Non-English songs

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  1. Copperknickers II's Avatar

    Copperknickers II said: August 20, 2010 05:23 PM

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    Favourite post-WW2 songs that are not in English. Mine would be:

    Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto

    Szomoru Vasarnap - Laszlo Javor

    Boten Ana - Basshunter

    anything by Rammstein and Amr Diab

    also We No Speak Americano gets an hounourable mention.


    How bout you guys?
    A new mobile phone tower went up in a town in the USA, and the local newspaper asked a number of people what they thought of it. Some said they noticed their cellphone reception was better. Some said they noticed the tower was affecting their health.

    A local administrator was asked to comment. He nodded sagely, and said simply: "Wow. And think about how much more pronounced these effects will be once the tower is actually operational."
     

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    ccllnply said: August 20, 2010 05:24 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Copperknickers II View Post
    also We No Speak Americano gets an hounourable mention.
    Yes, that gets my vote

     

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    Brain_in_a_vat said: August 20, 2010 06:58 PM

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    Sigur Ros 'Untitled 3'.
     

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    hippacrocafish said: August 20, 2010 08:22 PM

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    Habanera from Carmen. I'm not big on opera, but I love that song.

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    saxdude said: August 20, 2010 10:26 PM

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    How modern?
     

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    Manco said: August 20, 2010 10:51 PM

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    Monza - Van God Los



    Gorky - Mia



    De Kreuners - Ik wil je (it's a stupid song, but it's awesome when you have an audience of 10.000 people singing every line along)

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    Boer said: August 21, 2010 12:37 AM

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    Sukiyaki is mine, although however decided to re-name the song for Americans must have been very hungry at the time.
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    ♔Jean-Luc Picard♔ said: August 21, 2010 12:01 PM

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    The songs Falconer does in non-English are quite awesome. Also Geregorian chants are probably my favorite non-instrumental music.

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    Henrik said: August 21, 2010 09:55 PM

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    Humm..Busshunter sucks! !!
     

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    Taxandrius said: August 22, 2010 07:16 AM

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    Daan - De Lichtjes van de Schelde (tribute to Bobbejaan Schoepen, a few days after the death of the great musician, only because it's a bit moving)



    Kent - Vinternoll2


    Michel Delpech - Pour un flirt avec toi (just for the legendary character )



    Frauenarzt feat. Manny Marc - Das Geht Ab



    EDIT: we no speak americano, a bloody rape of the original

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    cpdwane said: August 22, 2010 01:56 PM

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    Edit: The song I posted was in English. Silly me.

    delete post please.
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    Copperknickers II said: August 22, 2010 04:38 PM

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    I did deliberately say Post-WW2, since that was the time when English music started to dominate the world. Obviously before that, there was Italian canzone, Medieval Latin and French and Spanish, etc.
    A new mobile phone tower went up in a town in the USA, and the local newspaper asked a number of people what they thought of it. Some said they noticed their cellphone reception was better. Some said they noticed the tower was affecting their health.

    A local administrator was asked to comment. He nodded sagely, and said simply: "Wow. And think about how much more pronounced these effects will be once the tower is actually operational."
     

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    cupoftea said: August 22, 2010 06:33 PM

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    @ Manco

    I like this version more
     

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    Dr. Croccer said: August 23, 2010 04:37 AM

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    Anything by Manu Chao.
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    And by Denez Prigent.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

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    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

  15. JJDXB said: August 23, 2010 04:38 AM

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    I'm a big fan of North Korean music


    (yes, really)



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    Manco said: August 23, 2010 05:05 AM

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    In the same vein as Manu Chao: his earlier band Mano Negra
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  17. Enemy of the State said: August 23, 2010 12:20 PM

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    Some Estonian prog