Foreign Music that ROCKS

[DanielDeFig]

Foreign? (According to who?) Or non-English?

Most of my music is in English, but I still listen to some music in Swedish, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (not sure if it's Mandarin or Cantonese, even if it's just one artist). Neither I nor any of these artist are from the US (Which is what I'm assuming you're referring to), but many of the English songs have artists from outside the US as well, including Canada, UK, and Sweden.

Sorry for being picky, but I'm sure I'm not the only non-US (Or wherever you're from. Apologies for making assumptions) person on this site, who still thinks it's annoying when some people assume we all have the same background.


If I had to pick an awesome non-English song, it's this one:

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(Can't figure out how to embed youtube videos, and 30 min of googling didn't help either. That HTML code eithr works, but refuses to show in the preview of my post. Or it doesn't, in which cas you can just use this link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhv_UB-8Lw4)

 

[brunothepig]

I'm an Australian, and I'm a Metalhead. Damn near every band I listen to is foreign...
I'll just post this, because Korpiklaani happens to be what I'm listening to, and it's so awesome and happy.

 

[ChocoFace]

Asian Kung Fu Generation. They have such an awesome raw sound.

Shoe. They released only one album and broke up. Sadface.

I should also clarify that as i live in Estonia, 99.9% of the world's bands are foreign bands to me. So yeah, i was only going by what hasn't probably been mentioned yet.

 

[AgentNein]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM80O4zTogQ

Gogol Bordello. Intro's a bit quiet.

Except that Gogol Bordello is an American band.

I was going to point out that Gogol are from NYC but I wasn't sure where the poster is from (could be foreign to him?).

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Only Bangla song I consistently keep coming back to.

 

[Naeo]

I'm an American, for reference/record.

And I just fucking love the hell out of Mogwai (Scotland), Sigur Ros (Iceland), Rammstein (Germany), Ahab (Also Germany), Boris (Japan), Aria (Russia), Kipelov (also Russia), Alcest (France), Thergothon (Finland) and Tenhi (also Finland).

Captcha: similar, wouticel

 

[Joos]

Some Swedish stuff that I really like.

Spoiler: Kent - Dom Andra (The Others)

Spoiler: Kent - Kärleken Väntar (Love Awaits) (contains some nudity and themes, so don't click if you are easily offended.

Spoiler: Nåid - Blåstjärnan (the Blue Star) The recording is very poor quality of this youtube clip, but I still think its awesome. Surreal, trance-inducing.

Spoiler: Mustasch - Forever Begins Today Still classed as foreign music? I don't care, its groovy, it rocks and its from Sweden. Win!

Spoiler: Gustaf Grefberg - Drone Mile Part of the Riddick game Assault on Dark Athena. I enjoyed the game a lot, but the music score really improved the experience for me, and the game would have been less without it.

Spoiler: No Swedish music list is complete without at least a nod to the Swedish Chef.

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

This guys is pretty awesome, used to be Dream Theater's piano technician.


Also, dat mandolin solo.

 

[berettastorm88]

while looking at this thread my brother told me to look up a song and its now in my heart and head forever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3S4dBk4E1g

 

[Joos]

Foreign? (According to who?) Or non-English?

(Can't figure out how to embed youtube videos, and 30 min of googling didn't help either. That HTML code eithr works, but refuses to show in the preview of my post. Or it doesn't, in which cas you can just use this link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhv_UB-8Lw4)

Easy mate. Type youtube=videocode, where videocode is replaced by the youtube ref code, and put it all in brackets. So, for this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88ZLp3Sx9k

You type in [ youtube=B88ZLp3Sx9k]

Easy!

 

[J3llo]

Firstly, the premise of this topic is absurd. We are on the bloody internet. The most famous contributor to this site is Australian. One of the most popular groups of people are Canadian. A great wad of the user base is anything but American. Shape up or ship out.

Secondly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM80O4zTogQ

Gogol Bordello. Intro's a bit quiet.

Except that Gogol Bordello is an American band.

Thirdly:

Behold the Swedish awesomeness that is Graveyard, you ethnocentric bastards:

L0L i live in Hissingen!

 

[Puzzlenaut]

My unequivocal favourite foreign song. Its just perfect.

Nena rocks

 

[Skylants]

He's Canadian ^_^

 

[Frenger]

Sigur Ros ftw.

 

[Mr C]

The Smashing Pumpkins are my favourite foreign band, their best album in my opinion is Siamese Dream.

 

[imperialreign]

Just to get started, as the vast majority of music I listen to anymore is all from Europe . . . some bands to defi check out:

 

[Voodoomancer]

I live in Iceland, About everything I listen to is foreign music to me.

 

[DanielDeFig]

Foreign? (According to who?) Or non-English?

(Can't figure out how to embed youtube videos, and 30 min of googling didn't help either. That HTML code eithr works, but refuses to show in the preview of my post. Or it doesn't, in which cas you can just use this link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhv_UB-8Lw4)

Easy mate. Type youtube=videocode, where videocode is replaced by the youtube ref code, and put it all in brackets. So, for this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88ZLp3Sx9k

You type in [ youtube=B88ZLp3Sx9k]

Easy!

Thnx alot! X)!

Tries it:

<youtube=hhv_UB-8Lw4>

Yay! It works! (Will remember this) Thnx again!