Music you enjoy in a language you don't understand...

[darlarosa]

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That is one of my favorite songs off of that sound track. It's really something.


I enjoy two groups in particular Stellamara and Irfran, The former does more celtic East European type things, while Irfran does a bit of middle eastern. I also like The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices tracks I've been listening too.

 

[BooDoug187]

Love Pizzicato Five and Guitar Wolf

Saw Guitar Wolf live over the summer at the Otter Bar in Baltimore, shit was awesome!

Guitar Wolf Fujiyama Attack

Would have love to see Pizzicato Five live but they broke up while I was in the Air force

Pizzicato Five La Règle Du Jeu

 

[Canadamus Prime]

The Dragon Ball GT Japanese opening, is something I enjoy and I find it really cheerful

This. I love that song so much.
Also this:

Spoiler: Gunslinger Girl II Teatrino OP Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi

That anime yanked hard on my heartstrings and the opening theme is just beautiful.

 

[omicron1]

May I insert Calling all Dawns, in its entirety.

Captcha: Tickled ivories. Is this thing psychic or summat?

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

The majority of my music collection is non-English. I also can't believe this far into the thread and no one has mentioned Rammstein. So I will. Rammstein is awesome.

 

[Vandenberg1]

There good. Ever here of Korplikanni or Primordial? Primordial went from mostly black metal and some folk to some of the most beautiful folk-metal poets ever and some black metal songs per cd lol

 

[Vandenberg1]

The majority of my music collection is non-English. I also can't believe this far into the thread and no one has mentioned Rammstein. So I will. Rammstein is awesome.

I saw them in concert. Amazing... There lyrics rarely make sense tho in an English sense

 

[manaman]

I do enjoy some Rammstein, although I can understand some of it admittedly.

Spoiler: Some Rammstein

Then there's the random stuff that Guitar Hero/Rock Band have put in down the years, such as this.


And Caramelldansen is damn catchy.


Although I know hear the chorus as this.

Dance on my balls
Cat fucking a hand bag
Yours only yours
Delores tickle dance mat
it's no lie,
Lisa in the club said
No Henry had a vagina malfunction.

I had to play the video to give that a listen, and I am not sure I could hear anything else now. Thanks for the laughs.

OT: The voice can and really should be just as much of an instrument as anything else. Since you don't need words to enjoy a song I can't see any reason why someone cannot enjoy a song in a language they cannot understand.

As for me Korean ska is great, and there are quite a few songs I like. There is some j-pop, but very little. As well as dirty little indulgence of mine I choose not to name.

 

[Kuroneko97]

Generally it's Japanese, but I've heard some nice music in other languages. So long as I like the song and lyrics, I don't care much for what language it's in.

 

[Blackdoom]

I listen to a lot of metal in other languages. Then again even the metal I listen to in English can't really be understood.


That's only a couple of them I am too lazy to try and find the rest.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

The majority of my music collection is non-English. I also can't believe this far into the thread and no one has mentioned Rammstein. So I will. Rammstein is awesome.

I saw them in concert. Amazing... There lyrics rarely make sense tho in an English sense

I am jealous. I'd love to see them in concert sometime. Quite the spectacle.

 

[Deathmageddon]

Holy Blood (Russian, although Google couldn't figure out what language Kill was in...) and Oskord (Ukrainian). I also recently picked up Takao, by Chthonic, which has parts in Taiwanese (I think).

 

[Fijiman]

I have several.
[a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGRt7Fq86_4&feature=related"]Maxho[/a]
[a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR8logunPzQ"]Yolanda Be Cool - Yolanda Be Cool[/a]
[a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7zhpMbRoUs"]Perfume - Edge[/a]

These are just some of the first I though of.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Just listen. Give it until the minute mark at least.

 

[lacktheknack]

I sang epic songs in a chamber choir for a while. I still don't know the full lyrics or meaning of "Rose Complete" (which is French for either "The Perfect Rose" or "The Perfect Pink"), but damn, it's pretty.

Same with the Ingrian Evenings set. Half of it is gibberish, half of it is Finnish, all of it is nigh-impossible to pronounce, all of it is fantastic.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Everyone loves a bit of Die Atzen.

 

[UMID]

I usually listen to music that I don't understand when I want to space out for a while, and Tinariwen is always trippy:

And then there's Ja Sha Taan by Fun Da Mental, from the best titled album ever: "Erotic Terrorism" ^^ Epic!

 

[GenuineCounterfeit]

Sigur Rós

I have no idea what they were saying when they were speaking Icelandic.

And because lots of their fans are in the same boat (including me), hilarious stuff like this happens

 

[Johnny Impact]

People already mentioned Rammstein and Sigur Ros.

I didn't see these others anywhere but somebody probably did them:

Nobody speaks Gaelic anymore.

I can't speak French in conversation but I know enough to have translated maybe half of what she's saying after several listens.