https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MGazZymhv2c - Welsh indie rock
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H2gmeNH_oZ0 - Desi Hip-hop
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5dS3C-_8UgA - Indian metal feat a j-rock band
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Don't have a favorite but it's definitely by Big Bang. Looking forward to their return soooo much.
Prisencolinensinainciusol
Or
The Hu - Wolf Totem
Shit, I didn't even think about made up languages in songs. This has to be my favorite.
I recently stumbled upon my latest music obsession:
As for my all time favorite, hard to say.
Probably several songs from the Katamari series. Hard to pick just one.
September by Mariya Takeuchi
basically all of Molchat Doma's discog
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.
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
Ca plane pour moi by Plastic Bertrand.
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.
Nena 99 Luftbaloons
Manu Chao, Clandestino. The entire album rocks.
I love 99 Luftballons. Even the kiddies know it by heart here in Germany.
A song not actually about balloons.
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
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.
A little old
Der Kommissar by Falco
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.
Hyacinth by 22/7. 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.
After listening to the Letterkenny playlist a few years ago I went on a bit of a French-Canadian folk music kick.
Lisa Leblanc - Aujourd'hui, Ma Vie C'est D'la Marde stands out.
Beethoven's 9th
Just having voice parts does not make something a song. Schubert's lieder are probably the best known classical songs.
To add a couple more to the classical list: Camille saint-saëns danse macabre, Dvorak's new world symphony 9, Bach fugue and toccata, and Hiromi spectrum
Bésame Mucho
truly a special and wonderful song when sang with passion
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I got no favorite song, all music is great to me. But this one been on my ear for quite a long time.
Rien de Rien and Now We Are Free
The international and Öde an die Freude
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