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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:19 PM
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Do you listen to bands that don't sing in English?
Even if you don't understand most of what they're saying, do you listen to any bands on a regular basis that don't sing in English? My two personal favorites are Die Aerzte and Puffy Ami Yumi.
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:22 PM
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1. great thread
just because I would like to hear some good recommendations!

I have been listening to Shakira since 1998. And I am not a Spanish-speaker.
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:25 PM
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2. Well, start with the two I mentioned...
Die Aerzte has been doing pop-punk long before anybody called it that. They're not afraid to jump between genres. Puffy Ami Yumi...well, I don't even know how to describe them. Pop, kind of, but not exactly. It's fun to listen to them and try to figure out which legendary pop songs they're blatantly ripping off. :)
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:29 PM
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3. Mercedes Sosa
Gracias a la Vida is just enchanting.
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:34 PM
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4. Yes, but I'm bilingual
and listen to a lot of music in Spanish. I don't think that was what the OP had in mind.

I like world music, so I have listened to a lot of music in languages I don't speak. I would say mainly bossanova sung in Portugese. Also bhangra rap sung in Punjabi or Hindi.
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:35 PM
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5. Daddy Yankee
Reggaeton is great...my Spanish sucks. :)
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:37 PM
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7. My sister loves all Reggaton....
:thumbsup:
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:36 PM
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6. Yes, but I find out what they're saying. I find the translations or I go
nuts.

I listen to a lot of the Bollywood filmi songs and have branched out from that to other Indian music, but as I said I make it my business to find out what they're on about. I'm building up a pretty hot Hindi vocabulary while I'm at it.

I listen to Spanish stuff too, and all that high school Spanish comes in handy.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:41 PM
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8. Flamenco/Gipsy Rumba fan, so quite a few
Gipsy Kings, Tekameli, Gipsyland, Peret, Gato Perez, Paco de Lucia, Cameron de la Isla... quite a few actually. Most sing in either Castillian Spanish, Catalan, or Gitano/Kalo (the Rrom language of Spain and southern France). I speak passable Spanish, so I catch every other word or so.

However, it's the music that's truly phenominal. That's what speaks loudest.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:45 PM
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9. Seu Jorge (Knockout Ned from City of God)
Was great in The Life Aquatic singing those David Bowie songs.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:47 PM
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10. Quite a lot really
All very traditional - Edith Piaf and Ute Lemper in french. Nina Hagen in german. And I don' t have to know the words to sing along.....

Khash.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:58 PM
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11. Almost all the time
Listening to the Pillows.
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Cats Against Frist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:05 PM
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12. Bo Kaspers Orkester -- Specifically, the song "Undantag"
I've no idea what the hell they're saying, but the song has a lot of emotional significance for me, despite that. It was super-popular, when I lived in Sweden. I also used to listen to a lot of Swedish folk. It was temporary insanity, brought on by a boy. Actually, several of them.

I also used to listen to Ricky Martin's spanish language stuff. I have no excuse for that.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:09 PM
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13. yes, sure
:shrug:


:hi:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:13 PM
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14. i really like Los Fabulous Cadillacs
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Langis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:14 PM
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15. Sigur Ros
I <3 them.
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 04:16 PM
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21. "Hopelandic"
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 09:42 PM
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25. My son says..
... they are coming to Fort Worth in Feb. I get to take him :)
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:18 PM
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16. My favorites:
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Leningrad
The Pillows
Bikstok Røgsystem
Rip Slyme
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:21 PM
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17. I listen to Raul Malo singing in Spanish. I listen to Dean Martin...
singing in Italian.
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TimeChaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:30 PM
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18. Gackt, L'arc~en~Ciel, and recently
I've started getting into Asian Kung-Fu Generation.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 04:20 PM
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22. Rewrite and Ready Steady Go?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:31 PM
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19. Yes, all the time
World music is my second favorite genre, after classical.

I especially like Brazilian, South African, Eastern European, and (surprise!) Japanese.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 03:40 PM
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20. Most of it.
I listen almost exclusively to classical - and therein mostly to sacred music, so oodles of it is in Latin. I can't speak much Latin - but the texts are all the same (especially settings of the Mass), so I do know what's being sung.

Plus opera in German, Italian and French.
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 09:07 PM
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23. Does Beausoleil count?
They sometimes sing in English.
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 09:39 PM
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24. yes
A lot of Cajun music like Beausoleil. Spanish-language music: Los super seven (a super group of various members that sometimes does music in Spanish). Just recently downloaded Charanga Cakewalk. Interesting.
Also
Los Lobos
Raul Malo
and others I can't remember right now.

I really liek Cesaria Evora from the Cape Verde Islands. Sings in Portugese.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 09:45 PM
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26. PFM, Le Orme, Boredoms,
Magma, YS, Kaizers Orchestra . . . er, that's it.
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 09:51 PM
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27. Gipsy Kings
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 09:53 PM
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28. I listen to Norwegian black metal...
Edited on Sun Nov-20-05 09:54 PM by ZombieNixon
but since you can't figure out what the lyrics are regardless, the fact that it's in Norwegian makes little difference. :shrug:

I also listen to a lot of traditional Irish music, some of which is sung in Gaelic.

I understand bits and pieces of both these languages, primarily from having listened to so much music in them.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 09:55 PM
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29. Bollywood dance numbers!
Terre Rang Balle Balle, anyone? :D
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FarLeftRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 09:58 PM
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30. Issa Bagayogo
Not really a band, but a West African musician - singer from the West African nation of Mali. He sings in French and the music is typical world-beat...
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 11:20 PM
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31. Rammstein
Nice little German band. :headbang:
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WMliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 11:34 PM
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32. Adiemus. Mariam Stockley
chanting in syllabes. Very cool stuff.
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