What albums remind you of ESTONIA?

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We in ESTONIA have very little local music and with the exception of Smith'ide Perekond, they are poor quality and do not reflect this proud nation that I am proud to have nationality of.

We must import bands from other countries to reflect ESTONIA.

I was discussing this between flights (for I am a student pilot) with my friends and we agree that Echo & The Bunnymen's Ocean Rain reflects ESTONIA best. However, we are merely ESTONIAN student pilots so we wonder what music intellectuals from England and America think.

Echo & The Bunnymen is very popular in ESTONIA. So is Ian McCulloch's work - he was very fantastic in the 1970s BBC drama series Survivors.

― Pitor Skut, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah.. Ocean Rain totally reminds me of ESTONIA.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Roll Away Estonia by Mott The Hoople

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Brainstorm? Vanilla Ninja?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

If I did not suspect this were a trick question, I would say Arvo Pärt.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Also, His Name Is Alive's Estonia.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Dude,
Stop impersonating someone you're not. I'm from the neighboring Latvia (sorry, LATVIA) and it kinda offends me by proxy. Drop the Latka act, please,

The real answer is Dallas.

Ah, Brainstorm are Latvian... and not bad for ersatz Britpop. They scored a couple of dates opening for REM last year.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Fountains of Wayne - Sink to the Bottom

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Ahem! Is that a ferry-disaster joke?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh God, they are Latvian. My bad.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha. It's entirely forgivable. Most people over here, in the supposedly somewhat enlightened NYC, can't tell Latvia from Estonia from Freedonia.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

But I can tell a crappy Comstock Carabinieri ripoff from miles away.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Kristaps Kreslin, owner of the wunnerful Pharmacy Bar here in D.C., is Estonian - his best band I think is LU, instrumental catchy droney stuff. I believe there is also an Eastern European punk comp in the jukebox that's the rawk.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

The first thing to spring to mind my when talking about Estonian music was some years ago, when the Finnish Anarchist Union organized for the first time an anarchist rock festival. The last band to play was JMKE, Estonia's most famous punk band. Except that, when the band before them was beginning to play, my friends who were organizing the festival realized that the members of JMKE were nowhere to be found. They began to search for them, and most of them were found boozing up on the nearby lakeside, but the singer was still nowhere to be found. Anyway, the previous band was playing on the main stage and I was handling the lighting. Suddenly I noticed a figure stumbling through the backstage door and on to the stage. It was the singer of JMKE, drunk as fuck! I tried to motion him to go away, it's not your turn yet, but just then he ran into the one of the light racks. The rack fell down, the lamp broke, and soon after the lighting on the main stage went off. The band still managed to play one song in the darkness, but then the electricity on the whole festival area was lost. That was the end of the whole event; JMKE never got to play and there never was another anarchist rock festival.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure this is real, because there's tons of Estonian music. Back when I downloaded music, I had an account on one Estonian server. There were several different releasing Estonian music. At least three groups, and they put out tons of stuff.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I read on /. that Estonia is the country with the little bearded guys with funny hats from Dilbert. Are those guys supposed to be a rock band? Is that why they wear the funny hats?

― Wub-Fur Internet Radio (wubfur), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

But I can tell a crappy Comstock Carabinieri ripoff from miles away.

lol wtf

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

But I can tell a crappy Comstock Carabinieri ripoff from miles away.

lol wtf camerello koala

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Estonia also gave us the wholly delightful "Once In A Lifetime" by Ines, and the intensely pleasurable "Eighties Coming Back" by Ruffus.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I know a good band from ESTONIA, and they called Dallas. Does anybody know them?
Also Morrissey namechecked this little country called ESTONIA: "And don't you wonder, Why in ESTONIA they say, Hey you, Big fat pig You fat pig, You fat pig."

And I like the girls in Vanilla Ninja too (this is a girl group from ESTONIA).

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Joseph Cotton, you are really Latvian?

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Many many moons ago, during Estonia's first Winter of independence from the Soviet Union, I taught American English at Tallinn Technical University. One of the other Americans I was in the program with played side one of They Might Be Giants' *Flood* all the time. So that partcular half of that particular album always reminds me of Estonia.

Roxette, ABBA and Metallica were huge among the Estonians I hung out with and my students. Ocassional songs from those artists will bring back memories...

Also, Sinead O'connor's version of Elton John's "Sacrafice" fromt the Two Rooms tribute album. One of the Estonian radio stations at the time usd to fill their overnights with a 5 CD player set on random and that was the best song that kept popping up.

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Hm? and, ideed, hmm! The song that reminds me 'bout 'stonia is The Go-Betweens' "Streets of Your Town".
Go figure.

(btw: Kristaps Kreslin, owner of the wunnerful Pharmacy Bar here in D.C., is Estonian
seems, by the very look of the name, like at least his mother must've been Latvian :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

To answer the question, Bjork reminds me of Estonia, because the way I imagine Iceland is pretty much exactly the same as how I picture ESTONIA.

Mum and Sigur Ros too.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Mum and Sigur Ros?
But Godspeed You Black Emperor doesn't?
Just curious.

(It's anyway good to know I can spare me the cost of an Iceland trip, then :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Long ago life was clean
Sex was bad and obscene
And the rich were so mean
Stately homes for the lords
Croquet lawns, village greens
Estonia was my queen
Estonia, Estonia, Estonia, ’tonia

I was born, lucky me
In a land that I love
Though I am poor, I am free
When I grow I shall fight
For this land I shall die
Let her sun never set
Estonia, Estonia, Estonia, ’tonia
Estonia, Estonia, Estonia, tonia

Land of hope and gloria
Land of my Estonia
Land of hope and gloria
Land of my Estonia
Estonia, ’tonia
Estonia, Estonia, Estonia, ’tonia

Canada to india
Australia to cornwall
Singapore to hong kong
From the west to the east
From the rich to the poor
Estonia loved them all
Estonia, Estonia, Estonia, ’tonia
Estonia, Estonia, Estonia

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I love this thread.

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

how about the rolling estonians?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Ruffus used to be called Claire's Birthday, you know. A pity they won Eurovision with their weakest entry (Tanel & Dave, we won't go there) - but then that's democracy for you.

Tallinn is a very beautiful and historic city, providing you keep to the Old Town.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

The Estonia Roses.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

how about the rolling estonians?

heh!
well howzabout 'the various tape rollin' 'stonians'?!?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

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