"A boy looks at a girl / and a girl looks like a pony / she got looks all day long / in between my toes" * The BPA featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal: Toe Jam * written by D. Byrne & Dylan Mills * produced by Norman Cook & Simon Thornton * released on Jul 7th, 2008 * directed by Keith Schofield

"I don't know my future after this weekend..." * Björk: Big Time Sensuality * written by Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Nellee Hooper * released originally on Jul 5th, 1993 * extended edit of the Fluke minimix which was released on Nov 22nd, 1993 * produced by Nellee Hooper & Fluke * night version, directed by Stéphane Sednaoui

Laura's Theme / I colori di dicembre * from the film Don't Look Now, premiered on Oct 16th, 1973 * composed by Pino Donaggio * conducted by Giampiero Boneschi * released in 1973

The Pink Panther Theme * written and produced by Henry Mancini * recorded in Sep 16-18, 1963 * released in the film The Pink Panther on Dec 19th 1963, on record in 1964

"Your looks intoxicate me" * The Turtles: Elenore * written by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Al Nichol, Jim Pons & John Barbata * produced by Chip Douglas * released in Sep 1968 * uploaded by AvaRitaGrace on Jun 26th, 2011

Eleanor Parker 1922 - 2013

"Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä..." * Kivikasvot: Musta joulu * trad. / incl. various (or sort of) Christmas carols * arranged by Pentti Lasanen * released in 1971

"Come and trim my Christmas tree / with some decorations bought at Tiffany's / I really do believe in you / let's see if you believe in me" * Eartha Kitt: Santa Baby * written by Joan Javits, Philip Springer & Tony Springer * released originally in 1953 * footage from the Gold Coast Jazz & Blues Festival in 1991

"Danced the dance / or it soon will be / danced the dance / I'll be back here with me / in no time" * Peter Hammill: In Slow Time * written by P. Hammill & David Ferguson * produced by P. Hammill * released in Aug 1980 * A Black Box promo video, choreography by Nicolas Dixon * transmitted on Feb 22nd, 1982

"Charlie, for Christ sakes / if you wanna know the truth of it..." * Tom Waits: Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis * produced by Bones Howe * recorded in Jul 24 - Aug 26, 1978, released in Sep 1978

Marches (f.e. Muistoja Pohjolasta, composed by Sam Sihvo in 1915-16) * footage from the Helsingin VPK (a volunteer fire-brigade of Helsinki) 145th anniversary parade on May 21, 2009 * performed probably by the Helsingin VPK orchestra * uploaded by Hans Kullberg on May 28, 2009

"I'm so in love with you / I'll be forever blue / what religion or reason / could drive a man to forsake his lover" * Erasure: A Little Respect * written by Vince Clarke & Andy Bell * produced by Stephen Hague * released on Apr 18, 1988 * directed by Peter Christopherson, first aired in Sep 1988

"Headline, jungle is the only rule / front page roar of the nation's cool / turn it up, this is my attitude / take it or leave it" * Kiss: I Love It Loud * written by Gene Simmons & Vinnie Vincent * produced by Michael James Jackson, G. Simmons & Paul Stanley * released on Oct 13, 1982 * directed by Paul Davey

"Ei ahdista taakka, ei kiristä vyö / jos poikkeat taas talohon" * Ansa Ikonen & Tauno Palo: Kulkurin valssi * music trad. & by J. Alfred Tanner, lyrics by J.A. Tanner & Mika Waltari * the song recorded originally in 1926, by Ansa & Tauno in 1974 (conducted by George de Godzinsky), renewing their performance from the 1941 film Kulkurin valssi

"It's not the ending of the world / it's only the closing of a discotheque / I used to go three times a week / but that was..." " * David Byrne: A Long Time Ago * produced by Arto Lindsay, Susan Rogers & D. Byrne * recorded in Nov-Dec 1993, released on May 24, 1994

Theme from Rebecca * composed by Franz Waxman * the film Rebecca premiered on Mar 27, 1940

"I thought I was mistaken / I thought I heard your words / tell me, how do I feel? / tell me now, how do I feel?" * New Order: Blue Monday * shortened version * written by Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris & Bernard Sumner * produced by New Order * released on Mar 7, 1983

"There was a time / when all on my mind was love" * Depeche Mode: Love, in Itself * written by Martin Gore * produced by Depeche Mode (Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, M. Gore, Alan Wilder), Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones * released on Aug 22, 1983 * directed by Clive Richardson

"Cool babies / strange but not a stranger / I'm an or-di-na-ry guy" * Talking Heads: Burning Down the House * music by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison & Tina Weymouth, lyrics by D. Byrne * released originally in May 1983 * footage from the 1984 film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme, shot at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood in Dec 14-16, 1983

"If fortune should ever favour me / ? if I should have money in store / I'll come back and I'll wed the sweet lassie I left / on Paddy's Green..." * T.T. Oksala: Shamrock Shore * trad. * arranged and produced by T.T. Oksala * released in 1988

"What are words worth? - words" * Tom Tom Club: Wordy Rappinghood * written by Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz & Steven Stanley * produced by C. Frantz & S. Stanley * released on Feb 17th 1981 * footage from the tv show Discoring

Theme from Metsolat (a tv serial premiered on Jan 13th 1993) * music by Juha Tikka & Esa Kaartamo

"Of holding hands and red bouquets / and twilight trimmed in purple haze / and laughing eyes and simple ways / and quiet nights and gentle days with you" * Elvis Presley: Memories * written by Billy Strange & Mac Davis * produced by Bones Howe * recorded on Jun 23rd and released on Nov 22nd 1968 * uploaded by doronron100

"Poor people gonna rise up / and get their share / poor people gonna rise up / and take what's theirs" * Tracy Chapman: Talkin 'Bout a Revolution * released originally in early Apr 1988 * footage from Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa, a concert held at the Wembley Stadium in London on Apr 16th 1990

"I've never seen a night so long / when time goes crawling by / the moon just went behind a cloud / to hide its face and cry" * Diamanda Galás: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry * live at the Vogue Theater in Vancouver on Nov 9th 2002 * written by Hank Williams * arranged by D. Galás * produced by Blaise Dupuy * the song released originally in 1949 * released on Dec 8th 2003

Tom Krause & Regina Resnik (with Choeur du Grand Théâtre de Genève): "Si tu m`aime, Carmen" from the 1875 opera Carmen * Thomas Schippers conducts Orchestre de la Suisse Romande * composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy * recorded in 1962, released in 1963

"I close my eyes / then I drift away / into the magic night / I softly say" * Roy Orbison: In Dreams * Apr 1987 re-recording of the 1963 song, produced by R. Orbison, T-Bone Burnett & David Lynch * released in 1987, prior to the Jul 4th * directed by Leslie Libman (including footage from the 1986 film Blue Velvet by David Lynch)

"In the town they're searching for us everywhere / but we never will be found" * Paul McCartney & Wings: Band on the Run * written and produced by Paul McCartney * released on Dec 5th 1973 * directed by Michael Coulson

"Varttui lämpimässä perheessä / uskoi että hyvä voittaa" * Neljä Ruusua: Kuka näkee * music by Petteri Koistinen, words by Ilkka Alanko * arranged by P. Koistinen & I. Alanko* produced by PeeWee, Tommi Lindell & Neljä Ruusua: I. Alanko, Kode Koistinen, Kämy, Lade Laakkonen * released in Oct (on the 20th or earlier) 1993 * directed by Aulis Moisio & Tommi Tikka in 1994

"Color me / in whatever mood I'm in" * Crowded House: Black & White Boy * written by Neil Finn * produced by Youth * released on Oct 11th 1993 * uploaded by Anniea11 on Jan 2nd 2008

"No one listens they are saying / fair one do not fear / fair one do not fear" * Marstio: Serenade * written by Franz Schubert in 1926, words translated from German to English by Alice Mattullath, assumingly in 1924 * arranged and produced by Pedro Hietanen * music from the film Rikos ja rangaistus, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, premiered on Dec 2nd 1983 * released in 1983

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli: Stormy Weather * written by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler in 1933 * recorded in Rome, Jan or Feb 1949

"He heard the sound of the distant voice / you'd better watch out! / you'd better watch out!" * Kim Wilde: House of Salome * written by Marty & Ricky Wilde * produced by R. Wilde * released on Oct 24th 1983

"Good time / in the sunshine / comin' sunshine / going sunshine" * Jay & the Miracles: Understand * produced by J & TM * recorded in spring 1990

"But there's one thing, one thing we all have in common" * Randy Newman: I Want You to Hurt Like I Do * produced by James Newton Howard & Tommy LiPuma * released in Sep 1988

"Now listen honey" * Dusty Springfield: I Only Want to Be with You * written by Mike Hawker & Ivor Raymonde * produced by Johnny Franz * released on Nov 8th 1963

Gute Nacht (composed by Adolf Eduard Marschner in the mid-1800's, lyrics probably trad.) * performed by an unidentified sextet of "graduates", incl. choirmaster Matti Ranin (as Kaarlo "Kalle" Härkönen) * footage from the film Katupeilin takana (directed by Toivo Särkkä, premiered on Nov 4th 1949)

Matti Ranin 1926 - 2013

"Sen kadut oli vaikeat / vaan rakkaat kulkea" * Susi-Artturi: Sen valoissa on rakkaus (written by Jukka Alihanka) * released in 1987

"Kun tulet teiltä maailman / soi riemu samaten mun syömmessäin" * Laila Kinnunen: Kun hämärtää (music by The Three Suns: Artie Dunn, Al Nevins & Morty Nevins, Finnish lyrics by Saukki) * the original version of the song titled Twilight Time (with lyrics by Buck Ram) released in 1958 * footage from Kuukauden suosikit (a tv program from the 1960's) * first recorded in Finnish in 1958, never by L. Kinnunen

Mathilda May & Yves Montand: La Parfumerie (music by Michel Legrand, lyrics by Jacques Demy) * footage from the film Trois places pour le 26, directed by J. Demy, released in France on Nov 23rd 1988

Night-Piece (Notturno) * composed by Benjamin Britten in 1963 \ performed by Anthony Goldstone (piano), released on Aug 22nd 2006

"Kari Rydmanin näköiseltä mieheltä kysyin, mikä on elämän tarkoitus" * Mikko Alatalo: Maailmanlopun meininki (M. Alatalo & Harri Rinne), footage from Syksyn Sävel -kilpailu (broadcasted on Oct 17th 1983 on MTV1)

"You've got a smiling face / you took the one I love so far away" * The Motors: Airport (Andy McMaster) * the single version * produced by A. McMaster, Nick Garvey, Peter Ker * released in May (or earlier) 1978

"We changed the light to low / it made our spirits glow / if it were up to me / I'd never let you go" * Blondie: End to End (music by Chris Stein, lyrics by Deborah Harry & Romy Ashby) * originally released in 2003 * Sessions@AOL on Feb 24th 2004

"I dreamed that I was young and smart and it was not a waste / I dreamed that there was a point to life and to the human race" * Lou Reed: The Day John Kennedy Died \ produced by L. Reed & Sean Fullan \ released on Feb 23rd 1982

"Excuse and pardon me / stay for a while / maybe we'll never meet again" * Talking Heads: Lifetime Piling Up (written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) \ produced by Steve Lillywhite & Talking Heads \ released in 1992, prior to Oct 10th

"On kenties meille ilta tämä viimeinen" * Berit: Tässä nyt ja näin (music by Veikko Samuli, lyrics by Juha Vainio) \ released originally in Apr (or earlier) 1983 \ footage from Vapputanssit (Apr 30th 1983 at 6.15 - 6.45 pm on MTV1)

"The European cannon is here" * David Bowie: Station to Station \ live at the Nihon Budokan in Tokyo on Dec 12th 1978 \ originally released in 1976

"Kaikki pois piiloistaan" * Sir Elwoodin Hiljaiset Värit: Viimeisellä rannalla (music by Juha Saaresaho, Arttu Leskinen, Riku Järvinen, Hansu Saarinen, Juha Lehti, lyrics by J. Lehti) * produced by S.E.H.V. * released in autumn 1993 * directed by Leo Pee, shot in Oct 1993 (at least on the 21st)

"Life: a shadow and a dream" \ Song For Athene * composed by John Tavener, lyrics by Mother Thekla; written in Apr 1993, first recorded in 1994 or earlier, published in 1997 * performed by Kammerkór Suðurlands (South Iceland Chamber Choir, conducted by Hilmar Örn Agnarsson); released in autumn 2013

"Rainy days never say goodbye..." * Gazebo: I Like Chopin (music by Pierluigi Giombini, lyrics by Gazebo) \ produced by P. Giombini \ released in late summer (or earlier) 1983 \ directed by David Rose

"Minä lasken elämäni silkan typeryyden huomaan / minä katson kiittäneeni jo kyllin korkeaa" * CMX: Fysiikka ei kestä (music by CMX: Janne Halmkrona, Tuomas Peippo, Timo Rasio, A.W. Yrjänä, lyrics by Yrjänä) \ produced by Rake with Halmkrona & Yrjänä \ released on Nov 11th 2003

"Les yeux sans visage" * Billy Idol: Eyes Without a Face (written by B. Idol & Steve Stevens) \ produced by Keith Forsey \ released on Nov 10th 1983 \ video directed by David Mallet, released in Jun 1984

"Milloinkaan et enää vieressä portin sä odota minua, et" * Metro-tytöt: Hiljainen kylätie (music by Toivo Kärki, lyrics by Reino Helismaa) \ released in 1953 (recorded on Apr 10th)

"Minä niistä kertoisinko kelle / sinä kun poissa jo oot?" * Olavi Virta: Menneitä muistellessa \ the 1963 re-recording (originally released in 1948)

"On helppoa vaatia kohtaloltaan / mutta alistua siihen on vaikeampaa / pääteasemasi olla nyt voi mikä lie / eikä pitemmälle jatku kulku" * Tapio Rautavaara: Kiskoja pitkin (music by Jaakko Salo, lyrics by Saukki) \ footage from the 2010 rerun (Jul 27th, Jul 30th or Aug 1st on Yle Teema) of Reissumies topparoikassa (premiered on Jan 31st 1968) \ not recorded until 1973

"Hello? This is your Mother. Are you there? Are you coming home?" * Laurie Anderson: O Superman (For Massenet) * produced by L. Anderson & Roma Baran * released in 1981 * directed by Josh White

"How soon will I be holy / how much will this cost guru" * Alanis Morissette: Baba (music and production by A. Morissette & Glen Ballard, words by A. Morissette) \ released on Nov 3rd 1998

"Can you help me occupy my brain? / oh yeah" * Poverty Stinks: Paranoid (written by Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward) \ the song released originally in 1970, by Poverty Stinks in autumn 1990 * produced by Ari Vaahtera

"Gabriel before me / Raphael behind me / Michael to my right / Uriel on my left side / in this circle of fire" * Kate Bush: Lily (written and produced by K. Bush) \ released on Nov 2nd 1993

"Mitä ne läskipäät lapsista ymmärtää? / vain kaavakkeen käskivät puolittain täyttämään" * Leevi and the Leavings: Matkalla omiin hautajaisiin (Gösta Sundqvist) \ produced by ANDERS FROM (Niklas Nylund) & Erik Kääriäinen (G. Sundqvist) \ released on Jun 13th (Fri) 2003

"Nyt meillä nähdään nykyajan voitto / radiosta raikaa maailman soitto / korvessa kaukaisessa / pirtissäkin pienoisessa" * Tatu Pekkarinen: Laulu radiosta (trad., lyrics by T. Pekkarinen) \ released in 1929

"Menen nukkumaan ja toivon / etten enää koskaan herää / kevätpäivään raastavaan" * CMX: Vanha talvitie (music by CMX: Janne Halmkrona, Tuomas Peippo, Timo Rasio, A.W. Yrjänä, lyrics by Yrjänä) \ produced by Billy Gould \ released in Oct 1998

"I've asked myself, how much do you / commit yourself?" * Talk Talk: It's My Life (written by Mark Hollis & Tim Friese-Greene) \ produced by T. Friese-Greene \ released in early Jan 1984 \ directed by Tim Pope

"You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas / absolute elsewehere in the stones of your mind" * John Lennon: Mind Games (written and produced by J. Lennon) \ released on Oct 29th 1973

"The rich son waits for his father to die / the poor just drink and cry / and me - I just don't care at all" * Lou Reed: Men of Good Fortune \ produced by Bob Ezrin \ released in Oct 1973

Lou Reed 1942 - 2013

"L'Évangile, ou le kamasutra, on a la foi" * Catherine Deneuve & Bernadette Lafont: Zig-Rag (aka Zig Zig or Zig-Zig; written by Elisa Pons, Karl Heinz Schäfer, Maurice Vidalin) \ from the soundtrack to the film Zig Zig (released on Jan 1st 1975) by László Szabó, released in 1974

"In that August breeze of forgotten trees / your time was set for leaving / come a colder season" * 10,000 Maniacs: Noah's Dove (Natalie Merchant) \ released originally on Sep 29th 1992 \ live footage from MTV Unplugged (at Sony Music Studios, NYC on Apr 21st 1993), released on Oct 26th 1993

"I love that boy / I love that man in the street / I love wild child smiles on the faces that I meet" * Tom Tom Club: Don't Say No (written and produced by Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz) \ released in Sep 1988

"Hit me (hit me) / hit me with those laser beams" * Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax (written by Peter Gill, Holly Johnson and Mark O'Toole) \ produced by Trevor Horn \ released on Oct 24th 1983 \ directed by Bernard Rose

"Deep in the heart of Texas / and 'round the Frisco Bay / all over St. Louis / way down in New Orleans" * Chuck Berry: Sweet Little Sixteen \ released originally in Jan 1958; footage from a live performance, assumingly on television

"Time like silent stares, with no apology" * Joe Esposito: Lady, Lady, Lady (aka Lady, Lady; written by Giorgio Moroder & Keith Forsey) \ released in the early 1983 \ footage from TopPop, broadcasted on Oct 22nd 1983

"And I don't really want your kiss / my thoughts don't make me cry / my heart's not filled with grey sadness / my ears can't hear you lie" * Julee Cruise: In My Other World (written by J. Cruise & Louis Tucci) \ produced by David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti \ released on Oct 12th 1993

"I only ask / that what I feel / should not be denied me now" * George Harrison: Who Can See It \ released on May 30th 1973

"My body's so tired and I'm tired of thinking / digging for gold in a land of dreams" * Tanita Tikaram: Dust on My Shoes (T. Tikaram & Mark Richard Creswell) \ released on May 11th 2012, video directed by Natacha Horn

"I believe it's meant to be, darling" * Susanna Hoffs: Eternal Flame (written by S. Hoffs, Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg), released originally by The Bangles on Oct 18th 1988 \ footage from a live performance in Yokohama, 1996

"Pannaan ne pussauskoppiin" * Jonna: Minttu sekä Ville (music by Veikko Samuli, lyrics by Raul Reiman), released in Syksyn Sävel -kilpailu (clip) on Oct 17th 1983, on record in Oct or Nov in the same year

"Kun tulen kiinni sinuun / jumalatkin uskoo minuun / vaikka itse aina usko en" * Juice Leskinen: Syksyn sävel (released in the late 1975) \ footage from Estradilla: Senaattori ja Boheemi (released on Jan 15th 2005); live at the Tampere Hall on Nov 13th 2004

"Tämän jälkeen Vanhalla / ei mikään ole ollut niin kuin ennen" * Lapinlahden Linnut: Kuppilan tango (music by Pekka Hedkrok, lyrics by Tapio Liinoja), released (originally without orders and other speaks) in Apr 1988 \ video made for the 1st episode of Seitsemän kuolemansyntiä (a tv sketch show by Lapinlahden Linnut released on Oct 15th 1988), directed by Pertti Melasniemi

"Ivan's Appeal to the Boyars" [Engl. name] * composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1942 - 1944; music to the film Ivan Grozniy / Иван Грозный (released in two parts: 1 on Dec 30th 1944, 2 in 1958) by Sergei Eisenstein \ arranged into an oratorio in 1961 by Alexander Stasevich; performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti, with the Ambrosian Chorus (chorus master John McCarthy), Irina Arkhipova (mezzo-soprano), Anatoly Morenko (baritone) and Boris Morgunov (narrator), recorded in 1977

"Ah let the grass grow green over the brewery tonight / it'll never come between the darkness and the light / and there's nothing too sick that can't be eased / by the devil's holy water and the rosary beads" * Radiators: Song of the Faithful Departed (Philip Chevron), released on Aug 10th 1979 \ clip from a tv performance in 1980

"Heartache to heartache, we stand" * Pat Benatar: Love Is a Battlefield (written by Holly Knight & Mike Chapman) \ released on Oct 12th 1983, video directed by Bob Giraldi

"Hop!" * Édith Piaf: La java de Cézigue (music by Jean Eblinger, lyrics by Rene-Pierre Groffe) \ released in 1935 or 1936

Valzer Brillante (aka Valzer Verdi), written by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) for piano, published posthumously in the film Il Gattopardo (released on Mar 28th 1963) by Luchino Visconti, orchestrated by Nino Rota \ performed by Trio Addendum, arranged by Paolo Zannini; uploaded by aculiani on Jun 12th 2011

"Kun mennään ostamaan tavaraa / niin tullaan myyjinä pois" * Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki: E, E, E -liike (music by M.A. Numminen, lyrics by Arvo Salo), released in 1973

"There is no hell / there is no shame / there is no hell / like an old hell / there is no hell" * David Bowie: The Motel \ released on Sep 26th 1995

Valse triste, op. 44, no. 1 (composed by Jean Sibelius in 1903 for the play Kuolema, premiered on Dec 2nd 1903, then revised in 1904 to be known as Valse triste; premiered on Apr 25th 1904), performed by Maud Powell (violin), recorded on Jun 24th 1914

"I always have to comfort you every day / but that's what I need you to do, are you gay?" * Amy Winehouse: Stronger Than Me (A. Winehouse & Salaam Remi), released (at least in UK) on Oct 6th 2003

Theme tune from Bergerac (a tv serial released on Oct 18th 1981, by Yleisradio on Oct 1st 1983), written by George Fenton; intro from the series 1

"I was faced with a choice at a difficult age / would I write a book or should I take to the stage? / but in the back of my head I heard distant feet / Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat" * Pet Shop Boys: Left to My Own Devices (music by Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe, lyrics by N. Tennant), released on Oct 11th 1988, video directed by Eric Watson

"Strangers meet, strangers dream" * Mick Smiley: Magic, released on record (with a different mix) in May 1984, video directed by Greg Gold (first aired in Nov 1984)

"I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled, yeah yeah" * The Rolling Stones: Jumpin' Jack Flash (Mick Jagger & Keith Richards), released on May 24th 1968, promo film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in May 1968

Btw, 40 years since the entrance of Johnny Boy in Mean Streets

L'amore dei due fratelli (written by Nino Rota), music from the 1960 film Rocco e i suoi fratelli

"Did I dream you dreamed about me?" * This Mortal Coil: Song to the Siren (written by Tim Buckley & Larry Beckett in 1967), the song released on record in 1969, by This Mortal Coil in Sep 1983

"A crowd of people stood and stared / they'd seen his face before" * The Beatles: A Day in the Life (Lennon-McCartney), released on Jun 1st 1967

One of the old drawing tunes from Lotto (the Finnish national lottery, established in Dec 1970, broadcasted by Yleisradio from Jan 3rd 1971), ripped off from the Omni Plus software (released in the mid-1990's), composed by ?

"Levottomana minä pyörin vuoteessani" * J. Karjalainen ja Mustat Lasit: Yö kun saapuu Helsinkiin (J. Karjalainen), released in Apr 1982

"Man takes a pencil and puts down his thoughts / the old human highway from Eden to Nod..." * David Byrne: The Great Western Road (from the soundtrack to the film Young Adam, premiered on May 16th 2003), released in Sep 2003 (assumingly on the 4th), uploaded by xxWhiteBrickWallxx

"Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation" * Blondie: Hanging on the Telephone (Jack Lee), the song released originally in 1976, by Blondie in Sep 1978 (assumingly on the 4th), video directed by David Mallet

"Now you're expecting me to live without you / but that's not something that I'm looking forward to" * Ringo Starr: Photograph (Richard Starkey & George Harrison), released on Sep 24th 1973; uploaded by Crystal Ayala

"Well Big Mambo's kicking / his old grey hound / and the kids can't get ice cream / 'cause the market burned down" * Tom Waits: In the Neighborhood, released in Aug 1983, video directed by Haskell Wexler

"When the autumn weather / turns the leaves to flame / one hasn't got time / for the waiting game" * Anjelica Huston: September Song (music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Maxwell Anderson; the song introduced, by Walter Huston, in the musical Knickerbocker Holiday, premiered on Oct 19th 1938), released on May 1st 2012

"Hehkuvan katsees loisteesta nauttia sain..." * Pirkka-Pekka Petelius: Muistan sua Elaine (composed by Alvar Kosunen, lyrics by Matti Jurva); the theme song from Velipuolikuu (a tv sketch show released on Sep 24th 1983); the song released originally in 1931, and by Petelius, on record, in 1984; a clip from the 3rd episode of Velipuolikuu (directed by Kari Kyrönseppä), first broadcasted on Oct 22nd 1983

"Eikä saattajaa näy" * Riki Sorsa: Muuttohaukka (a translated cover of the 1981 song Aftonfalken, composed by Pugh Rogefeldt; Finnish lyrics by Mats Huldén), released in the summer 1983; uploaded by harive30

"The wild and windy night / that the rain washed away / has left a pool of tears / crying for the day" * The Beatles: The Long and Winding Road (Paul McCartney, attributed to Lennon-McCartney), released on May 8th 1970

"Always, no, sometimes think it's me / but you know I know when it's a dream / I think, er, no, I mean, er, 'yes', but it's all wrong / that is I think I disagree" * The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (John Lennon, attributed to Lennon-McCartney), released on Feb 13th 1967; the promo film shot on Jan 30th - 31st 1967, directed by Peter Goldman, first aired in Feb 1967

"My body needs attention my mind is in a mess" * Paul McCartney: Press (released on Jul 14th 1986), video directed by Philip Davey (first aired in Jul 1986)

"That tunnel vision - not television" * Public Image Ltd: This Is Not a Love Song (John Lydon, Keith Levene, Martin Atkins), released in the summer or early autumn of 1983, video first aired in Sep 1983

Le fontane di Roma (the movements: 1. La fontana di Valle Giulia all'Alba, 2. La fontana del Tritone al mattino, 3. La fontana di Trevi al meriggio, 4. La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto), written by Ottorino Respighi in 1916, premiered on Mar 11th 1917, performed here by London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by István Kertész) in 1968 or 1969

Amarcord (Nino Rota), from the soundtrack to the film of the same name (directed by Federico Fellini in 1973), released on record in 1974

"Cup of tea, take time to think, yea / 'ime to risk a life a life a life" * Tanita Tikaram: Twist in My Sobriety (released on Sep 13th 1988), video directed by Gerard de Thame (first aired in Oct 1988)

"The beating of our hearts is the only sound" * Tiffany: I Think We're Alone Now (written by Ritchie Cordell); the song released originally in 1967, by Tiffany in Aug 1987 (assumingly on the 24th), video directed by George Tobin (first aired in Aug 1987)

Brian Eno: 1/1 (B. Eno, Rhett Davies, Robert Wyatt), released in Mar 1978

"I thought of you today / I wished it was yesterday morning" * The Pogues: Tuesday Morning (Spider Stacy), released on Aug 9th 1993

"Crying when I empty my last bottle of Chablis / I'll survive the winter of Paris" * Army of Lovers: La Plage de Saint Tropez (written by Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda, Michaela Dornonville de la Cour, Dominika Peczynski, Anders Wollbeck) released in spring 1993, video directed by Fredrik Boklund

"Life is waiting, don't forget" * Heather Nova: I Wanna Be Your Light, released on Sep 8th 2003

The daily opening and closing theme to the tv broadcasts of Yleisradio, in use from autumn 1992 to round about 1998 - 1999, visually based on the company's Renkaat logo created by Herbie Kastemaa in 1990 (published in times of May Day), composed by ?

Herbie Kastemaa 1940 - 2013

"How much time do you want?" * Track 1 from Vena Cava, an album by Diamanda Galás of her performance at The Kitchen (New York) in Feb/Mar 1992, released on Sep 6th 1993 (PLAY AT MAXIMUM VOLUME ONLY)

"I can't breathe in the air / in this city tonight / it's taken everything I had to give..." * Annie Ross and the Low Note Quintet: Confessions on a Barstool (written by Bono & The Edge), from the album Music from and Inspired by the Film Short Cuts (released in 1993); SC directed by Robert Altman, premiered on Sep 5th 1993

"Todos con el sombrero / el viento radioactivo / despeina los cabellos" * Righeira: Vamos a la playa (music by Carmelo La Bionda & Stefano Righi, lyrics by S. Righi), released in Jul 1983

Carter Burwell: Scream of Love (C. Burwell, David Sanborn, Steve Bray), from the soundtrack to the film Psycho III (directed by Anthony Perkins, premiered in May 1986), a video spin-off, shown on MTV

"I'd really like to live beside you, baby / I love your body and your spirit and your clothes" * Leonard Cohen: First We Take Manhattan (released originally in Jan 1987, by Cohen in Feb 1988), live at Töölön jalkapallostadion in Helsinki on Sep 2nd 2012

Love Is Here to Stay (written by George Gershwin - and probably Vernon Duke - for the film The Goldwyn Follies, directed by George Marshall, premiered on Jan 28th 1938), from the soundtrack to the film Manhattan (directed by Woody Allen, released on Apr 25th 1979), performed by Milt Hinton (bass), Eric Cohen (drums), Brian Koonin (guitar), Dick Hyman (piano), Lewis Eley (violin)

"Precious and warm, a memory / through the years" * Bobby Vinton: Blue Velvet (written by Bernie Wayne & Lee Morris in 1950), released in Aug or Sep 1963

Johann Strauss Sr: Radetzkymarsch (1848); the theme from Sirkuspelle Hermanni (a tv serial released on Aug 29th 1978 as segment of the children's show Pikku Kakkonen)

"You know my soul looks back and wonder..." * Mahalia Jackson: How I Got Over (Clara Ward, written and published in 1951, recorded by Jackson in 1961), live at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug 28th 1963

"Eestlane olla on uhke ja hää / vabalt vaarisa moodi" * Ivo Linna & In Spe: Eestlane olen ja eestlaseks jään (Karl August Hermann, Alo Mattiisen, Jüri Leesment), released in 1988

John Lurie & The Paradise Quartet: A Woman Can Take You to Another Universe (Sometimes She Just Leaves You There) (J. Lurie), from the soundtrack to the film Stranger Than Paradise (directed by Jim Jarmusch, released in May 1984), released on record in 1985

Antti Lindqvist 1953 - 2013

Houston Skyline (Philip Glass), from the soundtrack to the film The Thin Blue Line (directed by Errol Morris, released on Aug 25th 1988), released on the album Music from the Thin Blue Line on Apr 4th 2003

"So if I can shoot rabbits / then I can shoot fascists" * Manic Street Preachers: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (music by James Dean Bradfield & Sean Moore, lyrics - inspired by certain works on the Spanish civil war - by Nicky Wire), released on Aug 24th 1998, video directed by W.I.Z. (first aired in Aug 1998)

"Vanki olen maan" * Reijo Taipale: Satumaa (Unto Mononen, released originally in 1955, by Taipale in 1962; recorded on Oct 24th); a clip from the film Lauantaileikit (shown by Yle Teema in Jul 2011), directed by Maunu Kurkvaara, released on Aug 23rd 1963

"You're taking away my last chance / don't take it away" * Genesis: Mama (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford), released on Aug 22nd 1983, video directed by Stuart Orme (first aired in Aug 1983)

"They'll take your diamonds / and then give you steel / you'll be caught in the middle of the madness / just lost like them" * Dio: All the Fools Sailed Away (music by Ronnie James Dio & Craig Goldy, lyrics by R.J. Dio), released in 1987, included on the album Dream Evil (released on Jul 21st 1987), video directed by Marty Callner (first aired in 1987)

Theme from the film La strada (directed by Federico Fellini, released on Sep 6th 1954), composed by Nino Rota

"It goes down and down and hit the floor / down and down and down some more / depression" * The Clash: I'm Not Down (Joe Strummer & Mick Jones), released on Dec 14th 1979

Themes from the Finnish sports news tv program Urheiluruutu from 1963 to 2009, the first one released on Aug 18th 1963, the 1980's theme titled Tuhannen markan seteli (disco instrumentaali), performed by Leevi and the Leavings, written by Gösta Sundqvist, originally released in the spring 1980, heard on Urheiluruutu from the early 1980's to the early 1990's, the 1991 theme written by Kari Nihti

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose / nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free" * Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge: Me And Bobby McGee (K. Kristofferson & Fred Foster), originally released in 1969, by Kristofferson in 1970; a clip from the 1978 tv show Sounds Like Friday with some added info

"Sun miehes on vain pelkkä haamu siinä sängyllä" * Leevi and the Leavings: Toteemipaalu (Gösta Sundqvist), released - assumably - in Jun 1993

"I know what I know / if you know what i mean /d-doo yeah" * Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: What I Am (Edie Brickell, Kenny Withrow), released on Aug 9th 1988, video directed by Jonas Livingston (first aired in Feb 1989)

"Join in while you still can - yeah" * Carl Lewis: Break It Up (Fred Bekky, Jean-Pierre Dagleth, C. Lennarth), released in 1986, video first aired in 1987

"Sometimes you reach me / sometimes you don't / sometimes when I'm all alone" * Hanoi Rocks: Taxi Driver (Andy McCoy), released in May 1982

"Doing so much more / than falling in love" * Rita Coolidge: All Time High (composed by John Barry, lyrics by Tim Rice), the theme from Octopussy (the film directed by John Glen, released on Jun 6th 1983, in Finland on Aug 12th 1983), released in late spring or early summer 1983

"Ja käytävän hämärä hiljaisuus / missä päivä on yö ja yö ikuisuus" * Katriina Honkanen: Siljan talossa, released in late summer 1993

"Shave ev'ry day and you'll always look keen" * Paul Wynn: Shaving Cream (Benny Bell), released in 1946

"Elin jo niin sun tarinoissa / yhteisissä kohtaloissa / mikset soita?" * Anna Hanski: Jos et sä soita (Juha Tapaninen), released in Jan 1992; a tv commercial for Tele from the same date, assumably directed by Tapaninen

"Ja hän söi, joi / söi ja joi / ja hän kuoli pois" * Sielun Veljet: Politiikkaa (Ismo Alanko), live at Helsingin Vanha on Mar 2nd or 3rd 1983, released in spring or early summer 1983

"Lähden pois / pois kotoani kauas / niin kauas / että unohtaa voin" * Trio Kamara: Hollola - Lahti (Love lompakossa) (composed by Jouni Kannisto, Iiro Ollila and Ilkka Talasranta, lyrics by I. Talasranta), released on the soundtrack from the film Kukkia ja sidontaa in autumn 2004

"I can scarcely move / or draw my breath" * Klaus Nomi: The Cold Song (a.k.a. What Power Art Thou, Who from Below... from the opera King Arthur, composed by Henry Purcell, libretto by John Dryden, first performed in 1691, TCS recorded by Nomi in 1981), clip from Klassik rocknacht, Dec 1982 in Munich

"Take your passion / and make it happen / pictures come alive / you can dance right through your life" * Irene Cara: Flashdance... What a Feeling (music by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by I. Cara & Keith Forsey), released on Apr 3rd 1983, from the film Flashdance by Adrian Lyne, released on Apr 15th 1983 (in Finland on Aug 5th 1983); here a tv performance on Solid Gold (with clips from the film), seemingly on Oct 27th 1984, directed by Neil Gordon, extended edit for the 12" version

150 years (and 5 days) since the autonomization of Finnish - "Helvetin hyvin menee" * PMMP: Rusketusraidat (composed by Jori Sjöroos, lyrics by PMMP: Paula Vesala & Mira Luoti), released in Jun 2003, video directed by Kusti Manninen (first aired in 2004)

"Do you know how a lost heart fears / at the thought of reminiscing / and how lips that taste of tears / lose their taste of kissing" * Diamanda Galás: You Don't Know What Love Is, written by Gene de Paul (music) and Don Raye (lyrics) in 1941 (released originally in the 1942 film Behind the Eight Ball, by Galás in 2009), live at Teatro José Lúcio da Silva in Leiria on Apr 16th 2011, uploaded by ROQUEdePINHO

"I want to lose my head, my heart and my soul" * Hearthill: Love Rain on Me (Jussi Sydänmäki), released in May 1988

Nikos Mamangakis (Mar 3rd 1929 - Jul 24th 2013): Titelmusik from Die Zweite Heimat (the film serial drama by Edgar Reitz), released on Sep 5th 1992, on record in late 1994

"We broke the rules but we won the game / nothing to lose, everything to gain" * Tom Tom Club: Pleasure of Love (Tom Tom Club: Wally Badarou, Tyrone Downie, Chris Frantz, Rupert Hine, Raymond Jones, Steve Scales, Steven Stanley, Alex Weir, Lani Weymouth, Laura Weymouth, Tina Weymouth), released in Jul or Aug 1983, video directed by James Rizzi & Tom Tom Club

"The guilty get no sleep / in the last slow hours of morning" * Crowded House: Into Temptation (Neil Finn), released in Jul 1988, video directed by Richard Lowenstein (first aired in Dec 1988)

"Into this house we're born / into this world we're thrown" * Annabel Lamb: Riders on the Storm (The Doors: Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore), the original song released on Apr 19th 1971, Lamb's version in 1983

"Mamo, nie płacz, nie / niebios Przeczysta Królowo / ty zawsze wspieraj mnie / Zdrować Mario" * Stefania Woytowicz (soprano) & Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna PRiTV w Katowicach, conducted by Jerzy Katlewicz: Pieśń II: Lento e Largo from Symfonia III, "Symfonia pieśni żałosnych" op. 36 (composed by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki from Oct to Dec 1976, lyrics from a prayer written on the wall of a Gestapo cell in Zakopane - within a signature of Helena Wanda Blazusiakówna, imprisoned on Sep 26th 1944 - and from the Polish prayer to Virgin Mary; premiered on Apr 4th 1977), released in 1978

"Mä oon täky" * Esa Saarinen (vocals) & Ricky Hamilton (drum programming, synthesizers M&R, artistic direction & production): Sakkoliha (a demo from the early 1980's, i suppose)

"Czy byłaś natarczywa zbyt / w miłości swej / do niego / czy nie chciał cię / pokazać swym / klientom i kolegom" * Agnieszka Chrzanowska: Camille Claudel (composed by A. Chrzanowska, lyrics by Michał Zabłocki), released on Jun 14th 2000; a clip from the Krakowscy artyści dla Krakowa concert on Jun 4th 2007

Jazz Combo Dexter Gordon / Dexter Gordon Quartet: Loose Walk (Johnny Richards, Sonny Stitt, Chris Woods each mentioned as the composer in different sources, released for the first time in 1953 by Sonny Stitt); a clip shot in Amersfoort, Holland, on Jul 29th 1964, directed by Theo Ordeman

"And she sounds so nice and she's so precise / I'm in paradise with me Edelweiss" * Mel Smith: Mel Smith's Greatest Hits (Rodney Beham-Guiness), released in 1981

"Could it be the devil in me / or is this the way love's supposed to be?" * Martha and the Vandellas: Heat Wave (Holland-Dozier-Holland), released on Jul 9th 1963

Ron Paley: "The Dance of the Comedians" from Prodaná nevěsta (composed by Bedřich Smetana in 1863 - 1870), a clip from Junior Highlights, a Canadian tv show in 1964 or 1965

"I wouldn't live there if you paid me / I couldn't live like that, no siree!" * Talking Heads: The Big Country (David Byrne), released on Jul 21st 1978

"And the music plays on, as the bride passes by / caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale" * Iron Maiden: Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Stephen Percy Harris, some of the lyrics adapted from the 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere by Samuel Taylor Coleridge), released on Sep 3rd 1984

"Been down so long, getting up didn't cross my mind / I knew there was a better way of life and I was just trying to find" * Bobby Womack and Peace: Across 110th Street (B. Womack & J.J. Johnson), released on Dec 16th 1972

"Ich bin noch jung! Geh, lieber / und rühre mich nicht an" * Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) & Inger Södergren (piano): Der Tod und das Mädchen, D. 531 (composed by Franz Schubert in Feb 1817, lyrics from a poem by Matthias Claudius; first published in Nov 1921), released in 2003

"On laulussani tie / se etsii kulkijaa / se sydämiimme vie / ja yhteen johdattaa" * Karoliina Kallio: Kai laulaa saan (composed by Valto Laitinen, lyrics by Chrisse Johansson), an excerpt from the tv series Tenavatähti 1990; episode dated Jun 29th 1990, the song first released in 1971, by Kallio in 1990

"Que a morte é nosso impulso primitivo e sei / que cérebro eletrônico nenhum me dá socorro" * Marisa Monte: Cérebro eletrônico (Gilberto Gil), the song first released in 1969, by Monte in 1996, video of this version directed by Claudio Torres

"''Cos I'm courted by the morning sun y'know / we shine all the picture palace shows / they used to make you feel so real / but now you go trickling / 'til you steal a moment by yourself" * Tanita Tikaram: I Owe All to You, released in 1990

"Aistejani ei voi kiihoittaa / omenankukatkaan / kun jos sun tukkaas tuoksuvaa / saan katseella koskettaa" * Timo Tervo: Katseen kosketus (composed by Markku Kopisto, lyrics by Jussi Kylätasku) - an excerpt from Risto Jarva's film Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei, 1975

"Che forse per paura con te / L'amore non ho fatto mai" * Gigliola Cinquetti: Alle porte del sole (composed by Corrado Conti, Mario Panzeri, Lorenzo Pilat, lyrics by Daniele Pace), released in 1973

"Mua neito katsoi hempeästi / hymyillen niin lempeästi / että päätä rupes huimaamaan" * Reino Helismaa & Pirteät Pelimannit: Neito ja hämähäkki (composed by Reino Terho, lyrics by Reino Helismaa), released in 1950

"The holiday was fun-packed / the contract, still intact" * Depeche Mode: Everything Counts (M.L. Gore), released on Jul 11th 1983, video directed by Clive Richardson (first aired in Jul 1983)

Otto Donner: Avaruuslaulu (from the film Vihreä leski, 1968)

"If your words be true ones, then that will mean the end of me" * Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Incest Song, released in 1964

"As I surrender to my sleeping, I commit my dream to you" * Patti Smith: People Have the Power (Patti & Fred Smith, released in June 1988)

"Every man is the wrong man" * Lydia Lunch: Hot Tip (L. Lunch / Len Del Rio / Tommy Grenas, 2004)

"Now don't you wanna get right with me?" * Talking Heads: Puzzlin' Evidence (David Byrne, 1986)