Music in your language?

[Daéa Reina]

I go and find a different version somewhere else while uttering maledictions on those who discriminate against 'Mericans. :p

Edit: Is this it? It's really pretty!
[youtube width=200]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gsdp2zSCjY[/youtube]

I only saw this post now! Sorry!

Yes, this is the song!
Only the version I posted is a little less happy and more melancholic (I thought it was better that way).

PHEW - I went through all the music and added most of the songs you guys mentioned to a Spotify list. Here's the link!

Ohh, thank you!!
I'm listening to this playlist right now!

[Antillanka]

I'll leave this here...

[Eriaror]

Posting more music on fluffernutters' request, sung in Hungarian this time!
These ones are in part popular songs here Hungary, and in part not full-mainstream popular but nice.

Spoiler: show

Kelemen Kabátban - Maradjatok gyerekek
Magashegyi Underground - Metróhuzat
Magashegyi Underground - Rázz fel
ByeAlex - Hé Budapest (Antala remix) (I feel like I should hate this song but I can't do it)
Wellhello - Rakpart
Halott pénz - Valami van a levegőben
Halott pénz - Elkezdeni előről
Halott pénz - Ugyanúgy hallasz
Kowalsky meg a Vega - Amilyen hülye vagy, úgy szeretlek
Kowalsky meg a Vega - Még nem Éden
Rúzsa Magdi - Szerelem (Lofti Begi remix)
Rúzsa Magdi - Nélküled (Lofti Begi remix)
Compact Disco - Te meg én

[Krisse Kovacs]

have you heard ABBA in hungarian?  here is a half hour long mix of them:

[viola]

So this isn't in a language I speak, but I really like this artist and I think this song is really beautiful.

Here's for more modern renditions of traditional music! Woooo! (You may be seeing a trend in the music I listen to )

[Jeanne]

Behold, Québec folk!
Here's a french-canadian song about a popular legend. It's the story of lumberjacks who make a deal with the devil to go home and see their wives on Christmas eve. The devil gives them a flying canoe and a few rules to abide by. If they break the rules, they can never come back. Spoiler: They break the rules. So they are damned to wander in the sky forever and/or lose their souls, depending on the version.

[Silent Fox]

*Tries to think of German music to post here, but cannot think of anything except Nena and Wolfsheim* *Feels deeply ashamed* Volksmusik, I suppose, but like so many twentieth century kids, I never really got into it. I have vague memories of Hansi Hinterseer, as my mother and grandmother were big fans of his, and would blast it on the TV. I remember they always had Volk specials on Easter and Christmas and the like, and they'd dance around our tiny living room to it, while I made rather confused Lalli hand gestures, a la "what the heck are these people doing and what is this weird cajoling on TV?". Fun times, but only in twelve years' worth of hindsight.

[Daelf]

… okay, I'm sorry, I'm trying to make a selection of nice songs in French, but I always end up with two or three songs for each artist I find, so…

For now, I'll just leave the weirdest (in a good way!) one here. But I'll be back.

La Java Martienne, written by Boris Vian (he a lso wrote the amazing –and yes, weird in a good way– novel L'Écume des Jours, adapted in a film that was titled Mood Indigo in English. Has any of you seen it?)
It's old but I love it, because it's (wait for it) weird. There are invented words, and real words used in a way that… makes sense, sometimes, in a strange and poetic way… Also, ridiculous puns on planet names :p

[Viisikielinenkantele]

*Tries to think of German music to post here, but cannot think of anything except Nena and Wolfsheim* *Feels deeply ashamed* Volksmusik, I suppose, but like so many twentieth century kids, I never really got into it. I have vague memories of Hansi Hinterseer, as my mother and grandmother were big fans of his, and would blast it on the TV. I remember they always had Volk specials on Easter and Christmas and the like, and they'd dance around our tiny living room to it, while I made rather confused Lalli hand gestures, a la "what the heck are these people doing and what is this weird cajoling on TV?". Fun times, but only in twelve years' worth of hindsight.

Volksmusik? No, this would be called Volkstümliche Musik...Let me see...this was actually a big hit last year, you simply couldn't avoid it:

Okay, these guys are just weird:

[Silent Fox]

Volksmusik? No, this would be called Volkstümliche Musik...Let me see...this was actually a big hit last year, you simply couldn't avoid it:

Okay, these guys are just weird:

*Looks at first link* Really, my friend didn't even mention it? It's nice to see our music diversifying. Ten years ago when I had to leave it was just-ah Germany, beer and techno. -__- (I still don't think we're good at music though; we should stick to food.)
And that second video, yeah...kinda Bavaria in a nutshell...*sinks into ground in embarrassment* I'm also not entirely sure what it was supposed to be about...T_T And did I see people dancing our iconic Schuhplattler? >___>''''

[Vafhudr]

Behold, Québec folk!
Here's a french-canadian song about a popular legend. It's the story of lumberjacks who make a deal with the devil to go home and see their wives on Christmas eve. The devil gives them a flying canoe and a few rules to abide by. If they break the rules, they can never come back. Spoiler: They break the rules. So they are damned to wander in the sky forever and/or lose their souls, depending on the version.

I would contribute in a small way to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zG5eH2Kjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRMqp05awA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1svi3_tm1s

[Viisikielinenkantele]

*Looks at first link* Really, my friend didn't even mention it? It's nice to see our music diversifying. Ten years ago when I had to leave it was just-ah Germany, beer and techno. -__- (I still don't think we're good at music though; we should stick to food.)
And that second video, yeah...kinda Bavaria in a nutshell...*sinks into ground in embarrassment* I'm also not entirely sure what it was supposed to be about...T_T And did I see people dancing our iconic Schuhplattler? >___>''''

Hehe, yes, Techno...no, I will not get started on this, I promise.
The guys in the second video are actually a big deal in the Schlager-shows at TV. But still weird...

Vafhudr: Wow, I like this song! It has a very nice driving rythm...I don't understand a word he sings but I guess the pictures describe the text?

[Cliodna]

I would like to thank this thread for giving me a lot of new bands to listen to. I enjoy folk rock and folk metal immensely but never seem to manage to find enough to satisfy my appetite.

Oort - Suur Tamm (The Great Oak)
This is a modernized folk-rock version of a regilaul (similar to finnish runo-songs).

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On a similar note we have another folk-rock band, Metsatöll
This one's called "Only bravery" and the official video contains clips of a cartoon called "Suur Tõll", with most of the art being made by syrrealist Jüri Arrak (Metsatöll and Arrak seem to have an understanding - all of their album covers are designed by him as well). I can't remember it personally but apparently that cartoon had made me cry when I'd seen it as a little kid.

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I'll also leave you this Metsatöll - Veelind (Water Fowl), probably one of my favorite of their songs if only for the bit at the start.

And finally...
Another, more "modern", flavor of folk song is the choir songs and the Song Festival. It's pretty much the symbol of this country's re-independance, as well as a way to keep the culture alive, so it would only be fair to show a video of that as well.
This is "Tuljak", a 20th century melody which has become quite popular on song- and dance festivals. It is not my favorite, but it is so full of life and has very uplifting words, as well as a video that shows off the staggering amount of people on this event. It's about a happy wedding between two people named Tõnn and Mari.

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As for music that can not be translated to english without losing a lot of it's meaning - pretty much anything by Dagö. I do not know their genre, but I enjoy listening to them. Their songs are often very calming, full of wordplay and poetry.

/>This is one of the easier ones to translate. It makes me feel quite serene and catches, in my opinion, very well the kind of early-morning-forest-lake atmosphere.
Translation
Here's another song by Dagö that I like. Less serene, more rock-like and tragic: Dagö - Näitleja. About an actor who has grown too old to land any more jobs at the theater.

[Mélusine]

I can't remember it personally but apparently that cartoon had made me cry when I'd seen it as a little kid.

I would have been a frightened little kid.

[Laufey]

I can't remember it personally but apparently that cartoon had made me cry when I'd seen it as a little kid.

I saw that too as a child and I was so scared of it! I still remember little scenes of it, some kind of a demon figure, a woman buried under rubble (?), a giant man wielding some kind of a giant cartwheel thing... I still feel a bit scared of it, actually.