Non english music- Can you dig it?

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#1  Edited By VictorK

Today most of us listen to music with english spoken lyrics, no matter what country you are from, or what language you originally speak. 
I thought i would be fun too see what people from other countries think of example music with swedish spoken lyrics. 
 
Is it that important to totally understand what the song is about ,
or can we just like the music cause it´s good in it´s own right?
 
I´ll start with posting a song from a swedish band called bob hund. They have been around for about 20 years. This song and video is from 1996.  
It would be fun to hear what people, who do not speak swedish, think about the music. Is this a band you could listen to even if you do not
understand what he sings?
 
Please,  post music from your country in your native language! It would be nice to see if i´ll like it.
 
 
  

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#2  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

I enjoy music with foreign lyrics. I'm never super focused on the lyrics in a song, anyway. It's more about the melody for me. 
 
I absolutely love the original German version of 99 Red Balloons. 
  

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#3  Edited By Video_Game_King

Might as well give Hyadain a shout-out:
 
  

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#4  Edited By The_Laughing_Man
@MattyFTM said:
" I enjoy music with foreign lyrics. I'm never super focused on the lyrics in a song, anyway. It's more about the melody for me. "
Ozone? 
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#5  Edited By SpacePenguin

Ye, i listen to alot off music that isnt in english, if the song sounds good, i dont really care what language its in  :) 
(mostly japanese music)

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#6  Edited By RE_Player1

I listen to a lot of Japanese music. 

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#7  Edited By AlexW00d
@RE_Player92 said:
" I listen to a lot of Japanese music.  "
Envy, naww'm'sayin'?
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#8  Edited By JoyfullOFrockets
@RE_Player92 said:
" I listen to a lot of Japanese music.  "
Yup. Fuck the haters.
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#9  Edited By Contro

Is it that important to totally understand what the song is about 


 
Not at all, after all there are many people around the world that listen to all genres of music, despite not understanding language it's sung in. You can still find pleasure within all music if your able to ascertain the emotions conveyed, not just in the vocal tones, but also elsewhere in composition.
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#10  Edited By Lemmycaution217
I listen to many songs that are not in English. Basically if it sounds good to me I will listen to it. Plus some languages just sound awesome. 
 
@RE_Player92: What Japanese bands do you listen to?  I used to listen to a lot of Japanese ska and punk, which is pretty great.

@AlexW00d:  Envy is pretty awesome.
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#11  Edited By EvilTwin

I can enjoy music in languages I don't understand, sure.  I don't hear a lot of it, nor do I seek it out that much, though.

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#12  Edited By frankxiv

i listen to a ton of korean music. i don't care about the language the song is in, i don't even care if they use language at all
  

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#13  Edited By valrog

I don't have to understand it to enjoy it.

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#14  Edited By Mooqi
@valrog: Not understanding the lyrics actually makes a lot of songs much better. I bet I would like a bunch of songs that I dislike for their pseudo-intelligent political hippie lyrics if I didn't know what they are about.
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#15  Edited By VictorK

So what do you think of the song i posted? Is the music enjoyable?

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#16  Edited By npeterson08

I know a LOT of people who only like music they can sing along with. To each their own, I guess. But it would be pretty difficult to sing along to a song which is in a language which you can't understand. Numa Numa is one song which I can think of which rose above its language and became popular across the globe.

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Yeah, I don't care what language the music I listen to is in. Most of the time I prefer foreign songs.
 
Anyways here's a band from my city:

 
Probably wont be so exotic to you, since it's in Swedish :P
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#18  Edited By djstyles92

Yup i listen to Japanese music a bunch. 

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#19  Edited By Aus_azn

I pretty much only listen to Japanese and Korean music at this point. The only English-language bands I have respect for nowadays are Muse and Snow Patrol.
 
Japanese-wise, I'm listening to Do As Infinity, Younha, Hirai Ken and a couple of anime soundtracks/songs by seiyuu right now. 
On the Korean front, I've only been able to get into 2AM and CN BLUE.

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#20  Edited By AhmadMetallic

my tongue is arabic and i also speak hebrew. i despise music in both languages 
 
English has the greatest music by FAR, and i dont mind me some European metal (finnish, swedish, german, etc..)

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#21  Edited By Yummylee

Hell yes I do! The Eastern European/Russian radio-station in GTAIV was one of my favourites.

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#22  Edited By scarace360

Yes i can dig it.

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#23  Edited By NoCookiesForYou

Yeah i like listening to bands that have foreign vocals. I know some good Japanese and German bands, i have no idea what they are singing about, but they sound good.
 
@VictorK:  Have to be honest here, didn't really care for that song. Overall sound is just too goofy for my taste, nothing to do with it being Swedish.

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#24  Edited By cookiemonster

Lyrics are a big thing for me, but I can enjoy music even if the lyrics are in another language.  Also, I quite liked that Bob Hund song.

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#25  Edited By theveej

 I like some foreign music.... as long as it sounds good.  
 
I really like Dub Incorporation , good reggae/ rap , plus they use like 3-4 different languages in their songs.
   

  
     

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#26  Edited By Animasta

Sigur Ros, Boris, Drudkh, that Amesoeurs album was pretty cool. love foreign language musik

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#27  Edited By DAFTPUNK

does screamo count?

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#28  Edited By BulletproofMonk

As long as the music is good, it doesn't matter where it's from. Lyrics aren't that important to me anyway.

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#29  Edited By Yummylee
@scarace360 said:
" Yes i can dig it. "
  
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I prefer understanding what is said.
 
Outside of dance/club music that is.

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#32  Edited By Nekroskop

Norwegian is used as much as English by bands here, it seems, so I listen to both.  
Some have even achieved international success using Norwegian: 
   

  
  
  
If it would have to be a band who uses a language I don't understand, it would have to be these guys: 
 
  
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#34  Edited By Grillbar
@VictorK:  
i kinda understand it but that cuz im danish but still the accent makes the hole swedish even more hard to understand. 
i would proberly have put up  dansa efter min pipa with bob hund, but that song is allso great in a weird way
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#35  Edited By FancySoapsMan
@AlexW00d said:
" @RE_Player92 said:
" I listen to a lot of Japanese music.  "
Envy, naww'm'sayin'? "
Fuck yeah Envy's awesome
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#36  Edited By cnlmullen

I'm American, but I love Caetano Veloso, and a lot of other Brazilian music, especially from the 40s-80s

 
 

 
Also, Sigur Ros was one of my favorite bands. 
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#37  Edited By Aronman789
@TheSeductiveMoose:  MOVITS! is awesome. 
  
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#38  Edited By Sarkhan

I love music with foreign lyrics and or text:) As Japan is under insane amount of preasure now. I will give my fav japanese song :) 
 
  
  She is so beautiful<3 love the gal:)
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#40  Edited By PixelPrinny

I love music regardless of which language the vocals are. In fact, not knowing what they're saying is often a good thing as bad lyrics I can't understand won't prevent me from listening to a catchy song. 
 
Since everyone else is doing it, my turn to link a song! 
 
  

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#41  Edited By NegativeCero

I used to listen to a lot of Japanese music and Spanish music in different genres but kind of got over both. Couldn't really give an informed recommendation though. 

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#42  Edited By sjschmidt93

I like Japanese music. (i don't speak japanese)

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#43  Edited By chan05
@MattyFTM: I didn't expect people to like Nena. In germany this song is kind of a all time classic.everybody likes it.nice to see that even non-germans enjoy it :). I heard that a song many people outside of germany  like is Falco - Egoist, i really love that song:  
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#44  Edited By Example1013

I listen to Mozart. His music is Austrian. Does that count?

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The only non-english music I listen to is Rammstein, and I love their work. I forget it's in German sometimes.

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#46  Edited By Ihmishylje

Lyrics tend to be important to me, so mostly I listen to music that's sung in either English or Finnish. If there are any lyrics, that is.

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#47  Edited By Lemoncookie01

just SNSD

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#48  Edited By neozeke

Heck yes, this is mah jam dawg.  
 
  

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@JoyfullOFrockets said:
" @RE_Player92 said:
" I listen to a lot of Japanese music.  "
Yup. Fuck the haters. "
i grew up listening to a bit of japanese music so it's gotten annoying for me...