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#1  Edited By TheGremp

Do you listen to any foreign language bands, or do you only listen to your main language?
  
I listen to Rammstein (German) and Maximum The Hormone (Japanese), but the rest of my music is in English.  I don't speak German or Japanese, so I don't have a clue what they're saying unless I look up a translation, yet the're still awesome to me. 
 The majority of my music is from Germany, but they sing/scream in English anyways, so I suppose they don't count.

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The lyrics of Rammstein are mostly would-be-shocking drivel, nothing to write home about. To answer the question, I like Banghra and Reggea/Dancehall, though the vast majority of the music I usually listen to is instrumental. I don't like vocals in general, especially not in my own language. I prefer English, it just sounds better.

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#3  Edited By WitchHunter_Z

Beyond some game music I have thats in Japanese I only own music in English; I don't have anything against music in other languages but I just haven't discovered any bands I'd listen to much in foreign languages yet.

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#4  Edited By and333

Yep DJ Krush baby! Also Nujabes, and Shing02

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#5  Edited By Canberra

Rachid Taha he sings in Algerian.  
Some others, french.

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#6  Edited By c1337us

A little Ramstein when the mood strikes but mostly no.

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#7  Edited By IchiroYagiza

Mostly English, but I also listen to Japanese music, mainly Maximum The Hormone and Versailles.
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#8  Edited By psyborg0815

I listen to japanese music and mostly to instrumental stuff lately, so it doesn't really matter.

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#9  Edited By Azteck

See now, this is where you went wrong. Giant Bomb is an international site, meaning not everyone speak English.
 For instance, I'm from Sweden but listen to almost only English music, meaning I listen to foreign music only.

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#10  Edited By armaan8014

Yeah...i listen to Rammstien too..

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#11  Edited By wefwefasdf

I used to listen to some music that I found in animes. But, if I couldn't find the meaning to the songs I didn't enjoy them as much.

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#12  Edited By oldschool
@armaan8014 said:

" Yeah...i listen to Rammstien too.. "

Add me to that. 
 
Sometimes foreign language music crosses over.  I remember the 70s with Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi.  The 80s, Nena - 99 Luft Balloons, Faco - Der Kommisar.  
 
Generally though, I don't go looking for it.
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#13  Edited By EdIsCool

Tinariwen ( Tamashek: ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ "empty places") is a band formed in 1982 of Tuareg people who had been conscripted into Muammar al-Gaddafi's army. They play in the Tishoumaren ("music of the unemployed") style, and sing mostly in the French and Tamashek languages.  
Mago De Oz, basque folk-metal band
Asian Kung Fu Generation 
Cajun Music 
Some Irish trad music even though thats not foreign just a language I dont speak
Kraftwerk the songs sound best in German.
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#14  Edited By droop

Well English is a foreign language too me, so yeah all the time. Rest is in Danish, but most is English.

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#15  Edited By babblinmule

I have a strange, secret fascination and love of Jpop.

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#16  Edited By JonathanMoore

Eh Ive listened to some Ayumi back in my day, but to be honest most of mine is English, wish I could listen to some Spanish Music though considering I'm learning the language. 
 
-- God Bless.

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#17  Edited By vilhelmnielsen

Well, being a dane, English is a foreign language to me, so yes.

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#18  Edited By Tiwi
@VilhelmNielsen said:
" Well, being a dane, English is a foreign language to me, so yes. "
add me to that only i'm norwegian and i listen to Black metal.
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#19  Edited By ieatlions

I listened to the mars volta and one of their middle albums has a distinct  latin flavour

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#20  Edited By TyphoonSwell

80% of my music is a different language..... O_o

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Im french so the english music I listen to is foreign....I listen to mostly french & english music, I listen to some norwegian metal but that's about it

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No, not really. I've always wanted to get into Rammstein but I've always been too lazy to get their music.

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#23  Edited By TheGremp
@Azteck said:
" See now, this is where you went wrong. Giant Bomb is an international site, meaning not everyone speak English.  For instance, I'm from Sweden but listen to almost only English music, meaning I listen to foreign music only. "
How did I go wrong there?  English music is foreign for you, thus the answer is yes...  It's universal.  I didn't ask "Do you listen to non-English music?", but rather to what isn't your primary language.  I know many people from other countries who speak english, yet almost exclusively listen to music of their own language.  So it's just as likely that someone would only listen to music in German, for example, as it is for someone to only listen to English.
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#24  Edited By C2C

I'd like to say around 75% of what I listen to is foreign.  The fact that not a lot of Drum and Bass comes from the US is why.  I also listen to songs in Spanish and in Japanese, though I don't know a lick of Japanese yet.  

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#25  Edited By KowalskiManDown

I listen to Sigur Ros (Icelandic) alot... their music is amazing.

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#26  Edited By mattysen

.............. 

  
 
No no theres alot more but I cant be botherd right now, I'l come back later
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#27  Edited By Disengage

   

  
Yes, some in Japanese, some Spanish, occasionally German.
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#28  Edited By and333
@babblinmule: Some Jpop is really good! Genki Rockets is awesome!
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#29  Edited By MeierTheRed

All the music i listen to is foreign, its all sung in English, and i´m neither American or British. But i also listen to German stuff. The bands i listen to thats from my country all sing in english too, its very rare for them to sing in their native tongue.

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#30  Edited By TheGremp

Hmm, it seems people are also counting foreign bands that don't speak a foreign language...  In that case, about 2/3 of my music is foreign. 
 
Arch Enemy, Caliban, Neaera, Blindside, 6th Awakening, Rammstein, Maximum The Hormone, Heaven Shall Burn, Amon Amarth... 
The only American bands I listen to are As I Lay Dying, August Burns Red, Dethklok, Nile and Unearth.

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#31  Edited By citizenkane

Not really, but sometimes I might be in the mood.

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#32  Edited By CptFishstick

I'm Dutch, and most of the music I listen to is, like everyone else,  English. Dutch is no language to be sung, it's just  a torture to listen to! 
Though most Dutch bands sing in English, the so called Nederpop (Dutch-pop / Music written by ) is awfully bad.  
 
Three examples of what Dutch people mostly listen to . . . . 
 
The first one is really, really bad. Although the video is embedded in this post, it doesn't mean you should listen to it. You are warned, your head may explode . . .
 
Jan Smit -  Boom Boom Bailando  
 

  
The second and third one, are actually quite good, musically. . . .
 
 
 
  
 
   
 
. . . . But that's just Robbie Williams shrunk to a compact 1.35m.
Of course we've got our Half Belgium / half canadian Milow. But he's quite the fag and doesn't count. Anyone with complexes as deep as that guy should be treated and not been given a guitar.
 
But I'm just glad to be Dutch. Just imagine being German and listening to this abomination of music every single day, it's called rock-schlager.  . . 
 
 
 
 Do you guys in America / Asia or Africa also have this kind of awful torture? 
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#33  Edited By Cerza

Yes I do. If I think it's good I'll listen to it. I don't care what language it's in.

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#34  Edited By Spiritof
  Absolutely!
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#35  Edited By iiNF3RNo

NO

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#36  Edited By angelkanarias

I hear american music 

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#37  Edited By Black_Rose

Most of my music is Jrock and pop and techinically since i'm not from the states all the music I listen to is foreign.

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#38  Edited By TheGremp
@CptFishstick said: 

Dude, I can dig it. 
 
Anyways, we have our own local abominations. 
 
  
  
 I know they're known in most places as well, but we have to be associated with them, and it makes me rather ashamed to be on the same continent.   
 
  
   
The Black Eyed Peas...  Such brilliant lyrics. 
 
"I'm so three thousand and eight, you so two thousand and late." "Them chickens jackin' my style" "Beat so big I'm steppin' on leprechauns." 
 
They also manage to have terrible vocals, even with a vocoder.  Fail.
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#39  Edited By Spiritof
  Absolutely x2! (even though these guys don't generally have any lyrics to make them a foreign band)
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#40  Edited By inkeiren

The Mars Volta, some of their songs have sections sung in Spanish. I also listen to just one song in French, but that really does not count.

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#41  Edited By gingertastic_10

I listen to just plain English music.

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#42  Edited By penguindust

Jpop.  The cuter and catchier, the better,

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#43  Edited By asurastrike

Yes.

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#44  Edited By Bruce
@TheGremp: 
 
Yes. Mostly French though.
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#45  Edited By CptFishstick

@TheGremp said

They also manage to have terrible vocals, even with a vocoder.  Fail. " 



That vocoder thing seems  to be very popular these days (BEP / Usher etc.). It's just awful. 
For the Black Eyed Peas . . .They should be ashamed! they had a good thing going but blew it for me after "Where is the love?". 

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#46  Edited By guiseppe

Considering that I'm swedish, pretty much all music I listen to is in a foreign language. But non-english-singing bands are... Pretty much just Rammstein.
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#47  Edited By ninjakiller
@TheGremp said:

" Do you listen to any foreign language bands, or do you only listen to your main language?  I listen to Rammstein (German) and Maximum The Hormone (Japanese), but the rest of my music is in English.  I don't speak German or Japanese, so I don't have a clue what they're saying unless I look up a translation, yet the're still awesome to me.  The majority of my music is from Germany, but they sing/scream in English anyways, so I suppose they don't count. "

Ruh?   Freaky...those are the foreign language bands I listen to.  That and Namie Amuro, she is so freaking hot.
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#49  Edited By Tordah

Yeah, not that many bands I listen to sing in Swedish or Finnish so most of the music I listen to is in a foreign language to me. Mostly English, but also a bunch of stuff in French (Alcest, Belenos, Mirrorthrone, etc) and Norwegian (Seigmen, Windir, Asmegin, etc).

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#50  Edited By Osaladin

I listen to some Arabic music, and I'll occasionally listen to Rammstein.