Cinny said:

Do you guys even track down your favorite non-English songs? Or do you just stream them on Youtube?

Each song I posted I own on disc. It wouldn't be much of a favorite if I had to rely on youtube every time to hear it.

sexton said:

Cinny said:

Do you guys even track down your favorite non-English songs? Or do you just stream them on Youtube?

Each song I posted I own on disc. It wouldn't be much of a favorite if I had to rely on youtube every time to hear it.

ginusher said:

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Favourite song in my native language Dutch, 'Vlieg Met Me Mee (Het Avontuur)' (Fly Away With Me [Adventure]) by singer Trijntje Oosterhuis:

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WORD! Good choise, this Dutch tune from 'Train-Cha' - many of her songs are good, but most are in English.

One I really like is Edsilia Rombley's song 'Meer Dan Ooit' (More than ever) - what a coincidence, she's married to Trijntje's brother Tjeerd Oosterhuis. https://www.youtube.com/w...cbSns9o7gY Her whole album is gooood!

A dozenv of Ramses Shaffy songs are very good and in my top 10:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5cntzEZo1w

But my favorite is the Dutch song 'Ik voel me fijn', by Dinand Woesthoff and his young son. Dinand is the lead singer of the band Kane. Woezel and Pip are two characters in a long funny and educational series of kids movies and comics etc (found by Dinand's late wife Guusje Nederhorst), please have a listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwLJ7lLGXxk

728huey said:

When I was high school, I saw these foreign language videos.

These are gooood, too!

Zangelewa! An excellent tune by a few members of the Camaroonian Presidential Guard. the song was later butchered by Shakira for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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Hear and watch the full 11 minute version here:

https://www.youtube.com/w...HV7gmT5m8I

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I dare anyone not to find this tune catchy and a lot of fun. Its almost 3 songs in one. Great stuff!

Plenty to choose from that's dancehall, reggae, bollywood, classical or bhangra...mainstream pop is overrated

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Champagne Supernover by Oasis. To this day I have no fucking idea what language they're speaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI-5uv4wryI

steakfinger said:

Champagne Supernover by Oasis. To this day I have no fucking idea what language they're speaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI-5uv4wryI

Yeah I guess we can add garbled English to "non-English" songs! funny

Here's a wildly popular song in Spanish by the Argentine group Enanitos Verdes (Little Green Giants) called "Lamento Boliviano" (Bolivianan Sadness)

Cinny said:

Do you guys even track down your favorite non-English songs? Or do you just stream them on Youtube?

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I get my Japanese and Korean albums from Yesasia.com, I can find a lot of Indonesian stuff on so-called 'pasar malams', which are Indonesian cultural fairs here in Holland. Our local CD store has an okay assortment of French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese music I sometimes rummage through.

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SmearMrTroof said:

WORD! Good choise, this Dutch tune from 'Train-Cha' - many of her songs are good, but most are in English.

One I really like is Edsilia Rombley's song 'Meer Dan Ooit' (More than ever) - what a coincidence, she's married to Trijntje's brother Tjeerd Oosterhuis. https://www.youtube.com/w...cbSns9o7gY Her whole album is gooood!

A dozenv of Ramses Shaffy songs are very good and in my top 10:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5cntzEZo1w

But my favorite is the Dutch song 'Ik voel me fijn', by Dinand Woesthoff and his young son. Dinand is the lead singer of the band Kane. Woezel and Pip are two characters in a long funny and educational series of kids movies and comics etc (found by Dinand's late wife Guusje Nederhorst), please have a listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwLJ7lLGXxk

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That's a really cute song. Kane's first 2 albums are still awesome. I love Edsilia as well. One of the great voices in recent Dutch popular music.

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Here's a somewhat forgotten classic by Re-Play. Sranan represent!

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They were great when Mark Dakriet was still with them.

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excited said:

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I like a lot of Falco's songs, even tho I have next to no idea what he's saying most of the time LOL

How could I forget?

Ásgeir Trausti - "Heimförin"

English version - "Going Home"

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connorhawke said:

How could I forget?

Ásgeir Trausti - "Heimförin"

Sounds amazing. But his voice is exactly like Jeff Buckley reincarnated in Icelandic (at least in this song). I just youtubed more of his stuff and I really like him. Thanks for the introduction.

PurpleJedi said:

excited said:

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Just about anything Jame Brown.

Here's another favorite that I have from Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon, the two greats of salsa music: