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Das Pop is nice romanic electronica. dEUS is quite well know.

Greetings From Mercury sound like a interesting fusion/hop hop/crossover band. Belgium was one of the European jazz hubs. Contrasting from the Polish and Hungarian jazz, and also a bit different from Italian or French.

I absolutely love hadag nachash! they're a really cool everything band from Israel, also check out Tipex too, they're from Israel too disco never sounded so good

Hayheidium from there too, a hebrew punk band.

aii, I gotta get off my hebrew band wagon

damn multicultural family

Fact: for such a small country, Israel has one of the most amazingly diverse music scenes existing. From doomy oriental metal like Salem or Orphaned Land to trance like Infected Mushroom, from punkrock like Hayheidium to more poppy music, ... But then Israel is just incredibly multicultural due to (jewish) immigration from all over the world. Still, amazing country.

Orphaned Land are the best thing Israel gave us though in terms of music.



@ 0_equals_true : why your big interest in Belgian music? Most people in my native country listen to foreign bands, so I am pleasantly surprised to hear foreigners showing a big interest in the Belgian music scene

I have seen Das Pop live but it was long ago. They come from my native city Ghent as well. Not sure if they are still going. Arid are also from Ghent and they recently reformed, they tend to be quite good. Arid's singer Jasper Steverlinck is sometimes compared to Freddy Mercury (a bit exagerated but he does have a great voice), Arid is a band who have a bit too many mediocre songs though to be listed as a great export product but the good songs they have are really really good. They just tend to be a bit less consistent than bands such as K's Choice who are the best Belgian rock band IMO. And as i named, check out Ozark Henry. Little known outside of Belgium but he is really good as well.

Somehow I never got into dEUS personally, but Tom Barman (their singer) is a cool guy. Quite eccentric and passionate about arts of all sorts. And, like myself, very leftist and anti-racist. dEUS pretty much by themselves organised a big series of concerts against racism in Belgium, and in the end they managed to convince a very big number of famous belgian bands to perform on those concerts. Unfortunately some right-wing people with racist tendencies showed up as well and came just for the music while ignoring the message of the event, but Barman's intentions were great.

Pity that Kate Ryan also comes from Belgium, her covers are an embarrasment. In general I think the music scene of my current home Germany is a lot better than the Belgian one, but guess that may be linked on Germany just being a lot bigger. Remarkably is that a lot of good German performers come from the former communist part of Germany.

All my favorites are from outside my country.

A nice and quite iconic German band, very famous in the wave and gothic scene: X-Mal Deutschland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8cmQ-nXYU

(the lyrics to this one are rather meaningless but the atmosphere of the song is great)

The vocalist to this band is Anja Huwe, who has been a painter ever since X-Mal Deutschland quit to perform. Band hails from Hamburg but has always been more popular abroad than in Germany.

Marsheaux (Greece):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKF-owJe5C0[/youtube]


Also, Cheb Mami (Algeria), the singer who did Desert Rose with Sting (although I hear he's quite a heel - Cheb Mami, that is).

Bruce Cockburn (Canada)
OMD (UK/England)
U2 (UK/Ireland)
Martyn Joseph (UK/Wales)
Shane Fontayne (UK/England) - although he's been living in the U.S. so long, maybe he doesn't count.

Blood Stain Child - Freedom (Japan)


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oi-8xl7uZs[/youtube]

U2 are 100% irish, no UK in there Unless you consider two members British by birth, but both of them moved to Dublin in really early childhood so they basically all grew up in Dublin. The Lypton Village, research that and behold



From the Netherlands: The Gathering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpM7ZhAr2Ok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGc28ZMQEh8

Singer has a phenomenal voice. The second song pretty much started the whole gothic metal movement in Europe.

At the moment, I am into J-rock. I like Shiina Ringo and her other albums which were done with her band; Tokyo Jihen. I find current English music really dull and uninspiring... yo yo yo an' all that...

Those who like Japanese music should check out Chinese rock as well, bands such as Cobra. While japan is a free country, in China every sort of music with critical lyrics is still facing censorship so underground bands in China are really underground in the purest sense of the word. Check YouTube for the earliest live performances of the all female wave band Cobra, they were playing in very little halls and often without advertising their gigs because the government would forbid them to perform if the gig would be widely announced...

I do think the Chinese government has a more relaxed policy but back in those days the censorship was still very dominant, only in the last decade it has become more relaxed although a certain censorship still exists.

I'm seconding all these.

I also like Nightwish, Tarja Turunen and Sonata Arctica from Finland and Rammstein from Germany. I also like 1 song by HIM, who are Finnish.

I live in the UK- so America counts as foriegn. From there, I like Marilyn Manson, My Chemical Romance (odd combo, I know), and a lot of odd songs from bands like Hole, Bikini Kill, Nine Inch Nails, Mindless Self Indulgence and Nirvana.

I also like What Else is There by Royksopp (Swedish).

yes

I'm from NZ, lived in the UK as well though.

All of my favourite bands are pretty much Danish. I loooooove Danish music.

Mew
Spleen United
moi Caprice
Kashmir
Carpark North
The Raveonettes
Oh No Ono
D-A-D
Junior Senior
The Kissaway Trail
Alphabeat
The Perishers

And in Danish language -
Valravn
Under Byen
Nephew (they sing in English and Danish, often in the same song)
Magtens Korridorer



From Sweden:

The Knife
Kent (Swedish language)
Lykke Li
Peter, Bjorn and John
I'm From Barcelona



From Iceland:
Sigur Rós
Bjork



From France:
Carla Bruni (specially Quelqu'un m'a dit)
Phoenix
Air
Justice
Daft Punk



From Belgium:
Soulwax/Nite Versions/2manyDJs
dEUS


From Norway:
Royksopp







Phew. I listen to a lot of foreign music, haha. I could go on.