'Complaints Choir' in Finland

From the Multe Music traditional Scandinavian music blog out of Northfield, Minn. It's been up since March, but I just found it today. A post on the Helsinki Complaints Choir with back story and a YouTube Clip. Here's the original:


In Finnish slang, a Valituskuoro (translated "Complaints Choir") is what you get when a lot of people are complaining at the same time. Think of a faculty meeting ...

So Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen wrote the lyrics and enlisted Esko Grundström to write the music. The result, a seven-minute choral airing of complaints ranging from the weather and annoying ringtones to a foul odor on the No. 3 tram in Helsinki. Delightful.

Universal, too. We don't have trams in Springfield, Ill., but we do have venues that smell like that.