"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