The critic lists the ten best moments from Pate Mustajärvi’s career

Popeda: Ode to Tom Robinson (1978)

Popeda the sound had time to change over the decades. In the punk era, in 1978, the band debuted with an album that featured both lighter manse rock and raw new wave rock.

Interest has increased especially for the album named after the band Ode to Tom Robinson. The gay rights song was ahead of its time. The role model of the song, a British musician Tom Robinsonhas himself been a defender of the rights of sexual minorities. Popeda is still a vibrant and entertaining album.

Popeda: Grease for the Machine (1980)

Today the identity and boogie of Popeda as we know it started to find its final pieces on the second album, whose rock wandering belongs to the manserock alphabet.

The opening song and the album’s strongest performance Yes Yes is equal to rock and love in Popeda’s production. It stayed Pate Mustajärvi pulled by Popeda in the concert set until the end. Yes Yes was also heard as the last song of Popeda’s farewell concert in Mustajärvi.

Popeda: Gas, Commissioner Peppone (1983)

Popeda the cornerstone of sound. A rock piano, a chorus that invites you to sing along, and a guitar riff that you could have come across as well David Bowie or in the production of The Rolling Stones in the early 1970s.

Popeda: On the Road to Alabama (1984)

So In domestic pop music as well as in rock, different expressions for sex have always been invented.

On the way to Alabama gives such a pop-like shameless sample of style that no one else can sing this kind of text as believably as Mustajärvi. Buns up, the dough will rise!

Calamari Union (1985)

Aki Kaurismäki movie Calamari Union is a classic of domestic cinema and one of the director’s best. In the film, fifteen Franks wander from Kallio to Eira. In sunglasses, curly hair and his charisma, Mustajärvi was as if created as one Frank in a rock-spirited and surreal comedy.

Mustajärvi makes one of the best exits in the movie when he decides to leave his friends. He takes off his sunglasses, looks at his friends, jumps into the car driven by a woman and heads off in the wrong direction.

Popeda: Hallelujah (1988)

Hallelujah does not generally belong to the most prestigious entities in the Popeda catalog. The album’s atmosphere has fascinated me for as long as I can remember: Hallelujah right down to its cover art, it’s like something from a 1980s socially critical action movie.

If you have to put something good Popedan deep cut to ring, I’ll put Brain on anchor.

Popeda: Sergeant Karolina (1992)

Size The central theme of Popeda’s production is masculinity and its different aspects, starting with performativity. Sergeant in Carolina the speaker of the song is a straightforward rocker whose masculinity is threatened when he remains a “housemaid” when the woman goes to the army.

Listened to today’s ears, the rock rooster is laughable. The arrangement is insane and up-to-date.

Pate Mustajärvi, Harri Marstio, Jorma Kääriäinen, Topi Sorsakoski: I’m still alive (Highwayman) (2000)

If karaoke is a group of men or old army buddies with their hands on each other’s shoulders, it’s impossible to avoid hearing the romance of a man’s scar I’m still alive – in the form of a song.

The translation is already a modern domestic classic and the singers are all legends.

Pate Mustajärvi: Thunder Forest (2000)

Karaoke by the way! Ukkometso cannot be overlooked when talking about the highlights of Mustajärvi’s career.

Timo Kiiskinen the text can be received either as a glorification of fooling around or as a comical deconstruction of it. The Millennium adaptation of the song can very well play in the kapaka right after Kent.

Popeda on the Vermo race track (2018)

I am saw Popeda numerous times, but the one I remember best is the performance at the Vermo racetrack, where we went with a group of friends in 2018.

Popeda played in the middle of winter in the racetrack grandstand. Meat and potatoes had already become a classic in a short time. The setting was unusual for a rock gig, to say the least, but the folk rock roller coaster goes full blast, for example, in a ski jumping tower.