Do you listen to music with lyrics in other languages?

[Lenny Magic]

If so do you understand it?

I must admit that my Itunes library has almost as much English language in it as the Oxford Dictionary. Though there are one or two exceptions. Such as Tool's Die Eier von Satan, which I'm told is a cookie recipe (Though my German is not really good enough to confirm that. Anyway the idea of it makes me chuckle). Still a Christian friend of mine won't listen to it, for fear it is actually some kind of devil music. Which is a pity cause it is actually pretty descent Industrial Rock, and was funnily enough the first Tool song I heard.

 

[RavingPenguin]

Oh you came so close to having me go search bar nazi on you since a foreign music thread was done yesterday. Yours has a varient however so I'll let it slide.

OT: I listen to alot of Jpop, Jrock, and German Industrial.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

...
English?

Some Rammstein and a couple Hungarian bands.

 

[hotacidbath]

Translation of Die Eier von Satan (that I got from a lyrics site so it could have mistakes).

Spoiler

The Eggs/Balls of Satan

Half a cup of powdered sugar
One quarter teaspoo salt
One knifetip Turkish hash
Half a pound butter
One teaspoon vanilla-sugar
Half a pound flour
150 g ground nuts
A little extra powdered sugar
... and no eggs

Place in a bowl
Add butter
Add the ground nuts and
Knead the dough


Form eyeball-size pieces from the dough
Roll in the powdered sugar
and say the Magic Words:
"Sim sala bim bamba sala do saladim"

Place on a greased baking pan and
Bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes
...AND NO EGGS

Bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes
...and no eggs.

I have some Spanish songs on my iTunes, but I understand the majority of them. I'm sure there are a few other songs in other languages in there, but I can't think of any right now.

 

[ae86gamer]

I do. I listen to some Japanese and Spanish music, but since I'm half Japanese and half Mexican I understand most of it.

 

[axia777]

Rammstein is about all that I can think of right now.

EDIT: Hocico, they are from Mexico and sing in Spanish sometimes.

 

[Avaholic03]

I'll listen to some foreign language music. I don't think it matters that I can't understand it, since even some songs in English are incomprehensible.

 

[Sassafrass]

I listen to Aqua Timez, who are a j-pop band and all the songs I listen to are in Japanese. If it was in English, I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much. Oh, I also don't understand it.

 

[TimeLord]

Pretty much just Rammstein. Some Japenese music but only if it has a good beat.

 

[Subzerowings]

Sure, I listen to some Rammstein, and the more obscure DBSK or Super Junior.
I also tend to like French music, probably because I'm Belgian.

 

[Kiutu]

Some, but thats cause Japanese are obsessed with random english bits in their music. I dont like Rammstein though, they seem like pricks to me, plus I just dont really like them musically.

 

[Proteus214]

There are a bunch of songs that aren't in English on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack that are quite enjoyable. I'm pretty sure the translations for all of them are readily available.

 

[Ph33nix]

yeah all the time

 

[cthulhu257]

I'm kind of fond of some Russian music [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6bPvsFUKms&feature=channel_page], but that's it.

 

[McNinja]

I like Equilibrium, a german falk metal band. I can't understand them at all, but I'm taking german in college so one day I will.

 

[electric_warrior]

i listen to a bit of Can and Kraftwerk, but not that much. only thing other than them is La Bamba by Richie Valens

 

[historybuff]

Yeah, I've got German, Japanese, Arabic and French music.

I like it. It's cool.

 

[Monocle Man]

The only one that comes to mind is Korpiklaani, I believe they're Finnish. They have some English songs, though.

No idea what they mean in the Finnish songs. I'm guessing most are about booze.
But hey, it's Folk Metal, the words aren't too important.