Do You Listen to Foreign Music?

[BonsaiK]

Lately, I've been getting into more foreign music. This week it's been Brasilian music like Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso and Seu Jorge. Other than that, I've been looking into more Celtic music and Ravi Shankar.

Do you listen to foreign music? What do you like?

I'm Australian. I listen to foreign music all the time. A lot of it comes from this weird country called the USA, they seem to make a lot of music over there. But I listen to music from everywhere because it's kinda my job. I can't think of any country off the top of my head that I haven't heard some music from at some point.

What's your job, then?

Music industry. I do a lot of work for different labels and radio, and I get sent music all the time. On average I might hear 50-100 new releases and demo recordings in one week. At a rough estimate I'd say about 50% of that is Australian, 15% USA/Canada/Mexico, 20% UK/Europe and the other 15% from everywhere else and I do mean everywhere else.

(And no that's not an invitation for people to send me their stuff.)

 

[madcap2112]

Music industry. I do a lot of work for different labels and radio, and I get sent music all the time. On average I might hear 50-100 new releases and demo recordings in one week. At a rough estimate I'd say about 50% of that is Australian, 15% USA/Canada/Mexico, 20% UK/Europe and the other 15% from everywhere else and I do mean everywhere else.

(And no that's not an invitation for people to send me their stuff.)

Huh, so in essence you get paid to listen to music? Sounds like my dream job.

 

[Double A]

About half the stuff I listen too is from the British Invasion. And another fourth is various cultural stuff.

 

[BonsaiK]

Music industry. I do a lot of work for different labels and radio, and I get sent music all the time. On average I might hear 50-100 new releases and demo recordings in one week. At a rough estimate I'd say about 50% of that is Australian, 15% USA/Canada/Mexico, 20% UK/Europe and the other 15% from everywhere else and I do mean everywhere else.

(And no that's not an invitation for people to send me their stuff.)

Huh, so in essence you get paid to listen to music? Sounds like my dream job.

The catch is that the money is rubbish, and so is most of the music.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Yeah. Tons of good metal comes from the Sweden-Finland region which I can't think of the name of right now.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

there's a group I listen to now and then I call their style prog thrash, it's a Japanese group called melt banana. I quite like Corvus Corax too they're a german medieval metal group.

 

[Mozared]

Well, if by 'foreign music' you mean bands like "Blink 182" and "Billy Talent", then yes, I pretty much solely listen to foreign music. If you mean stuff like celtic rock, Manu Chao or Die Toten Hosen, then yes as well.

 

[nestormakhno]

You know U2 are from Ireland, right?

 

[thylasos]

I don't really have an option here; either the music I listen to a lot of the time is foreign, since I'm in Russia, or the music I hear on the TV, radio, and if I go to a club is foreign (to me), largely being Russian.

 

[reg42]

95% of the music I listen to is foreign. South African metal is rather hard to find in the store. You can find a lot of it live, but finding CDs is a mission and a half.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Why Yes, I do listen to foreign music occasionally. There is a country called the USA, from which there is an abundance of fantastical music.

 

[FetaFrosch]

I'm mostly listening to english rock musik, punk rock or metall. Such as Rise Against, Sum41 and so on...

I'm just not into german musik....

 

[S-Unleashed]

I'm into J-Pop.

 

[Nemu]

Almost exclusively.

Tho, it depends on one's definition of "foreign". I listen to tons of music by English-speaking (singing?) artists who are NOT American, but also a lot of Korean techno, a few Japanese artists (tho, admittedly, mostly composers of anime OSTs & their "bands"), German industrial, Swedish and Norwegian electronic & techno, Italian opera, Black Metal by Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish bands, my gf got me into Azam Ali, an Iranian singer, tho I prefer the remixed versions of her songs, so I listen to those.

Lots of foreign stuff, tbh.

 

[Xeros]

Most of the music I listen to is foreign. Turmion Katilot, Rammstein, Children of Bodom, Nightwish, Blind Guardian, and Bethlehem just to name a few.