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Do you listen to music in another language?

Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited August 2009 in Other Music
Yes.
Croatian.

You?
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • SG GhazSG Ghaz Posts: 148
    Rammstein - German
    A couple of bands - Japanese
    Chris Cornell - Can't Change - French
    Skambankt - Norwegian (that's my home country, tho)

    Think that's it
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  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    i listen to alot of opera so i have french and italian pretty well covered

    sigur ros - icelandic

    jovanotti - italian

    jorge ben - portugese/french?

    alot of african and middle eastern/indian music whose languages im unsure of

    theres something nice about not understanding lyrics... the vocals really become another instrument in the mix instead of getting caught up with following along
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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Yes, a few different languages:

    Sigur Ros - Icelandic/Hopelandic(?)

    but mostly Portuguese (brazillian). Artists like Os Mutantes, Marcio Local.

    I'll agree with Kilgore_Trout (great username by the way), it's a different experience to listen without understanding the lyrics.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • theboxerorthebagtheboxerorthebag Posts: 1,774
    Does Edspeak count?
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    Sigur Ros - isn't some of it made up?
    Edith Piaf - French
    Beausoleil - Creole/French
    Balkan Beat Box - not sure. i think it's a mix.
    A variety of African music/languages
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    sigur ros - icelandic/hopelandic
    Manu Chao - french/spanish/italian

    i am sure there is more in my collection as well :lol:
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    yes i do...
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  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    yup ...

    Cafe Tacuba - Spanish
    My girlfriend - French, Italian ... when she sings opera. :)
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  • pirlo21pirlo21 Posts: 534
    Welsh! - Super Furry Animals
    Cymru Am Byth

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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I listen to music from all over the world, maaaaaan.
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Soulfly and Sepultura - Brazilian Portuguese
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • False_BeliefFalse_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Welsh! - Super Furry Animals

    SFA OK!

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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Welsh! - Super Furry Animals

    The Super Furry Animals are great. However, I find that I have a hard time listening to the songs they do in welsh. Maybe it's the language isn't as melodic as others? Those songs are a lot more challenging.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • False_BeliefFalse_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    merkinball wrote:
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Welsh! - Super Furry Animals

    The Super Furry Animals are great. However, I find that I have a hard time listening to the songs they do in welsh. Maybe it's the language isn't as melodic as others? Those songs are a lot more challenging.

    I'm not sure that it's down to the Welsh language being less melodic. Could be, I guess. You might just be missing the 'singalong' factor that you normally take for granted when listening to songs in English?

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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    SM286627 wrote:
    merkinball wrote:
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Welsh! - Super Furry Animals

    The Super Furry Animals are great. However, I find that I have a hard time listening to the songs they do in welsh. Maybe it's the language isn't as melodic as others? Those songs are a lot more challenging.

    I'm not sure that it's down to the Welsh language being less melodic. Could be, I guess. You might just be missing the 'singalong' factor that you normally take for granted when listening to songs in English?

    Well, compared to the Brazillian artists I mentioned above (Marcio Local, Os Mutantes), I find those songs to be much easier to listen to. Good point in that mabye it's the song style though, the samba/bossa-nova 'fits' the language. Maybe it''s that I'm not used to rock songs in another language, listening in a structure that I'm used to but a language I'm not. Maybe it's just Gruff's voice, but I love to listen to him sing in english, his accent on english in songs is pretty cool and makes for interesting phrasing.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • greenmannygreenmanny Posts: 766
    "Avalancha" - Spanish
    (It's the song off of Guitar Hero III)
  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,456
    Camille - French
    ...and wow, I thought I had more than that in my library. I do have some other foreign bands but they're in that whole electronica realm and, with a rare exception, the songs don't have lyrics. And when they do, the lyrics are usually in English.
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  • pirlo21pirlo21 Posts: 534
    merkinball wrote:
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Welsh! - Super Furry Animals

    The Super Furry Animals are great. However, I find that I have a hard time listening to the songs they do in welsh. Maybe it's the language isn't as melodic as others? Those songs are a lot more challenging.

    As Welsh is my first language, I can assure you that SFA's Welsh songs are of the same high standard as their English ones!
    But, I know what you mean. I find it very difficult to enjoy music when I don't understand the language.

    My ex-girlfriend is Portuguese, and she was always trying to get me into Brazilian music. I could enjoy it up to a certain point & enjoy the feeling of the music, but them I just wanna know what the song is about!!! Quite frustrating.
    So I can definitely understand what you say about not feeling SFA's Welsh songs.
    It's a shame really, cause the Welsh language is much more poetic than English for example. Has many fewer words, and so you have to be a bit more clever in how you use them!

    Good see see some love for Gruff & the boys anyway. I'm off to see them play again in October. Be my 5 show. Quality band.
    Cymru Am Byth

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  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    tons of Irish music.

    and CSS.

    And im sure Eds mumbles on Riot Act could be classified as a new language...ZING!
  • craigbcraigb Posts: 806
    The Mars Volta has some stuff.

    Other than that, no.
    "Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"

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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    Sure. I dig some latin rock, cantina music, and assortment of other Spanish language music thanks to my wife. Traditional Irish music is great. Let's see, uh "Rock Me Amadeus" and "99 Luft Balloons" were Austria and Germany's great contributions to pop music, respectively. I can't think of anything else off hand. Maybe that French punk rock song from the movie European Vacation.
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,634
    Does Ozzy Osbourne count? :lol:
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Yes.
    Croatian.

    You?

    Yes. In fact, I often have to play music with foreign language vocals. French, German, Russian, Czech...

    Czech sounds awfully good and the words don't sound like you'd expect them to by looking at them.

    :mrgreen:
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    Tarja Turunen's solo project is in english/finnish.
  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,281
    i really dig modern cumbias
  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    As I love world music, I listen to music in lots of different languages. Lots of French amongst that.
  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,281
    indeed...an um if i can still DIG songs with lyrics that i cant understand, why are lyrics so important? what actual value do they really have?

    which also begs the question....how can a song without words be about something specific? weird.

    i get grooves
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Hi My name-a Borat, I listen to the Kazakhstani Disco Dance, very niiiice! 8-)
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  • WashMyLoveWashMyLove Posts: 804
    Ofcourse.
    Anything spanish....(Salsa, spanish Rock,vallenatos,merengue,regeaton etc..)
    Sarah Brightman when she sings in Italian,french,Latin.
    Laura Pausini (Italian & spanish)

    I guess if you let me hear any music in a different language I will listen. :)
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