Line #79 Music/ToppatakkejaJaToledonTerasta


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3	''Toppatakkeja ja Toledon Terästä'' (Translation: "Guilted Jackets and Steel of Toledo") is the third studio album by [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Finnish]] ProgressiveRock band Music/{{YUP}}. It is a ConceptAlbum with a story about singing detective Henri Blavatsky and his investigations on an evil family and a suspicious factory that stuffs mattocks and guilted jackets using dead people's hair.
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5	The album is sung in Finnish and was released by indie label Elmerecords in 1994.
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8	!! Tracklist:
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10	# "Tyttö jota rakastan" (The girl I love) (3:18)
11	# "Minä olen myyrä" (I am a mole) (4:45)
12	# "Huonot uutiset" (Bad news) (3:04)
13	# "Älä astu kauppiaan päälle" (Don't step on the merchant (5:30)
14	# "Pää puhuu" (The head speaks) (2:52)
15	# "Toppatakkeja ja Toledon Terästä" (Guilted jackets and steel Of Toledo) (5:16)
16	# "Mitä elämän jälkeen" (What's after life) (4:39)
17	# "Soljan käsittely" (Handling of Solja) (4:03)
18	# "Kuonamagneetti" (Drossmagnet) (3:39)
19	# "Taivaiden Maisterit" (Masters of heaven) (7:15)
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22	!!Principal Members:
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24	* Jarkko Martikainen - lead vocals, guitar, lyrics, composition
25	* Valtteri Tynkkynen - bass, backing vocals, composition
26	* Jussi Hyyrynen - guitar, backing vocals
27	* Tommi Kärkkäinen - keyboard, backing vocals, percussions
28	* Janne Mannonen - drums, backing vocals
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32	!!Characters
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34	* Henri Blavatsky - Singing detective
35	* Volmar Pätsi - factory owner, bastard
36	* Sinfonia Pätsi - factory owner's wife, bastard
37	* Maila Pätsi - Volmar's daughter, idiot
38	* Veli-Pekka Pätsi - Volmar's son, idiot
39	* Solja Pätsi - Volmar's sister
40	* Jepson - the bultler, dense
41	* Abro Paukku - the merchant
42	* Felix - a cat
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45	!! ''Troppatakkeja''
46	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: On Minä olen myyrä: "Sairasauton sedät ei sano sitäkään!"
47	* AlliterativeTitle: Toppatakkeja ja Toledon Terästä, anyone?
48	* AnswerSong: "Huonot uutiset to Minä olen myyrä"; Rich bastards Volmar and Sinfonia Pätsi's response on Henri Blavatsky terrorising their dwellings like a mole.
49	* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Heaven in Taivaiden Maisterit. Christ kicks Pontius Pilate into a hot spring; The houskeeper keeps a speakeasy instead of the house. The incomers are voted by the masters of heaven who fly around with their divans.
50	** Also, there is dessert served in Hell.
51	* BankRobbery: On "Älä astu kauppiaan päälle", but has no real effect on the story.
52	* BolivianArmyEnding: "And iron spacejunk rained on their heads" are the last words of the album. It might be completely dada, though.
53	* CharacterSignatureSong: Naturally, because some of the the songs are "sung" by characters.
54	** "Minä olen myyrä" to Henri Blavatsky
55	** "Älä astu kauppiaan päälle" to Abro the merchant
56	** "Kuonamagneetti" to Volmar Pätsi
57	* CrisisOfFaith: When Abro notices that Herni has made it to Heaven. He loses his temper and starts an uproar... But fails completely and gets infected by vermins.
58	* CluelessDetective: Henri Blavatsky is not especially good detective. He's actually around as mad as everyone else in the story.
59	* ConceptAlbum: As explained in the intro.
60	* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Volmar Pätsi refuses to regret in "Kuonamagneetti". What happens to him is never told.
61	* DeathTakesAHoliday: The Grim Reaper spends all the money on alcohol and is too drunk to take Henri's spirit to hell.
62	* DisposingOfABody:
63	** Abro's still living severed head is taken into a cupboard in the factory; Bad thing there happens to be a casette recorded next to him.
64	** Henri's spirit buries his badly damaged corpse in Volmar's flowerbed.
65	* DyingClue: In the cupboard Abro's still living severed head records everything he knows to a cassette, keeps it in his mouth and spits it into a garbage bin while the bad guys move him around the factory. He dies later.
66	* TheFundamentalist: Abro seems to be one on the last song, though his religiousness is not noted of on th earlier songs. However, he gets very mad when he sees that Henri, who has never touched the Holy Book, makes it to the heaven.
67	** Songwriter Jarkko Martikainen has also written a novella about the same subject on his book Pitkät Piikit.
68	* GetRichQuickScheme: Volmar's factory manufactures products, especially guilted jackets, using dead people's hair as raw material and enslaved bald people as free labour. Then they are shipped into Cuba or Calcutta.
69	* HellOfAHeaven: "Taivaiden Maisterit", "The Masters of Heaven", is about this: Nobody, including Jesus or Saint Paul, seems to be happy in hell. Deeply religious Abro finds extremely depressing that Henri, who has never touched the Holy Book, can shamble around.
70	* IAmSong: Minä olen myyrä, I am a mole.
71	* IndecipherableLyrics: Most of track 6 "Toppatakkeja ja Toledon Terästä", and some bits on "Taivaiden Maisterit".
72	* LosingYourHead: "Älä astu kauppiaan päälle" is about Abro's living severed head bouncing around the town; In Pää Puhuu it records evidence about his "death".
73	* LyricalColdOpen: The title track, with "Granito chore" and "Hallelujah".
74	* NonAppearingTitle: "Kuonamagneetti" and "Pää puhuu".
75	* OffWithHisHead: Some idiot lays his foot on Abro's neck and stomps.
76	* OneWordTitle: Kuonamagneetti
77	* PrivateEyeMonologue: The first song, "Tyttö jota rakastan (Girl I love)" is not about the girl Henri loves, but about the eccentric situation on the town and an overview of it's crime.
78	* RabidCop: When Henri learns about the factory and the jackets he starts to tear open people's jackets with his knife made of steel of Toledo. He also terrorized the suspect's manor, throwing their Corvette to the channel and breaking their furniture.
79	* RereleaseTheSong: "Minä olen myyrä" and "Huonot uutiset" were originally released on "Minä Olen Myyrä EP" in 2014, but were recorded again for the main album; The EP versions were rather demo-ish and "primitive" according to the band. Huonot uutiset was also rearraged with classical music instruments and two singers.
80	** The whole album was also remastered by Polygram/Universal.
81	* SeveredHeadSports: Älä Astu Kauppiaan Päälle. Abro's head gets, for example, kicked by a soccer star. In addition, the head still lives.
82	* SongStyleShift: A lot of this.
83	** "Taivaiden maisterit" starts with acoustic guitar and singer/songwriter stuff about heaven, turns into something like epic rock for refrains, has some improvisation jazz bits and even some hardcore-esque stuff about vermins.
84	** The song "Toppatakkeja ja Toledon Terästä" is mostly fast progressive rock but has an ending about lost love interest right from any mainstream unfortunate love song. And it fits.
85	* SpokenWord: "Pää Puhuu", The Head Speaks. Never played on gigs. Something between a radio play, plot element and a joke, according to the band.
86	* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: The main character, Henri, is killed in the sixth song. He gets overdriven by an unnamed daredevil and doesn't realize his mortality until his limbs rain on him.
87	** He gets into Heaven in the last song though.
88	* TitleOnlyChorus: "Älä astu kauppiaan päälle"
89	* TitleTrack: "Toppatakkeja Ja Toledon Terästä"
90	* VomitingCop Henri's spirit vomits on his own corpse; talk about gruesome Finnish proge.
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