99 Luftballoons - Nena https://open.spotify.com/track/2IJftBfq7pJ43tfnOR0RB3?si=Tj9rOKguQkOmpb3jJM27uw
“99 Red Balloons”'es Nena officially outs herself as QAnon, “Reichsbürger”
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I was just gonna say this. I’m learning German and it felt cool being anle to losten to it in the original
Rammstein
Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano
This is the most correct answer
A language that no one can understand.
Snow - Informer
(reluctant upvote)
So many. I like music and I like languages so when there are lyrics there’s a good chance it’s not English.
- Dead can dance - The Host of Seraphim - moody female vocals with backing instruments and synth that resembles religious sad hymns (not even in a real language)
- 王菲 Faye Wong《四月雪 April Snow - melancholy mandarin pop from 2003
- Hocico - Ecos - Mexican electro-industrial on the aggressive side
- Juno Reactor - Conquistador (part 1 and 2) - technically 2 songs, in Latin, Spanish and I think Xhosa. Same person who did the music from the matrix, these are sort of a musical interpretation of South American history
- Sepultura - Ratamahatta - Brazilian metal
- All about Lily Chou-Chou OST - Arabesque(アラベスク) - fictional band with female vocals, beautiful melancholy song in Okinawan
- Fly, Fly My Sadness - The Bulgarian Voices Angelite with Huun-Huur-Tu and Moscow Art Trio - Mongolian throat singers (if you’ve never heard this technique, it’s incredible and unlike anything else, this song isn’t the best example though, search for huun huur tu videos) and an ethereal Bulgarian choir.
- The Mirror Conspiracy ft. LouLou - Le Monde - French lyrics, chillout downtempo electronic
- Björk - Úm Akkeri - Icelandic version of her song The Anchor Song
- Yothu Yindi - Djäpana (Sunset Dreaming) - a classic 1989 Australian song in Yolŋu and English. Not my favourite but I wanted to have the continent represented here.
- Thievery Corporation - Satyam Shivam Sundaram - another downtempo chillour from the same group, this time in Hindi
- Daler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun - too catchy not to mention, Punjabi pop, hilariously cheesy video clip
There are so many more. I didn’t even touch Caribbean patois or Arabic or Polynesian languages etc. I’m very big on global music though, especially with a strong beat and lyrical themes on anti-colonialism…
Off the top of my head,
Psy - Gangnam Style
Rammstein - entire catalog
The Hu - most of their stuff
Also right now by psy.
And most of madkid and chihara minoris music
I like Mother Father Gentleman too by PSY.
I got really into German punk a few years ago. Some of my favorites.
Die Ärzte Schrei nach Liebe
Wizo Raum Der Zeit
Die Toten Hosen Hier kommt Alex
Die Ärtze are cool. I like many of their songs, but I DO speak (some) German so I couldn’t list it here.
My German is limited to what I remember from taking high school German nearly 30 years ago (basically cursing and asking how much the calculator costs), so I figured it was safe for me to post them.
Manu Chao - clandestino
That whole album is amazing.
Bella Ciao
Eivør - Trøllabundin
I have listened to it so much that I know the lyrics perfectly, and it’s even possible my pronunciation is close to correct, yet I don’t speak a word of Faroese.
Numa Numa Yay, Numa Numa Yay, Numa Numa Numa Yay!
Kind of a joke but the song is catchy.
The guy is a Norwegian comedian I think & he bet his friends that he could get a dumb song into the Billboard top 10 or something. I believe he succeeded in a few European countries.
The song is absolutely ridiculous considering he doesn’t speak Spanish, but it’s just a funny story.
Anything by stromae really. In some of his songs you can even hear the emotion he conveys without understanding any French
La Bamba
…and Lambada. Somehow I associate both to the same summer.
Dragostea Din Tei (aka, the “Numa numa” song) is always a hit.
