Do you like music with other languages?

[Dude111]

I love these 2 songs from Iraq!

32k: http://web.archive.org/web/200605271..._agla-alnas.rm

32K: http://web.archive.org/web/200410182...7bib-alroo7.rm


And this arabic song


32K: http://web.archive.org/web/201207251...0El%207ayah.rm


Boy hearing these IN ANALOGUE would be awesome I think!! (Although hearing them 32k REAL is amazing also though)


Music is not really about WORDS,its about the FEELING it creates

[MickeyMac]

I like it

[JamesG]

One of my favorite bands is Rammstein.

My mom was over fairly recently and I had this song blasting on my comp. She told me, "I don't know what you're listening to... but I like it."







I also like Dulce Pontes' cover of 'Canção do Mar'.

It was used for the closing credits of Primal Fear.

[UMFaninMD]

Several years ago a 70's song, "I Wanna Love You Tender" by Finnish duo Armi & Danny became extremely popular on YouTube because of the cheesy video and heavily accented vocals sung in English. There were tons of parodies of it. Someone uploaded a live version on YouTube (no longer available) where they sing it in Finnish. It sounded so much better and less cheesy in their native language.

I also prefer the Swedish version of "Now You're Gone" (Boten Anna) by Basshunter:



And here's a French cover of Toto's "Georgy Porgy":

[Dude111]

Nice ones everybody!

Muchos Gracious

[MrCleveland]

Oh yes...

I found two songs from Goodfellas that are Italian...




I'd like to make a couple of Italian songs one day...I have a Fan Fiction Band called The Deep Red Band in which Tom Cat (One of the session musicians) sings the Italian songs...just like a song in this T&J cartoon....

[ABlairican Pie]

In 1981, I was sent some cassettes by my pen pal in Finland. She sent two of them which had many songs of a new wave variety which were sung in Finnish. I found them very interesting, as I had begun to attempt to learn the Finnish language. I'm STILL learning!

[Mace Dolex]

When it comes to pop songs 1-hit wonders I don't mind them at all like:

Psy (Gangnam Style)
O-Zone (Numa Numa)

[Edward216]

Sometimes yes and sometimes no, it depends. One example of a song I like in a foreign language is the 80s pop hit 99 Luftballoons by the German band Nena, named after the female lead singer. And of course it's in German, I think it's the only all German song to become an American top 40 pop hit. They did release a version in English, but I don't know it just lost something in that version for me, but it was interesting to finally understand the whole song. But I still prefer the German language version.

Ed.

[UMFaninMD]

Originally Posted by Edward216

Sometimes yes and sometimes no, it depends. One example of a song I like in a foreign language is the 80s pop hit 99 Luftballoons by the German band Nena, named after the female lead singer. And of course it's in German, I think it's the only all German song to become an American top 40 pop hit. They did release a version in English, but I don't know it just lost something in that version for me, but it was interesting to finally understand the whole song. But I still prefer the German language version.

Ed.

I like the German version too.

Kyu Sakamoto recorded I Will Walk Looking Up, better known as Sukiyaki in the 60's. A Taste of Honey redid it with different lyrics in English in the 80's but the Japanese version is much better:




And Enya's version of Silent Night, sung in Gaelic:

[Edward216]

Thanks UMFaninMD. It's interesting because one of my brother's mother-in-law is full German. She was born and raised in Germany, and her husband was in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in Germany in the late 50s and that's how they met, and they fell in love and married and moved back to America where she's lived ever since, she used to get back to Germany in the summer for visits but not anymore. She speaks perfectly good English but her German is still just as good so she would've been able to understand the song in German anways. LOL.

Another one I like is Un Dia Sin Ti (Spanish for One Day Without You). It's the Spanish version of Roxette's hit song Spending My Time. Roxette some time in the mid 90s released an all Spanish cd (for reasons I still don't really understand) with several of their hit songs in Spanish. i'm a big fan of theirs. But I just think it's kind of strange that a Swedish pop duo who records all their albums in English decided to release several of their hits in Spanish. Maybe it was only meant for Spanish speaking countries but I know it's been released in English speaking countries too. Oh well.

Ed.

[Penny Lane]

I like Mexican music. Even if sung in Spanish

[UMFaninMD]

Edward216, my late grandmother was German. She was born and raised in Manheim before she moved to the US in the 40's. She met the man who became my grandfather in Texas and they married in 1952. She spoke perfect English and pretty much stopped speaking German but her accent never left. I think when the song came out I asked her to translate it for me.

[Edward216]

That's the same with my brother's mother-n-law, she still has the German accent. But I really don't know where in Germany she's from originally. I'll have to ask some time.

Ed.

[Ohio8]

No.