Foreign Music

[Amanda Morrison]

I took German for a few years and went to Germany between my junior and senior years of high school. It was an absolute blast, and I was exposed to a lot of German culture. One thing we all learned was the traditional drinking songs and popular music on the radio, because people would come back from the bars at night and go past our hotel, or we'd see them in the subways and streets of Munich. I have a few songs still saved from that trip which are really cool.

Going back to my heritage, I am Polish and have a somewhat strong background. From that, I know a few broken phrases and such, and a handful of songs.

[Raven_Writer]

I've listened to a few Finnish bands (Nightwish, and some other forgot the name of). My friend also gave me a CD once that has some foreign (not sure which language) rapping on it. Hm...I still have the CD. ** goes to listen to it **

[Jeff Rodriguez]

A band called 'Jumbo'. It's spanish rock. Great stuff. It's hard to find CDs in stores though. I'll have to buy them online.

edit: No, I don't speak spanish like my name implies.

[Bharat Nain]

I listen to all sorts of Indo-Pak music. Theres many genres and stuff, so its pretty cool.

[Katie Reynolds]

I listen to a fair amount of Irish and Celtic stuff. I know a few Irish folk tunes, myself -- whenever my dad's side of the family gets together (read: they're all, 100% 3rd generation Irish American) they tend to drink lots of ... soda ... and wind up singing Irish folk songs. A lot of them. Very loudly. Enter my cousin, the professional Irish step dancer, my dad's 'famous' corned beef & cabbage -- it's a lot of fun!

[Lisa Perez]

Hmm.. I listen to Spanish ditties, the kind that you'd probably see in a Sing-A-Long video.. Also, some Filipino rap (if you want to hear some good, but mainstream, rap, listen to "The Apl Song" by Black Eyed Peas) and rock as well. The names of the bands are slipping my mind.

[greencactus3]

yay japanese punk!!!
just to name a few....
snail ramp
hi-standard
175R
b-dash
mongol 800
(highly recommend these)

[Raven_Writer]

Originally Posted by greencactus3

yay japanese punk!!!

All who like J-Punk (Japanese Punk), will probably be my ex-girlfriend's best friend She's crazy about that stuff.

Anyways though, more foreign bands I like are:
H.I.M. (His Infernal Majesty)
Avril Lavigne (Dunno if she counts as foreign, she's from Canada though)
X-Japan (now disbanded though...:'()
Mardriel (I don't know if the spelling is right...I'm doing this off the top of my head)
Dir En Grey (To me, this is a great Japanese band)

** X-Japan and Madriel(sp?) are both J-Punk I believe. Either that, or J-Rock **

And some others (drawing blanks all day today, so I can't think of to much right now)

[Ryan Dognaux]

J-Rock/Alt. Rock, such as The Pillows. Awesome band.

[Blacknight]

Does floggin molly count?
but other than that
Guano Apes-German
Die Aerzte-German
Tocotronic-German
Hitomi Shimantani-Japanese
Seatbelts-Japanese
(any music from anime movies)

That's all off the top of my head

[GateRunner]

I steal the last two from Blacknight, and add the following:

Yasunori Mitsuda
Yoko Kanno
And Ill admit, various imported video game music

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Blacknight

Guano Apes-German

Guano Apes are German?? Granted the only two songs that I have heard from them are Lords of the Boards, and Open your Eyes.. but.. German?? Whoa.. Heavy.

Anyways.. I'm kind of dull when it comes to music. Well.. Let me put this another way. I have a very eclectic taste in music, but it is mostly a lot of American and/or Americanized music.

As for Foreign Music, I enjoy a lot of euro-pop and techno house songs mixed at places like Creamfields in Liverpool, and @ Home in Space in Ibizia, by artists like Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold, Seb Fontaine & Timo Maas.

edit: When it comes to a classicly loved(?) Foreign Song, one has to mention Dahler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun for sure..
For all you 3D Studio Max lovers out there, this video should be right up your alley. It looks like the whole thing was made using 3DSM.

[Blacknight]

They're from Germany, as far as I know. My neighbor's cousin came over from germany and they were her favorite band. She said they were german and the only other person I know that knows who the Guano Apes were is my friend from England. So i'm assuming if they're not from Germany then somewhere in Europe.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Guano Apes are German?? Granted the only two songs that I have heard from them are Lords of the Boards, and Open your Eyes.. but.. German?? Whoa.. Heavy.

"Germany's Guano Apes got their start in the university town of Göttingen, where bassist Stefan Ude, guitarist Henning Ruemenapp, and drummer Dennis Poschwatta jammed together as teens. They auditioned various lead singers with no luck, until a friend of Poschwatta's introduced the fledgling trio to the fetching Sandra Nasic, whose explosive, expressive, wildly wide-ranging vocals and English-language lyrics dramatically changed the young band's direction. A fan of rap music and nü-metal bands like Korn, Nasic also brought a rap element to the Apes' hard rock sound."

... From: http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/artis...tistID=1043407

[Raven_Writer]

I'm suprised no one has said Rednex. They're a Sweden band, and we all know their song "Cotton-Eyed Joe"