifik rock bands from my country, and don't understand why people associate heavy metal with my country.

50's-00's is in my opinion the best era. These songs are called like "ever green" and in finnish "ikivihreä". After 00's came some good artists, but it got very mainstream after that and kinda "lazy" if I may say, and therefore boring.

Several of these artists are still well known and popular. My grandparents, my parents, me and my brother and now my child all enjoy listening to those songs. If I go to a bar, I choose a bar that plays Finnish Iskelmä music. This compilation was made by a person who enjoys listening to Iskelmä music, so other similar music was completely left out.

Was propably the lamest takes on what the Finns are really into (THE ORIGINAL REEL).

Well the lack of heavy metal is simple. This is video about evolution of finnish MUSIC.

The Finnish language, the music of my childhood, is to me very beautiful and I love to hear sung Finnish.Vowel harmony makes it a good language for singing.

As a finnish person I dont really care about any of these artists. For me the best two artists from the 90's were Kingston Wall and Mana Mana. I hate how these kind of videos just take that stereotypical sample of that era and call it a day. I also think that Julma Henri's Al-Qaida Finland is probably one of the most important pieces of finnish rap ever made.

This take of "evolution of Finnish music" in kinda bad. Major (rock) bands were left out.

I don't know about my favorite but Movetro had a huge thing when they started and if I still hear music from them I just have to sing along. Also nightwish when Tarja was a singer. I turn the volume up.

Please check out blind channel if u haven't. It's my favorite band.😄 It's a finnish rock band that sings in english.😁

Ja kyllä siihen vitun ämppäriinki hukkuu, jos niikseen tulee. (Please try wha G- gets from this...)

Bro you should react to finnish ice hockey world champions... finns are crazy about ice hockey

List is pop music, no indie or heavy music and classical. Biggest hits or most popular, or longest years performer artists like Eppu Normaali.

Funny as metal albums have dominated sales but i guess this all platforms. or just bs. Noticed that other ppl than finnish make these videos about Suomi. Kinda weird int i.

what's the idea of ​​listening to any song for 2 seconds? what does anyone imagine they are hearing? I'm just personally pissed off by that

what way do i get to contact you easiest way? i could have few awesome recommendations which i would like to share

JukkaPoika is my definit favorite... there are just few reggae artist in Finland and they are all gooood!

Finland is wery Heavy Rock. This list not really ...hymmmm

The problem here with pop/dance music is that its beginning to be straight from the factory, all of them start to resemble each other. And the old riffs that are being ripped off is insane. They just take a noteworthy riff and do a song around that, its just fkn copy paste at this time.

Well my gripe with this would be that it only contains this pop genre burger style music. There was so much more available.

Just laughable to copy these "top" playlists, nothing to do with reality. Christmas pop songs etc. Stop this nonsense.

My mom listens to Olavi Virta pretty often. Irwin Goodman is always good!

you should definitely listen to Popeda, over 4 decades of music ans still it's the greatest finnish band

soft POPsongs from finland. Hassisen kone was punk band in this list they sing xmas song🤣

You should also listen to few songs by Kirka and Kikka, who missed in this list! They are my favorite schlager artists ever and they also left a mark to Finnish music ❤

Heavy rock never was mainstream music here. Just for heavy music fans.

Olavi Virta, Irwin, Kake Randelin and Badding the best in recent decades :)

In FInland heavy metal isn't as big of a deal as you might think. Because of Lordi's Eurovision song in 2006 people tend to think Finnish music is all about heavy metal.

in my opinion, all of those songs are very finnish lyricks related, most good rock and metal music of couse was english in all decades

Honestly most finnish people do not listen to heavy metal, and it has never been as big as people on the internet make it out to be.

you are reacting to Finnish music, heavy music is more in English.

You should listen full songs. On this video they are so short ones. Like tiktok.

Yes. No rock or heavy metal in the list? bad list.. And no Antti Tuisku in that pop list. Also we had little rap period.. but it's not so much music necessary but more like "poputusta".

Maustetytöt: Tein kai lottorivini väärin ❤❤❤❤

Every song should have like 3 seconds more to get into it

UK's music in 80's was the best music ever made.

When I went a course in opera music, the teacher said that Italian and finnish is only few you can sing in opera.

What sense to play 2 seconds per the poive ? ? ?😮