By foreign, I mean any song that isn't in English. If it's a song that has an English counterpart or vice versa, then choose it if you perfer it to the English version.
The song that inspired me to make this post was "Imaginate" by Wisin & Yandel. ;D
I've often heard foreign music I like... Unfortunately, I haven't often found out the tittles
I often listen to foreign music, but I live in a foreign country.
On the radio here we get to hear songs in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.
It's nice that switching of languages.
"Corporate Logic" by Stereoliza...foreign band, English words.
Tokio Hotel is a nice band and I love their songs that are in German, though the English version is also good.
I just like music in general and have a collection of Japanese CDs and German CDs.
I have a collection of Rammstein CD's that are among my favourites, which have inspired me to try and learn German. Also like Indian and African music for the polyrythmic aspects.
I'm a sucker for Japanese love songs, even though I don't know a lick of Japanese.
I'm a sucker for Japanese love songs, even though I don't know a lick of Japanese.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who says that opera tends to work best when you don't know what they are really saying.
I like Yelle. There may be a few songs that I have heard that are in different languages. Most bands I listen to are from France, but have a lot of English sucks, if not all [M83, AIR]
Does Canadian count as foriegn? :)
And I don't mean like BNL, or Nickelback, etc. Try Widemouth Mason, 5440, that sort of thing.
the Xena: Warrior Princess theme tune lyrics are in Bulgarian :)
I like quite a bit of Romanian (and Moldovan), Japanese, Irish, and Welsh music. And before anyone says anything, I mean folk songs sung in Irish Gaelic or Welsh, not Irish and Welsh bands who perform in English.
Lots of Visual Kei, j-rock, and other Japanese things. I listen to the Paris Combo, which is a french singing jazz group. I listen to some German metal, and a lot of Celtic stuff. Oh. And spanish groups with good classical guitar, but only about half of it has lyrics.
ooo, this is a good question.
I love a LOT of Norwegian music. Kaizers Orchestra, Gåte, Skambankt, Vamp, Trang Fødsel...hm, there are many others but those are the ones that pop into mind.
That reminds me, Kaizers should have a new album out now and I totally forgot! :o
I really like vamp.
OMG! Another fan? :o Forgive how excited I am about to become, I only know one other girl who likes them.
What's your favourite song, Evelyn? Denne Uro is definitely up there for me as well as I Skyggen. Våken Drøm, Nok ein Sang om Havet, Månemannen...I could go on.
On an offnote, Emi Fujita covered a few vamp songs in English and really did not do too bad. Våken Drøm became "Wide Awake," Tir N'a Noir was translated, perhaps others that I don't remember. "Wide Awake" was truly fabulous, never thought Våken Drøm could ever be as beautiful or meaningful in English, but it was wonderful.
Link: Wide Awake By Emi Fujita (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-2o2A3N28A#)
Beautiful translation. Thank you for linking it.
It's hard to pick a favorite song though. I like Siste Melding but i also like a lot of their stuff. Hestene star i regnet has a very cool feel to it as well... idk. I'm not good at singling things down to "favorites" Vaken drom is beautifully enchanting. I don't know how to say everything i like here without writing like a page about it. The main male singer has a sexy voice ((well. the other singers have pretty voices too)), and i love the way they do the instrumentals.
((sorry. i don't know how to type the specialty characters for Norwegian.))
That song is really pretty.
Quote from: tekla on February 28, 2011, 08:27:19 AM
Reminds me of a friend of mine who says that opera tends to work best when you don't know what they are really saying.
That might be true. I don't care for opera. I think it's too much style and not enough substance. But I've heard a few opera songs in Italian which sounded really good.
Rap is much the same way. I don't care much for the subject matter of most rap songs. But I like the musical style. I'll listen to just about any rap song as long as it isn't sung in English.
I assume the title is about songs in other than your local language, otherwise I would have to say pretty much everything from the UK and USA to start with. Hell even New Zealand bands and artists would have to be counted!
Sigur Rós is definitely my favourite foreign band. their lead singer recently released a solo album that has some english phrases, but the vast majority of their music is in Icelandic, or doesn't have any words at all - just singing. (:
I also really like the french band, Dionysos.
Quote from: regan on February 28, 2011, 10:26:43 AM
Does Canadian count as foriegn? :)
That made me laugh XD
I like some Japanese songs.
I like a few Japanese Bands and Singers. My favourite are a girl band called Perfume.
This is one of my fave perfume songs and videos.
[フル] Perfume「VOICE」 2010.8.11リリース！ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18grnTXq7mc#)
Absolutely!!
Favourites; Sigur Ros, Alif Tree, and she
Other greats; Eluveitie, Keren Ann, Holden, Mum, Superbus, Afro-celt Soundsystem, Rinercerose, Royksopp, Stephane Pompougnac, T.A.T.U, Tosca, Mo' Horizons, Thomas Dutronc, Gaelic Storm, -M-, and Telepopmusik :)
Lol, I just noticed that most of my foreign artists are French. :)
Oops! I forgot "Air." Great french-duo.
Quote from: madirocks on July 14, 2011, 05:58:31 PM
Mum
Foreign or otherwise, one of my favorite bands right there... ;) Except their last two albums weren't all that hot.
Going way, way back, I'm a big fan of Françoise Hardy's 1960s material. And the years that France Gall was on the Philips label were also pretty good (particularly the songs Serge Gainsbourg penned).
I love t.A.T.u (Russian), Tokio Hotel, Rosenstolz, Christina Stürmer, Lukas Hilbert (German), Eiffel 65 (Italian, surprisingly), Alizée (French), O-Zone (Romanian), Hyde, Utada Hikaru, Gackt, Dir en Grey (Japanese)....
....hmm...I might think of a few others later...
Quote from: Sage on July 17, 2011, 11:39:06 PM
Alizée (French)
I just got a new computer and she wasn't in my iTunes library so I forgot her name. I love her music!
And Zoe, Finally We Are No One is my favourite album! :D
Quote from: madirocks on July 18, 2011, 09:55:33 AM
And Zoe, Finally We Are No One is my favourite album! :D
It's one of my favorites too! ;D The first Mum song I ever heard was Faraway Swimmingpool and I was immediately sucked in to their sound. Then it was Green Grass of Tunnel, and within one week of hearing those two, I'd bought all of their albums and singles. lol I'm kind of obsessive like that. In any case, I spent at least 6 months of last year listening to Mum nonstop.
My music library has stuff from all over the place, would be boring to just listen to music from your home country.
Anything by Céline Dion. She is not only beautiful, but she has a beautiful voice.
That you still love me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4sIM9-qALk&feature=related#)
Quote from: ~RoadToTrista~ on February 27, 2011, 04:21:41 PM
The song that inspired me to make this post was "Imaginate" by Wisin & Yandel. ;D
XDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't
imagine that you like reggaeton >:-)
Have you ever tried to dance it? LOL
La Cubanita Bailando Reggaeton "El Meneo" (Original) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gawrOAZAotg#)
Listen to this
Descontrol Official Video HD (Standard) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je5Fw5Ohcs8#)
Oh do I.
Finnish folk
Swedish folk-rock
Irish Gaelic folk
Lots of Persian, Turkish, North African, Israeli music
Lots of EBM and Industrial, much of which is from Germany or Belgium
Lots of experimental electronic and Glitch, much of which is from Japan, Finland, Germany
...and I play taiko, which originated in Japan :D
i like most music, and i know songs in lots of different languages. japanese, dutch, chinese may not be too unusual, but i also know songs in tuvan (learned one from ayan-ool sam. you can find him on youtube), greenlandic, and even rarer languages
I've heard a few songs from America that I quite liked :).
Quote from: tekla on February 28, 2011, 08:27:19 AM
I'm a sucker for Japanese love songs, even though I don't know a lick of Japanese.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who says that opera tends to work best when you don't know what they are really saying.
Can't understand what they are saying when they sing in English.
I have a few albums in Welsh (because of my SFA fanness mainly) I like a few French stuff, some Serge Gainsbourg, I liked the guy who did the Belleville Rendezvous song, there is some very enjoyable Hungarian, Romanian gypsy stuff and I adore this cd called 'Flamenco Arabe" which starts fully flamenco and ends fully arabian and follows the journey from one to the other.
Quote from: Pica Pica on July 24, 2011, 09:38:14 AM
Can't understand what they are saying when they sing in English.
i have trouble understanding sung english too, so i didn't really like to listen to pop ballads and such. but then one day i realized i actually do understand when they sing in japanese, so now i often find myself listening to all the same types of songs i couldn't stand in english
I always mishear american songs, the current one is, why is Beyonce singing about a Pterodactyl Penis? (1.04-10)
Beyoncé - Best Thing I Never Had (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHp2KgyQUFk&ob=av2e#)
For the same reason that lots of people thought that Jimi Hendrix was singing: 'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.
I love it,
all kinds of languarges for me.
I listen to music in all sorts of languages. Probably the main languages other than English that I have music in would be French, Japanese, Russian, and Ukrainian, but I know I also have some Icelandic, German, Spanish, Maori, Romanian, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew... I don't know, lots!
For the past few months, I've been listening to a bunch of Korean pop music - artists like SHINee, Super Junior, SNSD, B1A4, MBLAQ. I also used to listen to Japanese artists like Gackt and Dir en Grey. :P
I am a big fan of the Eurovision Song Contest and have set out to collect all the songs along with their language variations.
I also like French girl singers of the 60s, so one of my latest acquisitions was Francoise Hardy's Find me a Boy which was the English version of her hit Tout Les Garcons.
Also stashed in my collection is a bunch of stuff with Eastern Bloc singers doing western pop songs in languages like Czech.
Have a rather large stash of that sorta stuff
Huggles
Toni-Lynn
Quote from: I_am_Toni_Lynn on August 19, 2011, 11:21:34 AM
I also like French girl singers of the 60s, so one of my latest acquisitions was Francoise Hardy's Find me a Boy which was the English version of her hit Tout Les Garcons.
I didn't know she did an English version! ;D I'm actually listening to it on Youtube right now. The French version is one of my favorite songs of all time and I have most of her '60s catalog, but had never run across this English version.
Actually, another of my favorite bands, Saint Etienne, did a version of Find Me A Boy in 1999, but for the last 12 years I assumed it was their own version of Tous Les Garçons. Turns out part of the lyrics are from François Hardy's English version!
I'm asking the stars above, won't you find me a boy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RakoFEX3x0k#)
Nowadays, a most popular singer in S. Korea is probably Park Jung-Hyun (Lena Park). Because people here are tired of idol groups, they want REAL singers. She is one of them. She is bilingual (Korean and English), but also can sing in Japanese.
Korean:
박정현 - 꿈에 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR0ifos_pKc#)
English:
You raise me up - lena park (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2n_LrTG_8#)
Japanese:
Lena Park - Fall In Love (Ver. Japanese) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jC5iG55390#)
Barbie~~
I normally don't like J-Pop, but I've found I quite like this group now. :)
Unnatural Girl [PV] (http://vimeo.com/27534680)
Quote from: barbie on August 19, 2011, 05:44:25 PM
Nowadays, a most popular singer in S. Korea is probably Park Jung-Hyun (Lena Park). Because people here are tired of idol groups, they want REAL singers. She is one of them. She is bilingual (Korean and English), but also can sing in Japanese.
Korean:
박정현 - 꿈에 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR0ifos_pKc#)
English:
You raise me up - lena park (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2n_LrTG_8#)
Japanese:
Lena Park - Fall In Love (Ver. Japanese) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jC5iG55390#)
Barbie~~
That Japanese one is really nice.
Another song in English ("Memory" in Cats) is my preferred one.
Memory - Lena Park (Musical 'CATS') (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFRbsFs4X0#)
Barbie~~
Lol when I heard the opening I was thinking of this song.
陳慧琳 Kelly Chen ~~~ 誰願放手 (Can't Let Go) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od5AiJbo2Ds#)
La Quiete (italian melodic hardcore) and Amanda Woodward (french melodic hc) are definitely two of my very favorite bands, have been for a while. Also dig Julith Krishun (also italian melodic hardcore), and a couple songs by Zabriskie point (french punk). I definitely recommend them to anyone.
Quote from: Zoë Natasha on August 19, 2011, 11:49:40 AM
I didn't know she did an English version! ;D I'm actually listening to it on Youtube right now. The French version is one of my favorite songs of all time and I have most of her '60s catalog, but had never run across this English version.
There is actually a CD of some of Françoise Hardy's non-French recordings. It called All Over the World, and has German, English and Italian versions of her stuff, but only an English Tout les Garçon. She did it also in German (Peter und Lou) and Italian (Quelli della mia età).
I like her as well as France Gall and Sylvie Vartan.
Huggles
Toni-Lynn
This topic makes me think of a Frisian song that was popular 10 years back. While Frisian is a recognized language in The Netherlands, few people use it.
Twarres - Wêr Bisto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mthO5jb4W4M#)
I just stumbled on this 80's German song it sounds so cute.
99 LUFTBALLONS Lyrics- Nena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLIn0JNC57c#)
Quote from: ~RoadToTrista~ on August 24, 2011, 07:54:10 AM
I just stumbled on this 80's German song it sounds so cute.
99 LUFTBALLONS Lyrics- Nena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLIn0JNC57c#)
It got way overplayed in the UK
>.<
Over here we never get any songs in a language other than English or to a lesser extent, Spanish.
I remember when 99 Luftballons first came out KROQ (L.A. based radio station) played the stuffing out of both the English and German versions :laugh:
There is also a 2002 reissue (also done by Nena) of 99 Luftballons that has French lyrics.
Back in the 80s when it was hit, I was trying to figure out someway to get my then girlfriend clued into my crossdressing. Given that guys were wearing makeup and all, I told her that I wish I looked like Nena. She never got it, but did let me wear makeup to a Psychedelic Furs concert.
In other news, I have a collection of 'western' top 40 hits done by Czech and Slovak artists such as Karel Gott, Vera Spinarova, and Hana Zagarova. Karel Gott's Czech version of The Doobie Bros' Long Train Running is a fave of mine.
Vera Spinarova did a Czech version of Blondie's Heart of Glass, calling it Kozmicka Laska (Cosmic Love). I thought is was so cool that I adapted it for my non de plume, Kozmik Alaska, as a writer of FTM crossdresser fiction.
Huggles
Toni-Lynn
Grew up listening to french and italian music and love so called foreign music. One of my all time favourites, Anggun - "Sang Penari" before she started being rubbish:
Sang penari: Anggun - Sang Penari (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nBJgR5Hdg#)
I like Jpop, I feel that the songs are very pretty.
Noir Désir: Noir Désir Le Vent Nous Portera English subtitles & Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVaIjP62Xlk#)
My longtime fave is Rammstein, ever since I heard of them through the movie xXx. Solid German hard rock/hardcore that always gets my head bobbing. Daft Punk is also good, though their music is in English. I'm also a sucker for Bhangra music, those beats just won't stay out of my head.
I listen to a lot of Gackt. Vanilla and Dybbuk are two of my favorite songs that he's done.
Also Uso by SID. =]
Bollywood!!!
Devdas with the ever gorgeous Madhuri Dixit: Maar Dala song - Devdas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVg6Ehu1VXY&feature=relmfu#)
I love Japanese and German music. I prefer listening to music in those languages instead of English music. I just love how the words sound. <3
Some of my favorite bands are D'espairsRay, DEATHGAZE, Megaherz, and Rammstein. I also adore Meiko Kaji. <3 Enka music is so beautiful and relaxing. :)
Quote from: .Alexander on September 10, 2011, 02:46:56 PM
I love Japanese and German music. I prefer listening to music in those languages instead of English music. I just love how the words sound. <3
Some of my favorite bands are D'espairsRay, DEATHGAZE, Megaherz, and Rammstein. I also adore Meiko Kaji. <3 Enka music is so beautiful and relaxing. :)
Rammstein!
"We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, it's wunderbar
We're all living , Amerika, Amerika, Coca-Cola, Wonderbra" ;D
Rammstein - Amerika (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y4vIzEkd6s#)
Ismaël Lô: Jammu Africa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFEnHzj3-_w#)
Quote from: mimpi on September 12, 2011, 10:10:33 AM
Rammstein!
"We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, it's wunderbar
We're all living , Amerika, Amerika, Coca-Cola, Wonderbra" ;D
XD I've actually never seen the video for that song until now.
Quote from: .Alexander on September 14, 2011, 12:31:57 PM
XD I've actually never seen the video for that song until now.
Really?
Is it banned in the US?
Quote from: mimpi on September 14, 2011, 01:34:21 PM
Really?
Is it banned in the US?
No... things don't really get banned in the US (not in most states, anyway). There's just a mutual consensus in the mass media that if something makes people think, it doesn't get exposure.
Quote from: Zoë Natasha on September 14, 2011, 01:44:40 PM
No... things don't really get banned in the US (not in most states, anyway). There's just a mutual consensus in the mass media that if something makes people think, it doesn't get exposure.
Imagined so, Zoe.
It's getting like that most places unfortunately.
Senegal - Ismael Lo - La Femme Sans Haine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecBO13idINQ#)
Trans:
"all women are queens
some more queens than others
they say things that suprises
they break men they hate
this song is for the queen who tells her king
now i will go with the wing..."
I'm kind of an otaku (though I think we've been relegated to being called weeaboos nowadays). I like a lot of Japanese soundtracks with a classical and/or electronic feel, stuff from Yoko Kanno, Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yuu Miyake, Zuntata, & ZUN. I also like some Japanese pop and rock, like The Pillows, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, and School Food Punishment and some Spanish & Mexican rock, like Second, Cafe Tacuba, & Chikita Violenta.
DotA by Basshunter! =)
Jagjit Singh - Kiska Chehra
Jagjit singh - Kiska chehra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLprWQbivAk#)
For the comrades and sisters back then...
Da Zero E Dintorni (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjwRalSEfs&feature=related#)
Ultimate sixties style icon Francoise Hardy, probably her best song:
Françoise Hardy - Ma jeunesse fout l'camp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9RPGJxAlQ0&feature=related#)
That song's cute. When I think of French songs from the 60's I just think of France Gall.
Quote from: ~RoadToTrista~ on October 09, 2011, 06:07:52 PM
That song's cute. When I think of French songs from the 60's I just think of France Gall.
French sixties music was surprisingly good, France Gall, Dalida, Sheila, Francoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, Jaques Dutronc, Jacqueline Taieb (sorry for the lack of accents this is a weird Italian keyboard). Here's Dalida who was tri-lingual in Italian, Arabic and French singing with Patty Pravo.
Patty Pravo & Dalida - La Bambola
Dalida-Patty Pravo "La bambola" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERDGdgGa1I8&feature=related#)
i basically don't listen to any english music at all - except Hedwig And The Angry Inch soundtrack.
my all time favourite is Einstuerzende Neubauten, all albums, for all different moods. i also listen to Feindflug (makes gym experience soooo much better).
Feindflug - Leitbild (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZB_7RY_M4#)
Okay, prepare to get super jolly and gay with this South African 50's dance grooviness. Get with it!
Mafikizolo - Marabi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX7w9pzhlHE#)
I like foreign music although I don't understand it. This especially holds true for music in animes.
Like Malachite I like some foreign music, A couple of years ago I started listening to India (Salsa) very fun music.