Parhaat

This must be the CD the contents of which I'm the most familiar with, even more so than Heidi's debut album, though that one I listened to day and night for a couple of years, not regardless of the fact it was the only record I had... Again I seem to have commenced reviewing from the compilation, just like was the case for Steps, so maybe I'll again copy these for the reviews for the individual albums.

#1 Sun suomineitos oon 8½

After probably thousands of listenings, I'm still not sure about all of the lyrics, and that's pretty good as I'm a native speaker... One of her biggest hits but not one of mine. It does have a lot of drive to it but maybe it's too dansbandsschlagery for me.

#2 Fillarikesä 10

Oh heaven, if I had to find out the song I've heard the most times, it would be this or Last Thing on My Mind. Still I don't know what is it in this that makes it so good. The melody is progressive ja there's a backing melody, a thing I usually always like, and there's a modulation, but not even all these details combined offer enough of an explanation. I remember when I first heard this on Levyraati and thought, oh, it's so similar to Nyt tuuleen lennä perhonen. Actually nowadays I don't think so anymore, even though they are my favourites number one and two... On the Levyraati, I recall, it got almost all 8's and placed pretty well (unlike Horoskoopijuttu a year later...).

#3 Aikaa meillä riittää 7

I've never had any special feelings towards this, neither do I now.

#4 Nyt tuuleen lennä perhonen 10

This is where it all began. One beautiful spring day I heard this on the radio and rushed to press the record button, resulting in half of this song being eternalised onto the bronze-coloured "Heavy" tape we had found stuck in our previous car's cassette player. I kept listening to it and one day played it to a friend of mine. He was amazed, "Do you really like Heidi Kyrö?", he inquired. I thought, "Yes, maybe I indeed do like her." and ever since I've been a fan of hers. She was also the only one for some years before the dawn of the modern music era with the emergence of Spice Girls. About the track itself, it's terrificly cheery and beautiful, with a wonderful flute background melody. The other parts of background are very "letkeä" and "humppaileva". Soon you'll feel your utare firm up. Why not start today?

#5 Tyttö kaksikymppinen 8

Reminds me of some old game I've played listening to this, maybe Civilization 1 or Railroad Tycoon. The background sounds are my favourites, slidy synths and scratchy things. "On sydän kylmä kuin pakastin / Kai liian kaukaa sua rakastin" is the absolute highlight in the lyrics. Again one of the more humppatanssit-like style. But I guess I've heard all of these way too many times not to like them.

#6 Punainen kitara 8½

The only previously unreleased track on this compilation, probably included to add an additional dance genre, tango. I actually like this quite a lot. Nowadays it always brings to my mind the SoneraElisa activity for new students where they (as also us) danced to this over and over, making the line "Punaisen kitaran pehmeän soiton jatkuvan ainiaan luulin" especially appropriate, because the whole evening with it definitely made sure that "Se soimaan jäi mun sydämeen".

#7 Ilman sua eksyksissä 8

A person once said this was very beautiful, maybe it indeed is, though it has never quite touched me. At least it has many s's... "Ilman sua eksyksissä [...] Missä oot, missä, missä...". This must be linked to Warlords 2, because I get associations from that.

#8 Faxaa mulle 10

The ultimate nerd love song. Where else can you hear the line "Nyt me printataan!"? It's a funny phenomenon that the best songs on this album seem to be on even numbers.

#9 Tykkään susta 9

Oh, I so well remember Meikä repeatedly complaining to me that "Once again the 'meille vai teille' song was on the radio!" like it was my fault. Silly and energetic.

#10 Menneet matkassain kulkee 7

Questionable cover, quite pseudoartistic. Funny how every other track reminds me of a different game, this one of Columns.

#11 Minä & Alex 9½

"Tapasin sut tallin kaivolla" like our rents heard, or "Sinä jatkoit riitaa, minä takas Helsinkiin", like the reviewer in Levyraati did. The perfect song for ferry trips or outer space exploration.

#12 Tummasilmäinen 8½

The few piano blimps in the intro are my favourite in this track in the vein of Suomineito and Tyttö kaksikymppinen. The backing singers create strange effects. Many Heidi songs have very interesting bass lines, also this one.

#13 Se yksi ja ainut 7½

Somehow quite gypsish in my books.

#14 Mä miksi lähtenyt en silloin 10

Her very first song, and my number three favourite. In my recollection of her appearance in Syksyn sävel she looks quite scary but that she can't have been. Her face has expanded so that it fills half of the screen. How did I do that? Probably using Mind Shop Pro's warp tool... Anyway, this is the perfect theme tune for the kind of regret I've got the most in my life so far. My top three favourites from her are all from her debut album containing the energy and naïveté of youth less present in her latter works.

#15 Ethän suremaan jää 9

The only song she's recorded a remix of, to my knowledge. The Ilo-tanssi mix is a lot funnier than this original.

#16 Helppo on mun kanssas olla 8½

One of the more plastic 80's sounding tracks from the first album. Relatable, though not half as fun as Rakkautta on.

#17 Tuulee 9

My favourite in the minors-schlager department.

#18 Ajellaan 10

Heidi goes disco! An old top favourite, nowadays maybe a bit faded, partly due to lack of variation in the lyrics in the chorus.

#19 Rakkauden palapeli 10

Another dancy track, a more mysterious one.

#20 Ei kauniimpaa 7½

"En kuulekaan, kuinka purskainen tuuli tuo tunteita maan tullessaan, en tahdo kuullakaan" is what this begins with. I guess there has to be a least one ironic title remark in review, and well, you may well guess the one I came up with for this, as it's pretty obvious.