Foreign Music

[RavingPenguin]

In spite of my recent failures in trying to spawn discussions, Ive decided to give it another go.
Ive seen a few threads dedicated to music. Most of them pertaining to rock or metal or the like.
Ive decided to move in a different direction, foreign music. Do you like to listen to it? If you do, why? What languages do you enjoy the most, and what genres? Or do you listen to foreign music at all?
I love to listen to foreign music, especially J-rock and J-pop. Yes, I know, its weird. Dont give me crap about it. I also have quite a bit of French and German rap, along with alot of German Rock. I do listen to some hispanic rock, but not a whole lot. I like music in differnt languages, its almost like the music moves more fluidly. Even though I dont understand the lyrics, I can still get a feel for the emotions being expressed.
So, why or why dont you listen to music in different languages?

EDIT: alright, sorry for the misunderstanding, I guess I forgot Im on the internet. I meant music in different languages.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

My sister listens to a lot of Reggaeton.

 

[sheic99]

Yes, I listen to Crass, Sex Pistols and The Exploited.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Rammstein, and thats about it. Unless you count american music.

 

[pigeon_of_doom]

Do you mean only foreign language music? Otherwise this thread has a very broad topic. And the "music you like from anywhere from the world except the small corner you occupy" topic is wide enough as it is. I could just list my favourite non English musicians if thats the case.

I know you're trying to move discussion away from metal, but I love Mago De Oz. Crazy catchy spanish metal with violins. Probably the only metal band I do like.

Also, Sigur Ros are incredible. Although they mostly don't sing in their native tongue, or any human language for that matter. They may as well be singing elvish or playing back recordings of a whales mating call for all the relevance this has to this topic.

Ska-P is another energetic spanish band I listen to (guess the genre). Intentionally corny at times, but catchy enough to make you want to croon along with killer brass sections.

I used to like the Polysics quite a lot but I accidentally fell asleep listening to their brand of hyper electro J-pop. Haven't been able to bring myself to listen to them since.

Mono are great but they don't actually sing in Japanese, or at all. They just concentrate on post-rocking out with static and repetitive guitar work.

Air for the best music to chill out to. No-one makes music better to listen to while relaxing with a glass of wine than the french.

 

[Caimekaze]

Well, technically, nearly all the music I listen to is foreign, Australia not having a very large music scene. But I do also listen to a lot of foreign techno, especially European; They do it better.

 

[prinxess]

I don't mind other songs in english. But I'm afraid I laugh at other languages, I cant help it.

 

[pigeon_of_doom]

I don't mind other songs in english. But I'm afraid I laugh at other languages, I cant help it.

¿Que?

(This may also make Fawlty Towers fans laugh at the Manuel reference)

 

[Arrers]

Well, being british, american music is foreign to me. So yes I listen to a fair amount of foreign music.

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

A friend lent me a Ravi Shankar CD which amused me for a while as somewhat trippy background music. I listen to game OSTs a lot, and they're mostly from Japan.

And of course, American music is technically foreign to us Brits.

 

[Lukeje]

Does opera count? 'Cos I just got hold of an amazing version of La Traviata that I can't stop listening to.

 

[Vlane]

I only listen to foreign music. Austria isn't a good country to live in when you want music stars.

 

[Gooble]

I'm not sure I'd ever enjoy listening to music that's sung in another language, but that doesn't stop me from liking certain foreign bands. The only ones I can think of though are CSS (Brazilian), Jakobinarina (Iceland) and The Hives (Sweden). And I'm not counting other predominantly English speaking countries, otherwise there'd be loads.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Ska-P is another energetic spanish band I listen to (guess the genre). Intentionally corny at times, but catchy enough to make you want to croon along with killer brass sections.

Could it be SKA!?

 

[orangebandguy]

A lot of people like Vladivostok radio on GTA IV including me.

 

[SharPhoe]

You're not alone, trust me. If I'm not listening to music from a video game soundtrack (which is 50% of the time), I'm listening to music from anime or J-Rock/J-Pop in general (which is 40% of the time). The other 10% is what people would call "normal" music.

 

[Baneat]

classical without words doesn't count, does it?

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

Bad Balance, Kaliber 44, Detzl. Love a bit of eastern european hip hop.

Also the Japanese are better at weird experimental music than just about anyone else (Melt Bannana, BORIS, etc). Ditto the Germans in the early 70s (Can, Amon Duul, Etc).

 

[Labyrinth]

Also, Sigur Ros are incredible. Although they mostly don't sing in their native tongue, or any human language for that matter. They may as well be singing elvish or playing back recordings of a whales mating call for all the relevance this has to this topic.

Their concerts are amazing too. Never have I seen more people crying than when Sigur Ros played All Alright as their second encore.

I see the voice as an instrument. Sometimes it'll play something I understand, other times not. If it sounds good to me I'll like it either way. Hell, much of black metal is unintelligible so that could be in another language. The same goes for Sigur Ros, Rammstein and anything really.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Well, technically, nearly all the music I listen to is foreign, Australia not having a very large music scene.

I do hope you are joking.