Listen to music in languages you don't understand.

And who can forget this foreign language gem

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

Japan has awesome jazz and also metal.

and one crazy video if you are having a bad day and need to explode your eyes !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g

In reply to Mndsm :

I have seen Eskimo callboy live! 

I'll add I love listening to Rammstein and popek at work when we are on the roof. It's a pick me up there is music but don't have the lyrics distraction. 

aircooled said:

I used to listen to old REM stuff.  Does that count?

No. But I'd say that Pearl Jam does...

I've been leaning towards music alone with little or no lyrics. House/trance/techo stuff. And Nightcore remixes too.

Not stuff a person of my age should admit to. 

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Wonderful choice, one of my favorites.

My wife performed this at her senior recital.

In reply to hybridmomentspass :

This Sandu Ciorba, very how you say, sophisticated?

Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) said:

I've been leaning towards music alone with little or no lyrics. House/trance/techo stuff. And Nightcore remixes too.

Not stuff a person of my age should admit to. 

I listen to a ton of trip-hop / psybient / trance / downtempo stuff.  Most of it made within the last 5 years, if not newer - as in, released this week.

I'll be 57 at the end of this month.  What does age have to do with anything?

I'm going to guess that hybridmomentspass is a big fan of the Eurovision competition.

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Wonderful choice, one of my favorites.

My wife performed this at her senior recital.

Very cool.  I lived for a time with a classically trained vocalist, and one of the fringe benefits of the arrangement was that I would listen to her work on things, some of which was in a foreign language.  She was also a competent pianist, and had quite a talent for sight-reading.  It is from this relationship that I developed my skills as a piano mover.  LOL.

Beer Baron said:

In reply to Keith Tanner :

And certain languages suuuuck for certain musical styles. Like French rap.

That's just it. A style developed for the rhythms of one language doesn't work for a different one. 

In reply to Keith Tanner :

Any recommendations for  Quebecois ska bands?

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

You should try their scotch.

Appleseed said:

Rammstein

 

Mina Harker

Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) said:

I've been leaning towards music alone with little or no lyrics. House/trance/techo stuff. And Nightcore remixes too.

Not stuff a person of my age should admit to. 

The day you stop listening to nightcore remixes is the day you started to die.

IIRC nightcore originated in the 80s.

edit: Nope.  2001.  Witness the original nightcore:

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

You should try their scotch.

Japanese whiskey in general is the last thing I expect it to be. In a good way

In reply to RevRico :

I am listening to Yelo Melo right now, and that's what I'm basing my statements on :) The Planet Smashers are from Montreal but they sing in English.

Rammstein, Die Krupps, KMFDM

Keith Tanner said:

Beer Baron said:

In reply to Keith Tanner :

And certain languages suuuuck for certain musical styles. Like French rap.

That's just it. A style developed for the rhythms of one language doesn't work for a different one. 

I saw a YouTube video on Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French that talked about this. Different languages stress syllables very differently.

Keith Tanner said:

I'm going to guess that hybridmomentspass is a big fan of the Eurovision competition.

I am not familiar with what that is, I posted those two mostly because they are internet gems. Now the first two I posted - love it. 

Then you get weirdness like when the German hip hop group Seeed takes their song "Augenbling" from the original German and interprets it into English as "Blink Blink". Get some weird lyrics because they're clearly trying to keep the same flow and sound of the lyrics.

Here is my favorite,  in Latin:  Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana - YouTube

hybridmomentspass said:

Keith Tanner said:

I'm going to guess that hybridmomentspass is a big fan of the Eurovision competition.

I am not familiar with what that is, I posted those two mostly because they are internet gems. Now the first two I posted - love it. 

You need to watch Eurovision. It's like the musical Olympics. To YouTube with you!

In reply to Beer Baron :

I will check that out, thanks.