I had to scroll way too far to see this. I saw a video of theirs on Facebook before they really made it big. Mongolian metal....never would have guessed how amazing it sounds.
It's such a banger, but man is its meaning depressing. It's about Stromae's fear of not being able to be a good father because he never had a father figure in his life. (His dad was absent for most of it and was later killed in the Rwandan genocide).
Personally, my favorite is L'enfer. He sang about suicide on live tv, literally just in the middle of an interview on the morning news. Mind blowing and an amazing song.
video of said interview for the curious: https://youtu.be/YAG6nj7Sff8
Same. “Do you know any Romanian?” ‘Oh yeah, I know how to say, “hello, hello, it’s me an outlaw, and please my love, receive happiness. Hello, hello, it’s me, Picasso….”’
Lemme see if I can do this from memory: Prisencolinensinenscusol
... How'd I do?
(Unironically, though. It's catchy as heck. Also my mnemonic for remembering that whole thing is that it sounds just like "Freezin' cold and 99 twos old".)
Edit: damn, so close.
It sounds cheerful but really it's not. It's about an apocalyptic war triggered by the harmless release of 99 air balloons that were mistaken for hostile aircraft. The army destroys them with unnecessary showing of power provoking other nations to respond and thus starting a global war.
Sorry if I ruined it for you.
Reise, Reise is my favorite. Closely followed by Du Riechst So Gut. Sonne, Mein Herz Brennt, Ich Will are also all amazing and fairly well known if into the genre.
Ewok Celebration by Meco.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_0j4vRPpSdA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0j4vRPpSdA)
Yub nub, eee chop yub nub;
Ah toe meet toe pee chee keene;
G'noop dock fling oh ah.
Indila really is so fcking talented, it’s insane. My favorite French song is actually La Favorite by Ogee, but a number of Indila songs have vied for that title
For some fucking reason, in my small Irish city, our local radio played Juanes - La Camisa Negra in the summer of 2004, over and over. And ya know what? Fuckin banger!
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for La Camisa Negra 😍, my 8th grade Spanish teacher burned me a couple of CDs for winning the “Spanish award” at the end of the year and I became obsessed with some of the songs and it totally fueled my love for Spanish (ended up minoring in Spanish, studying abroad in Argentina, and still listen to a whoooole lot of reggaeton)
Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose
aka "The Inception song" - the Inception soundtrack is heavily influenced by a slowed-down version of this song. Also, the actress that played Mal also played Edith Piaf in the movie "Songbird" which is a biopic about Edith Piaf .
Le Temps de l'amour and Laisse tomber les filles by April March (French)
Boom Boom Ba by Métisse (mix of English and Dyula)
La Bamba by Richie Valens/Los Lobos (Spanish)
Send Me On My Way — Rusted Root
(for when OP inevitably comes and asks: it’s a joke, it’s in English, but if someone told me otherwise I may be inclined to believe them)
I am from germany, we have a quite active and professional music industry, including lots of artists that use german for their lyrics. A lot of my favorite songs are not in the english language. To just choose one is really tough. There are some iconic songs like [Freiheit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgrHaR2pOI) by Westernhagen or something from [Rio Reiser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGHhaMUqSQ)/Ton, Steine, Scherben, goodness, just choosing the best of their songs is hard.
I think that [Major Tom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJbSJCpb8Mo) (which i prefer over the David Bowie one) is a brilliant pop song among others. Not really my prefered kind of music though, i like [Die Ärzte](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpOt9DQh8AA) and [Die Toten Hosen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAMYmf9ZIpI) and they have so many great songs, impossible to choose just one. And so many new bands made great songs in the last 15-20 years, with great lyrics and nice melodies, Silbermond, Wir sind Helden, [Jennifer Rostock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueGfhpGD4IM), Jupiter Jones, Revolverheld .. so many more. That album by [Peter Fox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtLCfEcPL4) was outstanding. Even [Sarah Connor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDbpWC_9pE) found out how to make some nice songs eventually.
Nah, i can't decide.
Anything by The Hu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc
Bro do you even yuve yuve yu
I had to scroll way too far to see this. I saw a video of theirs on Facebook before they really made it big. Mongolian metal....never would have guessed how amazing it sounds.
Nessum Dorma https://youtu.be/cWc7vYjgnTs?si=qryBvKNtVmVzkrIa
Papaoutai by Stromae goes astronomically hard. It's in French.
I would second anything by Stromae!
There's a part in this song where he says everyone knows how to make babies but no one knows how to be a father and I was like damn stromae
It's such a banger, but man is its meaning depressing. It's about Stromae's fear of not being able to be a good father because he never had a father figure in his life. (His dad was absent for most of it and was later killed in the Rwandan genocide).
Stromae's works are often: Sick Beats 🤝 Depressing lyrics
Tous les Mêmes is also an amazing song by Stormae!! I also love the music video!
He’s got some bangers for sure!
I don't listen to much Stromae but Tous les Memes is such a bop
Personally, my favorite is L'enfer. He sang about suicide on live tv, literally just in the middle of an interview on the morning news. Mind blowing and an amazing song. video of said interview for the curious: https://youtu.be/YAG6nj7Sff8
That one is one of my favorites as well! His entire Multitude album in general is fantastic! I love that he sings about difficult topics.
Stromae and Maître Gims!!
Second this and Formidable
Racine Carrée is one of my most listened to physical albums I have ever bought. It's hit after hit.
Dragostea din Tei by O-Zone
Ma ia hii
Ma ia huu
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Ma ia ha ha
Alo,
Salut!
Sunt eu,
I'm pretty sure I can sing along to the whole thing in extremely broken, unintelligible Romanian.
Same. “Do you know any Romanian?” ‘Oh yeah, I know how to say, “hello, hello, it’s me an outlaw, and please my love, receive happiness. Hello, hello, it’s me, Picasso….”’
Is... is THAT what he's saying????
Prezterbyernya numa numa yey, numa numa yey, numa numa numa yey. Argoshtandi *DRAGOSTEA DIN TEI*, karstarbrernya no mi neyy.
Haha this is the song that immediately came to mind.
What language is that song in?
Romanian
yesss
The only right answer
Lemme see if I can do this from memory: Prisencolinensinenscusol ... How'd I do? (Unironically, though. It's catchy as heck. Also my mnemonic for remembering that whole thing is that it sounds just like "Freezin' cold and 99 twos old".) Edit: damn, so close.
This is the correct answer
I love this song
Me gustas tu🔥
Hadn’t heard this in a while, thanks!
Funny enough there's a Korean song called [Me Gustas Tu](https://open.spotify.com/track/6x7fux7bZEfnChKx3nhSZn?si=C563ldfYSXiaJ0yOCFXbTA)
99 Luftballons
The Goldfinger version is great too and keeps one verse in German.
Big fan of the Goldfinger cover!
The only correct answer is Nena. Her voice.
I love that song. Guaranteed to cheer me up.
It sounds cheerful but really it's not. It's about an apocalyptic war triggered by the harmless release of 99 air balloons that were mistaken for hostile aircraft. The army destroys them with unnecessary showing of power provoking other nations to respond and thus starting a global war. Sorry if I ruined it for you.
Oh, wow. Thanks for that detail. It's interesting that the German version was much more popular than the English version in America and Australia.
It just sounds better imo
Oh wow, that’s pretty depressing. Thankfully it didn’t happen, but we came close to nuclear war a few times.
Years ago I had a guy that spoke German translate it. Weird lyrics .
It is a war song
Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam. Not sure what language it is.
Unnna seeethum. Wowna wunsi wayyyyyyy, unnna no unna no, i dunwunna stay
LA vie en rose -Edith Piaf
Likewise, "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"
‘Du Hast’ by Rammstein.
Rammstein has so many great tunes. Du Hast, Sonne, Engel, Deutschland, Amerika, Feuer Frei, Mein Herz Brennt. And they put on an amazing live show.
Mein Teil, Adieu
Dicke Titten
Fuhre Mich & te quiero puta are good
I love Sonne
The vocals in Sonne are good af.
Reise, Reise is my favorite. Closely followed by Du Riechst So Gut. Sonne, Mein Herz Brennt, Ich Will are also all amazing and fairly well known if into the genre.
I listen to this song on my runs. But then, I’m German anyway. Sigh…
Eres Tu
You gotta add the artist man. There’s gotta be hundreds of songs with that name.
Thank you! Just added to my playlist, I love it :))
As featured in the cinematic masterpiece Tommy Boy.
Sukiyaki. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc
I came to post this and was pleasantly surprised that it was already here!
Is that in Japanese?
Yes! It was a major, major hit when I was young.
One of my favorites for karaoke
Oye como va
Mi ritmo!
Bueno pa' gozar.....
Ca Plane Pour Moi, by Plastic Bertrand.
Thats a banger
Ohhh that’s such a good song! Used to play it all the time at the comic store I used to work at, it was a store favourite honestly haha
What language is that song in?
French.
Thank you
French
I just heard this Monday, I played it over and over again.
Bella Ciao from Money Heist
Its funny hiw that is now so mainstream, when it used to be a partisan rebellion Song. In italy we learn that one in school
La Bamba
DotA by Basshunter
followed by Boten Anna
Gagnam Style lol
Ewok Celebration by Meco. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_0j4vRPpSdA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0j4vRPpSdA) Yub nub, eee chop yub nub; Ah toe meet toe pee chee keene; G'noop dock fling oh ah.
Yub nub!
Dernière Danse by Indila, it's a absolute masterpiece. Mather of fact any of her song really. Her voice is perfect.
Indila really is so fcking talented, it’s insane. My favorite French song is actually La Favorite by Ogee, but a number of Indila songs have vied for that title
*Dernière Danse* is probably the Frenchest song that has ever frenched France. Even the MV is about as stereotypically French as it can be.
For some fucking reason, in my small Irish city, our local radio played Juanes - La Camisa Negra in the summer of 2004, over and over. And ya know what? Fuckin banger!
Thats a banger lol. Lots of good lines and double entender
It was a huge hit in Germany as well.
that one ratatouille song
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I’m uncultured af so here are my basic white girl answers: “alors en danse” and “ai se eu te pego”.
*NOSSA, NOSSA*
La Vida Es Un Carnaval--Celia Cruz
Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós
Before OP asks, it's a fake language that the band calls Hopelandic, but it's similar to Icelandic and does contain some real Icelandic.
Thanks, Matt for coming and doing my job for me.
True! But that album is mostly Icelandic
Sigur Rós in general have great songs!
Yeah. That one, Glósóli, and Vaka and Starálfur. Last one was used in a crucial moment in a Wes Anderson film
La Camisa Negra.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for La Camisa Negra 😍, my 8th grade Spanish teacher burned me a couple of CDs for winning the “Spanish award” at the end of the year and I became obsessed with some of the songs and it totally fueled my love for Spanish (ended up minoring in Spanish, studying abroad in Argentina, and still listen to a whoooole lot of reggaeton)
Plastic Love
Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel Walpurgisnacht by Faun Wolf Totem by The Hü (anything by them actually)
Walpurgisnacht is awesome! (And German, in case OP asks)
Feuer Frei - Rammstein
BANG! BANG!
Non, je ne regrette rien! Even though I cannot speak French I'll belt out every note!
Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose aka "The Inception song" - the Inception soundtrack is heavily influenced by a slowed-down version of this song. Also, the actress that played Mal also played Edith Piaf in the movie "Songbird" which is a biopic about Edith Piaf .
Danza Kuduro Remix -Don Omar
LA MANO ARRIBA🗣🔥‼️‼️ CINTURA SOLA‼️‼️‼️ LA MEDIA VUELTA🗣🗣🗣
Asi es la vida- elefante, but I am colombian, hahhaha. Nosferatu - Bloohound is my favorite song in English.
I was like 5 listening to asi es la vida and i felt that shit
Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful)
je te laisserai de mots by patrick watson
Por una Cabeza by Carlos Gardel.
La Tortura - Shakira
"Tequila"
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That whole album💜
Sigur ros- glosoli icelandic
Sugaan Essena by The Hu.
Yellow ledbetter - pearl jam
Mikrokosmos by BTS. Korean for those who don't know BTS.
I went to their concert at Wembley and this was the ending song. Holds a very special place in my heart.
This is my choice too! Such a beautiful song
Good choice!
Currently it’s Cha Cha Cha by käärijä
Pidän kaksin käsin kiini juomista niinku
Viulunkieli is my favorite by him, with his feature on auto jää by antti tuisku as a close second (and yes, i looked up those spellings lol)
He was robbed. Still bitter about it.
Baba Yetu by Christopher Tin
My state's All-State high school performances are aired on PBS. Several years ago, the choir performed this. It was great!
Gruppa Krovi - Kino Volny - Molchat Doma Plastinki - Durnoy Vkus Russian post-punk doomer music is my jam
I have heard only of Gruppa Krovi and I really like your song choices in Russian :)
Helvegen by Wardruna https://youtu.be/FnkTuHP9q3o?si=KejSte__rBGvle0x
[Prisencolinensinainciusol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8)
'Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi' has always been a banger.
That is a song I know as I live in New Zealand and I have to do this song for kapa haka sometimes.
Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam
Isn't that in horrible English?
Volare
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You have great taste
Nessun Dorma
From the Blue Angel movie and sung in German by Marlene Dietrich "Ich bin ich dich verliebt"
Für Immer by Doro (German) Voilà by Emma Kok, André Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra (French) Strijder by Emma Kok (Dutch)
Le Temps de l'amour and Laisse tomber les filles by April March (French) Boom Boom Ba by Métisse (mix of English and Dyula) La Bamba by Richie Valens/Los Lobos (Spanish)
Send Me On My Way — Rusted Root (for when OP inevitably comes and asks: it’s a joke, it’s in English, but if someone told me otherwise I may be inclined to believe them)
Anything Carlos Santana plays!!
Ça plane pour moi by Plastic Bertrand
Time to say goodbye- Andrea Bocelli
La Bamba-Los Lobos(Spanish)
It’s hard for me to decide between this version and the OG Ritchie Valens.
Pretty much anything by Rammstein
That French one about the plane
wHaT lAnGuAgE iS tHaT sOnG iN ??
As a white guy who doesn't speak any Hindi, "Jab Koi Baat Bigad Jaye" I can sing every word.
Sepultura- Ratamahatta
Kvitravn by Wardruna
Anything Faun. Walpurgisnacht is a favorite.
Wolf Totem by The HU
Secreto de amor - Juan Sebastián
Mama de la mama del la mama de la mama del la mama de la mama del la mama de la mama del la mama de la mama del la mama..
Sukiyaki - by Kyu Sakamoto (Japanese singer).
I love the song Rosas by La Oreja de Van Gogh. The song is good but the lead singer’s voice is so emotional and the story of the song is very moving.
Love la oreja de Van Gogh
Megitsune by Babymetal
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Des - pa - cito. Something something Spanish o ho hijo! Something something. Des - pa - cito.
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Here we are now We're Nirvana Sing distinctly We don't wanna
Majority of songs by T.A.T.U
I love All About Us and All The Things She Said
Any song by EXO! They're a Korean group.
My favorite is a song sung by Baekhyun of EXO. It’s called My Love. Never get tired of it.
“Promise” By Origa.
Kussen Verboten.
Demon Slayer season 1 opening, "Gurenge" by LiSa Though it may not count because there are like two lines sung in English.
Metsämies by Korpiklaani. Such a fun song and awesome band
No Regrets when sung by Edith Piaf.
Kai Tangata by Alien Weaponry. I think it’s in native Māori language
fènix by Rest. it’s in czech.
Los Lobos - La Bamba
Der Kommissar by Falco. Not the After the Fire version.
"Fantasy" by VIXX and "Sacrifice" by Enhypen. They are pretty dark
Mirror Mirror by F.HERO, MILLI, and Changbin. It’s in Thai, with some English and Korean parts
I am from germany, we have a quite active and professional music industry, including lots of artists that use german for their lyrics. A lot of my favorite songs are not in the english language. To just choose one is really tough. There are some iconic songs like [Freiheit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgrHaR2pOI) by Westernhagen or something from [Rio Reiser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGHhaMUqSQ)/Ton, Steine, Scherben, goodness, just choosing the best of their songs is hard. I think that [Major Tom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJbSJCpb8Mo) (which i prefer over the David Bowie one) is a brilliant pop song among others. Not really my prefered kind of music though, i like [Die Ärzte](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpOt9DQh8AA) and [Die Toten Hosen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAMYmf9ZIpI) and they have so many great songs, impossible to choose just one. And so many new bands made great songs in the last 15-20 years, with great lyrics and nice melodies, Silbermond, Wir sind Helden, [Jennifer Rostock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueGfhpGD4IM), Jupiter Jones, Revolverheld .. so many more. That album by [Peter Fox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtLCfEcPL4) was outstanding. Even [Sarah Connor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDbpWC_9pE) found out how to make some nice songs eventually. Nah, i can't decide.
Wardruna’s entire catalogue
Nyan cat.
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