What's your favorite kind of foreign music?

[Stop_the_War]

I like :

Spanish/Latin
Arabic

[HeyManThatsCool]

1. Foreigner

God I hope I said that b4 anyone else!

lol

[intrepid_wanderer]

15. GOOD. n/t

[lastknowngood]

2. british

n/t

[MrSlayer]

3. British Heavy Metal

Priest
Sabbath
Venom
Motorhead
Maiden

[drumwolf]

12. are you a fan of any of the following obscure older UK metal bands?

UFO
Uriah Heep
Diamond Head
Saxon
Raven

Some of them were part of "The British New Wave of Heavy Metal" in the late '70s and early '80s. (All of the bands you named except for Sabbath were also pretty much part of that scene too.)

[MrSlayer]

17. I like Raven.

John Gallagher has one of the best power screams in Metal. The others were a bit before my time and not quite heavy enough for my taste but all the heavy bands of my era (80's) were inspired by them.

[Telly Savalas]

4. Some tunes from Bollywood flicks are pretty catchy

[Us vs Them]

5. Japan has some amazing artists.

Their concept of 'popular' music has always interested me. Very different sense of melodic composition.

[saltpoint]

6. Celtic. The further west on the isle, the better.

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. Irish/Celtic

n/t

[barackmyworld]

7. European Techno, and Korean Pop

[drumwolf]

8. As far as so-called "world" goes,

mostly South Asian or African, but I like anything that has heavy intricate percussion or trance-like sounds.

As far as western-style pop/rock from non-Western countries go, I must say that Japan produces a lot of great punk bands and also a lot of rather bizarre experimental, noise and quirky pop acts. If you're into old-school garagey punk, check out Teengenerate, Guitar Wolf, and the Registrators. If you want your music more bizarre and F'ed-up, check out the Boredoms, Fushitsusha, Acid Mothers Temple, Masonna, Merzbow, Solmania and C.C.C.C.

ON EDIT: I forgot to add, I've also heard a lot of North African Arab droney music that I like a lot. And to be more specific about African music I like, I'm a particularly huge fan of "Afrobeat," the style of music pioneered by Nigerian legend Fela Kuti which involves fusing traditional West African rhythms with American-style soul and funk.

[Les BOOGIE]

9. check out Amethystium and Green Isaac (both Norwegian) >>>

Blue Knights and Praful (both German)

[vixengrl]

10. Flamenco/spanish guitar.

Makes me boogie around the house and get cheerful.

[asthmaticeog]

11. Krautrock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krautrock

[Guy Fawkes]

13. Irish, Russian, Chinese....

Korean, Japanese, Egyptian, South African, Spanish, German, Swedish, Norse, British, Canadian.... soooo many!

[Squeech]

14. Gamelan

Talk about yer heavy metal-- some of those gongs weigh a ton! :-)

I also like qawwali. And khoomei. And salegy. And the odd slip jig.

[MrScorpio]

16. Brazilian

All kinds of Brazilian

[Ann Arbor Dem]

25. I'm with you!

The Brazilian musical landscape is so rich and varied. And there is nothing like hearing the lyrical sounds of Brazilian Portuguese, is there?

Which singers/musicians/groups are some of your favorites?

[progmom]

30. hey!

I didn't know you were trolling the lounge!


AnnArborDem is about as much of a Brazilian music expert as you will find in the midwest.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

31. Hey to you!

And progmom is one of most knowledgeable minds in jazz today. Incredibly influential in her own right!

Did you know that Fathead's birthday is Thursday? We should have celebrated a little more on Friday. What a show, eh?

[progmom]

34. no shit?

Yeah - we should have.

His wife was a trip! I liked her a lot. What was her name?

[Ann Arbor Dem]

35. I saw it on the list in the prep room.

Her name is Karen. You're right...she was a trip...and fun. All-in-all, a great night.

[progmom]

36. thanks for going with me!

...and for getting us hooked up with Sandy! Yummy champagne!

[Ann Arbor Dem]

50. It was a blast!

I didn't make to NOJO the next night...too tired, I guess.

[progmom]

58. i wonder if anyone showed up

i promoted it to the best of my abilities.... :)

[MrScorpio]

40. Lot's of folks

Antonio Carlos Jobim
Flora Purim
Zuco 103
Os Cariocas
Nicola Conte (Great music for an italian)
Rosalia De Souza
Astrud Gilberto
Tania Maria
Dom Salvador & Banda Abolicao
Alaide Costa
Banda Black Rio
Bebel Gilberto
Bossacucanova
The Boyz From Brazil
Caetano Veloso
Carlos Lyra
Da Lata
Eli Goulart E Banda Do Mato
Elis Regina
Eumir Deodato
Gal Costa
Gilberto Gil
Anna Caram
João Gilberto

Just a few

Got lots more

[Ann Arbor Dem]

48. Great minds.....

;)

I see you like the traditional beat with an electronic edge. Have you heard Paula Morelenbaum's new CD on Universal, Berimbaum? It was released in November I think. It's a tribute to Vinicius de Moraes (one of my muse's in life), but it has a BossaCucaNova-like sound. Very cool.

[latteromden]

18. ROMANIAN (but vorbesc doar putin româneste). W00t. Also,

(DU kills my Romanian characters :()

Italian (Articolo 31 doesn't have a lot of songs that I like, but when I find one that's good, it's REALLY good)

Japanese

Chinese

Norwegian and Danish music, uh, not so great. There are a couple bands here and there that I like (e.g., De Lillos), but not a whole lot.

KYO, in French, is very, very good.

I think my second favorite (first being Romanian) would be anything from Kenya or Tanzania (in Swahili - jambo, jambo bwana, habari gani, nzuri sana - :P)

[sundog]

19. Lithuanian show tunes

:P

no, really - I'm a Bossa Nova freak. Braaaziiiilll.

[BiggJawn]

20. Andean.

[Fleshdancer]

21. Indian n/t

[NightTrain]

22. Reggae, baby!

One love, one heart,
Let's get together and feel all right! :smoke:

[LiberallyInclined]

24. Belgian- as long as it's Hooverphonic. otherwise Jamaican

reggae or steel drum.

[sundog]

28. Hooverphonic is great!

New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular :bounce:

[Aristus]

26. Welsh.

'Suo-Gan', a Welsh lullaby, was the intro at my wedding. I'm part-Welsh, natch.

[sans qualia]

27. Icelandic

Sigur Rós, Björk, Múm... why is Iceland so damn cool?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

56. Because of the ice?

:P

[progmom]

29. Brazilian

it's my current all-consuming passion.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

32. As it should be.....

;)

We need to get together soon to talk about the music....

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. Celtic... fiddles, bodhrans, pipes, and whistles do it for me

[PartyPooper]

37. I like ABBA!

:D

:hi:

[datasuspect]

38. yiddish rap

oh yes.

there was also a prog-rocker from lebanon who mixed traditional arabic music with the heavily inflected patterns of early 70s rock. pretty righteous.

[lpbk2713]

39. Flamenco, klezmer, salsa.

[Hardrada]

41. Prussian marches

Preussens Gloria, Yorkscher Marsch, Koniggratzer Marsch. I'm not a big militarist I just like some motivating music for a hard day.

[baron j]

42. Canadian.

It's quite exotic.

[China_cat]

43. Andean pan pipes

[Skittles]

45. ooooh

I've heard those - beautiful

[Spider Jerusalem]

44. Qawwali.

(Sufi Muslim devotional music)

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the MAN.

On edit: UK and other foreign rock/pop doesn't count here, in my opinion, anyway, because there's not enough cultural dissonance for it to be truly "foreign".

[non sociopath skin]

46. American

The Skin

[Maestro]

47. Rock en español

For example:

Also like Los Caifanes/Jaguares, Maná, Aterciopelados, Enanitos Verdes, La Ley, Plastilina Mosh, Molotov etc...

[HughBeaumont]

49. Italian Prog, Klezmer, Musicians of the Nile

Japanese noisecore
Bengali
anything from the Indian subcontinent
Moroccan
Arabic
Gregorian chants
Krautrock
Qawwali
Celtic

[SCDem]

51. Latin and Middle eastern and West African Drums

[Az]

52. Don't listen to much domestic music anymore, but Japan has been #1

for a while in our listening choices. Just got back from a JPop concent this weekend. Much more interesting than the blech being pumped into mainstream America right now.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

53. Spanish pop and rock

nt

[devilgrrl]

54. African and Arabic

eom

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. Rock

Hey, it's foreign to ME!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

57. All different kinds:

My first encounter with foreign music was singing in a Balkan group, so Eastern European music remains close to my heart.

I also like South African, Middle Eastern, Indian, Brazilian, and Japanese.