Anyone listen to Foreign music?

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05 Oct 2009, 6:39 pm

Yeah, but nothing very off-the-wall or revolutionary. Just some popular stuff I've come across from time to time. I love the soundtrack to Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge:

Especially this one:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6boHsY1Rjc[/youtube]

I highly recommend that movie, by the way, it was a huge hit in India and is a wonderful romantic comedy, one of my personal favorites.

Also, I like Hugo:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkMm86OsFg[/youtube]

I find that video very pleasing, too. It's another of my favorite songs.

And most recently, The Alfee. Here's a couple of favorites.

Brave Love:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX17gGToTb0[/youtube]

Juliet:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQBNITicGk[/youtube]

I also enjoy learning to sing along for some reason. I just get a kick out of riding along singing,

"Ai suru tame ni bravely fight!
akiramenai de destiny
yakusoku sareta basho ga
kokoro no utopia
mirai wa keshite
kimi wo uragiranai"

Even though I have no clue what it means. Except for utopia. I know that one.

I have learned whole songs phonetically in Irish Gaelic (I still think I'm getting it wrong, it's one of the hardest languages I've come across to pronounce based upon the spelling) and Hawaiian (much easier, learned "He Mele no Lilo"). Indian still has me defeated somewhat but I'm making headway with Japanese. Italian's not too bad either.

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06 Oct 2009, 12:48 am

Junge (Die Ärzte)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1UIzrDjhA[/youtube]

Allein Allein (Polarkreis 18 )

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=444L2Kc4zIg[/youtube]

Super Driver (Aya Hirano)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcIbWXeHmYo[/youtube]

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06 Oct 2009, 1:22 am

I happen to be a J-rock/J-pop aficionado. Currenty I've been listening to a lot of songs by May'n, a Japanese artist who is the real voice behind most of the songs sung by Sheryl Nome, a pop idol character from the anime Macross Frontier. Here are a few of her songs:

May'n - Don't be Late

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kPTQIs1CB4[/youtube]

May'n - Infinity

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct6RUJI0XtQ[/youtube]

May'n - Welcome to My Fan Club's Night!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM9JPPKBkY4[/youtube]

May'n - Northern Cross (the guitar solo intro totally rocks on this one!)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFQfghHN1uQ[/youtube]

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06 Oct 2009, 1:27 am

@blackomen: Aya Hirano, isn't she the artist behind "Motteke! Sailor Fuku"? You know, the cute really high pitched song at the beginning of the anime Lucky Star, with all of the characters doing the cheer dance?

Don't ask me how I know that...

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06 Oct 2009, 2:42 am

Eddie Cochran: "Three steps to heaven"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHgO7yh06V0[/youtube]

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06 Oct 2009, 10:05 am

I'm listening to a mongolian rock band called Hurd and a Laotian nu-metal/alternative band called cells. I'll put them up when I have time cuz i gotta get back to my cyberschool right now.

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06 Oct 2009, 3:32 pm

zena4 wrote:

Eddie Cochran: "Three steps to heaven"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHgO7yh06V0[/youtube]

I was boggled by this one until I realized... If English isn't your native language, then this fits the topic. :lol:

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08 Oct 2009, 1:55 am

Et oui :shrug:

I'm a foreigner to you

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08 Oct 2009, 2:49 am

Or as I heard in "Money from Home":

"Hey, you're a foreigner!"
"Only in this country."

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08 Oct 2009, 9:12 am

you all are into unusual stuff.

I invented my own mixed drink, a variation on a screw driver- any citrus wine
cooler- spiked with a little vodka-- while hanging with some hardcore
drinking buddies. I named it "a Siberian Surfer".
So its nice to know that a Russian band called "the Red Elvis's" has a song
of almost the same name.

I like the late isreali pop diva Ofra Haza ( exotic in looks as well in sound).

Flamenco rock ( Spanish in style but usually recorded in France) the Gypsy Kings, Alabina, alex fox.

I like the african band Zap Mama. Much else; Irish rocknroll.

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08 Oct 2009, 12:40 pm

This is from Tibet: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKyw29IoJLI[/youtube]

This is Boh Huk Dee by the Laotian rock band Cells:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BEPDbE9M0&feature=channel_page[/youtube]

Mongolia Metal/Rock Hurd-Mongolooroo Goyodog
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p019N25WcW0&feature=channel_page[/youtube]

Con Hac Giay by Phim Anh Khoa of Vietnam
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jQI84PKAsw&feature=channel_page[/youtube]

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21 Oct 2009, 9:09 am

I have a couple of French indie punk songs on my iTunes - Atmosfog's J'ai besoin de toi and La Rose de Sharon's - Avorte

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22 Oct 2009, 10:00 pm

I do listen to foreign music. German Rock is very much great, but if I live in California, does Canadian and English music count?

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22 Oct 2009, 10:01 pm

richie wrote:

Huun Huur Tu are from Tuva in Central Asia:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6VVGHLS1Ok[/youtube]

I also listen to the late Ali Farka Toure a Desert Blues Singer from Mali
and every Sturday night I catch an hour of Thistle & Shamrock on my local NPR station followed by Echoes which
plays world and ambient music through the night.

Ah, Central Asia. One of my big obsessions.

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