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April 1, 2008 7:40 AM   Subscribe

Finnish band Leningrad Cowboys perform "Sweet Home Alabama" backed by the Red Army Choir.
posted by Kirth Gerson (35 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Hello, MTV Video Music Awards from 1994. I've missed you. Come, sit down, we'll have a nice chat. You're looking good, you know?

Yes, yes, I've gained a bit of weight, you don't have to be coy.

How's Madonna doing? I remember when she came out on stage during you with David Letterman on her arm. That was crazy, since she'd up and dropped like 30 f-bombs during his show.

I'm glad! That's great! I always liked her records.

What about Michael and Lisa Marie Pres--

Oh.

Um.

So.

Yeah, those Leningrad Cowboys, they were the best part of you, though, weren't they? I always thought it was a real shame that the Brits kicked you in the teeth in that department, even though you tried so valiantly.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 7:51 AM on April 1, 2008 [1 favorite]


I'm getting this odd sense of triple-deja vu.
posted by dabitch at 7:53 AM on April 1, 2008


Skynryrd does, indeed, suck, but I love how the red-army guys are so obviously having a great time.
posted by signal at 7:58 AM on April 1, 2008 [1 favorite]


That's absolutely right -- those accents and those smiles (all in those uniforms)!
posted by grobstein at 8:00 AM on April 1, 2008


Russia-mania was popular in the US for a while, though. Gorbachev and glasnost and all that. Hey, remember Gorky Park?
posted by First Post at 8:02 AM on April 1, 2008


Goddamnit, Kirth! Rickrolled again.




Seriously though, I have to agree with signal and grobstein here.
posted by ErWenn at 8:02 AM on April 1, 2008


I retract my comment, I honestly thought that I had seen this posted to the blue like yesterday or something, but upon further inspection it seems I misremembered. How odd. So it was a deja vu rather than a real memory.

Oh, when I did see it the first time around I had to gall to think "like, Russia-mania is like so eighties". Tssk. Teenagers.
posted by dabitch at 8:05 AM on April 1, 2008


bwaahahahah
posted by hellslinger at 8:06 AM on April 1, 2008


That made me grin like an idiot. Great stuff. And I love how they incorporate "Orchi Chornya" (sp?) at the end!
posted by Dr. Wu at 8:11 AM on April 1, 2008


the Brits kicked you in the teeth

I thought of the same clip (as well as the music video) after viewing the one in the FPP.
posted by ericb at 8:24 AM on April 1, 2008


"Hello, MTV Video Music Awards from 1994..."

There used to be a Used Books store down the street from where I lived and the entire front width was festooned with a banner that rather sensibly pointed out, "A New Book Is One You've Never Read Before".

Completely sans snark.

I really miss the good old days when occasionally you could fnd someone who actually could share something that might indeed be new to even a tiny minority of the larger community without having to sigh and wait for the volley of "Oh man that is sooooooooooooooooo OLD!" from someone else who's seen it before and is just waiting for the opportunity to be the first to shout this out.

Old? Well, so am I. And despite that, there are still things I (a) haven't seen; and (b) don't know. So thanks for sharing, Kirth. Still laughing over here.

Mike
posted by Mike D at 8:47 AM on April 1, 2008 [2 favorites]


I stumbled across Leningrad Cowboys Go America last year. Words cannot describe the wonder.
posted by honeydew at 8:58 AM on April 1, 2008


This is The Red Army Choir?

These are the guys that were going to shake the halls of power of the running dogs of the capitalist West?

I think standards have dropped.

Anthem.
posted by Relay at 9:03 AM on April 1, 2008


Heh. That was fun. Loved the beehives.

When I was young, and living in the South, Sweet Home Alabama was the song that was soooo popular that it had to be played twice at our middle school dances. I tell people that sometimes in an attempt to explain what my childhood was like. Ah, memories of the horror that was middle school....
posted by gingerbeer at 9:14 AM on April 1, 2008


I liked it, Kirth! I hadn't seen it before.

Probably because I was seven years old when it was first broadcast.
posted by dismas at 9:14 AM on April 1, 2008


honeydew, be sure to check out the sequel: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
posted by slimepuppy at 9:27 AM on April 1, 2008


I can't remember who put this song on a mix tape of mine all those years ago, but I thought mixing in Volga Boatman with Sweet Home Alabama was always one of the most brilliant things I'd ever heard.

Take that, 2005 mashup-ers.
posted by Spatch at 9:28 AM on April 1, 2008


Well, I'd not seen it and thought it was ace. Nice one.
posted by jontyjago at 9:34 AM on April 1, 2008


I'd never seen it before and thought it was amazing. The pompadours made it perfect.
posted by sotonohito at 9:39 AM on April 1, 2008


Perhaps nobody informed the former comunist nations of this truism, so let me:

TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT YOU STUPID COMMIES!
posted by tkchrist at 9:45 AM on April 1, 2008


How many times have I told you guys: "Sweet Home Alabama *needs* a tuba riff.

/loved the Volga Boatman thingie at the end too.
posted by RavinDave at 9:49 AM on April 1, 2008


Finland isn't a former communist nation.
posted by slimepuppy at 9:54 AM on April 1, 2008


This made me happy.

Also, I've discovered that Netflix has Leningrad Cowboys: Total Balalaika Show, which I have added to my queue.
posted by tdismukes at 9:58 AM on April 1, 2008


Finland isn't a former communist nation.

That is no excuse.
posted by tkchrist at 10:12 AM on April 1, 2008


Tangentially,

A few weeks back I went to the restaurant owned by the lead singer, Zetor.

It was fucking awesome. Kitschy and odd, but it felt more honest than the typical american approximation. Good food too.

And their menu layout fucking ruled.
posted by Lord_Pall at 10:15 AM on April 1, 2008


That was bizarre. Maybe I should rethink my "all awards shows are boring wastes of time" stance.


Nah.
posted by notashroom at 10:15 AM on April 1, 2008


Y'all wanna put BoingBoing on your "check daily" list and you'll save a TON of time on all the MeFi FPPs you will have already seen a few days before.
posted by spock at 12:11 PM on April 1, 2008


I like this one best. (Includes the anthem)
From a previous post.
posted by MtDewd at 2:15 PM on April 1, 2008


I've always wondered whether the "Titanic Parodie" mp3 I have, which is attributed to the Leningrad Cowboys, is actually from them. It sounds like 2 or 3 drunk people with a tape recorder.
posted by bugmuncher at 4:12 PM on April 1, 2008


Fab. And it brings back fond memories of Helsinki to boot! Pointy boots!
posted by Dick Paris at 6:13 PM on April 1, 2008


spock: Y'all wanna remove Metafilter from your "check daily" list and you'll save us'all a TON of time on all the MeFi FPPs you won't be whining in.
posted by signal at 6:19 PM on April 1, 2008


I think we can all agree that if they ever cover Freebird we must nuke Finland.
posted by tkchrist at 7:26 PM on April 1, 2008


Absolutely not. I'll take Finland over Alabama any fucking day of the week.
posted by malocchio at 9:34 AM on April 2, 2008


Absolutely not. I'll take Finland over Alabama any fucking day of the week.

I'm amenable to nuking Alabama. Make your case.
posted by tkchrist at 4:11 PM on April 2, 2008


Okay, so now I've had Sweet Home Alabama going through my head for two days now. I can't sleep. I blame MetaFilter.

One day, I'm going to do an FPP on tunes that stick in your ear and cannot be dislodged.
posted by A-Train at 8:00 AM on April 3, 2008


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