SWEET HOME HELSINKI IS HERE TO BLOW YOUR MIND

by Orson on Apr 9, 2008 5:12 PM EDT

It's a Finnish band with a Russian name wearing Kool World haircuts doing a Lynyrd Skynyrd song in English with the Red Army choir singing behind them. We don't understand it either, but if they don't play halftime at Bryant-Denny Stadium with this exact instrumentation and military vocal support, Alabama fans you have been cheated of something truly awesome.

(HT: To the Point, via Kanu.)

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Sad thing is, that band is better than the current incarnation of Lynyrd Skynyrd. sVET hOMESki, Alabamrades!

by DirkDawggler on Apr 9, 2008 5:17 PM EDT reply actions

This is not surprising to anyone who has watched the spectacle that is the Eurovision contest.

by Chips O'Toole on Apr 9, 2008 5:29 PM EDT reply actions

Does this mean the SEC won the Cold War?

S E C, S E C, SEC speed rulz!

by Ulysses S. McGill on Apr 9, 2008 5:35 PM EDT reply actions

I met the Leningrad Cowboys in Berlin about 12 years ago. Truly one of the more surreal moments of my life. And yes, their hair defied gravity.

by CRW on Apr 9, 2008 5:59 PM EDT reply actions

Those Russian soldiers could teach Alabamanians a thing or two about proper diction!

by Derrick on Apr 9, 2008 6:14 PM EDT reply actions

That is quite simply the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. The Red Army’s haunting “oohh-AAAH” at the end will stay with me for the rest of my natural life.

by CardsFan922 on Apr 9, 2008 6:20 PM EDT reply actions

Is this the place to ask for everyone to go to NBC.com and vote for Roger as biggest loser?

http://www.nbc.com/The_Biggest_Loser_5/vote/register.shtml

by Dave(not that one, the other one) on Apr 9, 2008 6:23 PM EDT reply actions

I’ll be passing through Muscle Shoals tomorrow. I’ll stop and ask if they’ve still got “a Swamperz.”

by beast in bama on Apr 9, 2008 6:38 PM EDT reply actions

If these guys had been the GridIron Bash band, they’d have packed out B-D, NCAA or no NCAA.

I am so playing this video at the tailgate every saturday… for the rest of my life.

by Peter(theGreat)Pumpkinhead on Apr 9, 2008 6:39 PM EDT reply actions

I had just finnished (pun) my first Cabernet and started on the second when I watched this. I think I have ruptured a spleen or something from laughter.

Videos such as these are the reason I gave up “dank” years ago. My internal organs would not be able to take the abuse.

/visualizing Saban as Stalin, telling all to get with the “system” or be banished to a gulag.

by hunglikehussain on Apr 9, 2008 6:45 PM EDT reply actions

THAT IS THE SHIT!!!!!

by Charlestownecock on Apr 9, 2008 7:12 PM EDT reply actions

Bass balalaika FTW!

by Chuck on Apr 9, 2008 7:17 PM EDT reply actions

This is a 70’s Redneck nightmare, just after Nixon and Carter done sold out to the Ruskies..

Perfect for Jordan Hare West (the UAT Stadium), a place lost in ancient history…

by AUTIGER86 on Apr 9, 2008 7:21 PM EDT reply actions

Hey Derrick, no one cares to hear your asinine opinion.

by Tom on Apr 9, 2008 7:34 PM EDT reply actions

Glasnost, Mutherfuckers!

I actually think that the accordion, lute and tuba add something.

by hunglikehussain on Apr 9, 2008 7:36 PM EDT reply actions

Without the actual Red Army Choir that video is marginally amusing.

With the actual Red Army Choir there aren’t really words to describe its awesomeness properly.

Even farther up the HT tree, a HT to my buddy DS who sent that to me this morning before I shared it with Swindle.

by Kanu on Apr 9, 2008 7:38 PM EDT reply actions

As a huge Russophile and Finnophile this is awesome. I am aware of the contradiction in that statement. Owning a few recordings of the Red Army Chorus they are just amazing. I really like the way the Red Army Chourus ends with the chorus section of Eh, Ukhnyem. Okay I am exposing my geekiness and nerdiness.
Spasibo EDSBS!!
May 1,000 Molotov cocktails be lauched against your enemies!!!

by Anonymous IV on Apr 9, 2008 8:01 PM EDT reply actions

Anon IV, if it’s any consolation I have a Red Army choir CD and I’m not a Russophile. It’s good listening if you want to drink brake fluid and damn the dissidents.

by DC Trojan on Apr 9, 2008 8:06 PM EDT reply actions

There are enough Alabama fans that read this blog – Make this happen!

by maskedavenger on Apr 9, 2008 8:27 PM EDT reply actions

I’m disgusted and intrigued at the same time. Its like watching an awful car wreck.

by BurritoBrosShits on Apr 9, 2008 8:38 PM EDT reply actions

A southern Kazakhtanian don’t need you around anyhow.

by hunglikehussain on Apr 9, 2008 8:50 PM EDT reply actions

This is why the internet was invented.

by Allaha on Apr 9, 2008 8:52 PM EDT reply actions

Awesome, awesome video dept:

I think those Finns are cooler (campy and all) than 78.4 percent of the population of the Great State of Alabama.

by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Apr 9, 2008 9:04 PM EDT reply actions

Putin doesn’t have time for this shit.

by TigerNacho on Apr 9, 2008 9:06 PM EDT reply actions

Please-Oh-Please-Oh-Please! Have this exact show for the 2008 Iron Bowl. Can’t think of better evidence that America really did win the Cold War.

I also think there must be at least one Bama fan who claims to have called this one back in ’79 during the invasion of Afghanistan, when he stated in a drunken stupor that:

“if the Bear were in charge, we’d kick those commies so bad that…”

Well, you know.

by Sullivan on Apr 9, 2008 11:15 PM EDT reply actions

Turns out this show was on the 1994 MTV music award show:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Cowboys

by maskedavenger on Apr 10, 2008 12:48 AM EDT reply actions

23,
The Great State of Alabama don’t need you around, anyhow.

by Tom on Apr 10, 2008 1:19 AM EDT reply actions

I’m moving to an eastern bloc country. All I gotta do is repackage western culture with an ironic twist and itd be a gold mine, GOLD! Garth Brooks won’t mind If I Dress like an elf and sing some of his classics while running around on a hobby horse goosing czech models, will he?

It’s settled then, Call Aeroflot and make the arrangements.

by Brian on Apr 10, 2008 1:26 AM EDT reply actions

yeah, that one was in MTV but the original one was in 1993, more info here : http://www.leninimports.com/leningradtbs.html

I wuz there!!!!!!!

by honeybunny on Apr 10, 2008 1:40 AM EDT reply actions

Ehhh. Rather small beer. If you want to see the Cowboys REALLY blow your mind, get a copy of Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The poster alone was so marvelous that I have a huge copy hanging over my bed: “Do you know why the Americans do not like you? You are too pale.”

OK, you need to see the film to understand why that is screamingly funny, and why there is a frozen corpse sunning itself on the car…

by Fredegunde on Apr 10, 2008 2:24 AM EDT reply actions

well, i guess there is no god.

by 911doc on Apr 10, 2008 3:54 AM EDT reply actions

Fulmer Cup Update – Brandon Wright, backup QB and RB for BETHUNE-COOKMAN

by Sundawg on Apr 10, 2008 7:44 AM EDT reply actions

[er, sorry, no coffee yet] Fulmer Cup Update – Brandon Wright, backup QB and RB for BETHUNE-COOKMAN, was arrested Monday night in his dorm room where police found cocaine, marijuana and a shotgun used in an attempted murder. Wright told police he was dealing drugs to make ends meet.

Eat that, D-1 bitches! Bethune-Cookman! Whooo-hooooo!

by Sundawg on Apr 10, 2008 7:49 AM EDT reply actions

Da Da Da

by drogue on Apr 10, 2008 8:31 AM EDT reply actions

Didn’t Avery Atkins transfer to B-CC? What’s going on in Daytona these days? I thought everyone there lived a perfect life of bliss thanks to the beach, the track, and Hog Heaven BBQ. It seems more like Baylor-style [Dave] Bliss.

by Dave on Apr 10, 2008 9:16 AM EDT reply actions

Awesome-ness; despite Skynyrd hailing from my fair city, I actually think I prefer the eastern euro-slav version…except for the elf shoes…put him in reef flipflops and we’re golden.

by sb on Apr 10, 2008 10:24 AM EDT reply actions

Cocktails to whomever dug that up.

Let’s see. Singers with phallic haircuts backed by Russians with jackboots and balalaika’s. Every queer in the Southeast paying $500 on Stubhub for an upper deck seat just to see the halftime show.

Just another afternoon at Circus Maximus.

by JohnInHuntsville on Apr 10, 2008 10:34 AM EDT reply actions

Perestroika works!

by Out of Conference on Apr 10, 2008 10:39 AM EDT reply actions

…there’s good people in Tuscaloosa….let Comrade Lenin know that too….

Ronnie Van Zandt
One More From the Road, Fox Theatre, Atlanta 74

by kt on Apr 10, 2008 11:55 AM EDT reply actions

drogue @ #34…what is it about eastern european/teutonic performances that seem to have the same vibrational chill? Your Trio reference brought it all home to me…thanks…I think.

by sb on Apr 10, 2008 3:44 PM EDT reply actions