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Lot of Seegar, oops. Guatanamara is beautiful, and Cielito Lindo. Makes me ashamed of being a filthy one-language-knower.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=41N8EHzZL78. (Cielito Lindo)
Bésame Mucho
truly a special and wonderful song when sang with passion
Besame mucho, como si fuera esta noche la ultima vez
Nena, yup. First one I thought of. She did it in english as “99 Red Balloons” but I like the original better.
Baba Yetu - Theme for Civilization IV and also the Lord’s Prayer in Swahili.
Numa numa song aka Dragostea din tei
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 😆
Freundeskreis - Esperanto
After listening to the Letterkenny playlist a few years ago I went of a bit of a French-Canadian folk music kick.
Lisa Leblanc - Aujourd’hui, Ma Vie C’est D’la Marde stands out.
Mercan Dede - 800
Turkish DJ, with Ceza, a Turkish rapper
https://tidal.com/track/10177936/u
I saw him perform between the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
Damn, I should have gone with this one. I can’t think of many things I associate more with the 2000s than Basshunter. The lyrics of the original Swedish songs are so infinitely better than the English remakes too.
Can’t forget this one either. OG DOTA and IRC chatrooms, what a time to be alive
Bloodywood - Gaddaar because it absolutely slaps, or maybe Sardaar Ji 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 by Orishas, which is also a feel good kind of sound.
Bloodywoods whole catalog slaps
Japanese: Last regrets (imoutoid’s First regrets remix) (2006)
Russian: Murat Nasyrov - Мальчик хочет в Тамбов (1997)
German: Kraftwerk - Computerwelt (1981)
Italian: Giuseppe Verdi, Mario del Monaco - Esultate! (1887, 1954)
French: Joe Dassin - Et si tu n’existais pas (1975)
Spanish: Celia Cruz - Mi Soncito (1956)
Chinese: Zhōu Xuán - Hua yang de nian hua (1947)Krigsgaldr by Heilung. It’s in proto-Germanic if I am not mistaken.
(edit: spelling - my proto-Germanic is a bit rusty)
Interesting, apparently the lyrics come from a runic inscription on an ancient grave stone found in Norway.
Oh that’s cool! The lyrics to Hamrer Hippyer appear to be from the Merseburg Charms.
I love songs either using ancient languages or otherwise ancestral. Such as the spring awakening chant buried in Shum by Go A https://youtu.be/sDeMfL8Ib9A
I’m also partial to throat singing and mixing old and contemporary instruments like what Otyken does https://youtu.be/aXsLlOPwe48
Prisencolinensinainciusol
Or
The Hu - Wolf Totem
Shit, I didn’t even think about made up languages in songs. This has to be my favorite.
Well that song is gorgeous.
Neither one of the songs I posted is a made up language technically. The first one was made by an Italian guy, and if you listen closely, they are singing in “English.” At least those are English words. He made the song to simulate for English speakers what it is like to hear a song in English for Non-English speakers.
The second song is in Mongolian.
I knew the Hu was Mongolian.
The other song is complete gibberish though. As you said he is Italian singing what english sounds like to Italians. Not really english but has the cadence of english. There might be some common english words strewn in. I do the same thing to anime theme songs that are catchy. I only know about 150, 200 Japanese words max. That doesn’t stop me from wanting to sing along with Death Note opening credits, poorly.
Both are great songs.
Yeah, it is complete gibberish. He used English words, but put them into nonsense sequences. That’s why if you listen to the song carefully, you can almost understand it.
Your song is full of hooks. Not quite as many as Baby Shark, but easily as many as Rockin Robin
I see your Prisencolinensinainciusol and raise with Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot
Probably several songs from the Katamari series. Hard to just pick one.
