Anything by Maximum the Hormone and Band-Maid to be honest, but I like "F" and "Different" most :D
Good news everyone!
And if you don't speak English, let me know what you think:
Songs in Russian minorities languages:
Ongaku by Yellow Magic Orchestra
Mundian to Bach ke
La Rage by Keny Arkana
Zuco 103 - Zabumba no Mar - Portuguese
Leningrad - Fish - Russian
Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pehchan Ho - Hindi(?) (That song from the movie "Ghost World")
Two Steps From Hell - Never Give Up On Your Dreams
I speak/understand Spanish, Icelandic, Dutch, Arabic and German but I ended up listening to Estonian music for a bit and they have some bangers there.
🇪🇪 Alüspukse by 5MIINUST
🇪🇪 push it by nublu
🇪🇪 kanuu by säm
Also, fun note, for a country og 400k Iceland has 3 entries here.
I am going to make a playlist just from this thread, thank you all who have participated so far.
I'm enjoying No Comment by Kneecap recently
Cafe Tacvba - Hola Adiós
First that come to mind:
Afrobeat/pop : great Xhosa rap/singing by moonshine sanelly (English tracks too)
Prog rock: magma creates their own language
Pop: Jay Chou has great tracks in Mandarin
Punk rock: exists in most local languages
Jazz: Avishai Cohen has tracks in ladino.
Electro song: Omar Souleyman has a very interesting background and tracks a nice, sung in Arabic.
Industrial : einsturzende neubauten sings mostly German.
Neu Deutsch Harte : Rammstein is the most known example.
Electroacoustic : Gedalia tazartes, includes vocals of diverse origins
I often take little exploratory searches for some of my favorite genres in foreign languages, though the ones I remember the most tend to split between English and the other language. Stuff like Tomcraft and Sido
Metal Band-maid
Just some incredible and fun music out there when you explore the world.
I've been a bit obsessed with one of Cleopatra's arias from Handel's Giulio Cesare, Se pietà di me non senti. She's bummed that she thinks her brother is going to have her killed.
Se pietà di me non senti giusto ciel io morirò.
Tu da' pace a' miei tormenti o quest'alma spirerò.
Just heaven, if you feel no pity for me, I shall die.
I shall give up the ghost if you do not pacify my torment
For metal - Utsu-P. He's a Vocaloid metal artist and his stuff absolutely slays.
Highlights: Pure White Poison, Sugarcoat of Love, Harakiri, Gorgon, and really anything he writes using Gumi.
Prédio - Apanhador Só
Garage rock in Spanish is my shit. I really like a lot of that city pop stuff too.
Ado, especially Elf
I could go on and on...
The Seatbelts, “The Real Folk Blues”
A rap about abes odyssee. Probably. Thats what the title and video say. Got some serious flow.
Rush Job - Sheena Ringo
Swamp - Mid-Air Thief, but the whole album Gongjoong Doduk is pretty good.
Dixie - Harmonium
Le tombeau est vide - Chromb!
For fun:
El Corazón - Hard n Phirm
Honorable mention that might not technically count:
Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano
El Coo Cooi - Voodoo Glow Skulls
Liebeslied - KMFDM
[온스테이지2.0] 이날치 - 범 내려온다(with 앰비규어스 댄스컴퍼니)
Dragostea Din Tei ("Numa Numa") is unironically one of my favourite songs. It wouldn't have blown up as a meme if it didn't go so hard.
Pepas by Farruko is another bop.
Came here for numa-numa. I.T in my region has a large number of Romanians, and I was glad to know it wasn't a cookie recipe or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBTNyJ33LWI I like rammstein's zick zack, I know they are lambasting plastic surgery but as a trans person I love enthusiastically shouting CUT IT OFF when the chorus happens in a sort of ironic way
I got this one. Just fun vibes. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3-zq0s5kw&desc_update=1
Otherwise some Anri songs like
Remember Summer Days
And similar City Pop (i think that's the genre)
Anda inn by Ouse Idk what it means but by god is it catchy
Wardruna - Helvegen (and the Kalandra cover) Bendik - Stille (all of the old albums before the style pivot are amazing)
Those are immediately on my mind and needed to share them in case someone else might enjoy! There is a lot more, those just popped right up without even thinking
Edit: Ekkolodd - Perler too, Asgeir - Heimförin!
These four songs are a solid intro to the bands if anyone’s interested!
Edit2: Well fuck me, I did mention Kalandra, but the absolute best from them in my opinion happens to be in Norwegian (I think?): Kalandra - Virkelighetens Etterklang!
Tldr:
Wardruna - Helvegen
Kalandra - Helvegen (cover of above)
Bendik - Stille
Ekkolodd - Perler
Asgeir - Heimförin
Kalandra - Virkelighetens Etterklang
New World, by L'Arc~en~Ciel
Судно (Борис Рыжий) - by Molchat Doma
Hjerteknuser by Kaizers Orchestra but it's a lil' cheat since I understand a little Norwegian.
Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós this one sounds so so beautiful.
Jumalan terve by Markus Krunegård when he expanded to Finnish music I was a bit surprised to learn he speaks Finnish natively. So when he then released this album I was very excited. It's Swedish styled pop but in Finnish.
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