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Apocalyptica — Ruska
Album: Apocalyptica
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Released: 2005
Length: 4:34
Plays (last 30 days): 0
(Instrumental)
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 Robert.chiyoko wrote:

no way to contact Bill any more. 
Been trying. 
as an “international “ listener” and long time lover of RP is there any way to reduce the banjo and wailing female US style country  vocalists and get a LOT better at a more diverse
 diverse representation of the WORLD ?
   It’s a bit frustrating to hear the Same Old Same Old American stuff even on the alternate mixes. 
   Super  Frustrating in fact. 
   Hate to leave. But I’m Looking elsewhere. 
    Sorry Bill 



This is not an airport. You do not need to announce your departure. 
 Dahlia_Gumbo wrote:

So funereal. Yikes.




If you don't like it, hit the "skip button". ...problem solved.  I think it is EXCELLENT!  Thanx RP!    
 Robert.chiyoko wrote:

no way to contact Bill any more. 
Been trying. 
as an “international “ listener” and long time lover of RP is there any way to reduce the banjo and wailing female US style country  vocalists and get a LOT better at a more diverse
 diverse representation of the WORLD ?
   It’s a bit frustrating to hear the Same Old Same Old American stuff even on the alternate mixes. 
   Super  Frustrating in fact. 
   Hate to leave. But I’m Looking elsewhere. 
    Sorry Bill 


This "longtime" listener has 1 song rated and 6 song comments.
The above comment being his 1st.


This beloved song was playing while i just learned about Tina Turner passing out... R.I.P.
 Karhu wrote:

Ruska is the expression for Indian Summer in Lapland 




Thank You for the info!   GREAT TUNE!  Thanx RP!   
 Robert.chiyoko wrote:

no way to contact Bill any more. 
Been trying. 
as an “international “ listener” and long time lover of RP is there any way to reduce the banjo and wailing female US style country  vocalists and get a LOT better at a more diverse
 diverse representation of the WORLD ?
   It’s a bit frustrating to hear the Same Old Same Old American stuff even on the alternate mixes. 
   Super  Frustrating in fact. 
   Hate to leave. But I’m Looking elsewhere. 
    Sorry Bill 




Good Riddance!
 mrtuba9 wrote:


And reminiscent of the unrest in 



Everywhere.
 Dahlia_Gumbo wrote:

So funereal. Yikes.



And reminiscent of the unrest in 
So funereal. Yikes.
 Karhu wrote:
Ruska is the expression for Indian Summer in Lapland 
 
Thank you. Knowing that really helps define the music.
Looking at that cover, first thing through my mind was "Wow, talk about dropping the BASS!" 😜
 Robert.chiyoko wrote:

no way to contact Bill any more. 
Been trying. 
as an “international “ listener” and long time lover of RP is there any way to reduce the banjo and wailing female US style country  vocalists and get a LOT better at a more diverse
 diverse representation of the WORLD ?
   It’s a bit frustrating to hear the Same Old Same Old American stuff even on the alternate mixes. 
   Super  Frustrating in fact. 
   Hate to leave. But I’m Looking elsewhere. 
    Sorry Bill 


Well, glad he's gone.
Probably listening to KISS.FM now, bless.
 Robert.chiyoko wrote:

no way to contact Bill any more. 
Been trying. 
as an “international “ listener” and long time lover of RP is there any way to reduce the banjo and wailing female US style country  vocalists and get a LOT better at a more diverse
 diverse representation of the WORLD ?
   It’s a bit frustrating to hear the Same Old Same Old American stuff even on the alternate mixes. 
   Super  Frustrating in fact. 
   Hate to leave. But I’m Looking elsewhere. 
    Sorry Bill 



Fellow International listener here......... 
1) this comment is posted on an instrumental track - by a 'group' from Helsinki in Finland. WTAF?
2) I think we must be listening to very different stations. The reason I've been here for so long is the sheer diversity of what Bill & Rebecca play.
3) Don't know what you were smoking but can I have some - and I hope you found your spiritual home, 'coz RP definitely ain't it!!
no way to contact Bill any more. 
Been trying. 
as an “international “ listener” and long time lover of RP is there any way to reduce the banjo and wailing female US style country  vocalists and get a LOT better at a more diverse
 diverse representation of the WORLD ?
   It’s a bit frustrating to hear the Same Old Same Old American stuff even on the alternate mixes. 
   Super  Frustrating in fact. 
   Hate to leave. But I’m Looking elsewhere. 
    Sorry Bill 
Just lovely
 oklahope wrote:

listening to My Favorites channel so this prob won't get much in the way of views/replies but i really dig the darker/moody stuff i hear on RP- many other things as well obviously but the range of emotions that RP's selections evoke far surpasses the other services out there- keep it up RP!!!



I do agree with this - the range of emotions on RP is a of far greater range than on other channels. 
I think part of the melancholy comes from the fact that it's built on the Halloween Movies main theme ;)
listening to My Favorites channel so this prob won't get much in the way of views/replies but i really dig the darker/moody stuff i hear on RP- many other things as well obviously but the range of emotions that RP's selections evoke far surpasses the other services out there- keep it up RP!!!
It finally came to me.
Dr. Hook: Sylvia's mother.
That's what this reminds me of!
"Please Mrs Avrey, I just want to talk to her...."
 jimmy99s wrote:
Definitely not my favourite piece of music I've ever discovered on Radio Paradise BUT.....I absolutely love that you play whatever the hell you like. Its the reason I was such a fan of the John Peel shows in England. I'd dislike half of what he played, but I'd adore some stuff and he turned me onto some truly great music. How do you know you're going to like or dislike some music until you try it?

Keep it eclectic!! Even if I don't like it, I'm sure some people will adore it! 

 
DITTO THAT!!!
Damn, this song brings back (quite negative) emotions.

In 2005 my ex-girlfriend just broke up with me and I was driving by train through cold and snowy Berlin and then they played THIS on the train radio which I was hearing through headphones. First time I heard that song and I barely managed not to start crying because of the situation and the sad music.

Well, here I am, still living. Love can hurt, but you get over it eventually :-)

And this is a great song despite what it means to me.
careful, this sort of music may melt snowflakes
(but play it anyway!)

{#Daisy}
Definitely not my favourite piece of music I've ever discovered on Radio Paradise BUT.....I absolutely love that you play whatever the hell you like. Its the reason I was such a fan of the John Peel shows in England. I'd dislike half of what he played, but I'd adore some stuff and he turned me onto some truly great music. How do you know you're going to like or dislike some music until you try it?

Keep it eclectic!! Even if I don't like it, I'm sure some people will adore it! 
 fredriley wrote:

RP isn't all happy, happy, happy, joy, joy, joy. The mood range of its output varies enormously. Personally, I rather like this bunch, who have perhaps invented a new micro-genre: Goth Cello.

 
Actually, I would never call RP a happy or "joy" station at all. Most of the time, I experience the mood here as a lot of things, but not happy. Melancholic, pondering, thoughtful, sometimes a little too thoughtful...
 looked up cathartic.  you nailed it, Slope  westslope wrote:
Stirring, cathartic.  

 


A moving track..I am stirred with emotion when listening to this.  
Gorgeous.
Every song doesn't have to be happy clappy anymore than every book or movie has to be. Music is an art form and art doesn't have to be all sunny and light.

timmus wrote:
This is a big Radio Paradise groove killer.  It's depressing and downtempo, and doesn't fit at all with 99% of what the station plays.

 

Funny, I just heard this and said, "what a lovely song".
This is why I listen to RP-variety.
 timmus wrote:
This is a big Radio Paradise groove killer.  It's depressing and downtempo, and doesn't fit at all with 99% of what the station plays.

 
Yeah, true, RP plays 99% eclectic music.
 timmus wrote:
This is a big Radio Paradise groove killer.  It's depressing and downtempo, and doesn't fit at all with 99% of what the station plays.

 
RP isn't all happy, happy, happy, joy, joy, joy. The mood range of its output varies enormously. Personally, I rather like this bunch, who have perhaps invented a new micro-genre: Goth Cello.
This is a big Radio Paradise groove killer.  It's depressing and downtempo, and doesn't fit at all with 99% of what the station plays.
 A tad repetitive. When does jason jump out of the bushes?
good job Gentlemen
Happy Solstice!  

Especially to northern hemisphere dwellers.  Now the days get longer.
 LowPhreak wrote:

What, we can only handle one emotion here?

 
lol
Lovely, one could say glorious, but it's not a rainy-day-my-love-life-is-not-good-and-I'm-short-of-money-and-fun kind of a song. Which may or may not describe me at particular times, however, if it did, I would gently tap the psd and until I landed on happier musical chops. 
 timmus wrote:
Ugh, this absolutely killed the upbeat vibe that this set had going.

In fact, we went from Supergrass to this to TMBG's "Constantinople"... Radio Paradise seems to be going bipolar.

 
What, we can only handle one emotion here?
It's 1921 and the Kronstadt Rebellion has just been crushed ...  {#Boohoo}
 pontfarrer wrote:
Hauntingly beautiful .....

 
+1
Thought this was Michael Armstrong.  Nice discovery.  Thanks RP.
The watet boys mother Russia should come next
Hauntingly beautiful .....
Ruska is the expression for Indian Summer in Lapland 
It`s wonderful music about me...)) I feel it)))
Chills
Fine Finnish art, album cover too, 'impression' of apocolyptica. Thank you Radio Paradise.
 kingart wrote:
Beautiful. Cinematic. Tragic. At this point in the film, the star-crossed lovers are probably taking poison or downing way too many sedatives. 

 
Actually makes me want to do the same thing. Just too...something. Like they had someone playing a version of Tubular Bells, and another playing a dirge on the cello. 
 zeod wrote:

Ahah, that's what I wanted to say here ! Glad to know that I'm not alone to think that.

 
And whats up with Ludovico I ask?
Stirring, cathartic.  
 Helmholtz wrote:
Please help, I hear Einaudi{#Beat}

 
Ahah, that's what I wanted to say here ! Glad to know that I'm not alone to think that.
No thanks
Please help, I hear Einaudi{#Beat}



Ruska= Fall colours
 
 Mystery Guest wrote:

Yeah, you guys are so right.. but not only is John Carpenter's - Halloween theme song in there. Every time I listen to this, I hear "Nearer My God to Thee", the song they played on the Titanic just before it sank. It's like a mix of the two..Do you agree?
 
No, I don't agree.  The band played, at the end,  "Autumn", a show tune popular at the time.   "Nearer My God to Thee" would have been most inappropriate to play for people who were going to their deaths.  These rumors circulated for decades and ended up in Walter Lord's book about the Titanic  "A Night to Remember".

'Tho I guess you could sing the words to it. I guess.

I find this to be moving without being maudlin.
hauntingly beautiful ...
 johnjconn wrote:
Schindlers List meets Metalica

 
Did Metallica sit this one out?
Sounds like a "Tubular Bells" outtake
Sound is terrible, distorted, like recorded with wrong adjusted equipment, pain to my ears... 
You sir/madam are a genius

 
palad1 wrote:
{#Clap} 

 Combine this with https://www.rainymood.com/ and this is gold.

 


I remember going to a concert with Apocalyptica, in Norway, back in the '90s. Just four guys with a cello each, and no other instrument involved at all. Fantastic. The sounds they would get out of their cellos was just impressing. Their poor cellos did take a bit of a beating though, but what can you expect when they were playing metal all night. Great fun! All covers, but impressively done.

This, though still good, is not quite the same. They've got a drummer now, and a keyboard by the sounds of it. Their initial stuff was more fun! 
Gorgeous!
 mrtuba9 wrote:

Amen brother (or sister if you are one)...
 

absoluted could listen to this shit all day!

:)
 NewFee wrote:
At the risk of being pretentious, I could listen to this shit all day. And I appreciate any intentional apocalyptical connotations on this very special, and final, day.
 
Amen brother (or sister if you are one)...
Just noticed the previous post use the word "pretentious" too. Sweet!

Also, too, I'm seeing updates from NZ and Australia on reddit, regarding their continued existence, so it looks like we just might make it...
Beautiful. Cinematic. Tragic. At this point in the film, the star-crossed lovers are probably taking poison or downing way too many sedatives. 
At the risk of being pretentious, I could listen to this shit all day.

And I appreciate any intentional apocalyptical connotations on this very special, and final, day.
I just checked - this still bites.  Puts the "ten" in pretentious.
want my emotional grave here !!! ====={#Eek} deep down in wooden coffins _ or what.......?
Reminds me of the Game of Thrones theme song (just a little bit).
I think I need to add this to my soporific playlist.  Sleep is a good thing.
This song is making me crave a glass of Merlot wine.
it's raining outside. now it's raining inside, too...
 johnjconn wrote:
Schindlers List meets Metalica
 
great comment.
I'm sure someone else mentioned this, but the Halloween theme running through the background is creeping me out.
{#Clap} 

 Combine this with https://www.rainymood.com/ and this is gold.
 andigenu wrote:
where did the melody go?
 
Maybe your music stream dropped out; there's a very clear melody going on.
this fits my mood perfectly right now...good music {#Sad}mood
where did the melody go?
 gemtag wrote:
As I listened the whole house began I vibrate. Took a second to realize a chopper was going overhead. Still it added to the sound.

Not diss-ing the music at all. It's most excellent.
 
It was a Black Helicopter too, I'll bet, next time it will land and make you it's slave .... dance little human!  Dance!  Heh heh heh
 
The worst excuse for a song.
 1wolfy wrote:
somber yet lovely
 

Yes. Glass meets melody.
  But somewhat misleading as a representative piece from this CD ... this band is very serious heavy metal "cello" - most of the CD reflects a hard, garage band noise - think Linkin Park with cellos....
 

Ewwwww!!!!{#Puke}

quite depressing... and it's a beautiful sunny day here in Croatia. this music doesn't work for me today.
Bill, your killing us at work..late night music during mid day work hours , not happening for us
somber yet lovely
 westslope wrote:

So gorgeous and uplifting!

 

Must be my Norse background.


 
Try playing this at volume going up the 99 to Whistler with a 'hare' to chase infront of you.

Where else, but in Radio Paradise!
Haunting
As I listened the whole house began I vibrate. Took a second to realize a chopper was going overhead. Still it added to the sound.

Not diss-ing the music at all. It's most excellent.
Oh yea
Reminds me of the Edward Gorey picture book of the good little boy who died.
Good stuff! Really!!
This is Annie's friend, listening to your show at Annie's place for the first time.  Digging it all around, plus an extra dig for the Apocalyptica (I'm a cellist).
Like two lovers embracing for the last time

So gorgeous and uplifting!

 

Must be my Norse background.


Yes 'intense' is the word.. rradio wrote:
Took me right where I wanted to go this rainy afternoon. Intense !

Thanks
 


Thanks for playing Apocalyptica — it'll help me work through the night!
Okay, this is almost too prog by half, but I love that they throw a bunch of cellos into the mix and emerge with sheer beauty. Merry Xmas, y'all.


Quite spectacular.
Epic!
Took me right where I wanted to go this rainy afternoon. Intense !

Thanks
I prefer the band doing this sort of stuff - newer material, especially latest is just another heavy metal band being shouty :-(
 felix_the_man wrote:
My dear late mother grew up in Finland and neighboring Karelia during very intense and trying times.  One day a coupla' years ago, I took her out for a drive and put this in the CD player.  Mom could be a bit pensive and I thought that she would like it,  but she asked me to take it out and play some of that "pineapple tree" that she had taken a liking to.
 

Hilarious.  Yeah, I suppose Porcupine Tree is simply 'gay' compared to this.  LOL!  May your mother rest in peace.

 

I imagine two great wars and a tense Cold War left a more than a few pensive people in that part of the world.  I find it cathartic to drink in all the misery at once—figuratively speaking of course.  Perhaps my odd behaviour is the unanticipated consequence of reading R.D. Laing  (1967) The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise.  



so different yet makes me want to poop so bad..

Apocalyptica by ~jsanna
©2008-2010 ~jsanna

Apocalyptica at Icehall in Helsinki, 11th of october.



My dear late mother grew up in Finland and neighboring Karelia during very intense and trying times.  One day a coupla' years ago, I took her out for a drive and put this in the CD player.  Mom could be a bit pensive and I thought that she would like it,  but she asked me to take it out and play some of that "pineapple tree" that she had taken a liking to.
Who died and is this a closed or open casket funeral?
As gloomy as this piece sounds, I hear a little bit of hope in there. 

Maybe its because I've been living in Finland for six years.  XD 
I like these cats. {#Boohoo}

(there are no cello playing emoticons.)
  But somewhat misleading as a representative piece from this CD ... this band is very serious heavy metal "cello" - most of the CD reflects a hard, garage band noise - think Linkin Park with cellos....
 
schitfitz wrote:
Gee, I'm from Central Texas and I think this piece is beautiful. Granted I did live in the UK and Germany for 3 years each (which is why I went back to central Texas) and this may have tempered my tastes. I don't know why, but I love having this song playing in the cockpit when I fly.

 
streifenschwirl wrote:

i agree not seldom i made the the experience that people that get more than let us say three days of sunshine a year have a much harder time enjoing this kind of music.  ;-)
 
 


Gee, I'm from Central Texas and I think this piece is beautiful. Granted I did live in the UK and Germany for 3 years each (which is why I went back to central Texas) and this may have tempered my tastes. I don't know why, but I love having this song playing in the cockpit when I fly.

 
streifenschwirl wrote:

i agree not seldom i made the the experience that people that get more than let us say three days of sunshine a year have a much harder time enjoing this kind of music.  ;-)
 


 Karmala wrote:

Hi ya,

Come & live in the Scandinavian darkness and coldness for a couple of years first and only then come back to say this music is dreary. By our standards this is just normal/average/beautiful but it DOES capture something in the very core of being a Scandinavian and really living in this gloomy part of the world. You see, we never get to enjoy e.g. the Californian sunshine so we cannot be all that happy & superficial all the time - sorry. (Just an eaxmple - no intention of being rude to California as such.)

About the diversity - yes, that's one of the major factors that make RP so fascinating & unique.
 
i agree not seldom i made the the experience that people that get more than let us say three days of sunshine a year have a much harder time enjoing this kind of music.  ;-)


 Karmala wrote:
Hi ya,

Come & live in the Scandinavian darkness and coldness for a couple of years first and only then come back to say this music is dreary. By our standards this is just normal/average/beautiful but it DOES capture something in the very core of being a Scandinavian and really living in this gloomy part of the world. You see, we never get to enjoy e.g. the Californian sunshine so we cannot be all that happy & superficial all the time - sorry. (Just an eaxmple - no intention of being rude to California as such.)

About the diversity - yes, that's one of the major factors that make RP so fascinating & unique.
 
Karmala,

I love your comment. I'd love to visit Finland and Sweden and Norway someday. I do believe that climate has a large effect on a population's general outlook. You call your part of the world gloomy, I don't know if that's true but here in Canada we also face long winters and short summers and I, for one, don't look forward to the end of summer. Of course, there are some people who have a sunny disposition no matter what the weather is (those people drive me a little crazy but I also can't help but to envy them a little)  Apolcalyptica may represent the darker side of life, but there is a very successful group who came from your part of the world that recorded some very warm, sunny music. I'm speaking of the very successful group ABBA.

This is beautiful. PERIOD. And I live in sunny FL. Thanks for your insight. I lived in Germany for 9 years and loved it - esp. getting snowed in. I miss it.
 
Karmala wrote:

Hi ya,

Come & live in the Scandinavian darkness and coldness for a couple of years first and only then come back to say this music is dreary. By our standards this is just normal/average/beautiful but it DOES capture something in the very core of being a Scandinavian and really living in this gloomy part of the world. You see, we never get to enjoy e.g. the Californian sunshine so we cannot be all that happy & superficial all the time - sorry. (Just an eaxmple - no intention of being rude to California as such.)

About the diversity - yes, that's one of the major factors that make RP so fascinating & unique.
 


 PeteyGreens wrote:

This is dreary.  I still like RP even though I get what you're saying.  Hopefully Bill will respond to you.  I think the balance of music on RP is good and I don't know of another station with the same diversity of music.  My favorites also seem to be Bill's.  Take a look at the next ten songs in his playlist.  Not a dreary set.  "Hit The Road Jack."  The opposite of this song only a few songs away.   
 
Hi ya,

Come & live in the Scandinavian darkness and coldness for a couple of years first and only then come back to say this music is dreary. By our standards this is just normal/average/beautiful but it DOES capture something in the very core of being a Scandinavian and really living in this gloomy part of the world. You see, we never get to enjoy e.g. the Californian sunshine so we cannot be all that happy & superficial all the time - sorry. (Just an eaxmple - no intention of being rude to California as such.)

About the diversity - yes, that's one of the major factors that make RP so fascinating & unique.


 Essbee wrote:
Seriously, WHY does RP have to be so DARK AND DREARY so much? I find myself switching to other online radio stations more and more, and listening to RP less and less. Sucks! I used to think RP was the greatest thing ever. Just can only take so much dreariness and Top 40-ishness.

 
This is dreary.  I still like RP even though I get what you're saying.  Hopefully Bill will respond to you.  I think the balance of music on RP is good and I don't know of another station with the same diversity of music.  My favorites also seem to be Bill's.  Take a look at the next ten songs in his playlist.  Not a dreary set.  "Hit The Road Jack."  The opposite of this song only a few songs away.   


Lol, logged in to rate it, and found I'd already rated it... 10. :-)