Do you listen to music in another language?

RebelHeart1981

I just watched Eros Ramazzoti live in Rome for like the 100th time. I love him:o..I barely understand a word he sings but I bought the DVD of this concert many years ago. He is brilliant.

I have a French Irish song on my pc that I love plus a few Spanish Irish songs. I just listen to a song and if I love the music then I love the song, it makes no difference to me if I don't understand the language.

I love Latina Music...everything about it appeals to me. Reggaeton. I love it. I love Enrique Iglesias when he sings in Spanish. One of Shakira's best albums was in Spanish. When Celine Dion sings 'Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore' live...especially when I saw her sing this song live.....I get very emotional.

Do you like to listen to music in another language. Some of it is so beautiful.

Music is so universal. I love it all. Do you?

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harry Bailey esq

RebelHeart1981 wrote: »

I just watched Eros Ramazzoti live in Rome for like the 100th time. I love him:o..I barely understand a word he sings but I bought the DVD of this concert many years ago. He is brilliant.

I have a French Irish song on my pc that I love plus a few Spanish Irish songs. I just listen to a song and if I love the music then I love the song, it makes no difference to me if I don't understand the language.

I love Latina Music...everything about it appeals to me. Reggaeton. I love it. I love Enrique Iglesias when he sings in Spanish. One of Shakira's best albums was in Spanish. When Celine Dion sings 'Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore' live...especially when I saw her sing this song live.....I get very emotional.

Do you like to listen to music in another language. Some of it is so beautiful.

Music is so universal. I love it all. Do you?

And acquaintance of mine fronts a long running Dublin based punk band called paranoid visions, he alsol was involved in a German outfit called striknein and despite me not having a word of German I loved it.
Still belting out the tunes as paranoid visions. Deco Dachau his name is,Eva Destruction and Steve Ignorant are his sometimes bandmates.

RebelHeart1981

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lol thanks, Some of it is so lovely though :-)

RebelHeart1981

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

And acquaintance of mine fronts a long running Dublin based punk band called paranoid visions, he alsol was involved in a German outfit called striknein and despite me not having a word of German I loved it.
Still belting out the tunes as paranoid visions. Deco Dachau his name is,Eva Destruction and Steve Ignorant are his sometimes bandmates.

I will have a listen if he is on Youtube. I have enjoyed the odd German Rap Tune in my time. I like to listen to anything new so I will Google him. Thanks harry:-)

Harry Angstrom

Yes, I listen to Beethoven in German.

harry Bailey esq

RebelHeart1981 wrote: »

I will have a listen if he is on Youtube. I have enjoyed the odd German Rap Tune in my time. I like to listen to anything new so I will Google him. Thanks harry:-)

Deco was the legendary figure that made the Chinaman a legendary Dublin pub. Unfortunately I wasn't of drinking age when Deco and the visions were drawing in the crowds, even if I was old enough to be drinking in pubs it was on the wrong side of the river,and I wouldn't have any business being there.

Grayditch

Rammstein.


And Cocteau Twins. They're Scottish and she sings in English but... Come on.

Robsweezie

Despacito

Junkyard Tom

Yes but I don't understand bubonics which is the vernacular of the rapper people

Arghus

Rammstein.

Seeing them in at the O2 back in Febuary 2012 was probably the best concert I was ever at. What a fcking show.

They packed it out and the atmosphere was electric; they blew people away - literally. I'd say 90% of the audience couldn't understand a word.

harry Bailey esq

Arghus wrote: »

Rammstein.

Seeing them in at the O2 back in Febuary 2012 was probably the best concert I was ever at. What a fcking show.

They packed it out and the atmosphere was electric; they blew people away - literally. I'd say 90% of the audience couldn't understand a word.

I provided a few security guards for that gig, it was mostly Polish people went to see them

gramar

RebelHeart1981 wrote: »

I love Latina Music...everything about it appeals to me. Reggaeton. I love it. I love Enrique Iglesias when he sings in Spanish. One of Shakira's best albums was in Spanish. When Celine Dion sings 'Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore' live...especially when I saw her sing this song live.....I get very emotional.

Do you like to listen to music in another language. Some of it is so beautiful.

Music is so universal. I love it all. Do you?

Celine Dion could be forgiven but reggaeton? The worst 'music' of all time.

Irish Guitarist

HalloweenJack

I regulalry listen to bands like Ska-P, Rammstein, Os Mutantes, Racionais MC.

I don't tend to listen to music in languages I have no idea about, though.

Bits of Air

Manach

Offhand: Sabaton, though most of their albums are in English, as well as E Nomine and of course Rammstein.

fixXxer

Arghus wrote: »

Rammstein.

Seeing them in at the O2 back in Febuary 2012 was probably the best concert I was ever at. What a fcking show.

They packed it out and the atmosphere was electric; they blew people away - literally. I'd say 90% of the audience couldn't understand a word.

Quoting this for truth. The songs on their own are so good they smash your skull, but that stage show took it to a whole other level.

Lorelli!

No i don't really listen to it. One of my favourite songs is La Bamba though. I read/heard that Mick Jagger was influenced by that song and he did do a version of it before The Rolling Stones were formed.

Maybe considered cheesy but I like these French songs, Lambada by Kaoma, Joe Le Taxi by Vanessa Paradise and a song called Voyage Voyage by Desireless

bnt

I've listened to Beethoven in the original German, does that count?

Conor Bourke

I've a huge soft spot for French pop music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZLDQ

loudymacloud

Sigur Ros sing primarily in Icelandic. Listen to them a lot and have not one iota what they are saying.

Super Furry Animals have a good few songs in their native Welsh.

as has already been mentioned a number of times in this thread, cant knock a bit of Rammstein in German.

El Tarangu

I live in Belgium, and as such quite enjoy the music of Stromae

GLaDOS

Rammstein (German), Sigur Ros (Icelandic) and Alcest (French). Few other once off songs as well on my phone in a few different languages.

Vocals can just be another instrument in certain styles of music so understanding the lyrics isn't necessary.

cherryghost

Kpop is where its at.

marketty

Artistes like Fainne Lasta, Raithneach, Amhann na Ngealach, Clannad. You like them artistes? Their music? Of course you do.

Mr. CooL ICE

This thread reminded me that I haven't listened to Buena Vista Social Club in years. They're fantastic

Ubbquittious

I switched on German radio the other day and was surprised how much of the lyrics I understood. Usually songs are harder to decipher than spoken language

murpho999

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I switched on German radio the other day and was surprised how much of the lyrics I understood. Usually songs are harder to decipher than spoken language

Are you sure the songs weren't in English!

My wife is Dutch and sometimes puts Guus Meeuwis on, and it has to be some of the worst dirge I have every heard.

Dutch pop music is awful though mostly made of power ballads.

Not many - but I regularly listen to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan when I can.

5rtytry56

Japanese speedcore like DJ Sharpnel
https://youtu.be/fP2x0nyYSy8

kenmc

Die Toten Hosen, Die Artze, Absturzende Brieftauben, Manu Chao although he sings in English as well as Spanish/French.

Don't understand any of the French/Spanish, can understand a bit of the German, but overall the music is pleasing to my ears regardless

rojito

Soda Stereo, absolutely huge all over Latin America and a genuinely brilliant band. Their three album run from Signos through to Cancion Animal is up there with just about anything, anywhere.

Zaph

gramar wrote: »

Celine Dion could be forgiven

No. Just no.

wakka12

If I like the song I dont care what language its in. If I ever go on holidays to France or Spain I usually hear good songs on the radio. Stromae is the only foreign language singer I can think of right now who's music I like overall, rather than just a once off song

Atoms for Peace

French rap is the illest .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKFqbyDR6M4

branie2

A bit of opera

goose2005

really like this French pop song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja3oDIYNPkU

9or10

Ever since this

and of course

brainfreeze

Grayditch wrote: »

Rammstein.


And Cocteau Twins. They're Scottish and she sings in English but... Come on.

In fairness to you, Elizabeth Fraser often deliberately sings gibberish. So it certainly counts.


From Wikipedia:

Her lyrics range from straightforward English to semi-comprehensible sentences (glossolalia) and abstract mouth music. For some recordings, she has said she used foreign words without knowing what they meant – the words acquired meaning for her only as she sang them.

Sue Pa Key Pa

Robsweezie wrote: »

Despacito

Is that not cold soup?????

How Soon Is Now

Have to listen to a bit of South American type music in work at times. What a load of ****e.

Shenshen

Well, I am German and listen to music in English, if that counts?
I'd also have a few French musicians/bands, like Emelie Simon and Les Negresses Vertes.
Some Spanish, like Manu Chao, too.

I don't really mind what language they're signing in, as long as it sounds ok.

Lorelli!

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Have to listen to a bit of South American type music in work at times. What a load of ****e.

Ye, I have some South American in laws and I've been to two weddings where they played that for most of the night I quite like the dancing but the music was like some sort of standard music made for walking around a shop or something.

Conor Bourke

This is a cracking tube but the video is the real star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ZX7G3zKCM

sbsquarepants

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

Is that not cold soup?????

It's stone cold shíte is what it is!

Mint Sauce

Rammstein and Christine and The Queens. I know a few of her albums/songs have been released in English here, but the original French versions are pretty good too.

Nien und Nienzien Luff Balloons is also a worthy mention as well.

whisky_galore

Bit of Italian cheese...

branie2

I have the original French Concept album of Les Miserables

fg1406

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

I provided a few security guards for that gig, it was mostly Polish people went to see them

I was there as were lots of my friends. Didn't meet any of our Polski friends but then again there were 1000s of people there.

I also listen to music in French, Latin, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian and Russian. Good music is good music, regardless of what language it is in.

pickarooney

gramar wrote: »

Celine Dion could be forgiven but reggaeton? The worst 'music' of all time.

Jasis,if you had just one metaphorical bullet...