I like to listen to music that has a great feel to it and in languages I do not speak or understand. That way I can enjoy it without the burden of terrible lyrics. ☺️
I have a few that I listen to a lot:
Amatz by Shanti Dope - Filipino rap
Mundian To Bach Ke by Punjabi MC - upbeat Bollywood style
Life on Mars by Seu Jorge - just him and a guitar
Update: I have created a Spotify playlist with the songs so far. I will continue to update the list as new songs get added. If you find your song on the list but meant a different version please DM me a link to the one you want. Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5MpR8Tio1klnb85LLqimgX
Update: Thanks to all who have participated so far! The playlist is getting long and very eclectic. I am being introduced to what will soon become some of my favorite songs and styles. I will keep updating the playlist as new music is added.
These guys are badass!
They’ve also done a cover of The Trooper. Some of their best ones also include Shoog Shoog and Yuve Yuve Yu.
Thats taken me down the rabbit hole of other Mongolian throat singing songs. These will start playing in the car and my wife is like “WTF is this”.
I don’t speak Portuguese, but sometimes I get in a mood to listen to bassa nova. I like the rhythm.
Mas Que Nada - probably my go to. I listen to that enough to annoy people around me.
I also like Águas de Março, particularly Elis Regina’s duet with Jobim.
Carina Burina O Fortuna
*Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, great pick btw. ;)
Slanias Song - Eluveitie
Two Steps From Hell - Never Give Up On Your Dreams
Säkkijärven polkka mentioned before Ievan polkka?
I am going to make a playlist just from this thread, thank you all who have participated so far.
Please share the playlist
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Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros
La Rage by Keny Arkana
“Baba Yetu” - we learned it for the choir. Luckily, i found a translation, so we now know that we are not ordering fridges or something. Look for “baba yetu stellenbosch” for a nice version.
I love their version. Also Maytree.
This was the intro song for civ 4. It is “the Lord’s Prayer” in Swahili I think? I’d sometimes just both it up to hear the intro, lol
I married an Indian woman and have been getting into Bollywood music, and honestly there’s so many good songs!
Two of my favorites are:
Qaafirana
Khuda Jaane
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.
if anyone here likes goth music, i highly recommend:
- she past away, most of their discography tbh (turkish)
- lebanon hanover (german, some of it)
- στο σκοτάδι (sto skotadi) by selofan (greek)
- nasha by aurat (urdu)
- reflejos by vacíos cuerpos (spanish)
- fantasmas by twin tribes (spanish)
- à contrecœur by hante. (french)
these are perfectly drenched in sorrow. i saved every one that I’ve not heard before 🤌
NAIMONONEDARI (not sure how much this counts. I took Japanese in high school but can’t maintain a conversation to save my life.)
Песенка (also grey area for me, I took Russian in uni but I’m far from conversational with it.)
edit: forgot to include Spanish
Mundian to Bach ke
