Maa

Aikakone have a good track record with a great debut album, a decent follow-up and the collection that has one of the highest album scores ever, but this is supposed to be their weakest link. Quotes from Pophitit.

#1 Perhosten yö 8½

"There's only one possible association with this: what my cousin Eveliina (about 2 at the time) said when I had borrowed the Maa album from the library and she was visiting us and came to my room where I was listening to the album and pressed her ear to the speaker: "Tämä on ihhana musiiikki!" Unfortunately, I doubt she spoke from her musical taste because later on she declared the whole pile of library CDs as her favourites one by one... My favourite things in this are the rising "haa-ah" sounds that always make me stretch my head up."

#2 Magiaa 9½

If I remember correctly, this was a collaboration with a famous Swedish composer, possibly the one behind Steps' It's the Way You Make Me Feel, Kaci's Everlasting and many other great hits. "This's story is quite identical to that of AMB. They are also musically very similar."

#3 Tulisitko 10

Nowadays this is one of my biggest favourites, especially after having perfomed it at the Idols auditions. "I've recently quite learnt to like this. A lot. Wow, really that much? Maybe that's thanks to Harri, who talked about the chords. Mysterious and floating. I don't remember if this was a single but nevertheless I'm glad it's included here. It must've been a single and even a successful one to have achieved such a frontal position on this compilation."

#4 Anna mun bailaa 9½

"These newer fast songs were somehow shadowed from me for some time but lately I've recognised them more and more."

#5 Onnencowboy 8

So ended the hits. This isn't bad but not quite something I'd want to listen to.

#6 Valokuva 8½

These are practically completely unknown to me. I could learn to like this, though.

#7 Aikapyörä 8½

Begins funnily. The chorus is a bit plain but the wholeness is okay enough.

#8 El sol 7½

Help, a bossanova thing in Spanish. If it isn't strange enough to begin with, it goes crazy as it goes on. If it wasn't so sleepy, I'd almost like it.

#9 Seis 10

Ooh? This isn't the Seis I know. Wow, this is wonderful. The version I'm used to is some flowing midtempo, whereas this has a proper beat and all. The score instantly went up a whole grade. This album is turning out a lot better than I expected.

#10 Hiljaisuus 7

I still don't get how this made it onto the collection... "The scores have been steadily going down since #11 and this is not going to reverse that process."