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Just listen to the riff... just too tasty.

The song tells about a guy who likes to race his Ford Anglia in the streets and eventually ends up in a lot of car accidents.

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I don't see how you can possibly compare this to the brilliance of Tuomas H. (don't ask me to spell out his last name).

This is a neat song, but that's it. It might be cute if I knew what he was saying but musically, it's a pop song. I could write one of these a day.

(Yeah, I know you'll say "then why don't you" and I'll respond by saying "I take never selling out seriously.")

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Holopainen.

:)

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Though, to be (sort of) fair to Finland, some of Nightwish's sound is pretty pop these days, too.

Will be interesting to see which way the next CD goes.

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On further consideration, I wouldn't call this pop. It does sound "ethnic", though I'd have to defer to others as to whether it's Finnish, having little clue what "Finnish music" sounds like.

My first reaction -- it was something mixing scandinavian polka and the sound from "The Third Man".

This isn't meant as a put down, Finn. Only to highlight that I can't really put into words how it has a "foreign" sound to it. Which, I suppose, would make sense, if something is truly Finnish, wouldn't it?

Which leads to a really interesting question. What does it mean to be Finnish? And what distinguishes Finnish from non-Finnish music?

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Is that a banjo?