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Jun 11, 2012 3:57 PM
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I have seen most people here seem to speak English as primary communication. So do you listen to music that is not English, even if you do not understand the words?
You can count songs from anime as well.
I understand it but:





So, how about all of you here?
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Jun 11, 2012 4:17 PM
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I listen to plenty of anime related songs.I don't care for the language of any song as long as I like it.
Some song I can understand the awesomeness of it without understanding the language:


Others I can feel the inspirational beauty:


But for the most part,I like good music that I like.
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Jun 11, 2012 4:33 PM
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Well I'm Italian, so I listen to a lot of Italian music.

But bar that (and the obvious Japanese/anime songs), I have songs in my iTunes ni French, German, Romanian, Dutch, Spanish, Greek, a few in Portugese, some Russian songs and a couple in Chinese and Korean.

I don't generally need to understand the lyrics to like a song.

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Jun 11, 2012 4:36 PM
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Enjoy!
Jun 11, 2012 4:56 PM
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I LOVE latin music. Reggeaton or more traditional.. love it.



Asian music is also my guilty pleasure.. Can't understand a word of it, but I really like listening to it. I think I like Japanese music best though, but Kpop music videos are fun to watch.
Jun 11, 2012 4:58 PM
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K-pop all the way.

I'm kinda into J-pop as well, but mostly anime stuff.
Jun 11, 2012 4:58 PM
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i listen to a lot of greek music, but im greek
Jun 11, 2012 5:21 PM
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From what I can find in my folder;
Old Norse - Burzum, Sólstafir
Norwegian - Ulver, Burzum, Taake, Kaiser's Orchestra, Kvelertak, Casiokids
Sognamål (lol) - Windir
Swedish - Opeth, Finntroll, Lifelover
Finnish - Korpiklaani, Tenhi, Moonsorrow
Icelandic - Sigur Rós (I think some of their lyrics were in actual Icelandic and not just the usual improvised joke language), Árstíðir
German - Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Heimataerde, Sonne Hagal
Czech - Trist
Russian - Origa
French - Gris
Italian - Premiata Forneria Marconi
Japanese - Mutyumu, Kalafina, Maaya Sakamoto, Ore Ska Band, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs

And any language Enya's sung in, hell, she even sung that LotR song in elvish.
Also any odd latin song from OSTs and what have you..
Jun 11, 2012 6:11 PM
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My guilty please is all girl KPOP groups. I'll listen to some OSTs in Japanese as well.

I'll also listen to some spanish songs like if they come from certain people, particularly Juanes. That's about it though. I'm a huge rock fan, RHCP and FF are probably among the top bands I listen to the most, as well as LP.
Jun 11, 2012 6:13 PM

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Usually Finnish and Japanese.
Jun 11, 2012 6:40 PM

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Most of what I listen to is K-Pop: SNSD, MBLAQ, Big Bang, and J-pop: AKB, Morning Musume, Yui.
Language doesn't really matter to me, it's nice to know what the lyrics are, but it's vocals/music that I really like.
Jun 11, 2012 6:51 PM

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For me, it would just be J-Rock, although I don't spend a lot of time listening to that (listen to other genres as well). However, I would probably like a lot of other genres. Like some other people said, as long as it sounds nice, the lyrics don't matter (which I don't care to find anyway).

Jun 11, 2012 7:10 PM

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I used to like kpop, but it's really starting to tire me now. I basically hate every group in the kpop industry except for Big Bang and 2NE1. Oh, and Beast is decent too. I've been recently really into anime OSTs and Kalafina songs. I guess I just like orchestral-sounding stuff now. Makes me feel more mature.
Jun 11, 2012 7:54 PM

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If i like the song, i could care less what language it's in.
I have some German, Spanish, Japanese(obviously), and i believe one Scandinavian song in my music collection. If instrumentals count from lack of lyrics, then that's around 50% of my playlist.
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Jun 11, 2012 8:07 PM

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I listen to Perfume, which is korean x).
Japanese is also good.
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Jun 11, 2012 8:26 PM

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Other than English, only Japanese most usually being anime related songs or nico covers. I did listen to some French music a ways back but kinda just lost interest after a while.
Jun 11, 2012 8:44 PM

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Corridos, mariachi, ranchera, cumbias... You know, the good stuff!
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Jun 11, 2012 10:24 PM
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Yes, I do listen to music that is not in English, like ex-Yugoslavia stuff (Elektricni Orgazam, Disciplina Kicme...I'm from Croatia : )), German music (Rammstein, Einsturzende Neubauten, DAF, Marlene Dietrich) and of course a lot of anime music...I also like The Pillows, Boris, Polysics and sometimes I listen to Maximum the Hormone (Japanese) and while I understand some of the texts it is impossible for me to understand the songs without looking at the translation (my Japanese is not very good). There are a lot of non-English and English songs that I listen just because of the music and not the lyrics...but in the end, I mostly listen to English stuff
Jun 11, 2012 11:43 PM

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mostly japanese and sometimes korean music.

favorite japanese band at the moment is spyair! :D
Jun 12, 2012 12:12 AM

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I used to listen to plenty of Japanese music, however, in recent years I've found myself moving back to English music. Of the Japanese bands I listened to there is only one that plays mainly Japanese music that I still listen to that is still active, and that's Dir en grey. Most others have disbanded, gone on hiatus, or just plain lost my interest. I think the sun is setting on my interest in Japanese music with the exception of Dir en grey and really anything Ken Lloyd makes, but most of his lyrics are in English.
Jun 12, 2012 12:17 AM

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Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean songs.

Jun 12, 2012 12:21 AM

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Mostly german, and norwegian
Jun 12, 2012 5:11 AM

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the non english type.
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Jun 12, 2012 5:37 AM

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Italian - cause I'm half Italian.

Japanese - stemming from my love for anime.

And due to my love for symphonic metal, you can also add languages such as Finnish, Dutch, German, Norwegian and such.
Jun 16, 2012 9:43 AM

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Japanese, Russian.
Sometimes Polish and German.
Jun 24, 2012 11:04 AM

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Norwegian - Black Metal
Finnish - Death Metal
Jun 24, 2012 11:07 AM
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Listen to the voice of this guy o.o.. beginning is a bit boring but just wait for it.. around 1 min I think.. it's fucking awesome but creepy at the same time :o
Jun 24, 2012 11:08 AM

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some sort of metal

Jun 24, 2012 11:41 AM

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japanese and some polish.

Jun 24, 2012 11:55 AM

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I'll listen to any language as long as the song is good.
Jun 24, 2012 2:12 PM

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FegeleinAntics said:
I'll listen to any language as long as the song is good.


This, but mostly Finnish... also I like Japanese, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic, Estonian and Serbian a lot.

Jun 24, 2012 2:20 PM

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The only non fully English music I listen to is Sigur Rós who sing in both English and Icelandic.
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Aug 19, 2012 2:15 PM

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gatx375 said:
Norwegian - Black Metal
Finnish - Death Metal


Gatx knows whats up
Aug 19, 2012 2:50 PM

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Swedish and Finnish, all mostly Folk metal stuff :)

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Aug 19, 2012 2:57 PM

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I want to listen to Chinese song poetry because it's supposedly the most lyrically complex music. Although I don't know the language so yeah. Shinsight Trio is based in Japan or something like that, but their music is english.
Aug 19, 2012 3:05 PM

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From most to least: Spanish/Portugese, Samoan, Japanese, French, some K-Pop.
I can only understand a bit of what's being said in French and Samoan songs though.
Aug 19, 2012 3:34 PM

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Sometimes I listen to Japanese and German music.
Aug 19, 2012 4:31 PM

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FegeleinAntics said:
I'll listen to any language as long as the song is good.
Aug 19, 2012 4:33 PM
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German, Japanese and Swedish
Aug 19, 2012 4:34 PM

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Chinese music, and sometimes piano songs.
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Aug 21, 2012 4:56 PM

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Japanese, Italian, Russian.

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Aug 21, 2012 4:59 PM

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I listen to a lot of middle-eastern shit :B
Aug 22, 2012 6:34 AM

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Mostly Finnish, Swedish, and Norwegian, but there's also Russian and Croatian.
Now, count up your sins!
Aug 22, 2012 6:51 AM
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swahili
norwegian
german
spanish
japanese
korean
latin
swedish
something i don't know what is.

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Aug 22, 2012 8:35 AM

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Swedish songs.
Aug 28, 2012 9:51 AM

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french , dutch , german and japanese mainly but if its good i ll listen to anything
even tibetan lol
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Oct 4, 2012 2:37 PM

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Japanese,Romanian and my language.
Oct 4, 2012 2:44 PM

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I listen to a lot of Classical Music along with Pashto folk music. Other than that it's usually anime OSTs and some metal!
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Does the blood-curdling screams of touring foreigners count as I disembowel them in a van down by the river?
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