#leevi and the leavings

[maisseli]

Voisko tehä semmosen Leevi and the leavings laulujen hahmot fandomin?????

Ku niitä on nii paljon: Anneli Pohjois-Karjalasta, kaivattu Kyllikki, poika nimeltä Päivi, turkmenialainen tyttöystävä Ljeni, Teuvo maanteiden kuningas, Reino-boy, Laura Jenna Ellinoora Alexandra Camilla Jurvanen, Amalia joka kamalia tansseja tanssii ja niin edespäin

[dick-chugger]

Biisissähän ei koskaan suoraan sanota, että se tappais ittensä mutta biisin ensimmäiset sanat "Mä kerroin kaiken jo kirjeessäin, jos en lähde niin petän itseäin" yhdistettynä singlen kanteen vihjaa siihen. Mutta se sanoo siinä lähteneensä kiertämään maailmaa, mikä taas viittais siihen, että se ois elossa.

[kinuskikakku]

Päätin taannoin kuunnella läpi koko Leevi and the Leavingsin tuotannon koska eläkkeellä ikuisen vapaa-ajan kanssa pitää keksiä tekosyitä välttää oikeiden asioiden tekemistä.

Mut tälleen urakan päätteeksi oleellisin huomio on: Gösta Sundqvist oli erittäin, erittäin, ERITTÄIN kiimainen mies.

Toisekseen oli mielenkiintoista seurata miten nää biisien protagonistit muuttui ja biisien sävy itsessään kehittyi siinä yli 20 vuoden aikana. Kun alkupuolen tuotannossa nää säälittävät ja yksinäiset semialkoholistiset protagonistit oli selvästi kirjoitettu sympaattisiksi kun sit myöhemmässä kamassa mä ainakin aistin sellasen sävyn et ”joo no ehkä siihen on hyvä syy et oot yksin vitun urpo!”

[salmiakkisaatana]

siis en vieläkään tiiä et kertooks Poika nimeltä Päivi transnaisesta vai transmiehestä enkä tiiä oonks vaa kuunnellu sanat sillee et missaan jonku jutun mikä kertoo tän

ei sillä et siin on välii mut mut haluun tietää onks siin joku selkee vastaus :<

[asfaltti-ihottuma]

Kun Leevi and the leavings sano:

Elämä on elämää varten annettu/Ja se on ihanasti sanottu

I felt that

[teal-skull]

Originally meant to add this to another post but I'm gonna make my own post for it instead.

For pride, enjoy this old 1985 finnish song by legendary, possibly the most finnish band there will ever be, Leevi and the Leavings: "Poika Nimeltä Päivi", or "A Boy named Päivi"

(Päivi is a female finnish given name)

In this song a fictional queer person sings about their experience with gender and how the world is not threating them kindly. This is maybe one of THE trans songs that exists in finnish music. It's significant because when it was released, it had been only 10 years since homosexual acts were decriminalized in Finland, and only four years after homosexuality was no longer considered an illness in 1981. Releasing this song was a brave move from the singer and songwriter Gösta Sundqvist.

Rough translation:

[verse 1]

I told everything already in my letter / If I don't leave I betray myself / I went to tour the world / The streets of a small town bring me anxiety

[Chorus]

I was a boy named Päivi / and I didn't know if I was Romeo or Juliette / I was a boy named Päivi / I just wanted to kiss your painted lips

[Verse 2]

I couldn't get any sleep in the evening / I stared at the ceiling until morning / People told me so / "if you don't change you might end up in hell"

[Verse 3]

Let people stare / even if sometimes it is so hard / friendship unites us / distance aches in the soul

[chorus x2]

I was a boy named Päivi / and I didn't know if I was Romeo or Juliette / I was a boy named Päivi / I just wanted to kiss your painted lips

[suomalainenkala]

Amalia-Leevi and the leavings on Sirkka Kariluoto anthem

[dykesapphics]

Shoutout kaikille syntisen kauniille miehille ja pojille nimeltä Päivi

[amatesura]

Leevi and The Leavings - Elämä ikkunan takana

[iibislintu]

elämä nyt vaan on usein suoraan kuin leevien biisistä mut tänään se on mulle raparperitaivas eikä teuvo. ja joo itkin myös onnesta

[dick-chugger]

Te ette varmaan ees tiiä mun elämän suurimmasta ilonlähteestä 😔

Anyways, menkää kuunteleen Tyttären vaimo, Miesten kesken ja Syntisen kaunis mies.

[tears-of-boredom]

yeah but did your retro band make a song of a non-binary boy that just wants to kiss a person?

didnt think so

[salmiakkisaatana]

Leevi and The Leavings fanfic idea: Kyllikki x Ljieni

[rosgakori]

The song #6 is haunting me, and has haunted me since I first heard it.

I recently learned that Göstä Sundqvist, the singer-songwriter of Leevi and the Leavings, used to dress in skirts, teased hair and makeup while in school, and by all implications, stopped doing that after becoming too lonely. "When I went to school in Espoo ten years ago, I had teased hair, makeup, and women's dresses on. The gym teachers thought I was mad, and I had to get some treatment. I was truly alone. None of my friends wanted to hang out with me, even though they were the toughest guys. Jesus, I was so alone, but I survived." - Interview done in 1984 for Soundi Music magazine.

He died in 2003. I wonder what he would have thought about the present.

Songs by the band Leevi and the Leavings, in no specific order:

Man getting drunk alone makes an unwelcome midnight phone call to a woman he hasn't seen for years/decades. She still doesn't want him.

I have purchased a new pair of fancy fashionable trousers and now everyone can see how fashionable I am.

Country boy fell in love with a city girl, and rides to the city to try to find her. People are laughing at his horse.

This sweet, adorable little baby girl looks remarkably like the man living in the apartment downstairs but let's ignore that for now.

No time for romance, look at how many cool home appliances we have now.

1980s rural LGBT youth who has no words for who and what they are, and is only painfully aware of their own ambiguous, undefined queerness, can no longer stand the oppressive, small-minded judgement of their hometown and must leave it all behind.

I am drunk on Christmas.

Everyone in this office wants me carnally.

Big muscle mommy does whatever she wants with me.

A couple buys the house of their dreams, only to discover that the house is rotting and there are no jobs around, and their dream life is devoured in the grinding jaws of poverty.

I am going back to North Karelia, to drink beer in sweatpants while watching the sun rise.

This dude keeps crashing his car because he wants to be a rally driver.

Overcome by hopelessness of their financial situation, a married couple decides to commit double-suicide and take their kids with them.

I am a normal man who wears normal pants.

I regret not telling that spectacularly fat woman how badly I wanted to fuck her.

[tiikerikani]

Dam, didi dam ᵈᶦᵈᶦ ᵈᵃᵐ, didi dam ᵈᶦᵈᶦ ᵈᵃᵐ, didi dam-dam-dam-dam-dam (obligatory)

2024 Aug 16 // Leavings-Orkesteri feat. Timo Rautiainen – Utran Uittoareena, Joensuu

Leevi and the Leavings (1978–2003) is one of those classic/legendary bands that everybody here just… knows. The group broke up when their singer and songwriter Gösta Sundqvist passed away. Besides their music (and especially the brilliant lyrics), the band was famous for eschewing public performances.

Later on, the remaining members got back together as Leavings-Orkesteri and now tour with various guest singers.

Timo Rautiainen has previously covered the song Pohjoisen taivaan alla as a B-side, which is how I got to know Leevi and the Leavings songs in the first place. (And similarly Viikate covered Teuvo, maanteiden kuningas. No joke, every Finnish thing for me goes back to these two artists.)

I didn’t get a picture or video of it but he put the guitar down and did some dance moves during En tahdo sinua enää (a very synthpop song), which was incredibly amusing.

Out of these songs there’s only four that I don’t think I���ve heard before, because I’m a weird foreigner like that.

Mitä kuuluu, Marja-Leena?

Laura Jenna Ellinoora Alexandra Camilla Jurvanen

Itkisitkö onnesta?

Onnelliset

Raparperitaivas

Amalia

Muotitietoinen

Toteemipaalu

Sopivasti lihava

Taivas on Taunuksen takapenkillä [intermission]

Vakosamettihousuinen mies

En tahdo sinua enää

Poika nimeltä Päivi

Turkmenialainen tyttöystävä

Rin Tin Tin

Teuvo, maanteiden kuningas

// Pohjois-Karjala

[Concert write-up archive and master calendar]