Whats your favourite non english song?
2026-04-23 01:14 UTC
Replies (40)
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@AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2026-04-23 20:50
I recently stumbled upon my latest music obsession: [ドンドルマ ( Dondurma )](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3KyHzhkHtY) As for my all time favorite, hard to say.
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@AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 16:21
Prisencolinensinainciusol https://youtu.be/RObuKTeHoxo Or The Hu - Wolf Totem https://youtu.be/jM8dCGIm6yc
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@RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 18:34
Recently, anything by [Babymetal](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-NtZBrSNROCirEwmXtydnKKC4aBJVk8w). They are fucking boss. Probably [Kingslayer ](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hb2mMVdx1KU)
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@phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2026-04-23 19:25
[Patrick Watson - Je te laisserai des mots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZfyyk0_Yqs)
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@phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2026-04-23 19:23
[van dik hout - stap voor stap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQtVavzVSdI)
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@absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2026-04-23 19:03
[Kai Tangata](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kwIkF6LFDc) by Alien Weaponry
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@angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2026-04-23 18:11
September by Mariya Takeuchi
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@samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-23 16:52
Probably several songs from the Katamari series. Hard to pick just one.
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@Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-23 16:41
basically all of Molchat Doma's discog
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@MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 16:23
Pobre Juan - Mana https://youtu.be/rxpssE0SVw8
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@cuboc@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 11:38
[Krigsgaldr](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRg_8NNPTD8) by Heilung. It's in proto-Germanic if I am not mistaken. (edit: spelling - my proto-Germanic is a bit rusty)
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@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2026-04-23 12:17
*Ca plane pour moi* by Plastic Bertrand.
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@edg@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 02:57
Tunak Tunak Tun! https://youtu.be/92ydUdqWE1g
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@Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2026-04-23 12:43
[Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat - Paha Vaanii](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUQG1DnCfGg)
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@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 10:43
[Basshunter - Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d44ykdKvCw)
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@Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2026-04-23 08:16
[Bloodywood - Gaddaar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKjSCTxke8) because it absolutely slaps, or maybe [Sardaar Ji](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWaB_7AOwdQ) because I can't hear it without thinking of this Bhangra group and they make me smile. Lots of Central / Latin American modern stuff as well like [Donde Nací]([0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyiL_zj64_w)) by Orishas, which is also a feel good kind of sound.
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@tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2026-04-23 05:57
Way too much German industrial/goth/IDM/whatever to mention. 人間椅子 (Ningen Isu) - 無情のスキャット (Heartless Scat) -- one I listen to somewhat frequently. Linda Linda by the Blue Hearts is another. 千本桜 by 和楽器バンド (senbonzakura by wagakibando) is another I like because of the mix of traditional Japanese instruments and style along with modern ones.
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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-23 11:18
[Hyacinth by 22/7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHdSCRu9ZdQ). There are like ten of them singing in groups, it's mesmerising. Especially epic on Apple Music with AirPods and spatial audio (Dolby Atmos). If you're familiar with Kpop Demon Hunters, same thing. 22/7 are a cartoon band made for an anime of the same name. Only, unlike HUNTR/X, they kept making music after their show failed to get renewed for a second season, and now they make music under the same name, and it's even been licensed by other anime series. (I wish HUNTR/X would do this. The fans are here for it, but they didn't anticipate the success — I doubt they're not working on it.) But this song isn't in the anime. It's a song that was made after the anime was canceled.
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@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-23 05:26
[Numa numa song](https://youtu.be/WsSFRua-MeI?) aka Dragostea din tei
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@Maiq@piefed.social 2026-04-23 02:48
Nena 99 Luftbaloons Manu Chao, Clandestino. The entire album rocks.
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@imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-23 10:15
I got no favorite song, all music is great to me. But [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klFkQBcG8jE) been on my ear for quite a long time.
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@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 2026-04-23 02:05
Baba Yetu - Theme for Civilization IV and also the Lord's Prayer in Swahili.
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@schwim@piefed.zip 2026-04-23 01:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHBxJdXzVS0
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@LoonyLenny@lemdro.id 2026-04-23 02:55
A little old Der Kommissar by Falco
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@bufalo1973@piefed.social 2026-04-23 07:16
[Jesucristo García](https://youtu.be/2DpqV3joVOE), by Extremoduro
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@fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 2026-04-23 01:33
It's hard to pick just one, so here's some of my top: - Задушу - Вера Брежнева - Dødsrå - CC Cowboys - Iubire - 3rei Sud Est - Die Schlinge - OOMPH! - Беги - Роёт - Meine Gang - Cro - Papaoutai - Stromae I could keep going this is just what I thought of immediately.
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@brownsugga@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 02:05
Beethoven's 9th
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@Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-23 06:44
The international and Öde an die Freude
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@daggermoon@piefed.world 2026-04-23 08:23
[Sexy Doll by Republika](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIYC26gylFs)
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@Libb@piefed.social 2026-04-23 05:48
I have not a single one, so my apologies for the longish reply ;) A few of my all time favorites non-English are from French (like me) singers. Older ones, like me: people like Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf,... And so many more. I'm nearing my 60s and I've been listening to some of them since I was a very young boy, aged 7 or 8, on my parent's HiFi (who also introduced me to classical music, my absolute favorite type of music). What follow is anything but a full list of my favorites. It's a very limited selection among those I consider my lifelong companions: * A few from Jacques Brel: [Rosa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6rLLE48RL0) about kids and school and about learning Latin (back then kids used to learn Latin in schools, lyrics are absolutely filled with French word plays so if you're not fluent you probably won't get it but it's a real smart song). Another one [Amsterdam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z0UGGvb4sQ) of which [David Bowie made an excellent English version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPZIG5BHD4). [Ne me quitte pas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k63grkip5I), [Quand on a que l'amour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG6KiBNsrPU)... but this is merely scratching the surface as he wrote countless amazing songs, funny ones, deep, sad and even absurd ones like, say, [Vesoul](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVKWiseNGUU). One I deeply disliked when I was a kid/young teen and now consider one of his greatest song: [Les marquises](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEwmj4Mq9kc). * Brassens: [La mauvaise réputation](https://youtu.be/ZvqiyA14PVU?t=8), his [Chanson pour l'auvergnat](https://youtu.be/3GA0ue9F79o?t=7) ou encore [Le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4_qwbrlP04) (about being a moron, at any age ;) or (probably considered NSFW in our so modern days) [Le gorille](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSAzyMceCOA). To be honest, I don't know many of his songs I'm not a fan of. * Gainsbourg: [Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAJdafk1Y8), [La chason de Prévert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DeA8FPqWwc), or (NSFW) [Je t'aime, moi non plus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpDf6XX_j0) (a huge slap in the face the first time I listened to it, and still an amazing song all those years later imho). * A few other French singers in no order: Barbara [L'aigle noir](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9cEY13bUTo), Yves Simon, whose best know song was probably the title song for the eponymous movie [Diabolo menthe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2aqAuyxSg) but he wrote quite a few popular songs like say, [Au pays des merveilles, Juliette](https://youtu.be/yGuKjzRlg7Q?t=12). William Sheller [Un homme heureux](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1wAXsbVlHE) or his [Je cours tout seul](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSn8HVTOAJk) (Sheller is an incredible song writer), Alain Souchon [J'ai 10 ans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjkVzYLAhEg), [Sous les jupes des filles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3bgATxmemc). Niagara [La ville dort](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvA7FWSpBk) or [Je dois m'en aller](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSQ-6xU8mPA). As a teen barely younger than the singer, Muriel Moreno, back then I was secretly (from my girlfriend at least) in love with her and I could not imagine nay one moving or looking at me more... sensually. * And a last one but certainly not the least important singer: Gérard Manset: [Il voyage en solitaire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5IBG8zuBt4) "_Mais il est seul, un jour l'amour l'a quitté/s'en est allé faire un tour de l'autre côté/d'une vie où y avait pas de place pour se garer_". * There are so many more! If anyone has managed to reach that point, listening to all the songs, and is wondering: yes, I also listen to much more contemporary French (and non French) artists. In many various genres. French language always was and still is about _telling a story_, about playing with words and with sounds, exactly like poetry. Which is most I care about as a reader/listener. Contemporary French singers do understand that as well as their predecessors did. They just don’t use the same rhythms anymore and don’t share the exact same stories (well, fundamentals remain unchanged: love, hate, sadness, fun,... but how they express it changes), and they’re certainly not less talented! But no matter how much I appreciate the work of some of them, and I do, they are not the singers I grew old with so I would not call them my favorites ;) ... I would even less dare call them favorites in our over-chastised sad times, populated with countless self-entitled white knights always looking for an opportunity to tell everyone else what they should and should not do, what they should like and not like. Because what would those people say of an almost 60 years old dude openly admitting he do enjoy listening to, say, the young (Belgian) singer Angèle? [Bruxelles, je t'aime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79iLjV-HKw&pp=ygUHYW5nw6hsZQ%3D%3D), [J'entends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqUy7IOYt6g) or [Tout oublier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy1xQSiLx8U)? A bit like, nearing my 60 I enjoy as much as I enjoyed it in my teens, if not more, listening to 16th century French music, or reading 15 and 16th century French poetry too.
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@muxika@piefed.muxika.org 2026-04-23 07:38
["Frailty" by OU](https://youtu.be/Y25jmEVCwOQ) Really wild progressive power metal
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@thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2026-04-23 01:38
Bésame Mucho truly a special and wonderful song when sang with passion
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@treadful@lemmy.zip 2026-04-23 04:39
[Patlamaya Devam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hfCxyuuYe8) is the first thing to come to mind for whatever reason.
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@RandomStickman@fedia.io 2026-04-23 02:46
Song 3 by Babymetal and Slaughter to Prevail
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@makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 02:34
[We No Speak Americano](https://youtu.be/7E9Ed9DUQoQ)
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@Mac@mander.xyz 2026-04-23 06:59
Not sure i have a favorite atm but [Reflections by Mat Zo](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4V4RekGR8) is pretty good (Spanish)
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@Aaron@lemmy.nz 2026-04-23 04:14
I think I have four that are top of my current most played songs that aren't English: Kaval Sviri, a Bulgarian folk song. Specifically the version performed by KSS, a women's choir in Oslo. It's a cappella, and has some great resolving dissonance. Really a fantastic performance. Next would be Ka Bohaleng performed by Abel Selaocoe. It has some cool string effects and I like the throat singing technique he uses in this song in particular. Presidente by Goran Bregović (featuring Gipsy Kings) is a fun upbeat celebratory song. Altay by Ummet Ozcan, featuring vocals from Otyken is a great song that feels like... Mongolian cyberpunk? If that's a thing. If you can't tell I'm really feeling throat singing multiphonics right now 😆
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@ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-23 06:32
De Musica Ligera or Mundo Paralelo. 80s rock vs Frente in Spanish. I can't decide
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@neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-23 06:17
Bruthal 6 - Todo en mis manos
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@hoagecko@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-23 03:30
Japanese: [Last regrets (imoutoid's First regrets remix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4zkfKQUAgU) \(2006\) Russian: Murat Nasyrov - [Мальчик хочет в Тамбов](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i853cmySVq0) \(1997\) German: Kraftwerk - [Computerwelt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxlndeU3SVY) \(1981\) Italian: Giuseppe Verdi, Mario del Monaco - [Esultate!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiP4NsGCM9o) \(1887, 1954\) French: Joe Dassin - [Et si tu n'existais pas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVCAFvIq_F8) \(1975\) Spanish: Celia Cruz - [Mi Soncito](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKLVHMHIqkI) \(1956\) Chinese: Zhōu Xuán - [Hua yang de nian hua](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h95VFalnzg) \(1947\)