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I think most of the music I listen to is from outside the UK. At the moment I really like a lot of Japanese music like Dir en grey, Malice Mizer, Moi Dix Mois (I guess you can tell if you know who my avatar is . . .) and Exist Trace but also a lot of Swedish indie like Hastpojken and My Darling YOU! and also a lot of weird music like The Octopus Project and that. Its a very hard mix of music to explain I guess . . .

Celtic! Celtic! Celtic! Celtic!

I like Melt Banana from Japan

Moi?

Melt-Banana are the best rock group of all-time.

im really digging opeth right now, and extreme cosmic deathmetal like origin

I just bought a album by Amr Diab, a singer from Egypt. His music is dance/pop with a heavy arabic infulence

I don't have a huge interest in foreign (language) music - I assume we are talking foreign language not just outside of our own country because frankly most everybody would listen to some foreign music by that definition. I have a few cds including Francoise Hardy, Edith Piaf, Carla Bruni, Camille, Alizee, who are French; Yael Naim who is French-Israeli, and Dochas and Julie Fowlis who are Scottish and sing in Gaelic. I think Feist does an excellent cover of a Francoise Hardy song on her first album. Cat Power does a very good cover version of Angelitos Negros by Roberta Flack, though I don't know what language it is in. I've also got some music by The Pillows who are Japanese.

Btw carturo222, have you heard of either Dochas or Julie Fowlis. If so, what do you think of her and the band? I ask since you seem to like Celtic music. I think they're fantastic, a pity they would never come here to Australia.

I never heard Carla Bruni but I hope she doesn't have lyrical content that express the visions of her husband.

If you want quality French language music I definitely recommend Indochine to anyone. Not because of their iconic status or because of how important they were for the evolution of alternative rock in the French language, but because their music is simply very good with lyrically great meanings. No coincidence they have a fanbase outside of the francophone world, something few other French artists achieved.

Although somewhat lyrically more nonsensical, this song has been revolutionary in French music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJK8aVOUm9o
This was pretty much the first alternative rock song in the French language, in a time when French music was mostly chanson and alternative rock was only coming from cross Channel. Indochine broke that language barrier pretty much on their own by singing in their native French and bringing a type of music people in France were used from only foreign artists.

For more lyrically in-depth songs by Indochine, look up songs such as Marilyn, Comateen I, Le Grand Secret (and no, Comateen I is not in English, apart from the song title it is entirely in French )

I prefer Celtic music. Most of the artists I currently listen to came either from Ireland or Scotland originally even if they end up living in North America. I also like Nena from Germany (99 Luftballons), & had an album by Peter Gabriel also in German (Peter Gabriel 4-Deutsches Album). Was taking German at the time.

i find sometimes that people from a different culture can put a nice new spin on what seems like a tired genre. i love j-rock, for instance.

i have an incredible passion for finding out about weird and wonderful instruments, so i'm really into alot of ethnic music featuring things like, sitar, zithers, lutes, all kinds of wonderful percussion (gamelan, anyone?) and often, if i can find decent samples (or an actual player) i like to work some of these sounds into my own stuff...i guess peter gabriel did the same thing around the time of the security album...these instruments can add something fresh and interesting to a song.

<3 xanny x

I just hope she doesn't spread the same message in her music as Sarkozy does politically. I really dislike the guy, he seems like a softcore version of a far-right racist politician.

I'm into JPop and music from Anime series basically here.

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Actually, when I wrote about the lack of good alternative music in Belgium, there are exceptions of course.

This is the best Belgian song by far from the last decade. Maybe one of the best Belgian songs EVER full stop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhxPMG2Fsmg