Anyone got some good stuff? Frequently get to hear about the best nordic music when reading on Reddit etc, and I'm thinking since there's a lot of music heads here... maybe you got something for me.
As a Sweden I obviously know A LOT of good Swedish stuff but from the others... dunno. But I'll initiate:
Norway
These people famously (?) don't produce a lot of good music, movies or really anything. I don't know what they sit around doing really.. earning oil money and owning stocks I guess. I'm thinking you guys know more about Norwegian music given your good relations, after all Norway would be Swedish if it wasn't for you.. But I kind of like their small but exciting "nu-jazz" scene.
Denmark
Danish is a complicated language because it sounds as if you speak Norwegian while someone tries to strangle you. I can do the odd song from their "national icon" Kim Larsen. But they have a decen't electronic scene. Here's one of those songs but remixed by an American who knows what he's doing... and as you might guess, no, I don't trust the Danes in music. They have the best movies in Scandinavia but music? eh..
Finland
...isn't technically part of Scandinavia since the "mountain line," or whatever it may be called in English, isn't going through there.
The Finns do some great music that I generally avoid listening to because I don't like "metal" and "hard rock". They also do a shitton of melancholic stuff.
And obviously Beatles covers:
Iceland
If we include Finland we might as well include Iceland. You have heard Björk if you have any interest in music and... well. That's all, I think.
Sweden
Sweden is a country where the population is severly intellectually handicapped but excellent at engineering and this pays off in particularly in pop music. No one has written as many Billboard nr 1s as Max Martin, and his idea of simplistic, catchy, cleverly patterned songs work very well in pop music. This (over)engineered music can be heard not least in ABBA, a band I dislike with some passion.
If we're into "typical Swedish", I much prefer Ace of Base. The build-ups, the sexual suggestiveness, the very slick production with a touch of very deliberate grit.
As a Sweden I obviously know A LOT of good Swedish stuff but from the others... dunno. But I'll initiate:
Norway
These people famously (?) don't produce a lot of good music, movies or really anything. I don't know what they sit around doing really.. earning oil money and owning stocks I guess. I'm thinking you guys know more about Norwegian music given your good relations, after all Norway would be Swedish if it wasn't for you.. But I kind of like their small but exciting "nu-jazz" scene.
Denmark
Danish is a complicated language because it sounds as if you speak Norwegian while someone tries to strangle you. I can do the odd song from their "national icon" Kim Larsen. But they have a decen't electronic scene. Here's one of those songs but remixed by an American who knows what he's doing... and as you might guess, no, I don't trust the Danes in music. They have the best movies in Scandinavia but music? eh..
Finland
...isn't technically part of Scandinavia since the "mountain line," or whatever it may be called in English, isn't going through there.
The Finns do some great music that I generally avoid listening to because I don't like "metal" and "hard rock". They also do a shitton of melancholic stuff.
And obviously Beatles covers:
Iceland
If we include Finland we might as well include Iceland. You have heard Björk if you have any interest in music and... well. That's all, I think.
Sweden
Sweden is a country where the population is severly intellectually handicapped but excellent at engineering and this pays off in particularly in pop music. No one has written as many Billboard nr 1s as Max Martin, and his idea of simplistic, catchy, cleverly patterned songs work very well in pop music. This (over)engineered music can be heard not least in ABBA, a band I dislike with some passion.
If we're into "typical Swedish", I much prefer Ace of Base. The build-ups, the sexual suggestiveness, the very slick production with a touch of very deliberate grit.
