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ITT: Songs in a foreign language Anonymous 15/01/22 (Thu)22:10 No. 8980 Anonymous
22nd January 2015
Thursday 10:10 pm 8980 ITT: Songs in a foreign language

Ásgeir Trausti - Heimförin (Icelandic folk music)

https://www.youtube.com/v/kzSJBhPFTcY

Kaizers Orchestra - Knekker Deg Til Sist (Norwegian alt-rock)

https://www.youtube.com/v/mYrPdOCM4y0

Chetes - Camino a Casa (apparently this counts as pop rock in Mexico)

https://www.youtube.com/v/qNuuzGN9WRg

I guess songs in English by non-native speaking artists are fine too.

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>>	Anonymous 15/01/22 (Thu)22:21 No. 8981 Anonymous 22nd January 2015 Thursday 10:21 pm 8981 Rammstien - Sonne https://www.youtube.com/v/kIBeYoP9Wi0 I like their monumental expressionist style. Very teutonic, but in a way that is strangely infectious.

>>	Anonymous 15/01/22 (Thu)22:38 No. 8982 Anonymous 22nd January 2015 Thursday 10:38 pm 8982 Oh, and I don't think anyone could forget Moldova's finest. https://www.youtube.com/v/jRx5PrAlUdY

>>	Anonymous 15/01/22 (Thu)23:45 No. 8984 Anonymous 22nd January 2015 Thursday 11:45 pm 8984 >>8982 That song is just horrendous.

>>	Anonymous 15/01/22 (Thu)23:49 No. 8985 Anonymous 22nd January 2015 Thursday 11:49 pm 8985 https://www.youtube.com/embed/XeMH_wJ4H-8 Alash Ensemble - Tuvan throat singing.

Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)01:21 No. 8987 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 1:21 am 8987

>>8985

I prefer Huun Huur Tu because I am disgustingly basic.

https://www.youtube.com/v/7b1egQpIjLs

An appropriate song for my mood, by the greatest performer of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/v/fJxmjw4Pv_Y

While I'm at it, my favourite song by my second favourite chanteur:

https://www.youtube.com/v/BmLlhPEIZ0Y

>>	Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)02:15 No. 8988 Anonymous 23rd January 2015 Friday 2:15 am 8988 https://www.youtube.com/v/CHyesE2jcs0 Apparently these guys are bringing back traditional folk music to the younguns in Ukraine.

>>	Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)02:59 No. 8989 Anonymous 23rd January 2015 Friday 2:59 am 8989 https://www.youtube.com/v/6dMJTuPxxK8

>>	Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)12:50 No. 8992 Anonymous 23rd January 2015 Friday 12:50 pm 8992 >>8984 Dragostea Din Tei is the 00's equivalent of Gangnam Style. If the internet was more mainstream then we'd have ended up with countless drunken middle aged women dancing to the numa numa song.

Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)16:22 No. 8993 Anonymous
23rd January 2015
Friday 4:22 pm 8993

https://www.youtube.com/v/bUsePoATbrU

The only song that soldiers of all sides loved and listened to in WWII. Even though it was first recorded (and written) by ze Germans, the rest of the world took it to heart. There are English versions out there too.

>>	Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)16:30 No. 8994 Anonymous 23rd January 2015 Friday 4:30 pm 8994 https://www.youtube.com/v/eB9WgR_N4h4

>>	Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)18:01 No. 8995 Anonymous 23rd January 2015 Friday 6:01 pm 8995 https://www.youtube.com/v/PXkc2GLPl6I Quite the fan of neo-classical Icelander Ólafur Arnalds. Not his best album, that would be ...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness, but a nice song nonetheless.

>>	Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)18:29 No. 8996 Anonymous 23rd January 2015 Friday 6:29 pm 8996 https://www.youtube.com/v/FyFNkeNbBs0 I was introduced to this a number of years ago on this very chan. I can't remember the board or anything. The band is Ю-Питер, and the song is Дети Минут.

>>	Anonymous 15/01/23 (Fri)19:37 No. 8997 Anonymous 23rd January 2015 Friday 7:37 pm 8997 https://www.youtube.com/v/jmJPG_TMhew Enjoyable in small doses. There's only so much harmonica a man can take.

>>	Anonymous 15/01/26 (Mon)20:26 No. 9006 Anonymous 26th January 2015 Monday 8:26 pm 9006 They're trying to represent Switzerland at this year's Eurovision. https://www.youtube.com/v/twQlpFrm5iM

>>	Anonymous 15/01/26 (Mon)20:48 No. 9007 Anonymous 26th January 2015 Monday 8:48 pm 9007 >>9006 I thought I was the only one keeping our memory of this video alive. I salute thee.

>>	Anonymous 15/01/26 (Mon)20:50 No. 9008 Anonymous 26th January 2015 Monday 8:50 pm 9008 >>9006 I actually quite enjoyed that. Unlike their actual entry: https://www.youtube.com/v/oycVlofAf7o

>>	Anonymous 15/01/26 (Mon)20:51 No. 9009 Anonymous 26th January 2015 Monday 8:51 pm 9009 >>9008 Let us never speak of this again.

>>	Anonymous 15/02/05 (Thu)20:36 No. 9054 Anonymous 5th February 2015 Thursday 8:36 pm 9054 While we're on about Eurovision, Finland's entry this year is a punk band where all the members have Down's Syndrome. https://www.youtube.com/v/zEiM6l5meQI https://www.youtube.com/v/j8a9aYOn8nw

>>	Anonymous 15/03/02 (Mon)22:28 No. 9120 Anonymous 2nd March 2015 Monday 10:28 pm 9120 https://www.youtube.com/v/wfFJMl9Vj2w Real hood video from Australia.

>>	Anonymous 15/03/02 (Mon)22:52 No. 9121 Anonymous 2nd March 2015 Monday 10:52 pm 9121 https://www.youtube.com/v/B-7yW9kkxu8

Anonymous 15/03/03 (Tue)06:31 No. 9123 Anonymous
3rd March 2015
Tuesday 6:31 am 9123

>>9120

Well that was just terrible by anybody's standards.

The one by Dur Dur Band was fantastic. I love the lofi sound all those type of records have, and the really specific kind of delay/reverb on the lead vocals that sounds like a poorly set-up PA.

>>	Anonymous 15/03/03 (Tue)08:43 No. 9124 Anonymous 3rd March 2015 Tuesday 8:43 am 9124 >>9120 It's reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/v/wQDe8i3QFJU >>9121 I'm not even going to pretend I have the faintest idea of what was going on.

>>	Anonymous 15/07/06 (Mon)21:20 No. 9395 Anonymous 6th July 2015 Monday 9:20 pm 9395 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4FqZg12g7g I should probably listen to more blues.

>>	Anonymous 15/09/24 (Thu)07:34 No. 9577 Anonymous 24th September 2015 Thursday 7:34 am 9577 Apart from beer, possibly the only good thing to have come out of Belgium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v98HEQvtpgo

>>	Anonymous 15/09/24 (Thu)15:50 No. 9578 Anonymous 24th September 2015 Thursday 3:50 pm 9578 >>9577 Get tae fuck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEAGoLHMMoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xH7noaqTA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ez6kiE9I_Y

>>	Anonymous 15/09/24 (Thu)18:33 No. 9579 Anonymous 24th September 2015 Thursday 6:33 pm 9579 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=504bW-ZN4O4

>>	Anonymous 15/09/24 (Thu)22:34 No. 9580 Anonymous 24th September 2015 Thursday 10:34 pm 9580 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGt-rTDkMcM The actual words just don't match up with the emotional weight I've assigned to this song in my ignorance.

>>	Anonymous 15/11/03 (Tue)17:22 No. 9621 Anonymous 3rd November 2015 Tuesday 5:22 pm 9621 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTKZm2LkaFI Saw them live. I'm fairly certain she's singing in Russian but I'm not entirely sure. They're really brilliant.

>>	Anonymous 15/11/04 (Wed)00:07 No. 9624 Anonymous 4th November 2015 Wednesday 12:07 am 9624 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWDNq8_p5VQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQtC39q3Ig

>>	Anonymous 15/11/18 (Wed)20:20 No. 9670 Anonymous 18th November 2015 Wednesday 8:20 pm 9670 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbeHq1CLqJ8 I'd say this counts.

>>	Anonymous 17/01/14 (Sat)11:57 No. 10408 Anonymous 14th January 2017 Saturday 11:57 am 10408 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlc_h0XUPpo

>>	Anonymous 17/01/18 (Wed)09:58 No. 10409 Anonymous 18th January 2017 Wednesday 9:58 am 10409 Korean Bossa Nova (friendz.net is a great channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HlB_x_OWM

Anonymous 17/01/22 (Sun)00:30 No. 10410 Anonymous
22nd January 2017
Sunday 12:30 am 10410

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld3nk3Ha8FM

As translated by Eric Bentley:

Oh little box I carried in my flight
So as not to break the radio tubes inside me
From house to boat, from boat to train held tight
So that my enemies can still address me

Right where I slept and much to my dismay
Last thing at night and first thing every day
About their victories, defeats for me
Oh please do not fall silent suddenly

Anonymous 18/01/09 (Tue)19:01 No. 10927 Anonymous
9th January 2018
Tuesday 7:01 pm 10927

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1oxh8Z-2ko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWLioW7Zx0

They seem to have added the subtitles recently and now I know that some of the songs are actually about pretty mundane topics likeAladdin's Hardware Store and Hokkaido.

>>	Anonymous 18/01/09 (Tue)19:30 No. 10928 Anonymous 9th January 2018 Tuesday 7:30 pm 10928 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fzpU0UuQo

>>	Anonymous 18/01/11 (Thu)22:15 No. 10929 Anonymous 11th January 2018 Thursday 10:15 pm 10929 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kp1HFxi2h8

>>	Anonymous 18/02/02 (Fri)22:10 No. 10945 Anonymous 2nd February 2018 Friday 10:10 pm 10945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyMPLotr224 You'll want to turn on the subtitles and note that Sonotone is a French brand of hearing aid. The gist is that getting old sucks.

>>	Anonymous 18/02/03 (Sat)13:08 No. 10946 Anonymous 3rd February 2018 Saturday 1:08 pm 10946 >>10945 I didn't think MC Solaar was that old, but then I realised Cinquième As was released in 2001... Guess I'm getting old, too.

>>	Anonymous 18/02/03 (Sat)15:41 No. 10948 Anonymous 3rd February 2018 Saturday 3:41 pm 10948 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNWO5N8Vxsc

>>	Anonymous 18/03/06 (Tue)19:33 No. 10954 Anonymous 6th March 2018 Tuesday 7:33 pm 10954 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzsniTujQlE

>>	Anonymous 18/10/06 (Sat)03:55 No. 11240 Anonymous 6th October 2018 Saturday 3:55 am 11240

>>	Anonymous 18/12/07 (Fri)20:33 No. 11433 Anonymous 7th December 2018 Friday 8:33 pm 11433 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N06Jbi4Ei10

>>	Anonymous 18/12/08 (Sat)11:22 No. 11440 Anonymous 8th December 2018 Saturday 11:22 am 11440 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWXWivwhi14

>>	Anonymous 18/12/08 (Sat)18:56 No. 11441 Anonymous 8th December 2018 Saturday 6:56 pm 11441 https://youtu.be/ZpAYnVJX9CY you lads are sleeping on BAND-MAID ngl

>>	Anonymous 18/12/08 (Sat)19:25 No. 11442 Anonymous 8th December 2018 Saturday 7:25 pm 11442 >>11441 I haven't clicked yet but that sounds like a Babymetal rip off.

>>	Anonymous 18/12/08 (Sat)19:26 No. 11443 Anonymous 8th December 2018 Saturday 7:26 pm 11443 >>11442 Oh they're actually good though.

>>	Anonymous 18/12/08 (Sat)19:54 No. 11444 Anonymous 8th December 2018 Saturday 7:54 pm 11444 The Japanese have been mixing metal/rock with j-pop for a while though. Maximum the Hormone are a prime example of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY9Cr0a5dCs

>>	Anonymous 19/04/19 (Fri)13:50 No. 11733 Anonymous 19th April 2019 Friday 1:50 pm 11733 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_wwmmo6UGY

>>	Anonymous 19/05/18 (Sat)01:19 No. 11765 Anonymous 18th May 2019 Saturday 1:19 am 11765 http://www.chanceswithwolves.com/episode-370-en-franais https://soundcloud.com/chanceswithwolves/episode-370-chances-avec-les-loups-en-francais

>>	Anonymous 19/05/18 (Sat)01:31 No. 11767 Anonymous 18th May 2019 Saturday 1:31 am 11767 R-1239581-1412458722-2939.jpeg.jpg This album was great. They wrote it when they were 15 too. (Playlist) https://youtu.be/8SytXQcJ_7o?list=PLD713516D6CDCAC32

>>	Anonymous 19/05/18 (Sat)01:36 No. 11768 Anonymous 18th May 2019 Saturday 1:36 am 11768 >>11765 The playlist link is below the picture and pretty camouflaged. I tried to post a capture with a red arrow drawn on but got "duplicate entry detected" (or similar wording.)

>>	Anonymous 19/05/18 (Sat)01:44 No. 11769 Anonymous 18th May 2019 Saturday 1:44 am 11769

>>	Anonymous 19/05/18 (Sat)01:51 No. 11770 Anonymous 18th May 2019 Saturday 1:51 am 11770

>>	Anonymous 19/05/20 (Mon)02:56 No. 11779 Anonymous 20th May 2019 Monday 2:56 am 11779

>>	Anonymous 19/05/21 (Tue)02:09 No. 11789 Anonymous 21st May 2019 Tuesday 2:09 am 11789

>>	Anonymous 19/06/14 (Fri)09:39 No. 11921 Anonymous 14th June 2019 Friday 9:39 am 11921 Gaiola das Popozudas - Vem Cristiano

>>	Anonymous 19/06/15 (Sat)12:24 No. 11927 Anonymous 15th June 2019 Saturday 12:24 pm 11927 Adele: J'ai peur parfois

>>	Anonymous 19/06/15 (Sat)20:44 No. 11929 Anonymous 15th June 2019 Saturday 8:44 pm 11929 What a wonderful range of styles this woman has.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/26 (Fri)10:33 No. 12057 Anonymous 26th July 2019 Friday 10:33 am 12057 The Pirouettes - L'escalier

>>	Anonymous 19/07/26 (Fri)11:06 No. 12058 Anonymous 26th July 2019 Friday 11:06 am 12058 Totally obsessed with this song right now.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/26 (Fri)11:13 No. 12059 Anonymous 26th July 2019 Friday 11:13 am 12059 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZh1VP31eXc

>>	Anonymous 19/08/25 (Sun)11:48 No. 12140 Anonymous 25th August 2019 Sunday 11:48 am 12140 Well, it's interesting anyway:

>>	Anonymous 19/10/01 (Tue)20:05 No. 12179 Anonymous 1st October 2019 Tuesday 8:05 pm 12179 Where have I heard this tune before?

>>	Anonymous 19/10/24 (Thu)20:32 No. 12195 Anonymous 24th October 2019 Thursday 8:32 pm 12195 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqMZ6XqMfc

>>	Anonymous 19/10/24 (Thu)20:56 No. 12196 Anonymous 24th October 2019 Thursday 8:56 pm 12196 >>12195 Scouse is not a foreign language.

>>	Anonymous 19/10/24 (Thu)21:06 No. 12197 Anonymous 24th October 2019 Thursday 9:06 pm 12197 >>12196 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB-Jpd2hnfo

>>	Anonymous 19/10/25 (Fri)00:21 No. 12199 Anonymous 25th October 2019 Friday 12:21 am 12199 >>12197 Very happy to see that channel's MIA, pressumed killed.

>>	Anonymous 19/10/25 (Fri)07:17 No. 12200 Anonymous 25th October 2019 Friday 7:17 am 12200 >>12199 If I remember correctly there was a furore and boycott of their gigs for being transphobic.

>>	Anonymous 20/02/01 (Sat)22:21 No. 12258 Anonymous 1st February 2020 Saturday 10:21 pm 12258 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKfCYDcX5uw

>>	Anonymous 20/02/10 (Mon)22:55 No. 12265 Anonymous 10th February 2020 Monday 10:55 pm 12265 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMmVpXcW0TU

>>	Anonymous 20/02/11 (Tue)00:10 No. 12266 Anonymous 11th February 2020 Tuesday 12:10 am 12266 >>12265 That is quite mad. LazyTown on acid, which is saying something.

>>	Anonymous 20/02/11 (Tue)06:56 No. 12267 Anonymous 11th February 2020 Tuesday 6:56 am 12267 >>12266 Any excuse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYnvDL0Qcw

Anonymous 20/02/11 (Tue)11:11 No. 12268 Anonymous
11th February 2020
Tuesday 11:11 am 12268

>>12265
As soon as I heard the opening I remembered I had booked marked that song ages ago you've started me on a short Odyssey now of going through songs I never went back and re-listen to.

I rediscovered this one by them.

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

>>	Anonymous 20/02/11 (Tue)12:37 No. 12269 Anonymous 11th February 2020 Tuesday 12:37 pm 12269

>>	Anonymous 20/03/19 (Thu)22:50 No. 12322 Anonymous 19th March 2020 Thursday 10:50 pm 12322 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4DxPeLNVuw

>>	Anonymous 20/03/28 (Sat)19:19 No. 12324 Anonymous 28th March 2020 Saturday 7:19 pm 12324 There's better ЛУНА songs but I feel you lot will be more likely to give it a listen if there's nearly naked women who get oiled up. A couple of them get off.

>>	Anonymous 20/03/29 (Sun)09:49 No. 12325 Anonymous 29th March 2020 Sunday 9:49 am 12325 >>12324 You are correct. Song is pretty good too. Now can you link one of the better ones?

>>	Anonymous 20/03/29 (Sun)14:57 No. 12326 Anonymous 29th March 2020 Sunday 2:57 pm 12326 >>12325 >Now can you link one of the better ones? Just look it up on youtube, lazybones.

>>	Anonymous 20/03/29 (Sun)17:30 No. 12327 Anonymous 29th March 2020 Sunday 5:30 pm 12327 >>12326 Of course, but I wanted to know what you considered to be the best.

>>	Anonymous 20/03/31 (Tue)03:32 No. 12328 Anonymous 31st March 2020 Tuesday 3:32 am 12328 Went to a foreign wedding. This was nice. Shazam worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmqnsRp8hmE

Anonymous 20/08/02 (Sun)00:25 No. 12452 Anonymous
2nd August 2020
Sunday 12:25 am 12452

Imagine somewhere so cold that you're not having to constantly deal with being a bit sweaty. You could put on a sensible jumper and some nice thick long-johns while you sit by the fire. Heaven.

Anyway, now that I have your attention Astro Bunny is pretty good. Taiwan has a good music scene from what I can tell even if you have to accept the odd ballad to appease the brainwashed mainland audience.

>>	Anonymous 20/11/02 (Mon)17:52 No. 12568 Anonymous 2nd November 2020 Monday 5:52 pm 12568 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-syAK7WIXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jJLspL8o8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WNo4vAQid8

>>	Anonymous 20/11/19 (Thu)20:55 No. 12590 Anonymous 19th November 2020 Thursday 8:55 pm 12590 The video is at least worth a watch. >>12452 And I can't get enough of Cybertruck now.

>>	Anonymous 20/11/21 (Sat)20:39 No. 12591 Anonymous 21st November 2020 Saturday 8:39 pm 12591 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li4vte8Vl70 Japanese is the most beautiful language for vocals I've come across. Everything ends in a vowel so it's naturally melodic.

>>	Anonymous 20/11/28 (Sat)10:00 No. 12605 Anonymous 28th November 2020 Saturday 10:00 am 12605 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OumAw7yfk7U

>>	Anonymous 20/12/02 (Wed)18:56 No. 12606 Anonymous 2nd December 2020 Wednesday 6:56 pm 12606 >>12591 They also remember the importance of good clean fun and dance moves.

>>	Anonymous 20/12/03 (Thu)20:22 No. 12607 Anonymous 3rd December 2020 Thursday 8:22 pm 12607 >>12606 That was adorable. The dance moves were cute but slow, however the drawn effects contributed to a bit more going on and tied it all together. I feel better for having watched that video.

>>	Anonymous 21/01/05 (Tue)14:10 No. 12642 Anonymous 5th January 2021 Tuesday 2:10 pm 12642 Try not to dance:

>>	Anonymous 21/01/24 (Sun)04:00 No. 12660 Anonymous 24th January 2021 Sunday 4:00 am 12660 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2rP8ZU52gU Came across a a Colombian camsite gender bender with particularly good taste in music. Pretty nice tune.

>>	Anonymous 21/01/24 (Sun)09:02 No. 12661 Anonymous 24th January 2021 Sunday 9:02 am 12661 >>12660 >Came across I bet you did, IYKWIM.

>>	Anonymous 21/02/08 (Mon)02:05 No. 12672 Anonymous 8th February 2021 Monday 2:05 am 12672 I've been really into Yat-Kha, a Russian band who do Tuvan traditional folk/rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= GpQkYxING4I

Anonymous 21/02/17 (Wed)19:06 No. 12686 Anonymous
17th February 2021
Wednesday 7:06 pm 12686

It has been a week since I found this. I am unable to listen to anything but.

City Pop seems to be really fucking sound. Cheesy, funky, 80's. It's vapid but self aware. I'll stop before I go full Bateman. I will happily write a few paragraphs about exactly why you should enjoy this, if anyone will read.

My particular favourites are:

00:00: Plastic Love - reminds me of the girl who lives in the clubs, has endless energy, and would love you back if you could just keep up with her. But you can't, and she'll always want to stay out and do coke instead of enjoying a mug of horlicks in the bath.
32:41: 告白本人 - Not sure what song she ripped off, but it's got a great chorus.
37:40: 真夜中のドア - Sounds like it was made yesterday by a futurefunk band.
42:58 Oh No, Oh Yes - Think she's channelling Mariah Carey here, but less mental.

Those are a few of the hits. I hope someone finds as much joy in this as I have. I've never danced more.

>>	Anonymous 21/02/17 (Wed)20:25 No. 12687 Anonymous 17th February 2021 Wednesday 8:25 pm 12687 >>12686 Plastic Love is phenomenal.

>>	Anonymous 21/02/17 (Wed)21:26 No. 12688 Anonymous 17th February 2021 Wednesday 9:26 pm 12688 >>12686 City pop is the shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ESWmrPmJA8

Anonymous 21/02/20 (Sat)14:56 No. 12689 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 2:56 pm 12689

I've been enjoying this, it very much opens as a beep-boop kind of song but you will end up listening to it on repeat. The lyrics are just:
>You and I in solitude. Same here. Trying to change, trying to forget.

It give me a sad regret though over all the things I didn't do in my 20s before I got a career and that. Travelling as an end in itself seems wasteful but I feel like I missed out on living abroad at some point. Maybe it's just that I haven't been out of the country in nearly 10 years.

Anonymous 21/03/21 (Sun)18:52 No. 12747 Anonymous
21st March 2021
Sunday 6:52 pm 12747

I love foreign-language music. It's nice to see that other people like it too. I will now proceed to post links of pop music from communist countries, or countries shortly after they renounced communism:

Neoton Familia are the Hungarian ABBA, and the absolute best communist-era pop group:
220 Felett:

Don Quijote:

Te Vagy Minden (earlier in their career)

In fact, you can see how long and sort-of varied their career was by comparing Parbeszed:

...to the late 1980s, when two of the three women were gone and they were effectively the backing band for the remaining one:

(A lot of their songs are also available with English translations, but I would not recommend listening to these in most cases).

Other countries include Ukraine...
Russya, Bud Shcho Bude, the first communist-era song I ever liked:

Yugoslavia (Dubravka Jusic)...

(warning; if you like this one, it's been uploaded with the wrong title and is actually called Plesacica, I think)
It took a lot of research, but I even found an Albanian song I like, although my eyes just glaze over when I try to read this woman's name:

After the collapse of communism, Lithuania seemingly had an entire industry of music that sounds like 2 Unlimited, and is therefore all fantastic:
Soniclove are the best:

But there are others too:

To wrap things up, let's chill out with some comfy chillout bedtime tunes:
Juda Tavo Rankos, a Lithuanian song from 2002:

Kummush Razzoqova of Uzbekistan, Unutna Meni (1986):

>>	Anonymous 21/03/28 (Sun)14:45 No. 12758 Anonymous 28th March 2021 Sunday 2:45 pm 12758 The youtube algorithm recently spat out a city-pop album from the 00s and it's really great:

Anonymous 21/03/31 (Wed)01:16 No. 12764 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 1:16 am 12764

Nena, the German group behind 99 Luftballons, had plenty of other bangers too:

That song also has a longer, 12-inch version which is even more brilliant:

Nur Getraumt is very good too, but I don't know if Vimeo embeds its videos like YouTube does:
https://vimeo.com/255164098

>>	Anonymous 21/04/02 (Fri)06:53 No. 12765 Anonymous 2nd April 2021 Friday 6:53 am 12765 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBG3Gdt5OGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE

>>	Anonymous 21/04/02 (Fri)14:03 No. 12766 Anonymous 2nd April 2021 Friday 2:03 pm 12766 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxhTbxMSvT0

>>	Anonymous 21/04/02 (Fri)14:04 No. 12767 Anonymous 2nd April 2021 Friday 2:04 pm 12767 >>12766 (I forgot to add, only part is in a foreign language but I thought it counts)

>>	Anonymous 21/04/02 (Fri)18:20 No. 12768 Anonymous 2nd April 2021 Friday 6:20 pm 12768 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRIgGF3weeg

>>	Anonymous 21/04/03 (Sat)10:33 No. 12770 Anonymous 3rd April 2021 Saturday 10:33 am 12770 >>12764 Nur Geträumt always gets me because I never expect to hear Come With Me by Special D in 80s German pop-rock.

>>	Anonymous 21/04/24 (Sat)19:05 No. 12796 Anonymous 24th April 2021 Saturday 7:05 pm 12796 Perfect day for it with the sun.

>>	Anonymous 21/05/18 (Tue)12:16 No. 12820 Anonymous 18th May 2021 Tuesday 12:16 pm 12820 Why did the Koreans get so good at music? I know people like to claim it's all in a hyper-capitalist industry but it goes beyond pop-groups and is nothing on Japan's (and probably the West).

Anonymous 21/05/18 (Tue)14:16 No. 12821 Anonymous
18th May 2021
Tuesday 2:16 pm 12821

>>12820

Ten years ago they were hothousing their kids to be violinists and classical pianists, but a lot of them realised that there's more cultural cachet in contemporary music - an Asian kid who's brilliant at classical music is just a naff nouveau riche stereotype, but an Asian kid who's brilliant at jazz might get an Ivy League scholarship.

Also there's quite a big evangelical Christian movement for reasons I don't fully understand (Yank military bases?), which brought with it gospel music. Gospel often gets ignored by secular musicians and listeners, but the Black church has been the creative engine behind popular music for the last century.

>>	Anonymous 21/05/29 (Sat)20:30 No. 12839 Anonymous 29th May 2021 Saturday 8:30 pm 12839 Still a better love story than Twilight.

>>	Anonymous 21/05/29 (Sat)23:26 No. 12840 Anonymous 29th May 2021 Saturday 11:26 pm 12840 >>12821 >capitalising black Can we keep the Americanisms where they belong, in America and Guardian editorials? Gospel really isn't ignored, it's been acknowledged as a major influence on vocalists for years.

Anonymous 21/05/29 (Sat)23:43 No. 12841 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 11:43 pm 12841

>>12821

>the Black church has been the creative engine behind popular music for the last century.

Honestly I wouldn't say it's a good thing by this point. I love a spot of Northern soul but the Adele to Lewis Capaldi to Rag'n'Bone Man pipeline churns out some of the worst fucking dross you'll hear on the radio today.

Overdone cliché doesn't begin to describe it, it's at a saturation point worse than naff X Factor Christina Aguilera wannabes ten years ago.

Anonymous 21/05/30 (Sun)00:04 No. 12842 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 12:04 am 12842

>>12840

My grammatical error was failing to capitalise Church.

>Gospel really isn't ignored, it's been acknowledged as a major influence on vocalists for years.

How many white musicians or music fans could name three contemporary gospel performers? Being vaguely aware that Aretha Franklin and Candi Staton learned to sing in church does not equal paying attention to gospel.

Anonymous 21/05/30 (Sun)00:34 No. 12843 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 12:34 am 12843

>>12841

But that's precisely the problem - white soul artists are re-hashing a cod version of a cod version of 60s gospel. The Black Church is still churning out innovative and technically brilliant musicians in droves, but that isn't filtering through to the mainstream.

>>	Anonymous 21/06/03 (Thu)22:45 No. 12847 Anonymous 3rd June 2021 Thursday 10:45 pm 12847 Let's all take a few minutes to appreciate the best-named French pop star, Fanny Forest:

>>	Anonymous 21/06/03 (Thu)23:40 No. 12848 Anonymous 3rd June 2021 Thursday 11:40 pm 12848 >>12847 The French are dirty bastards. Fair play to them, I wouldn't have the nerve.

>>	Anonymous 21/06/09 (Wed)00:10 No. 12852 Anonymous 9th June 2021 Wednesday 12:10 am 12852 I still can't decide whether I like Zenit. It does look like they'd put on a good show though.

>>	Anonymous 21/06/09 (Wed)13:05 No. 12853 Anonymous 9th June 2021 Wednesday 1:05 pm 12853

>>	Anonymous 21/06/25 (Fri)13:24 No. 12873 Anonymous 25th June 2021 Friday 1:24 pm 12873 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZV-DruVZIo

>>	Anonymous 21/06/29 (Tue)23:07 No. 12877 Anonymous 29th June 2021 Tuesday 11:07 pm 12877 One of those songs I'd probably hate if it was in English.

>>	Anonymous 21/07/03 (Sat)01:28 No. 12882 Anonymous 3rd July 2021 Saturday 1:28 am 12882 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehio0atqemo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC28G0kvp0k

Anonymous 21/07/03 (Sat)15:55 No. 12887 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 3:55 pm 12887

Been watching loads of documentaries about the iron curtain recently, and found myself whistling the East German national anthem. Say what you want about the commies, they can write a good anthem; it's far better than Deutschlandlied.

https://youtu.be/dIh1eOw0zV8

>>	Anonymous 21/07/03 (Sat)15:56 No. 12888 Anonymous 3rd July 2021 Saturday 3:56 pm 12888 >>12887 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIh1eOw0zV8

>>	Anonymous 21/07/03 (Sat)19:23 No. 12889 Anonymous 3rd July 2021 Saturday 7:23 pm 12889 There has never been a better national anthem ever. I sometimes play it right before bed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

>>	Anonymous 21/07/03 (Sat)22:55 No. 12890 Anonymous 3rd July 2021 Saturday 10:55 pm 12890 1 Nationalism great, make great song for freedom 2 Socialism, make people controlled and ruled by state 3 Paradox

>>	Anonymous 21/07/24 (Sat)10:24 No. 12905 Anonymous 24th July 2021 Saturday 10:24 am 12905

>>	Anonymous 21/07/24 (Sat)16:08 No. 12906 Anonymous 24th July 2021 Saturday 4:08 pm 12906 >>12887 It's not just anthems, socialism had some good composers: And English for proof:

>>	Anonymous 21/08/01 (Sun)20:30 No. 12908 Anonymous 1st August 2021 Sunday 8:30 pm 12908 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05SSymMvdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf5apyds8Xk

>>	Anonymous 21/09/08 (Wed)10:18 No. 12950 Anonymous 8th September 2021 Wednesday 10:18 am 12950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q1GAF34xvY

>>	Anonymous 21/09/08 (Wed)15:35 No. 12951 Anonymous 8th September 2021 Wednesday 3:35 pm 12951 >>12950 I'd dorofeev her, if you know what I mean.

>>	Anonymous 21/09/08 (Wed)17:19 No. 12952 Anonymous 8th September 2021 Wednesday 5:19 pm 12952

Anonymous 21/09/08 (Wed)21:28 No. 12953 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 9:28 pm 12953

>>12950
Why do so many acts with foreign alphabets only transliterate either their name or the song title? I would understand if they provided both, or neither, or if they gave both artist name and song title in both alphabets, but it seems to be fairly common to only do one and leave people guessing for the other. (That song's title would be written as "Pochemu" in our alphabet, by the way).

Even ultradiskopanorama, my key to the world of foreign music, does it too, giving you the name in both alphabets but leaving the song titles impenetrable:

(The title means "Tornado", he says in the video description for this one, so it's not even like he can't use Google Translate)

Anonymous 21/09/09 (Thu)00:53 No. 12954 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 12:53 am 12954

I'm quite partial to a bit of salsa now and then. Always reminds me of spending a month in the Caribbean during uni, getting fucked on cheap rum every night and smoking counterfeit cigars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc13NAc7dvM

Anonymous 21/09/09 (Thu)01:48 No. 12955 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 1:48 am 12955

>>12954
You might like the song that was sampled more famously to become Hips Don't Lie by Shakira, then. I love foreign music and I love original versions of famous songs, and this is a great meeting point between the two:

>>	Anonymous 21/09/10 (Fri)11:01 No. 12957 Anonymous 10th September 2021 Friday 11:01 am 12957 >>12955 Yes, that's nice. I just like Latin music all around. Even the modern stuff by bands like Gente de Zona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UKU_PWhat4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8xoMhV8pI

>>	Anonymous 21/09/15 (Wed)16:15 No. 12959 Anonymous 15th September 2021 Wednesday 4:15 pm 12959 Not being racialist but imagine having a Japanese person living in your home. Just them getting up to their kawaii shenanigans, napping in the sun and tidying up.

>>	Anonymous 21/09/15 (Wed)19:16 No. 12960 Anonymous 15th September 2021 Wednesday 7:16 pm 12960 I guess >>/iq/69503 was right.

Anonymous 21/09/25 (Sat)02:10 No. 12962 Anonymous
25th September 2021
Saturday 2:10 am 12962

Alpha Blondy - Brigadier Sabari

Some of the finest reggae you'll ever hear. The lyrics are all about police brutality too, which is very righteous, but they're in some nutty obscure African language so I haven't been able to find them online anywhere.

If you're the sort to be outraged by cultural appropriation, here is the same song as performed by two white Belgians, with the lyrics changed into English words about having a small willy.

Anonymous 21/09/25 (Sat)09:04 No. 12963 Anonymous
25th September 2021
Saturday 9:04 am 12963

>>12962

>but they're in some nutty obscure African language so I haven't been able to find them online anywhere.
Can find them easily enough
https://genius.com/Alpha-blondy-brigadier-sabari-lyrics
https://www.jah-lyrics.com/song/alpha-blondy-natty-rebels-brigadier-sabari
Translating them from the mixture of French and Dioula is harder. Possibly there's some phonetic Arabic and Hebrew in there too. I've seen some Dioula dictionaries online but I have other things to do today.

>>	Anonymous 21/09/25 (Sat)09:18 No. 12964 Anonymous 25th September 2021 Saturday 9:18 am 12964 Get a load of Mr "I have other things to do today" over here.

>>	Anonymous 21/09/25 (Sat)10:01 No. 12965 Anonymous 25th September 2021 Saturday 10:01 am 12965 >>12964 He means wanking.

Anonymous 21/09/26 (Sun)20:20 No. 12966 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 8:20 pm 12966

All these are from 6Music earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXpWvEW3ZU

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs40yxHjTxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-7TdIhKBc

>>	Anonymous 21/10/28 (Thu)20:36 No. 12976 Anonymous 28th October 2021 Thursday 8:36 pm 12976 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY94EvXqMMo

Anonymous 21/10/28 (Thu)21:07 No. 12977 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 9:07 pm 12977

>>12976
That's certainly fairly supportive of Mario Gomez, but it will never come close to the glory of I Love U Alan Pardew:

(The song is called Herz An Herz, for anyone genuinely interested in the music of this mad video).

>>	Anonymous 21/11/16 (Tue)23:20 No. 12987 Anonymous 16th November 2021 Tuesday 11:20 pm 12987 It's Brighton right?

>>	Anonymous 21/11/17 (Wed)10:20 No. 12988 Anonymous 17th November 2021 Wednesday 10:20 am 12988 brighton-pier-helter-skelter-unsplash.jpg >>12987 The pier at 2:00 looks like it.

>>	Anonymous 21/11/17 (Wed)14:02 No. 12991 Anonymous 17th November 2021 Wednesday 2:02 pm 12991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIesHAzxFqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55LUEfnbX8

>>	Anonymous 21/11/26 (Fri)19:39 No. 12995 Anonymous 26th November 2021 Friday 7:39 pm 12995 Remix of the sound they play at train stations in France.

>>	Anonymous 21/11/29 (Mon)13:41 No. 12996 Anonymous 29th November 2021 Monday 1:41 pm 12996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL5d_xvdlPo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqJAgTQdlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61jSSF3Vu54

>>	Anonymous 21/11/29 (Mon)13:45 No. 12997 Anonymous 29th November 2021 Monday 1:45 pm 12997 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALtzTmPz-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s9e7Nq1VO4

>>	Anonymous 21/12/06 (Mon)14:12 No. 12999 Anonymous 6th December 2021 Monday 2:12 pm 12999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_cdKPMcjiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VQXZyGcBls

>>	Anonymous 22/01/03 (Mon)21:57 No. 13016 Anonymous 3rd January 2022 Monday 9:57 pm 13016

>>	Anonymous 22/01/12 (Wed)20:31 No. 13033 Anonymous 12th January 2022 Wednesday 8:31 pm 13033

>>	Anonymous 22/01/12 (Wed)22:32 No. 13035 Anonymous 12th January 2022 Wednesday 10:32 pm 13035 >>12997 That first one is absolutely excellent.

>>	Anonymous 22/02/01 (Tue)13:35 No. 13051 Anonymous 1st February 2022 Tuesday 1:35 pm 13051 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbBU06irWT8

Anonymous 22/02/02 (Wed)00:59 No. 13055 Anonymous
2nd February 2022
Wednesday 12:59 am 13055

***UZBEKISTAN SPECIAL***

Whenever I watch Uzbek music videos, which I almost certainly do more often than you do, there are some bizarrely ubiquitous stereotypes which really annoy me. The ones I see all seem to be directed by the same people, who emphasise really naked materialism and ostentatious wealth, and whose music videos always contain "acting breaks" like Michael Jackson always had, where the music stops and they just act instead for a bit. This is a particularly egregious example; they stop to act on no less than three separate occasions in just five minutes:

At least nobody dies in a car crash in that one. Uzbek pop stars lose at least one loved one in a car crash per music video, usually. Anyway, this song is better and more Western-feeling:

Next time someone demands more multiculturalism in their pop music charts, perhaps they should recruit Afruza instead of just singing in Spanish yet again. From what I can put into Google Translate, Afruza is the daughter of this woman who appears to be the same age:

>>	Anonymous 22/02/17 (Thu)14:31 No. 13064 Anonymous 17th February 2022 Thursday 2:31 pm 13064

>>	Anonymous 22/02/17 (Thu)18:24 No. 13065 Anonymous 17th February 2022 Thursday 6:24 pm 13065 >>13064 This feels like a gap year fever dream.

>>	Anonymous 22/02/17 (Thu)23:17 No. 13066 Anonymous 17th February 2022 Thursday 11:17 pm 13066 >>13055 It's all the inferior potassium.

>>	Anonymous 22/02/18 (Fri)00:14 No. 13067 Anonymous 18th February 2022 Friday 12:14 am 13067 >>13065 See if you can find a translation of the lyrics.

Anonymous 22/02/18 (Fri)00:23 No. 13068 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 12:23 am 13068

>>13067
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/freie-liebe-free-love.html

That's a fairly amateurish translation in my opinion (when he says "geil", the translator puts it as "horny", which is literally correct but the word is more commonly used to just mean "cool") but I trust it enough to agree with you that these are some very surprising lyrics.

>>	Anonymous 22/02/18 (Fri)00:45 No. 13069 Anonymous 18th February 2022 Friday 12:45 am 13069 >>13068 >which is literally correct but I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that's deliberate. Given the context.

Anonymous 22/02/18 (Fri)09:41 No. 13070 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 9:41 am 13070

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>>13068

Translating lyrics is basically impossible, because you're never going to capture the literal meaning, the allusion and the prosody. The double meaning of "geil" is integral in this context, so you're damned either way.

Some of those translation choices are objectively bad - I would never choose "Still, a good session requires some 'multi-taskers', no?" when the more literal "What's a good game without a multi-player mode?" conveys the intent far more closely. With that said, the translation is certainly close enough to convey the general gist, i.e. that Alligatoah is a total fuccboi. I mean, look at the state of him. No amount of ironic detachment can conceal the fact that he phones up his exes in tears at 4am after a long fruitless coke wank.

>>	Anonymous 22/02/18 (Fri)10:47 No. 13071 Anonymous 18th February 2022 Friday 10:47 am 13071 >>13070 I ran the lyrics through Deepl myself and it translated that part the same as you did.

>>	Anonymous 22/02/18 (Fri)11:54 No. 13072 Anonymous 18th February 2022 Friday 11:54 am 13072 >>13071 It's a real stretch to translate it any differently, especially as the German for "Multiplayer" is "Multiplayer".

>>	Anonymous 22/02/19 (Sat)20:51 No. 13074 Anonymous 19th February 2022 Saturday 8:51 pm 13074 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lH8fyJ2mo Ghanaian music is fantastic.

>>	Anonymous 22/02/23 (Wed)21:50 No. 13075 Anonymous 23rd February 2022 Wednesday 9:50 pm 13075

>>	Anonymous 22/02/24 (Thu)19:16 No. 13077 Anonymous 24th February 2022 Thursday 7:16 pm 13077

>>	Anonymous 22/03/01 (Tue)09:33 No. 13082 Anonymous 1st March 2022 Tuesday 9:33 am 13082 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdt-yIgm2zc

Anonymous 22/03/04 (Fri)00:18 No. 13084 Anonymous
4th March 2022
Friday 12:18 am 13084

Here's what I assume is a protest song by Maria Burmaka, the Ukrainian singer who recently said "Fuck Putin" to Dan Walker live on BBC Breakfast and is now the queen of my heart:

But maybe you're sick of politics. In that case, here is 1980s novelty hit Atmosphere by Russ Abbot, performed in Estonian:

And here's a Greenlandic rock song I've just discovered:

>>	Anonymous 22/03/11 (Fri)09:19 No. 13091 Anonymous 11th March 2022 Friday 9:19 am 13091 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51CH3dPaWXc

>>	Anonymous 22/03/11 (Fri)09:28 No. 13092 Anonymous 11th March 2022 Friday 9:28 am 13092

>>	Anonymous 22/03/13 (Sun)19:38 No. 13093 Anonymous 13th March 2022 Sunday 7:38 pm 13093 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZamukwjmNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxWxXncl53U

>>	Anonymous 22/03/18 (Fri)09:46 No. 13094 Anonymous 18th March 2022 Friday 9:46 am 13094 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Nl0A_nVxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHhWelSBppY

>>	Anonymous 22/03/18 (Fri)09:59 No. 13095 Anonymous 18th March 2022 Friday 9:59 am 13095 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbp3b7uehx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrKLYvLPidw

>>	Anonymous 22/03/18 (Fri)10:02 No. 13096 Anonymous 18th March 2022 Friday 10:02 am 13096 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Q_lhgGANc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMvMR-jNSKg

>>	Anonymous 22/03/18 (Fri)10:36 No. 13097 Anonymous 18th March 2022 Friday 10:36 am 13097 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKCqVpFVQ4A

>>	Anonymous 22/03/25 (Fri)13:14 No. 13100 Anonymous 25th March 2022 Friday 1:14 pm 13100 It's actually a song about summer coming to an end from the perspective of Southern Italy but it's been stuck in my head since the weather has turned.

>>	Anonymous 22/03/28 (Mon)22:20 No. 13101 Anonymous 28th March 2022 Monday 10:20 pm 13101 There's no singing but I think it kind of belongs in this thread. Bulgarian inspired folk prog played by French people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRcCQ5GvmPU

>>	Anonymous 22/04/01 (Fri)22:52 No. 13107 Anonymous 1st April 2022 Friday 10:52 pm 13107 The Japanese have mastered the art of flash mob comedy:

>>	Anonymous 22/04/15 (Fri)09:21 No. 13114 Anonymous 15th April 2022 Friday 9:21 am 13114 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgS7vgquBvo

>>	Anonymous 22/04/16 (Sat)12:45 No. 13116 Anonymous 16th April 2022 Saturday 12:45 pm 13116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBTNyJ33LWI Not their strongest work, the word play is pretty trite and on the nose.

>>	Anonymous 22/04/24 (Sun)01:12 No. 13122 Anonymous 24th April 2022 Sunday 1:12 am 13122 >>13114 KANA-BOON are fucking brilliant, in the same vein:

>>	Anonymous 22/04/28 (Thu)21:44 No. 13124 Anonymous 28th April 2022 Thursday 9:44 pm 13124 >>12591 It can be quite rhytmic as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdwT5JlH8gM

>>	Anonymous 22/04/29 (Fri)00:51 No. 13125 Anonymous 29th April 2022 Friday 12:51 am 13125 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BowjATQloV

>>	Anonymous 22/05/02 (Mon)00:18 No. 13126 Anonymous 2nd May 2022 Monday 12:18 am 13126 >>13125 I just pulled the id from the dev tools and it looks like it was supposed to be `BowjATQloV`? If so it's gone

>>	Anonymous 22/05/02 (Mon)08:16 No. 13127 Anonymous 2nd May 2022 Monday 8:16 am 13127 >>13126 Your hackermans investigation came to the wrong conclusion. He missed a character from the ID.

>>	Anonymous 22/05/02 (Mon)08:19 No. 13128 Anonymous 2nd May 2022 Monday 8:19 am 13128 >>13126 >>13127 Whoops. It was meant to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BowjATQloVA

>>	Anonymous 22/05/08 (Sun)23:52 No. 13131 Anonymous 8th May 2022 Sunday 11:52 pm 13131 If you forgive the horrible club sound effect it has a nice chorus.

>>	Anonymous 22/05/17 (Tue)01:21 No. 13142 Anonymous 17th May 2022 Tuesday 1:21 am 13142

Anonymous 22/05/27 (Fri)12:36 No. 13170 Anonymous
27th May 2022
Friday 12:36 pm 13170

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z8o7qAIlIU

German punk band Die Toten Hosen enjoyed a niche following in many countries including Britain, in the days before MTV Europe became localised.

The song "Hier Kommt Alex" is a homage to the character Alex in A Clockwork Orange, and the lyrics essentially recount most of the book's premise.

I saw them live in Germany once at Rock am Ring, in its day one of Europe's biggest open-air festivals. They really rocked. A teutonic take on the Sex Pistols, coupled with some broad-appeal guitar rock.

>>	Anonymous 22/05/28 (Sat)17:12 No. 13171 Anonymous 28th May 2022 Saturday 5:12 pm 13171 >>13170 This song was all over Germany when I went travelling in the early 2000s.

>>	Anonymous 22/06/28 (Tue)13:26 No. 13220 Anonymous 28th June 2022 Tuesday 1:26 pm 13220 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbGtni1d96A

Anonymous 22/07/05 (Tue)01:10 No. 13235 Anonymous
5th July 2022
Tuesday 1:10 am 13235

I don't know why this wimpy ballad is so catchy, but I can't get it out of my head:

According to Wikipedia, this video is Penelope Cruz's acting debut. The single was released a few weeks before her 15th birthday, so she is presumably 14 here.

>>	Anonymous 22/07/24 (Sun)11:54 No. 13257 Anonymous 24th July 2022 Sunday 11:54 am 13257 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbc_Fwbt50

>>	Anonymous 22/07/26 (Tue)09:52 No. 13266 Anonymous 26th July 2022 Tuesday 9:52 am 13266 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1apJTv94o

>>	Anonymous 22/07/31 (Sun)10:33 No. 13270 Anonymous 31st July 2022 Sunday 10:33 am 13270 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOXK4HEmzCA

>>	Anonymous 22/07/31 (Sun)13:38 No. 13272 Anonymous 31st July 2022 Sunday 1:38 pm 13272 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRnzTTYk7_Q

>>	Anonymous 22/07/31 (Sun)23:16 No. 13274 Anonymous 31st July 2022 Sunday 11:16 pm 13274 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLc7MOLwvlA

>>	Anonymous 22/08/01 (Mon)20:15 No. 13277 Anonymous 1st August 2022 Monday 8:15 pm 13277 >>13274 Bit like a pound shop Dannii Minogue, but ok.

>>	Anonymous 22/08/03 (Wed)10:49 No. 13280 Anonymous 3rd August 2022 Wednesday 10:49 am 13280 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC-ZvVSpdXo

>>	Anonymous 22/08/03 (Wed)11:32 No. 13281 Anonymous 3rd August 2022 Wednesday 11:32 am 13281 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp-dKdSUuLk

>>	Anonymous 22/08/06 (Sat)20:44 No. 13285 Anonymous 6th August 2022 Saturday 8:44 pm 13285 gili.png I love it when a pop star has clearly written their own Wikipedia page.

>>	Anonymous 22/09/09 (Fri)11:33 No. 13341 Anonymous 9th September 2022 Friday 11:33 am 13341 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVklx9b_q7o

>>	Anonymous 22/09/14 (Wed)18:16 No. 13346 Anonymous 14th September 2022 Wednesday 6:16 pm 13346 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qfM7offtiA

>>	Anonymous 22/09/14 (Wed)20:52 No. 13349 Anonymous 14th September 2022 Wednesday 8:52 pm 13349 >>13346 I remember this from my foreign upbringing. I remember this song came out around the same time and I really liked it, although listening to it now, maybe it's not as good as I remember:

Anonymous 22/09/14 (Wed)21:46 No. 13350 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 9:46 pm 13350

>>13349

Femme Like U is by far one of the best R&B songs of that entire decade, and yet, it's virtually unknown outside the Francosphere. I remember being in France some time around 2005 one time and they were playing it up and down there.

Anonymous 22/09/17 (Sat)20:54 No. 13354 Anonymous
17th September 2022
Saturday 8:54 pm 13354

Sexy Albanian lady Gjyste Vulaj sounds like lots of others, but I am going to post this song because she appears to be signed to a record label called Labia, and she sings this song in front of a building which says LABIA on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vzWgaSr2rM

>>	Anonymous 22/09/29 (Thu)00:50 No. 13389 Anonymous 29th September 2022 Thursday 12:50 am 13389

>>	Anonymous 22/09/29 (Thu)01:17 No. 13390 Anonymous 29th September 2022 Thursday 1:17 am 13390 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmINwHCfrbU This song's groove has been sampled in dozens of other songs.

>>	Anonymous 22/10/16 (Sun)12:12 No. 13421 Anonymous 16th October 2022 Sunday 12:12 pm 13421 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5sxTIyn0s

>>	Anonymous 22/12/13 (Tue)21:02 No. 13501 Anonymous 13th December 2022 Tuesday 9:02 pm 13501 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4nwKLxEboo

Anonymous 22/12/13 (Tue)23:00 No. 13502 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 11:00 pm 13502

>>13501

I always liked the bit that goes "Ayup tun sok barridic barrilal, lan dip karilil landitstando, la dipidapidal rarrup upirupiran, kurrigun kuk kuyokitigan ku. A rat ta taa, yaripidapidil a baritstandil landen lando, a bari pataa, bari bari, baribedibidibi di standen lando. Yabaditlas sten landey ado waduva duvaduva duvaduva duv yavu. Adislas dislans dey lando vudaga daga daga do do dey ado."

>>	Anonymous 22/12/14 (Wed)14:06 No. 13503 Anonymous 14th December 2022 Wednesday 2:06 pm 13503 >>13421 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpTDjG5xQA That song annoyed the piss out of me back then.

>>	Anonymous 22/12/14 (Wed)14:08 No. 13504 Anonymous 14th December 2022 Wednesday 2:08 pm 13504 >>13503 The French are wrong'uns.

>>	Anonymous 22/12/14 (Wed)14:38 No. 13505 Anonymous 14th December 2022 Wednesday 2:38 pm 13505 >>13503 Steve Wright always weirds me out.

>>	Anonymous 22/12/14 (Wed)15:30 No. 13506 Anonymous 14th December 2022 Wednesday 3:30 pm 13506 >>13505 Steve Wright's French?

>>	Anonymous 22/12/14 (Wed)15:52 No. 13507 Anonymous 14th December 2022 Wednesday 3:52 pm 13507 PAY-FLYNET-Exclusive-Steve-Wright-Braves-The-Rain-.jpg >>13506 He's one of about four TOTP presenters that are still allowed within 100 metres of a school, but he does now look like a Boglin.

Anonymous 22/12/17 (Sat)18:45 No. 13514 Anonymous
17th December 2022
Saturday 6:45 pm 13514

>>13503
I remember and I apologise if I've posted this exact story before reading the lyrics to Joe le Taxi, and being very surprised when Vanessa Paradis lists the sort of music that Joe listens to in his taxi. It's meant to be exotic, but gritty, the music of immigrants. But the only name I recognised was Yma Sumac (at 2:28 in your video), whom I had discovered by pure chance only a few days earlier.

Yma Sumac is fucking mental. In the notoriously conservative 1950s, she was an opera singer known for her extremely avant-garde and experimental style. Here she is:

I don't think Vanessa Paradis had ever heard anything by Yma Sumac. I was expecting mentions of the vibrant underground scene of Paris, to show the cultural impact of immigrants from all over the world. It should be like Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam in America, or I guess N-Dubz or somebody over here if you'd rather focus on the underclass element. Instead, she names the Peruvian equivalent of Karlheinz Stockhausen or Philip Glass.

Thank you for reading my probably-repeated story, and up next on Britfa.gs FM, we've got Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam:

Anonymous 22/12/17 (Sat)18:50 No. 13515 Anonymous
17th December 2022
Saturday 6:50 pm 13515

Fuck! I forgot this was the foreign songs thread. Before anyone kicks off, let me just say:
>>8980
>I guess songs in English by non-native speaking artists are fine too.
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Lisa
> Of Puerto Rican descent, Velez learned to speak Spanish at home and English in school.
But I still probably should have gone with Miami Sound Machine.

Anonymous 22/12/17 (Sat)19:43 No. 13516 Anonymous
17th December 2022
Saturday 7:43 pm 13516

>>13514

You raise an interesting point. The lyricist for that song was Étienne Roda-Gil, who was a hugely successful French songwriter and a prominent figure in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Joe was a real person - a butch lesbian called Maria-José Léao Dos Santos, who left Portugal to escape the Salazar regime. Étienne was a passenger in her cab, got chatting about her life and asked if he could write song about her. Étienne's father fled Spain after the civil war, which may have resonated with Joe's story. The real Joe was something of a personality in the Parisian LGBT scene and went on to run a number of lesbian bars in Pigalle.

Why the French pop industry liked to give this sort of song to girls in their early teens is a mystery to me, but I'll settle for the explanation of "the French are wrong'uns". I'm not sure how else you'd explain Alizée or Charlotte Gainsbourg.

>>	Anonymous 23/01/24 (Tue)22:03 No. 13557 Anonymous 24th January 2023 Tuesday 10:03 pm 13557 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHvCfhvlK7c

>>	Anonymous 23/01/25 (Wed)12:00 No. 13558 Anonymous 25th January 2023 Wednesday 12:00 pm 13558 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxsOwJQ9Lbc

>>	Anonymous 23/01/31 (Tue)06:01 No. 13561 Anonymous 31st January 2023 Tuesday 6:01 am 13561 お尻遊びは好きですか？彼はお尻で何でもします。

>>	Anonymous 23/01/31 (Tue)14:08 No. 13562 Anonymous 31st January 2023 Tuesday 2:08 pm 13562 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aB0xkbrJzc I'm spellbound.

>>	Anonymous 23/01/31 (Tue)20:31 No. 13563 Anonymous 31st January 2023 Tuesday 8:31 pm 13563 >>13558 Les Fatals Picards did what is quite possibly my all-time favourite Eurovision song. If I remember correctly, it came last.

>>	Anonymous 23/03/04 (Sat)13:45 No. 13623 Anonymous 4th March 2023 Saturday 1:45 pm 13623 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi106DZJhuQ

Anonymous 23/03/04 (Sat)14:11 No. 13624 Anonymous
4th March 2023
Saturday 2:11 pm 13624

>>13563

Speaking of Eurovision, it's looking like quite a competitive field this year. I think Norway are the most likely winners, with France and Spain being strong contenders. Czechia definitely should win it, but almost certainly won't. Croatia have provided this year's completely fucking mental entry.

>>	Anonymous 23/03/04 (Sat)14:24 No. 13625 Anonymous 4th March 2023 Saturday 2:24 pm 13625 >>13624 >Czechia Out of curiosity, do you also use things like Türkiye and Côte d'Ivoire?

Anonymous 23/03/04 (Sat)15:12 No. 13626 Anonymous
4th March 2023
Saturday 3:12 pm 13626

>>13625

Yes. I consider it a matter of etiquette to refer to countries using their preferred name. I think we're now well past the point where anyone could argue that the name hasn't caught on because it's used in essentially all official contexts, including Eurovision.

Türkiye sticks in my throat slightly for obvious political reasons and I'd use "Türkiye (Turkey)" in the first instance for the sake of clarity, but Côte d'Ivoire has been the preferred name since the mid-80s and is almost universally recognised without clarification. We've all stopped using "The Ukraine" and I wouldn't use the definite article for any country other than The Bahamas and The Gambia.

I wouldn't be on board if a country were to absolutely take the piss and change their name to an unpronounceable symbol or something, but I don't think that's particularly likely.

>>	Anonymous 23/03/04 (Sat)15:24 No. 13627 Anonymous 4th March 2023 Saturday 3:24 pm 13627 >>13626 Also the Czechs make loads of top-tier pornography. Fair play to them, a great bunch of lads and lasses.

Anonymous 23/03/04 (Sat)17:18 No. 13628 Anonymous
4th March 2023
Saturday 5:18 pm 13628

My friend loves this song and plays it for me all the time. I assumed it was really famous in Holland (sorry, >>13626, but I've asked them and they don't mind) but this video doesn't even have 8,000 views and there isn't a more-viewed one.

>>	Anonymous 23/03/04 (Sat)18:23 No. 13629 Anonymous 4th March 2023 Saturday 6:23 pm 13629 I've asked our lass before and she says not even Czechs like using Czechia, then something like "politiku, ty kokot bouzerant".

>>	Anonymous 23/03/08 (Wed)12:09 No. 13631 Anonymous 8th March 2023 Wednesday 12:09 pm 13631

>>	Anonymous 23/03/15 (Wed)21:21 No. 13658 Anonymous 15th March 2023 Wednesday 9:21 pm 13658 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtgA0jvhp2A

>>	Anonymous 23/03/17 (Fri)15:36 No. 13660 Anonymous 17th March 2023 Friday 3:36 pm 13660 Have a good weekend lads. We can worry about it on Monday.

>>	Anonymous 23/03/23 (Thu)15:32 No. 13670 Anonymous 23rd March 2023 Thursday 3:32 pm 13670 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zs7VWqNGHg

>>	Anonymous 23/03/31 (Fri)15:13 No. 13703 Anonymous 31st March 2023 Friday 3:13 pm 13703

>>	Anonymous 23/03/31 (Fri)23:55 No. 13707 Anonymous 31st March 2023 Friday 11:55 pm 13707 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY6O8OZy_Zg This song was absolutely everywhere when we went on holiday in Spain in 2018.

>>	Anonymous 23/04/06 (Thu)07:20 No. 13714 Anonymous 6th April 2023 Thursday 7:20 am 13714 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZAqaykiS70

>>	Anonymous 23/04/13 (Thu)19:06 No. 13726 Anonymous 13th April 2023 Thursday 7:06 pm 13726 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wCgZh-nczY

>>	Anonymous 23/04/14 (Fri)10:11 No. 13729 Anonymous 14th April 2023 Friday 10:11 am 13729 >>13726 Chuffed to see that one of you lads is aware of Dakh Daughters. They (and the sister project DakhaBrakha) are absolutely tremendous.

>>	Anonymous 23/04/14 (Fri)22:19 No. 13731 Anonymous 14th April 2023 Friday 10:19 pm 13731 Just a few more weeks till the 2023 ESC, lads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFeNRrRjOoo

>>	Anonymous 23/04/14 (Fri)23:03 No. 13732 Anonymous 14th April 2023 Friday 11:03 pm 13732 >>13731 Greta Thunberg's mam was shite at Eurovision, but she is quite fit.

>>	Anonymous 23/04/15 (Sat)01:10 No. 13733 Anonymous 15th April 2023 Saturday 1:10 am 13733 >>13732 Don't see her daughter turning out that way though.

>>	Anonymous 23/04/16 (Sun)14:18 No. 13734 Anonymous 16th April 2023 Sunday 2:18 pm 13734 >>8980 It's cheating, but explain to me how this is not a gay anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlwqOVnXuc4

>>	Anonymous 23/04/17 (Mon)23:31 No. 13737 Anonymous 17th April 2023 Monday 11:31 pm 13737 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==xwBMrYJODmM

>>	Anonymous 23/04/22 (Sat)02:15 No. 13739 Anonymous 22nd April 2023 Saturday 2:15 am 13739 A very interesting music video. A very interesting music video indeed.

>>	Anonymous 23/04/22 (Sat)11:31 No. 13741 Anonymous 22nd April 2023 Saturday 11:31 am 13741 >>13739 This song contains the opening riff from Layla at 1:13. I hope they don't get sued.

>>	Anonymous 23/04/22 (Sat)13:04 No. 13742 Anonymous 22nd April 2023 Saturday 1:04 pm 13742 >>13741 If I were Eric Clapton, I'd challenge her to wrestle for it.

>>	Anonymous 23/04/23 (Sun)13:12 No. 13743 Anonymous 23rd April 2023 Sunday 1:12 pm 13743 >>13742 If you were Eric Clapton I'd ask politely if you wouldn't mind awfully being a bit less of a cunt.

>>	Anonymous 23/04/29 (Sat)14:03 No. 13747 Anonymous 29th April 2023 Saturday 2:03 pm 13747 >>8980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTyud3MzKKc Hard metal.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/01 (Mon)10:31 No. 13748 Anonymous 1st May 2023 Monday 10:31 am 13748

Anonymous 23/05/01 (Mon)13:15 No. 13749 Anonymous
1st May 2023
Monday 1:15 pm 13749

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6s1-caKRtQ

Camouflage were an 80s German synthpop act which many saw as the German Depeche Mode.

Sketchy English lyrics aside, it was known that Depeche Mode themselves weren't impressed and did their best to just ignore them.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/13 (Sat)01:25 No. 13755 Anonymous 13th May 2023 Saturday 1:25 am 13755 Most of the bartenders round my way look like the keytar man out of Vesyolye Rebyata:

>>	Anonymous 23/05/13 (Sat)11:54 No. 13756 Anonymous 13th May 2023 Saturday 11:54 am 13756 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_KVZwGSVpY Denmark's official song for the 1986 World Cup.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/13 (Sat)16:21 No. 13757 Anonymous 13th May 2023 Saturday 4:21 pm 13757 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy7tQJAeBbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUIu-zLWhog

>>	Anonymous 23/05/13 (Sat)17:37 No. 13758 Anonymous 13th May 2023 Saturday 5:37 pm 13758 >>13757 Germany has a lot to answer for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5LW07FTJbI You'd probably have to wipe the redhead down with Dettol, but I still would. Even though she's probably 40 now.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/13 (Sat)23:53 No. 13759 Anonymous 13th May 2023 Saturday 11:53 pm 13759 >>13758 It only just hit me that the song is called "Kernkraft 400" and the artist is "Zombie Nation". For some reason I thought it was the other way around.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/14 (Sun)00:52 No. 13760 Anonymous 14th May 2023 Sunday 12:52 am 13760 >>13759 Probably because 100% of the lyrics to that song are the words "Zombie" and "Nation". I have made the same mistake myself in the past, and that was why I did it.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/14 (Sun)13:18 No. 13762 Anonymous 14th May 2023 Sunday 1:18 pm 13762 >>13758 > Even though she's probably 40 now. Song came out in 1999, so it's been ~24 years. She'd better be 40ish at this point, though given it as the 90s who knows.

Anonymous 23/05/14 (Sun)13:54 No. 13764 Anonymous
14th May 2023
Sunday 1:54 pm 13764

>>13762

> though given it as the 90s who knows.

I know we've had the debate in another thread, but it's not true that the 90s were the Sodom and Gomorrah of decades where everybody was fucking everybody. If you were having sex with somebody underage, you were opening yourself up to criminal charges the same way as you do now. What is true is that it was the time before stranger danger and media hysteria about wronguns like Jimmy Saville. I was a teenlad in the 90s, and I'm not sure you can even say we were living in an age of innocence or outright ignorance where we just weren't aware of all that noncery going on. Everyone knew at least one weird older lad who was inappropriately friendly with girls half his age. But for what it was, as a young person growing up in the 90s, consensual sexuality was more free, with fewer hangups and worries. And fewer laws to get on the wrong side of. And at a time when The Sun regularly featured sixteen year old Page 3 girls, nobody would have thought much of seeing a 16- or 17 year old dancing around suggestively in a throwaway techno music video. Which still looks pretty tame, let's be honest.

It was a different time. And in many respects, I still maintain it was a better time. No matter what people will have you believe nowadays as somebody who didn't experience the 90s first-hand.

Anonymous 23/05/14 (Sun)14:03 No. 13765 Anonymous
14th May 2023
Sunday 2:03 pm 13765

>>13764
Yeesh, that was meant to be a throw-away joke. The 90s were not pedo heaven, but it certaintly was a time when internet happened and it became much more visible how some people behaved.

There is no magic cut off where sex is OK, but almost unversally people who talk about Age of Consent are wrong in the head.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/14 (Sun)14:25 No. 13766 Anonymous 14th May 2023 Sunday 2:25 pm 13766 >>13765 Well, sorry, in that case. I've obviously got a little too much free time today, so I felt like commenting. I'll get back to tending to my sunflower seedlings now.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/14 (Sun)19:23 No. 13768 Anonymous 14th May 2023 Sunday 7:23 pm 13768 >>13766 🤝

>>	Anonymous 23/05/14 (Sun)22:17 No. 13769 Anonymous 14th May 2023 Sunday 10:17 pm 13769 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeheoBa2_Y

>>	Anonymous 23/05/17 (Wed)20:42 No. 13772 Anonymous 17th May 2023 Wednesday 8:42 pm 13772 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRnzTTYk7_Q

>>	Anonymous 23/05/17 (Wed)21:45 No. 13774 Anonymous 17th May 2023 Wednesday 9:45 pm 13774 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCNRBnI4PA

>>	Anonymous 23/05/17 (Wed)22:00 No. 13775 Anonymous 17th May 2023 Wednesday 10:00 pm 13775 >>13774 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJNiMNUSrw8

Anonymous 23/05/17 (Wed)23:54 No. 13776 Anonymous
17th May 2023
Wednesday 11:54 pm 13776

>>13772
Do you mind if I ask if anything made you post this song? I could have sworn I posted it here in the past week or so, but it appears that I did not. I assume it was also you who posted Yeke Yeke, another favourite of mine, so this all feels very strange. Here's Alane by Wes to calm me down. He's dead too, just like Mory Kante.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/18 (Thu)00:19 No. 13777 Anonymous 18th May 2023 Thursday 12:19 am 13777 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n33NR2dlsAg No idea what the text means, but I lilke the kora sound.

Anonymous 23/05/18 (Thu)13:57 No. 13778 Anonymous
18th May 2023
Thursday 1:57 pm 13778

>>13776

I posted Ofra Haza and Mory Kante.

Both are from the summer of 1988, which is one of my earliest recollections of following the music charts.

Ofra Haza died from AIDS, but not because she was a slag, but probably because her wealthy businessman husband was shagging people left right and centre.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/18 (Thu)20:40 No. 13779 Anonymous 18th May 2023 Thursday 8:40 pm 13779 >>13778 What a mad coincidence, then. Perhaps I dreamt I posted those songs here. This song is from 1982 and I might have posted it before, but who can say no to Ivorian reggae?

>>	Anonymous 23/05/19 (Fri)13:27 No. 13781 Anonymous 19th May 2023 Friday 1:27 pm 13781 >>13779 I think Danish reggae is a much bigger feat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82XGJV_nkU I was unaware that there are palm trees in Denmark. Must've missed them on my last trip.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/19 (Fri)21:29 No. 13782 Anonymous 19th May 2023 Friday 9:29 pm 13782 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiR-5swzlvE Seeben tayge lang!

>>	Anonymous 23/05/21 (Sun)09:18 No. 13783 Anonymous 21st May 2023 Sunday 9:18 am 13783 >>13782 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gouo-wgWqDs

>>	Anonymous 23/05/25 (Thu)00:32 No. 13786 Anonymous 25th May 2023 Thursday 12:32 am 13786 Stop the thread! All this time, there has been a Yugoslavian version of Blondie and they appear to be fantastic! Fuck literally all other music.

Anonymous 23/05/25 (Thu)01:26 No. 13787 Anonymous
25th May 2023
Thursday 1:26 am 13787

>>13786

There's always that bit of crude charm about Communist Bloc music productions. You can just picture them lugging their Tonika guitars and Polivoks synth from gig to gig in their Lada along poorly paved roads.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/25 (Thu)01:33 No. 13788 Anonymous 25th May 2023 Thursday 1:33 am 13788 >>13787 And no one remembers the drummer. Lug that shit around for a few gigs and you can talk.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/25 (Thu)01:38 No. 13789 Anonymous 25th May 2023 Thursday 1:38 am 13789 I'm not bitter.

>>	Anonymous 23/05/27 (Sat)23:07 No. 13792 Anonymous 27th May 2023 Saturday 11:07 pm 13792 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WVeRHwmQZc

>>	Anonymous 23/06/07 (Wed)02:41 No. 13801 Anonymous 7th June 2023 Wednesday 2:41 am 13801 She also sings in English: Sweden is a horrible place to live. The number one complaint isn't just that the people are uptight, neat and feel morally superior, surely?

Anonymous 23/06/07 (Wed)20:49 No. 13803 Anonymous
7th June 2023
Wednesday 8:49 pm 13803

>>13801
I would assume the worst thing about Sweden is the cold and endless darkness. But I've never been; maybe it's actually fine. Although countries with nice outsides tend not to make music that's so much fun to stay indoors to.

>>	Anonymous 23/06/07 (Wed)23:04 No. 13804 Anonymous 7th June 2023 Wednesday 11:04 pm 13804 >>13803 >Why are you screaming honey, I thought you liked anime girls

Anonymous 23/06/07 (Wed)23:29 No. 13805 Anonymous
7th June 2023
Wednesday 11:29 pm 13805

>>13804
Sometimes I wonder how the original members of Caramell feel about finding online fame so long after they split up that they have now been replaced by cartoon characters that bear no resemblance to the original group.

>>	Anonymous 23/06/07 (Wed)23:47 No. 13806 Anonymous 7th June 2023 Wednesday 11:47 pm 13806 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzCbWSVHwME For their time, those computer animations were quite cutting edge. We're talking mid-90s.

>>	Anonymous 23/06/08 (Thu)00:47 No. 13807 Anonymous 8th June 2023 Thursday 12:47 am 13807 >>13806 Remarkably, it was probably done on an Amiga. Off-topic, but this promo video is staggeringly 90s.

Anonymous 23/06/08 (Thu)00:52 No. 13808 Anonymous
8th June 2023
Thursday 12:52 am 13808

>>13807

I was thinking more something like an SGI workstation. The Amiga probably would have been a bit out of its depth rendering those highly textured shapes into 640x480 video with a halfway decent frame rate.

>>	Anonymous 23/06/08 (Thu)18:13 No. 13809 Anonymous 8th June 2023 Thursday 6:13 pm 13809 >>13808 2 Amiga 1200s were used to do the CGI for Babylon 5. It's simple textured 3D models with very little in the way of animation, but it was impressive at the time.

>>	Anonymous 23/06/09 (Fri)06:00 No. 13810 Anonymous 9th June 2023 Friday 6:00 am 13810 >>13783 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4YlUjW_CWk

>>	Anonymous 23/06/09 (Fri)11:01 No. 13811 Anonymous 9th June 2023 Friday 11:01 am 13811 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhfkAL062I8 The official song of the 1990 World Cup in Italy.

>>	Anonymous 23/06/09 (Fri)11:13 No. 13812 Anonymous 9th June 2023 Friday 11:13 am 13812 Not a lot of people know that Laurie Penny was a very successful singer in France in the 1960s.

>>	Anonymous 23/06/09 (Fri)11:53 No. 13813 Anonymous 9th June 2023 Friday 11:53 am 13813 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6w9HYmQMgQ

>>	Anonymous 23/06/11 (Sun)21:08 No. 13823 Anonymous 11th June 2023 Sunday 9:08 pm 13823 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFutjZEBTXs He's a lucky guy to be married to Anna Kournikova. She still looks fit. Nobody remembers that she was actually a shit tennis player in her day.

>>	Anonymous 23/06/11 (Sun)22:37 No. 13824 Anonymous 11th June 2023 Sunday 10:37 pm 13824 Speaking of fitties, the woman in >>13811's song turns out to have had an extensive career and been a hottie for most of it. Wikipedia says she's a lesbian, unfortunately, but I don't speak Italian anyway.

Anonymous 23/06/11 (Sun)23:07 No. 13825 Anonymous
11th June 2023
Sunday 11:07 pm 13825

>>13824

My family were big italophiles in the 80s and 90s and we spent a few summer holidays there, and if you were inclined that way, there was no way you didn't know about Gianna Nannini. She was probably the biggest female singer in Italy in those days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOH6iZtWkFM

>>	Anonymous 23/06/19 (Mon)13:10 No. 13836 Anonymous 19th June 2023 Monday 1:10 pm 13836 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NjJLFI_oYs

>>	Anonymous 23/06/23 (Fri)10:53 No. 13839 Anonymous 23rd June 2023 Friday 10:53 am 13839 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNig6xG36i4

>>	Anonymous 23/07/03 (Mon)14:23 No. 13870 Anonymous 3rd July 2023 Monday 2:23 pm 13870 >>13839 This is pretty cool. A little funky.

>>	Anonymous 23/07/07 (Fri)12:57 No. 13874 Anonymous 7th July 2023 Friday 12:57 pm 13874 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCE5JAmrAlg

>>	Anonymous 23/07/22 (Sat)06:09 No. 13896 Anonymous 22nd July 2023 Saturday 6:09 am 13896 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWlugvcnuSA

>>	Anonymous 23/07/22 (Sat)06:13 No. 13897 Anonymous 22nd July 2023 Saturday 6:13 am 13897 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxep-gS-Btg

>>	Anonymous 23/07/22 (Sat)06:23 No. 13898 Anonymous 22nd July 2023 Saturday 6:23 am 13898 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRrVbrgkovQ

Anonymous 23/07/22 (Sat)14:06 No. 13902 Anonymous
22nd July 2023
Saturday 2:06 pm 13902

Glad there're some other Asian tracks to explore, here.
Check this one out, Miki Matsubara's Stay With Me. She sings slightly off key in this live track- it's charming. There's something wonderful about Japanese pop music, or whatever this is. Reminds me of my teen years listening to niche videogame music radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q4JRVW5BFE

>>	Anonymous 23/07/22 (Sat)18:15 No. 13903 Anonymous 22nd July 2023 Saturday 6:15 pm 13903 >>13902 Here's a personal favourite of mine:

>>	Anonymous 23/07/24 (Mon)13:47 No. 13911 Anonymous 24th July 2023 Monday 1:47 pm 13911 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OsETaZhBzE

>>	Anonymous 23/07/25 (Tue)01:04 No. 13912 Anonymous 25th July 2023 Tuesday 1:04 am 13912 I don't think I will ever stop laughing at this woman's name. This isn't her best song, but it's called Flash and that's hilarious too:

>>	Anonymous 23/08/07 (Mon)17:37 No. 13943 Anonymous 7th August 2023 Monday 5:37 pm 13943 Is Japanese a language that is just naturally pleasing to the ears? Or if you would like to have a nice nap

>>	Anonymous 23/08/07 (Mon)17:37 No. 13944 Anonymous 7th August 2023 Monday 5:37 pm 13944 Is Japanese a language that is just naturally pleasing to the ears? Or if you would like to have a nice nap

Anonymous 23/08/07 (Mon)18:48 No. 13945 Anonymous
7th August 2023
Monday 6:48 pm 13945

>>13943
>Is Japanese a language that is just naturally pleasing to the ears?
I think it has something to do with the phonetic nature of the language. Each sylable is distinct, as opposed to our language, which words can meld into one another.

>>	Anonymous 23/08/07 (Mon)21:29 No. 13946 Anonymous 7th August 2023 Monday 9:29 pm 13946 >>13943 Some languages do just sound nice. I think Turkish sounds lovely, originally because of this: And more recently because of this, which I now awkwardly notice has no singing at all for the first minute:

>>	Anonymous 23/08/08 (Tue)13:52 No. 13948 Anonymous 8th August 2023 Tuesday 1:52 pm 13948 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOlUU8l8j5M

>>	Anonymous 23/08/08 (Tue)20:38 No. 13951 Anonymous 8th August 2023 Tuesday 8:38 pm 13951 >>13948 Give that woman a penis, and this video is exactly what I imagine a britfa.gs meetup would look like.

>>	Anonymous 23/08/09 (Wed)11:18 No. 13952 Anonymous 9th August 2023 Wednesday 11:18 am 13952 p01l5q1j.jpg >>13948 Russian chavs, eh.

>>	Anonymous 23/08/16 (Wed)10:12 No. 13957 Anonymous 16th August 2023 Wednesday 10:12 am 13957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcZ0VPN7ms

Anonymous 23/08/16 (Wed)16:21 No. 13959 Anonymous
16th August 2023
Wednesday 4:21 pm 13959

>>13948

I was really drunk for my birthday a few weeks ago and I started playing a load of this stuff to my girlfriend. I think it drastically lowered her estimations of me, partly because she's a slav, and partially because I'm supposed to be a metalhead.

She doesn't know that inside, my soul is gopnik. It's painful lads.

>>	Anonymous 23/08/22 (Tue)15:11 No. 13962 Anonymous 22nd August 2023 Tuesday 3:11 pm 13962 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYV-XJdzupY

>>	Anonymous 23/08/29 (Tue)21:35 No. 13969 Anonymous 29th August 2023 Tuesday 9:35 pm 13969 Dengue Fever are an American band with Cambodian heritage, and here they are playing their version of some Ethiopian jazz. Do I win the thread forever? This song by the same band is actually better:

>>	Anonymous 23/09/04 (Mon)14:10 No. 13986 Anonymous 4th September 2023 Monday 2:10 pm 13986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ownrDFA-zL4

>>	Anonymous 23/09/26 (Tue)12:52 No. 14018 Anonymous 26th September 2023 Tuesday 12:52 pm 14018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYPpnjthkU

>>	Anonymous 23/10/04 (Wed)09:15 No. 14034 Anonymous 4th October 2023 Wednesday 9:15 am 14034 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejOjC-mTfA0

>>	Anonymous 23/10/06 (Fri)01:10 No. 14042 Anonymous 6th October 2023 Friday 1:10 am 14042 Michael Learns to Rock are a Danish soft rock band who had two or three good songs in the mid-90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIWcOdBtLRw

>>	Anonymous 23/10/13 (Fri)15:35 No. 14047 Anonymous 13th October 2023 Friday 3:35 pm 14047 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnDRjGaCAf4 Very solid effort by Madonna, with a song that was already one of her best during the mid-90s in its English version.

Anonymous 23/10/14 (Sat)18:24 No. 14050 Anonymous
14th October 2023
Saturday 6:24 pm 14050

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9CEi8wkBc

MAinstream punk from Germany, it mentions Störkraft and "Onkels", aka. Böhse Onkelz. Two well known far right German rock bands. The song was perhaps a bit too early to include Landser.

>>	Anonymous 23/10/26 (Thu)15:45 No. 14087 Anonymous 26th October 2023 Thursday 3:45 pm 14087 It's been a while since I came across something so batshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkWfFXnLpYg

>>	Anonymous 23/10/30 (Mon)21:26 No. 14094 Anonymous 30th October 2023 Monday 9:26 pm 14094 Basque music!

>>	Anonymous 23/10/30 (Mon)23:13 No. 14095 Anonymous 30th October 2023 Monday 11:13 pm 14095 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quUTJXPH55Y Lads holiday, Magaluf 2006. This song was absolutely. fucking. everywhere. all the time.

>>	Anonymous 23/10/31 (Tue)11:12 No. 14096 Anonymous 31st October 2023 Tuesday 11:12 am 14096 >>14095 I have recently fallen back in love with Bob Sinclar.

>>	Anonymous 23/11/03 (Fri)11:43 No. 14105 Anonymous 3rd November 2023 Friday 11:43 am 14105 I've been enjoying this fun little song about a Prince's consulting room where unfortunately everyone talks to the Prince at once instead of waiting their turn. It's worth turning the CC on.

Anonymous 23/12/03 (Sun)14:33 No. 14152 Anonymous
3rd December 2023
Sunday 2:33 pm 14152

Dakh Daughters are pretty cool. They're some Ukrainian arts troupe that sings across multiple languages, apparently drawing inspiration from famous writers of the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbnY8AKqVzc

>>	Anonymous 23/12/03 (Sun)17:13 No. 14153 Anonymous 3rd December 2023 Sunday 5:13 pm 14153 I've resisted posting this because you'll all just comment on the uniforms but Atarashii Gakko! put out a banger and they worked very hard on the dance:

>>	Anonymous 24/01/01 (Mon)12:10 No. 14173 Anonymous 1st January 2024 Monday 12:10 pm 14173 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKFBJSSAu8

>>	Anonymous 24/01/09 (Tue)11:23 No. 14194 Anonymous 9th January 2024 Tuesday 11:23 am 14194 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4bXHMZIpFg

>>	Anonymous 24/01/09 (Tue)14:55 No. 14195 Anonymous 9th January 2024 Tuesday 2:55 pm 14195 Still having a bit of a French day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njpw2PVb1c0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILP3KAVfKLs

>>	Anonymous 24/01/15 (Mon)17:13 No. 14206 Anonymous 15th January 2024 Monday 5:13 pm 14206 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12-BhdtMg-w

>>	Anonymous 24/01/23 (Tue)23:50 No. 14227 Anonymous 23rd January 2024 Tuesday 11:50 pm 14227

Anonymous 24/01/24 (Wed)00:11 No. 14228 Anonymous
24th January 2024
Wednesday 12:11 am 14228

>>14227
Sometimes I wonder if this is the most iconic foreign pop song of all time. It's brilliant. Thinking about it a little more, perhaps it comes second behind Rock Me Amadeus, and 99 Luftballons has a shout too but that was translated into English for the UK charts so I don't count it.

Anonymous 24/01/29 (Mon)01:41 No. 14239 Anonymous
29th January 2024
Monday 1:41 am 14239

I really like these old Turkish songs. And yet, when I have looked them up outside of these two videos, they sound completely different. It turns out that Hande Yener was not around in the 1980s at all (well, she was born in 1973), and some YouTuber with under 400 subscribers has been remixing her songs to give them an '80s vibe:

The official version of "Romeo" came out in 2007, and the second one I posted, "Sahte", came out in 2021! They're not as good, so I hope this remixer guy makes it big.

>>	Anonymous 24/01/29 (Mon)15:47 No. 14240 Anonymous 29th January 2024 Monday 3:47 pm 14240 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1P8jDSsykc Jarvis Cocker's Pulp arguably nicked the hook of this song for their own song, Disco 2000.

>>	Anonymous 24/02/07 (Wed)21:00 No. 14243 Anonymous 7th February 2024 Wednesday 9:00 pm 14243 Does this count?

>>	Anonymous 24/02/19 (Mon)12:08 No. 14272 Anonymous 19th February 2024 Monday 12:08 pm 14272 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyczZ3ppfso

>>	Anonymous 24/02/29 (Thu)18:15 No. 14290 Anonymous 29th February 2024 Thursday 6:15 pm 14290 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osspc11TRTg Skip the first 10 seconds, it's not the actual song.

>>	Anonymous 24/03/01 (Fri)11:40 No. 14292 Anonymous 1st March 2024 Friday 11:40 am 14292 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM0RGc_rQZ0 Once hailed as the German Green Day, this Shakespears Sister cover was their biggest hit.

>>	Anonymous 24/03/01 (Fri)12:15 No. 14293 Anonymous 1st March 2024 Friday 12:15 pm 14293 >>14292 >Once hailed as the German Green Day I can't think of anything crueller. Actually I can: "the Swiss Olly Murs".

>>	Anonymous 24/03/09 (Sat)13:15 No. 14303 Anonymous 9th March 2024 Saturday 1:15 pm 14303 Banger. I like the shoegaze influence on this and the message for vapelad.

>>	Anonymous 24/03/18 (Mon)14:56 No. 14325 Anonymous 18th March 2024 Monday 2:56 pm 14325 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRX1liBXSKw

>>	Anonymous 24/04/01 (Mon)14:56 No. 14334 Anonymous 1st April 2024 Monday 2:56 pm 14334 How come we never have cardboard universes anymore? You'd think it would be all the rage with that sustainability stuff. Keep tryin' lads.

Anonymous 24/04/02 (Tue)01:02 No. 14335 Anonymous
2nd April 2024
Tuesday 1:02 am 14335

Again, if I have posted this already, then I'm sorry:

It's just that YouTube has now recommended me this other song by Roxy (fun fact: Roxy is actually one of the men!) and I like it even more. I woke up with it stuck in my head this morning.

>>	Anonymous 24/04/16 (Tue)01:29 No. 14378 Anonymous 16th April 2024 Tuesday 1:29 am 14378

>>	Anonymous 24/04/22 (Mon)18:28 No. 14383 Anonymous 22nd April 2024 Monday 6:28 pm 14383 >>14382 Fuck. Hang on.

>>	Anonymous 24/04/29 (Mon)14:52 No. 14402 Anonymous 29th April 2024 Monday 2:52 pm 14402 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQsgDIieHg

>>	Anonymous 24/05/01 (Wed)06:26 No. 14407 Anonymous 1st May 2024 Wednesday 6:26 am 14407 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXNmN0kHRwA Still bumpin' Nigga in a Wedding Dress in 2024.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/05 (Sun)01:29 No. 14422 Anonymous 5th May 2024 Sunday 1:29 am 14422 The other music thread has someone who was called "the Dutch Phil Collins", and now I want to listen to the most '80s Dutch song ever. Sorry if I've posted Frank Boeijen before.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/05 (Sun)10:04 No. 14423 Anonymous 5th May 2024 Sunday 10:04 am 14423 >>14422 >Kronenburg Park Does it have anything to do with Kronenbourg lager?

Anonymous 24/05/05 (Sun)10:37 No. 14426 Anonymous
5th May 2024
Sunday 10:37 am 14426

>>14422

That got me thinking about Roxanne by The Police, which has a broadly similar theme, but a bit pervier. How has Sting managed to avoid being cancelled? He's written some properly dodgy stuff over the years - Don't Stand So Close to Me, Every Breath You Take, you'd never get away with it these days.

Anonymous 24/05/05 (Sun)11:02 No. 14427 Anonymous
5th May 2024
Sunday 11:02 am 14427

>>14423
Seemingly not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronenburgerpark
>The park, sung in a song by Frank Boeijen under the title "Kronenburg Park" (1985), was known as a hangout for prostitutes and drug addicts. After a radical reorganization, the park was given the appearance in 2005 of a quiet, modern city park.[2]
The lyrics to the song, if you're wondering, are about meeting a prostitute in the park and saying it's really grim and encouraging her to leave and start a new life somewhere safer.

Meanwhile,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronenbourg_Brewery
>Kronenbourg Brewery (French: Brasseries Kronenbourg, German: Kronenbourg Brauerei, pronounced [kʁɔnɑ̃buʁ]) is a brewery founded in 1664 by Geronimus Hatt in the Free Imperial City of Straßburg, Holy Roman Empire (today Strasbourg, France). The name comes from the area where the brewery relocated in 1850.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/05 (Sun)20:00 No. 14429 Anonymous 5th May 2024 Sunday 8:00 pm 14429 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ybFb_wKlvQ

Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)01:41 No. 14437 Anonymous
8th May 2024
Wednesday 1:41 am 14437

Master Voice, from Hungary, seem to gloss over a mystery from their past. From their own website:
>Hungarian Italo discom High Energy Studio band. It was founded by István Hajni in the middle of the 80's. He intended to release the Master Voice tracks, but the one and only Hungarian record company (MHV) refused it. Then he decided to release their songs on MC as a self-published cassette. He distributed this album (Kizárólag Reklám = Only For Promotional Release) to many Disco clubs in Hungary and the DJ's started playing the better songs (Álla Híd Még, There's a Bridge, Balaton, Andromeda Rap and so on) and those became club hits in Hungary.

Were they blocked from releasing their music because they were subversive anti-communist rebels, or were they just shit? They don't sound like either of those things are true to me:

Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)06:31 No. 14438 Anonymous
8th May 2024
Wednesday 6:31 am 14438

>>14437

They weren't blocked per se, it's just that there was literally only one record label in communist Hungary - if they didn't feel like releasing your record, tough shit. It's utterly foreign to us, but like everything else in a command economy, culture was centrally planned. The Party owned the means of production and the Party was solely responsible for deciding what was produced.

I can't speak with any real knowledge about Hungary, but in East Germany and Czechoslovakia there were all sorts of reasons why you might be declined a recording contract or a performing license. You might be politically dubious, you might be shit, you might not be to the taste of the middle-aged bureaucrats who made the decisions, your face might not fit, you might lose out to someone with a well-connected dad.

Imagine if your local council had an absolute monopoly on pop music and you wouldn't be far wrong.

Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)10:13 No. 14439 Anonymous
8th May 2024
Wednesday 10:13 am 14439

>>14438

Many Communist Bloc countries saw an overpoliticisation of the public sphere. Unlike in most Western countries today where you have political debate but you can choose to live in your bubble and not participate and ignore most of it, government ideology and propaganda was pervading every area of daily life under communism. From your work collective where you got told every day that you had to do your part to advance socialism, to leisure activities and indeed the arts. While communist governments didn't declare certain forms of art as "degenerate" like the Nazis did, they did try to control what people had access to, and banned works that could have given them too much of an idea that the socialism they were living under was actually quite shit. A lot of records by Western musicians who didn't fit the ideal of the New Man of socialism were forbidden, which is why illegally smuggled records by the likes of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles would fetch outrageous black market premiums.

The most feared way of those governments controlling the arts and artists was that they could outright ban you from being an artist. Which meant that you could neither release records nor play your music publicly in concerts. There was an underground scene of banned bands, but you were always running the risk of state security informants infiltrating your scene and having you arrested.

In any case, having just one record agency in your country meant very effective gatekeeping in a time when there was no Internet or social media and where the government owned all the TV and radio channels, with no chance for you to have your music broadcast or published elsewhere.

Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)12:32 No. 14440 Anonymous
8th May 2024
Wednesday 12:32 pm 14440

>>14438
>I can’t speak with any real knowledge about Hungary
I don’t speak Hungarian, but if it’s been written in English about the Hungarian ’80s music scene, I like to think that I’ve read it. The head of the country’s only record label was a man named Peter Erdosz, and he was a bit of a Weinstein figure and really doesn’t sound like a nice man. The biggest Hungarian pop group of the age, Neoton Familia, were personally managed by him and given all the big breaks. A different band applied for a licence, and were told they couldn’t have one, but one band member, Adam Vegvari, was told he could be a pop star as long as he joined Neoton Familia. He did, and he made them fantastic. A year or two later, Peter Erdosz made a romantic move on Neoton Familia singer Eva Pal, and was rejected. Eva Pal was not only kicked out of the band, but her solo career stalled horribly once any venue that booked her suddenly found itself banned from booking any other acts. She was completely blacklisted and her career never recovered. Meanwhile, the other woman from Neoton Familia, Eva Csepregi, went on to be one of the biggest stars in Hungary and became a legend all over the Communist world, plus Japan and both Koreas, all thanks to her new boyfriend…Peter Erdosz.

Eva Csepregi is great, so I don’t blame her, but it was indeed bloody sinister. Whatever stopped Master Voice from getting a deal, I guarantee Peter Erdosz will have had something to do with it.

Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)12:49 No. 14441 Anonymous
8th May 2024
Wednesday 12:49 pm 14441

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>>14438
>You might be politically dubious, you might be shit, you might not be to the taste of the middle-aged bureaucrats who made the decisions, your face might not fit, you might lose out to someone with a well-connected dad.

As opposed to our capitalist society, in which a band might not get a recording contract because... hang on.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)13:16 No. 14442 Anonymous 8th May 2024 Wednesday 1:16 pm 14442 >>14441 Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a breakthrough pop star why their Wikipedia page has their family's names in blue.

Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)14:35 No. 14443 Anonymous
8th May 2024
Wednesday 2:35 pm 14443

>>14441

Capitalist society rewards talent and hard work. By and large, at least.

No matter how gifted you were or how good your work ethic was, under communism, if the comrades in the Ministry of Culture didn't like your attitude, you were shit out of luck.

Then again, one rash utterance on social media these days, and you'll be unpersoned just as quickly as you were under communism.

Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)15:07 No. 14444 Anonymous
8th May 2024
Wednesday 3:07 pm 14444

>>14441

The point is that at least capitalism has competition, most of the time. In the time period we're talking about, independent record labels were regularly getting to the top of the charts with the sort of bands that the majors wouldn't touch. There were hundreds of independent venues and a diverse music press. Getting banned by the BBC was, paradoxically, usually a guarantee of a huge hit.

The music industry has descended into nepotism because it's barely an industry these days. There's practically no money being made on recorded music and the economics of touring are really tough, so "successful musicians" are often just people who can afford to keep going even though they're not earning any money. Legacy artists who can fill big venues are still making decent money, but for the vast majority it's just a hobby; the independently wealthy have the luxury of pretending it's a career.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)18:22 No. 14445 Anonymous 8th May 2024 Wednesday 6:22 pm 14445 >>14443 >Capitalist society rewards talent and hard work. By and large, at least. No it doesn't. It rewards profitability. The connection between profitability and hard work or talent is tenuous at best.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/08 (Wed)19:29 No. 14446 Anonymous 8th May 2024 Wednesday 7:29 pm 14446 >>14445 That's just because true capitalism has never been tried.

Anonymous 24/05/09 (Thu)20:57 No. 14447 Anonymous
9th May 2024
Thursday 8:57 pm 14447

>>14446

There's a theory that true capitalism, with no safeguards and institutions to rein in and prevent the negative effects of it, would cause a massive loss of overall welfare among the population. It would lead to a rapid and massive concentration of wealth in the hands of very few, while the vast majority would quickly end up living below the poverty line.

You could say that in order for capitalism to work, it must be kept from working too well.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/09 (Thu)21:14 No. 14448 Anonymous 9th May 2024 Thursday 9:14 pm 14448 >>14446 Communists say the same thing about communism (and they are actually right)

>>	Anonymous 24/05/09 (Thu)21:30 No. 14449 Anonymous 9th May 2024 Thursday 9:30 pm 14449 no_joke_mcbain_by_mr_morbach_del5o74-pre~2.jpg >>14448

Anonymous 24/05/10 (Fri)12:16 No. 14455 Anonymous
10th May 2024
Friday 12:16 pm 14455

>>14448

The self perception of most eastern European communist countries was that they weren't in fact communists, but socialists. With socialism being a transitional state of society and the economy towards actual communism. So in a way, we have had throttled communism in a similar way that throttled capitalism is now the norm in most of the Western world, including most formerly socialist/communist countries in eastern Europe that now have market economies.

And what we've been able to observe is that throttled capitalism performs much better in increasing overall and personal welfare compared to throttled communism. One reason being that despite all obvious flaws in that argumentation, capitalism and market economies tend to use economic resources more efficiently than socialist or communist economies. In capitalism, competition and scarcity, of course concomitant with supply and demand, drive economic development. There are clear incentives to use your resources efficiently and sparingly. This idea of efficient use of resources to obtain and increase individual profit is almost entirely absent from socialist and communist theory. In any case, the individual has no incentive to act economically because almost all economic action is controlled by centralised planning. With governments assuming that they know best what the people wîll need in the next five years, and then implementing production directives top-down.

And because this doesn't work, socialist governments had to turn increasingly oppressive against their own people. And it was then the oppression itself, not necessarily the underlying economic stagnation, which led to the peaceful revolutions in the Communist Bloc in 1989.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/10 (Fri)14:54 No. 14456 Anonymous 10th May 2024 Friday 2:54 pm 14456 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jlt16iPmjE

>>	Anonymous 24/05/11 (Sat)23:49 No. 14490 Anonymous 11th May 2024 Saturday 11:49 pm 14490 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9CEi8wkBc Arsehole. Hard R.

Anonymous 24/05/12 (Sun)12:32 No. 14503 Anonymous
12th May 2024
Sunday 12:32 pm 14503

>>14490

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Zizg1CEII

Die Arzte and Die Toten Hosen were long made out by the German music press to be two feuding rivalling punk powerhouses. Maybe a bit like Oasis and Blur. But that wasn't really true. The two bands didn't care much for the other's sub-genre, Die Arzte being more oriented towards what they called "fun punk" with tongue in cheek comical lyrics, and Die Toten Hosen being more political and against the bourgeoise capitalist system. But they gradually came to acknowledge the other's contribution to punk as a whole.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/22 (Wed)10:28 No. 14549 Anonymous 22nd May 2024 Wednesday 10:28 am 14549 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBKEPjSy1TA

>>	Anonymous 24/05/26 (Sun)11:19 No. 14571 Anonymous 26th May 2024 Sunday 11:19 am 14571 >>8980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyGarA73Tcc If you know you know.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/26 (Sun)11:28 No. 14574 Anonymous 26th May 2024 Sunday 11:28 am 14574 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTVvmCAEg3A Niagara were a French band who had some success in Europe and French Canada in the late 80s and early 90s. This was their most memorable single.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/26 (Sun)11:36 No. 14575 Anonymous 26th May 2024 Sunday 11:36 am 14575 >>8982 This cover trend gets on my tits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSDbwfXX5_I

Anonymous 24/05/26 (Sun)11:41 No. 14576 Anonymous
26th May 2024
Sunday 11:41 am 14576

>>14503
Funny you should pick a song about A Clockwork Orange.
Die Toten Hosen (The Dead Trousers, makes as much sense in German as it does translated). You're right, DTH is political punk, very much inspired by the UK punk scene, DÄ came from German punk. More Chaos Tage, less political. Not that DTH were afraid of similarly maudlin stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z752hzudXiY

Anonymous 24/05/26 (Sun)12:53 No. 14577 Anonymous
26th May 2024
Sunday 12:53 pm 14577

>>14576

Die Arzte also got political now and then. For example, German reunification led to open racism against minorities especially in the former communist East in the earls 90s (some of which persists to this day). There was a growing movement of neo-Nazi youth, some of whom got violent and started physically attacking members of those minorities. So Die Arzte made a song about the stereotypical thick as shit racist xenophobic brute, alleging that all the racism and violence is just a repressed cry for love. In their typical tongue in cheek vein. Hence the song title, Schrei Nach Liebe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9CEi8wkBc

>>	Anonymous 24/05/26 (Sun)21:08 No. 14584 Anonymous 26th May 2024 Sunday 9:08 pm 14584 >>14577 Well, yes? That's why I linked it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-FiG10YykQ

>>	Anonymous 24/05/26 (Sun)21:43 No. 14585 Anonymous 26th May 2024 Sunday 9:43 pm 14585 >>14584 But while we're at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaM3q1Ioj-o. This is what trauma does to a nation.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/26 (Sun)22:10 No. 14586 Anonymous 26th May 2024 Sunday 10:10 pm 14586 >>14585 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivP1qYG_tLw Ersazteil. "Spare part". It's not glorifying, it's attempting to humanise the unthinkable. Metal makes light of what Industrial accepts: death.

Anonymous 24/05/27 (Mon)10:06 No. 14587 Anonymous
27th May 2024
Monday 10:06 am 14587

>>14586

Rammstein have always been criticised for toying too much with Third Reich tropes and imagery. They're not in the slightest a neo-Nazi band, they call themselves more or less unpolitical and to them it's more about shock value. Which is a bit of a common thread with many New German Hardness bands. But it doesn't help that singer Till Lindemann has chosen a distinctly Hitlerian enunciation in most of their songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3C0-W_BSNs

The video to their Depeche Mode Cover of "Stripped" was also controversial, because it features clips from the Nazi propaganda film for the 1936 Olympics, shot by director Leni Riefenstahl who was herself under lifelong criticism for her creation and glorification of fascist imagery.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/27 (Mon)12:29 No. 14588 Anonymous 27th May 2024 Monday 12:29 pm 14588 >>14587 Rammstein is cheating and completely out of left field. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8bV_IEgyI These days they are more known for benign sexual fuckery.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/27 (Mon)12:49 No. 14590 Anonymous 27th May 2024 Monday 12:49 pm 14590 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVJqGSwh4pg Yes, I'm, triggered.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/27 (Mon)17:47 No. 14592 Anonymous 27th May 2024 Monday 5:47 pm 14592 This one is sorta cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df9FO7Vtd2E

>>	Anonymous 24/05/28 (Tue)22:39 No. 14593 Anonymous 28th May 2024 Tuesday 10:39 pm 14593 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCL_yHmSjk German electro minimalism. Sounding very Kraftwerk.

Anonymous 24/05/28 (Tue)23:26 No. 14594 Anonymous
28th May 2024
Tuesday 11:26 pm 14594

Why are you all so gay for German suddenly?

DÖF were actually Austrian, which I assumed wouldn't make any difference but the woman gets handed some flowers in the middle of singing the song, which I have noticed happened all the time in Eastern Europe but never in Western Europe, so perhaps there is a difference.

>>	Anonymous 24/05/29 (Wed)00:48 No. 14595 Anonymous 29th May 2024 Wednesday 12:48 am 14595 >>14594 >Why are you all so gay for German suddenly? Fair point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reLhq-OFoLI Front 242 were Belgian, although they sounded very German.

Anonymous 24/06/01 (Sat)17:42 No. 14598 Anonymous
1st June 2024
Saturday 5:42 pm 14598

>>14594
> Why are you all so gay for German suddenly?

I had to take a language, should have taken Spanish in hindsight. But alas I learned German (useless language, unless you like philosophy). Choices you make when you're 12 have consequences, who knew.

>>	Anonymous 24/06/01 (Sat)18:13 No. 14599 Anonymous 1st June 2024 Saturday 6:13 pm 14599 >>8980 Does it count if the artist is not English? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyokgwGK0U4.

Anonymous 24/06/01 (Sat)18:27 No. 14600 Anonymous
1st June 2024
Saturday 6:27 pm 14600

>>14598

I took several years of French in school but I can't say my heart was ever in it. My parents loved to go to France on holiday with us and encouraged me to stick with it.

I went to Calais in the Before times a few years ago and realised I was struggling to even order dessert at a self-service restaurant.

Anonymous 24/06/02 (Sun)00:18 No. 14602 Anonymous
2nd June 2024
Sunday 12:18 am 14602

>>14599
>Does it count if the artist is not English?
Do you mean if they're foreign but performing in English? If so, yes, that still counts.
>>8980
>I guess songs in English by non-native speaking artists are fine too.

To once again be gay for German, here is legendary German superstar CC Catch, who was also popular in Russia and Eastern Europe but is a complete nobody over here:

>>	Anonymous 24/06/03 (Mon)13:29 No. 14606 Anonymous 3rd June 2024 Monday 1:29 pm 14606 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6s6YKlTpfw Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

>>	Anonymous 24/06/03 (Mon)16:11 No. 14608 Anonymous 3rd June 2024 Monday 4:11 pm 14608 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXtntyp6Oc Clouseau are a Belgian band who had their biggest hits in the Netherlands during the 1990s.

Anonymous 24/06/03 (Mon)21:10 No. 14609 Anonymous
3rd June 2024
Monday 9:10 pm 14609

>>14608
I never expected to see Clouseau in this thread. I grew up in Belgium so I know all about them. They're massive but unfashionable, like if Boyzone and Westlife and every boyband you can think of were all the same band. I wouldn't be surprised if they were still going now.

"Louise" is a good song of theirs:

And here's the original Dutch-language version of their song that you posted:

Anonymous 24/06/03 (Mon)21:17 No. 14610 Anonymous
3rd June 2024
Monday 9:17 pm 14610

I'm spreading my links over two posts because I hate it when one post has lots of links that you have to load every time you visit /*/.

"Nobelprijs" by Clouseau is, in my opinion, the cheesiest song in the entire history of the human race. Look at this video. It's so, so late-'80s. It came out in 1996! And it's my favourite Clouseau song by miles.

And here's some upbeat, fun Clouseau from the early 2000s. I was watching the music channels on TV when this came out, so I have heard this ten billion times. It was a monster hit.

>>	Anonymous 24/06/03 (Mon)22:57 No. 14611 Anonymous 3rd June 2024 Monday 10:57 pm 14611 >>14609 >>14610 whelp... I made a Belgian happy today. Wasn't Sandra Kim also from Belgium?

Anonymous 24/06/04 (Tue)01:37 No. 14612 Anonymous
4th June 2024
Tuesday 1:37 am 14612

>>14611
Indeed she is. It seems weird that she was your go-to for a famous Belgian pop star, though; I don't know if I've ever even heard her Eurovision song. But at least you didn't go with Plastic Bertrand again.

This song always tops any poll for the greatest Belgian song ever. It's really depressing and isn't even Gorki's best song; I don't get it at all.

Almost all Dutch/Flemish-language music is pretty gloomy now that I think of it. If a Dutch-speaker is feeling happy, they usually sing in English instead. This song's nice, and is sort of sedately happy:

Anonymous 24/06/05 (Wed)00:08 No. 14613 Anonymous
5th June 2024
Wednesday 12:08 am 14613

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRnzTTYk7_Q

There was no escaping this song in the summer of 1988.

Ofra Haza sadly died of AIDS a few years later. It was never fully determined how she contracted HIV. Either through her whoring husband or through a contaminated blood transfusion.

>>	Anonymous 24/06/05 (Wed)20:59 No. 14614 Anonymous 5th June 2024 Wednesday 8:59 pm 14614 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REG_6hViwzo Summer holiday 1985, Marina di Campo on the island of Elba. Yes, I'm that old. Although I was really still a weelad back then.

Anonymous 24/06/10 (Mon)01:09 No. 14622 Anonymous
10th June 2024
Monday 1:09 am 14622

Hmm. It didn't embed. Anyway, I don't know much about copyright. Do you think Kosovo's biggest pop star had to pay a licensing fee to shamelessly copy a film that was, by the time this video was made, seven years old? Skip to 0:45 if you don't want the extended acting intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGi2GtHUKEk

Anonymous 24/06/10 (Mon)01:25 No. 14623 Anonymous
10th June 2024
Monday 1:25 am 14623

Fuck it then. Let's try this one. Here's a different pop star from either Kosovo or Albania, and look at the record label she's signed to! This is my favourite of her videos because there is also a building with a big sign showing the record company's name. If this doesn't embed either, I will blame one of you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vzWgaSr2rM

>>	Anonymous 24/06/28 (Fri)00:31 No. 14665 Anonymous 28th June 2024 Friday 12:31 am 14665 1970s Hungary must have been so funky. No wonder they all grew up to make pornography with shagadelic music like this.

>>	Anonymous 24/07/29 (Mon)01:56 No. 14705 Anonymous 29th July 2024 Monday 1:56 am 14705 I've had a gif of this girl on my laptop for about five years, but I never knew where it came from. I must say, I am disappointed in everyone I have ever met for not introducing me to this sooner.

>>	Anonymous 24/07/29 (Mon)14:52 No. 14707 Anonymous 29th July 2024 Monday 2:52 pm 14707 >>14705 Who's this for - Belarusian nonces with a stonk on for Lukashenko?

>>	Anonymous 24/07/29 (Mon)17:47 No. 14709 Anonymous 29th July 2024 Monday 5:47 pm 14709 >>14707 Teenagers need radicalisation too. And are probably quite receptive to honey traps.

>>	Anonymous 24/07/29 (Mon)18:52 No. 14711 Anonymous 29th July 2024 Monday 6:52 pm 14711 >>14707 >>14709 State propaganda is extremely hard to make cool. Let's see Lisa Nandy drop a beat about Labour's plans for the next 5 years and see how we do.

>>	Anonymous 24/07/29 (Mon)20:06 No. 14712 Anonymous 29th July 2024 Monday 8:06 pm 14712 >>14711 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPFwrH1w468 I'm sure the English subtitles don't do it full justice.

>>	Anonymous 24/07/29 (Mon)21:44 No. 14713 Anonymous 29th July 2024 Monday 9:44 pm 14713 >>14712 I forgot there were subs but that's great.

Anonymous 24/07/29 (Mon)23:23 No. 14714 Anonymous
29th July 2024
Monday 11:23 pm 14714

>>14712
>>14713
How are you seeing these subtitles? The video's subtitles are in Korean, and when I click the subtitles button, all I get are auto-generated subtitles which are also in Korean. Do you speak Korean, or am I missing the fun? I'm in a private-browsing window, so I am not logged into YouTube, but surely that can't be the problem.

>>	Anonymous 24/07/29 (Mon)23:38 No. 14715 Anonymous 29th July 2024 Monday 11:38 pm 14715 >>14714 There is an option for "auto-translate" when you go into the subtitle settings, just under "Korean". If you click on auto-translate, you can then scroll down and choose English.

Anonymous 24/07/30 (Tue)00:02 No. 14716 Anonymous
30th July 2024
Tuesday 12:02 am 14716

>>14715
My eyes just skipped over that multiple times. I saw the word "Korean", and the words "Auto-Translate", and just thought, well, I don't speak either of those two languages so I'll just give up. Thank you.

>>	Anonymous 24/08/07 (Wed)13:56 No. 14733 Anonymous 7th August 2024 Wednesday 1:56 pm 14733 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXB1507UBy0

Anonymous 24/08/08 (Thu)13:44 No. 14734 Anonymous
8th August 2024
Thursday 1:44 pm 14734

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg5cqVfbWZA

A Norwegian one-hit wonder who later moved more into songwriting and music production and has worked with Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, Espen Lind's 1997 single was in heavy rotation on MTV, and his looks were messing with many a schoolgirl's hormones.

>>	Anonymous 24/08/08 (Thu)14:11 No. 14735 Anonymous 8th August 2024 Thursday 2:11 pm 14735 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUJIx_NbkEg This song always makes me think of you lads.

>>	Anonymous 24/08/09 (Fri)19:10 No. 14737 Anonymous 9th August 2024 Friday 7:10 pm 14737 An AI-generated track is currently at Number 4 in the Dutch-language charts. https://www.top40.nl/john-de-koning/zo-zomer-42356

>>	Anonymous 24/08/09 (Fri)20:30 No. 14738 Anonymous 9th August 2024 Friday 8:30 pm 14738 >>14737 Nobody draws a line anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVSapFj90DM

>>	Anonymous 24/08/10 (Sat)00:41 No. 14739 Anonymous 10th August 2024 Saturday 12:41 am 14739 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvu-UTja1Hs From the Atrocity album Werk 80, a collection of covers of 1980s mainstream pop songs that were given a goth metal treatment.

>>	Anonymous 24/08/10 (Sat)00:48 No. 14740 Anonymous 10th August 2024 Saturday 12:48 am 14740 >>14739 9-9-9 >Hello, yes, police please. I'd like to report an act of vandalism.

>>	Anonymous 24/08/10 (Sat)12:24 No. 14742 Anonymous 10th August 2024 Saturday 12:24 pm 14742 >>14740 David Bowie was actually still around when this came out. Wonder what he thought of it.

Anonymous 24/08/10 (Sat)21:00 No. 14745 Anonymous
10th August 2024
Saturday 9:00 pm 14745

>>14742

He had a bit of a goth phase himself in the 90s, working with Trent Reznor and all that, as far as I'm aware. Which is a recursive loop because Bowie himself is no doubt part of the many influences that gave us the remarkable cultural artifact that is "goth" in the first place. I'm sure he would have been supportive in principle.

Anyway it's a shit cover of probably the shittest Bowie song already, so, weird one really. Still infectious though. Interesting how that aspect was preserved.

Anonymous 24/08/10 (Sat)21:38 No. 14746 Anonymous
10th August 2024
Saturday 9:38 pm 14746

>>14745

>Anyway it's a shit cover of probably the shittest Bowie song already

I actually think that Let's Dance is one of Bowie's most enduring songs. I know most people liked him the most as a 70s glam rock heroin addict, but I like much of the stuff better that he was doing in the early 80s.

Maybe it's because that was what my parents were listening to when I was growing up in the 80s. I still like listening to Ziggy Stardust now and then, but that's not where it's at for me.

Anonymous 24/08/26 (Mon)23:02 No. 14762 Anonymous
26th August 2024
Monday 11:02 pm 14762

I've been meaning to recommend this album awhile. The core concept is updating troubadour songs and texts with modern instruments to make dream-pop, shoegaze and psychedelic rock tracks - and it works really well.

Unrelated but the medieval band brought in as part of the project did the soundtrack to Pentiment which is an amazing game if you want to play a medieval manuscript that was developed by Obsidian.

Anonymous 24/08/28 (Wed)10:31 No. 14763 Anonymous
28th August 2024
Wednesday 10:31 am 14763

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoHZb9vCs4

Ich+Ich enjoyed some chart success in Germany in the 2000s. Singer Adel Tawil got his start composing and singing for TV adverts, while Annette Humpe was a prominent figure of the 1980s post-Punk New German Wave.

>>	Anonymous 24/08/28 (Wed)15:11 No. 14764 Anonymous 28th August 2024 Wednesday 3:11 pm 14764 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmadgC4SJ0c

>>	Anonymous 24/08/30 (Fri)00:12 No. 14766 Anonymous 30th August 2024 Friday 12:12 am 14766 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AuLaSl3j68

>>	Anonymous 24/08/30 (Fri)17:08 No. 14769 Anonymous 30th August 2024 Friday 5:08 pm 14769 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fIkNzorfOs

>>	Anonymous 24/09/05 (Thu)10:03 No. 14784 Anonymous 5th September 2024 Thursday 10:03 am 14784 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aB0xkbrJzc

>>	Anonymous 24/09/13 (Fri)10:51 No. 14795 Anonymous 13th September 2024 Friday 10:51 am 14795 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaurmatSww

>>	Anonymous 24/09/20 (Fri)15:05 No. 14806 Anonymous 20th September 2024 Friday 3:05 pm 14806 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQp6QhTxDRM

Anonymous 24/09/22 (Sun)14:03 No. 14808 Anonymous
22nd September 2024
Sunday 2:03 pm 14808

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

Music Instructor were a mid-90s German dance music project who, for some reason, got Patrick Allen as a narrator for this track, which is a loose cover of Ultravox's song "Hymn" from 1982.

>>	Anonymous 24/10/12 (Sat)20:16 No. 14841 Anonymous 12th October 2024 Saturday 8:16 pm 14841 Bloodywood - Gaddaar (Indian Folk Metal)

>>	Anonymous 24/10/15 (Tue)21:56 No. 14854 Anonymous 15th October 2024 Tuesday 9:56 pm 14854 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6VIYLmS6vM

>>	Anonymous 24/10/18 (Fri)11:34 No. 14858 Anonymous 18th October 2024 Friday 11:34 am 14858 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQZqRASiYE

>>	Anonymous 24/10/21 (Mon)15:48 No. 14861 Anonymous 21st October 2024 Monday 3:48 pm 14861 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD_ZQdKWeFc

Anonymous 24/10/21 (Mon)21:35 No. 14863 Anonymous
21st October 2024
Monday 9:35 pm 14863

>>14861
The man's AutoTuned voice is horrible, but I am a sucker for bleak and depressing lyrics, and they've very helpfully put them on screen so I can use my excellent French-reading skills without having to rely on my frankly hopeless French-listening skills.

Perhaps you would also like this lesser-known gloomy masterpiece by Manau, 1998's most brilliant novelty French rap group:

Anonymous 24/10/22 (Tue)20:29 No. 14864 Anonymous
22nd October 2024
Tuesday 8:29 pm 14864

>>14863
>The man's AutoTuned voice is horrible

I can agree with you on that. I'm more of a fan of Videoclub/Adele Castillon.

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

>Perhaps you would also like this lesser-known gloomy masterpiece by Manau, 1998's most brilliant novelty French rap group

Thanks, ladm8.

>>	Anonymous 24/10/29 (Tue)23:17 No. 14876 Anonymous 29th October 2024 Tuesday 11:17 pm 14876 It's a nice song to be sad to. >>14864 This was doing my head in until I realised it was a French Gen-Z version of Amore Disperato.

>>	Anonymous 24/11/29 (Fri)10:10 No. 14930 Anonymous 29th November 2024 Friday 10:10 am 14930 Why does Arabic work so well with jazz?

Anonymous 24/11/29 (Fri)20:10 No. 14931 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 8:10 pm 14931

>>14930
I would argue that that isn't jazz. In music theory, you get something called modes which I have never been able to understand and which nobody has ever been able to explain to me you can play a scale in different modes by starting from a different note in the scale, so the gaps between the notes will be different when you play it, but how this works when you are playing notes in a basically random order to make a song, nobody seems to be able to explain, and one of the modes makes your music sound all Middle Eastern. I just looked online and it might be the Phrygian mode, so if you were in the key of C, instead of the notes going C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C, they would go E-F-G-A-B-C-D-E. However modes work, that song you posted will definitely be in whichever mode it is that sounds Middle Eastern. Much like this Turkish banger presumably is:

>>	Anonymous 24/11/29 (Fri)21:00 No. 14932 Anonymous 29th November 2024 Friday 9:00 pm 14932 >>14931 If it's Turkish bangers you're after, you'll almost certainly recognise this, and can probably sing along to it too. Okay, maybe not in the original Turkish. Yakalarsam!

Anonymous 24/11/29 (Fri)23:51 No. 14933 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 11:51 pm 14933

>>14932
I'm always after Turkish bangers; thank you very much. I know that one, and I wouldn't argue with anyone who said it was the best Turkish song ever, so these other links cannot compete. But here they are anyway:

Anonymous 24/12/03 (Tue)19:55 No. 14936 Anonymous
3rd December 2024
Tuesday 7:55 pm 14936

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

Lauded by the music press as the German Depeche Mode, and equipped with little more than a DX7 and sketchy English, Camouflage enjoyed brief fame in the mid-80s, and again in 1990 with their second album.

Depeche Mode themselves reportedly weren't really having any of it, and saw them more like a schoolboy tribute act who were riding DM's coattails. According to anecdotes from the time, the one time that Depeche Mode and Camouflage were in the same place at the same time, David Gahan only gave them unmistakably disapproving looks.

Anonymous 24/12/06 (Fri)18:00 No. 14944 Anonymous
6th December 2024
Friday 6:00 pm 14944

Turkish bangers you say? Saw this band live twice and both shows were definitely up there among the best live shows I've ever been to. I think they mostly do covers of Anatolian rock classics from the 70s, before the 1980 military coup banned rock music for being too left-wing or summat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNilTFS4CI

>>	Anonymous 24/12/14 (Sat)16:47 No. 14961 Anonymous 14th December 2024 Saturday 4:47 pm 14961 Sorry if I've posted this song before, but come on, her name is Fanny Forest and that will never stop being hilarious:

Anonymous 24/12/21 (Sat)23:41 No. 14971 Anonymous
21st December 2024
Saturday 11:41 pm 14971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urw-iutHw5E

This song caused a real stir in German speaking countries in 1985, as it tells a first-person story of a mentally unstable wrongun who may or may not have kidnapped and killed a young woman, and perhaps others. The lyrics are ambiguous enough to allow various conclusions. Radio and television stations banned the song for its subject matter, but it didn't stop it from becoming the biggest selling single for several weeks.

>>	Anonymous 25/01/05 (Sun)01:43 No. 14981 Anonymous 5th January 2025 Sunday 1:43 am 14981 This song is played over the end credits of 1980s kung fu action comedy Armour of God, starring Jackie Chan.

Anonymous 25/01/09 (Thu)01:54 No. 14985 Anonymous
9th January 2025
Thursday 1:54 am 14985

When I was growing up in Belgium, this song was absolutely everywhere for about six months, and I've never forgotten it. I regularly forget who it's by, as well as whether it was ever a hit in England (there's a version that's entirely in English which I consider to be worse) and, whenever I fail to find it again, whether it even existed or if I just dreamt it somehow. After all, not only is it called Just Another Day, just like the one by Jon Secada, but it's also available in two languages, which is very rare for most songs apart from the one with the same title by Jon Secada.

So it's really, really important that I type out the title and band name so I can find it again in future. The "Just Another Day" song, that isn't by Jon Secada, is by Sko. SKO. Ess Kay Oh.

>>	Anonymous 25/01/09 (Thu)15:56 No. 14994 Anonymous 9th January 2025 Thursday 3:56 pm 14994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU6b96OO9zY

>>	Anonymous 25/01/19 (Sun)17:04 No. 15010 Anonymous 19th January 2025 Sunday 5:04 pm 15010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhqUMFj51X0

>>	Anonymous 25/01/19 (Sun)17:37 No. 15013 Anonymous 19th January 2025 Sunday 5:37 pm 15013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj1jVq8On54

>>	Anonymous 25/01/19 (Sun)18:04 No. 15014 Anonymous 19th January 2025 Sunday 6:04 pm 15014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6-vsG4-bOQ

>>	Anonymous 25/01/21 (Tue)20:53 No. 15016 Anonymous 21st January 2025 Tuesday 8:53 pm 15016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ybFb_wKlvQ

>>	Anonymous 25/01/22 (Wed)19:43 No. 15020 Anonymous 22nd January 2025 Wednesday 7:43 pm 15020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg8pyoTSL6Y

>>	Anonymous 25/01/26 (Sun)12:34 No. 15025 Anonymous 26th January 2025 Sunday 12:34 pm 15025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHsCACwlaPc

>>	Anonymous 25/02/06 (Thu)01:32 No. 15075 Anonymous 6th February 2025 Thursday 1:32 am 15075 I don't know if the word "Handicap" means the same in Hungarian as it does in English. After much deliberation, I have decided it would be funnier if it doesn't.

>>	Anonymous 25/02/24 (Mon)17:04 No. 15108 Anonymous 24th February 2025 Monday 5:04 pm 15108 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqVQ6BuWa8E

>>	Anonymous 25/02/24 (Mon)18:29 No. 15109 Anonymous 24th February 2025 Monday 6:29 pm 15109 >>15075 I'm trying to work out if there's a subtext I'm not picking up on, or if it's just about losing all your money on a horse.

Anonymous 25/02/24 (Mon)21:27 No. 15111 Anonymous
24th February 2025
Monday 9:27 pm 15111

>>15109
I don't speak Hungarian and hadn't looked up the lyrics, so I was genuinely oblivious to what the song was actually about. But the greatest legends of communist Hungarian pop music, Neoton Familia, have had multiple songs that are somewhat similar in terms of recreational pastimes. "220 Felett" (Over 220) is all about how thrilling it is to drive really fast, over 220km/h. That's around 140mph so it's pretty much just professional racing:

And "Hetvegi Motorozas" is very similar, all about going out driving at the weekend:

So perhaps 1980s Hungary just really enjoyed songs about sport-related hobbies. Neoton Familia also have a lot of songs about public-domain characters and stories, such as Christopher Columbus (in "Santa Maria"), Don Quixote, and even Roman emperor Caligula. They also have a song called Sandokan, whom I have never heard of but Wikipedia says he "is a fictional late 19th-century pirate created by Italian author Emilio Salgari."

Anonymous 25/03/05 (Wed)00:55 No. 15130 Anonymous
5th March 2025
Wednesday 12:55 am 15130

And tonight I listened to another of the communist Hungarian vinyl records that I own. This one was more prog-rock, however. The middle songs of Omega VI aren't that great, but the opening and closing tracks are proper bangers.

Anonymous 25/03/09 (Sun)19:33 No. 15150 Anonymous
9th March 2025
Sunday 7:33 pm 15150

I think I have posted this song ("Ne Volnuites' Tyotya", by Vesyolye Rebyata) before, but it has just come to my attention that the guy in glasses with the giant pink shirt and keytar is a man named Alexander Buinov...

...who just so happens to be the same guy who sang the Russian Special Forces propaganda song that had all those memes made about it:

Once you know, you can tell it's him. I always wondered how the VDV managed to find a paratrooper with such charisma and stage presence, and it turns out he's actually one of the biggest Soviet pop stars of the 1980s. And, more importantly, not actually a Russian soldier.

>>	Anonymous 25/03/21 (Fri)12:01 No. 15171 Anonymous 21st March 2025 Friday 12:01 pm 15171 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCvZV5IRIQI

>>	Anonymous 25/03/22 (Sat)13:35 No. 15173 Anonymous 22nd March 2025 Saturday 1:35 pm 15173 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLsiCpLVoHM

Son ar chistr Anonymous 25/03/23 (Sun)17:02 No. 15176 Anonymous
23rd March 2025
Sunday 5:02 pm 15176 Son ar chistr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiR-5swzlvE
This got me a little curious. The melody is old, a modern rendition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y54DYQrqH4g

It's clearly a drinking song and the internet "Ev chistr ’ta Laou!" and I get lost. But it does sound like something you could hum along to ocataves below or beyond when plastered.

>>	Anonymous 25/03/23 (Sun)17:33 No. 15177 Anonymous 23rd March 2025 Sunday 5:33 pm 15177 Didn't realise they did a French version. It doesn't really work but I guess that's a nice example of why languages create different music.

Anonymous 25/03/23 (Sun)22:48 No. 15179 Anonymous
23rd March 2025
Sunday 10:48 pm 15179

>>15176
Did you find the Dutch version too? It's interesting to hear how similar Dutch is to German in this song; I know they're related but the songs sound almost identical. However, the Dutch version is by Bots and the first German version that was released, according to Wikipedia, was also translated by Bots so it was all the same people. Perhaps that explains it.

Also, isn't is strange how this is clearly an iconic song in so many countries and yet it's almost unknown over here?

>>	Anonymous 25/03/24 (Mon)01:39 No. 15180 Anonymous 24th March 2025 Monday 1:39 am 15180 >>15176 >>15179 It would be remiss of us not to acknowledge that it was sampled here: Also, the original Breton is a song about cider, so here's another song about cider:

>>	Anonymous 25/03/24 (Mon)14:02 No. 15183 Anonymous 24th March 2025 Monday 2:02 pm 15183 >>15180 The Wurzels is cheating. It's like cleaning windows and, of course, me combine harvester.

Anonymous 25/03/25 (Tue)00:07 No. 15185 Anonymous
25th March 2025
Tuesday 12:07 am 15185

I need your help with unknown Belgian schlager group the Top Pops, who sometimes release Dutch translations of famous old pop songs. What was the original version of this song? It's really getting to me because I swear I know it, and unlike their other song called Alles Wat Ik Heb Is Voor Jou, or "Everything I Have Is Yours", I think this one was a hit outside the Benelux countries. The original version of AWIHIVJ was "Love Me Just a Little Bit More", released in the early 1980s by the Dolly Dots, who were Dutch but nevertheless released the original version in English.

Anonymous 25/03/25 (Tue)08:14 No. 15186 Anonymous
25th March 2025
Tuesday 8:14 am 15186

>>15185

This is definitely the original if the copyright data is to be believed, but I don't think it was released outside of Benelux. I know what you mean about it sounding familiar, but I can't put my finger on it either. I'm getting Crowded House or Scritti Politti vibes, but nothing more specific.

Anonymous 25/03/25 (Tue)20:24 No. 15187 Anonymous
25th March 2025
Tuesday 8:24 pm 15187

>>15186
Unbelievable! Thank you! I can't offer you much to show my gratitude, but I can give you the original line-up of the Top Pops, which included my favourite one with the pointy nose, and also the one who looks a bit like Liz Truss looks even more like her here:

And I can also give you Soulsister, whose repertoire I started listening to when I thought that maybe it was another Belgian song after all:

Anonymous 25/03/29 (Sat)22:24 No. 15190 Anonymous
29th March 2025
Saturday 10:24 pm 15190

>>15179

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y54DYQrqH4g
Yes, of course, I didn't want to post too many versions just in case. But every metal festival, every folk festival, Igorrr is there but Son Ar Christr is being played by every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a Guitar.

>>	Anonymous 25/04/05 (Sat)21:05 No. 15205 Anonymous 5th April 2025 Saturday 9:05 pm 15205 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPbQcnmelzc

>>	Anonymous 25/04/05 (Sat)21:54 No. 15206 Anonymous 5th April 2025 Saturday 9:54 pm 15206 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dz5z2z1LI4

>>	Anonymous 25/04/05 (Sat)23:27 No. 15209 Anonymous 5th April 2025 Saturday 11:27 pm 15209 Speaking of "It's just a song" [yt] [/yt

Anonymous 25/04/05 (Sat)23:59 No. 15210 Anonymous
5th April 2025
Saturday 11:59 pm 15210

This song is in an advert again. Not just another advert, but another car advert. That's the second or third time that I am aware of this happening. No originality in the advertising industry these days. It's Peugeot this time, I think:

>>	Anonymous 25/04/19 (Sat)12:46 No. 15222 Anonymous 19th April 2025 Saturday 12:46 pm 15222 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdwT5JlH8gM

>>	Anonymous 25/05/14 (Wed)16:05 No. 15266 Anonymous 14th May 2025 Wednesday 4:05 pm 15266 Japanese rap is great.

>>	Anonymous 25/05/15 (Thu)19:09 No. 15267 Anonymous 15th May 2025 Thursday 7:09 pm 15267 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_WeJqqHdY

>>	Anonymous 25/05/16 (Fri)11:03 No. 15271 Anonymous 16th May 2025 Friday 11:03 am 15271 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetP8Jwnu1I

>>	Anonymous 25/05/23 (Fri)09:42 No. 15319 Anonymous 23rd May 2025 Friday 9:42 am 15319 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSTLCXRAZ0

>>	Anonymous 25/05/24 (Sat)08:47 No. 15323 Anonymous 24th May 2025 Saturday 8:47 am 15323 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfpCuoxwLno Give it more than 30s.

>>	Anonymous 25/05/24 (Sat)12:50 No. 15324 Anonymous 24th May 2025 Saturday 12:50 pm 15324 Being old looks alright sometimes, less responsibility and no expectations. I reckon we'll be alright with it because we'd just shitpost on the internet, have pets and be granny shaggers.

>>	Anonymous 25/05/24 (Sat)18:19 No. 15326 Anonymous 24th May 2025 Saturday 6:19 pm 15326 >>15324 Cute video. Do young people really look so vain, self-centred, self-important, rushing, etc. when you get old and stop giving a fuck?

Anonymous 25/05/25 (Sun)12:27 No. 15329 Anonymous
25th May 2025
Sunday 12:27 pm 15329

>>15326
>Do young people really look so..
I thought it was my shitty perspective but I think maybe some might do. Age is embarrassing for teens, it cuts pretense to the core.

Really sweet video, glad to have watched :)

Anonymous 25/06/03 (Tue)01:03 No. 15350 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 1:03 am 15350

>>15266

Remember back when ISIS was getting going and someone asked them if they had a problem with Japan and it turned out the dude running the twitter account was a massive weeb who would never hurt Japan. I feel like that sometimes.

Anonymous 25/06/03 (Tue)20:29 No. 15351 Anonymous
3rd June 2025
Tuesday 8:29 pm 15351

Greenlandic rock band Inuit are almost impossible to find anything about online, but they seem to have been pretty excellent. And at least their output hasn't been mysteriously purged so I can't listen to them at all any more, like happened to fellow Greenlandic rockers Anguigaq and the more recent Chilly Friday.

>>	Anonymous 25/06/03 (Tue)23:19 No. 15352 Anonymous 3rd June 2025 Tuesday 11:19 pm 15352 Gasp! Never mind; Anguigaq are back on YouTube! And so are Chilly Friday. You can't keep the Greenlandic Inuit rock scene down.

>>	Anonymous 25/06/25 (Wed)13:25 No. 15376 Anonymous 25th June 2025 Wednesday 1:25 pm 15376 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re5H3yNgZYI Rubber duck song. I'll stop posting 90s techno.

>>	Anonymous 25/06/27 (Fri)10:42 No. 15378 Anonymous 27th June 2025 Friday 10:42 am 15378 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCL_yHmSjk There is something inherently German about this kind of electronic music.

>>	Anonymous 25/06/27 (Fri)11:26 No. 15379 Anonymous 27th June 2025 Friday 11:26 am 15379 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkpb-o1NAYI

>>	Anonymous 25/07/06 (Sun)22:25 No. 15406 Anonymous 6th July 2025 Sunday 10:25 pm 15406 German women with black eyeliner.

Anonymous 25/07/14 (Mon)11:40 No. 15411 Anonymous
14th July 2025
Monday 11:40 am 15411

Technically not "foreign lanaguage" since there are no words, but DJ Okawari's Flower Dance. It was huge.

Original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZIFNKYQj7g

Harp cover:

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

Live version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65pOtgl2sNY

>>	Anonymous 25/07/14 (Mon)11:40 No. 15412 Anonymous 14th July 2025 Monday 11:40 am 15412 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6WVeGhC8vk

>>	Anonymous 25/07/16 (Wed)21:08 No. 15420 Anonymous 16th July 2025 Wednesday 9:08 pm 15420 Mdou Moctar is presumably Niger's greatest guitarist, unless they really, really know how to rock over there.

>>	Anonymous 25/07/18 (Fri)12:16 No. 15422 Anonymous 18th July 2025 Friday 12:16 pm 15422 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcaSSvtHFeM

>>	Good ol' mainstream punk Anonymous 25/07/25 (Fri)21:12 No. 15440 Anonymous 25th July 2025 Friday 9:12 pm 15440 Good ol' mainstream punk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z752hzudXiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9CEi8wkBc

>>	Anonymous 25/07/27 (Sun)08:12 No. 15443 Anonymous 27th July 2025 Sunday 8:12 am 15443 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kVYdLjoyPE

>>	Anonymous 25/07/27 (Sun)14:07 No. 15445 Anonymous 27th July 2025 Sunday 2:07 pm 15445 I have a similar relationship with dairy.

>>	Anonymous 25/08/10 (Sun)17:40 No. 15472 Anonymous 10th August 2025 Sunday 5:40 pm 15472 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMGYS4UP7s

>>	Anonymous 25/08/18 (Mon)17:09 No. 15488 Anonymous 18th August 2025 Monday 5:09 pm 15488 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEvxsq3y-bc

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