Good songs in other languages?

rorystrat · July 24, 2024, 5:11pm

I can’t help recalling the Swedish Chef in Sesame Street.

TheMadman_tobyjenner · July 24, 2024, 5:13pm

Once again I have scrolled through this whole and once again no one has posted Osibisa !
I guess it could be an age thing but from their iconic album Heads and frequently appearances on TOGWT but definitely a band that I feel in love with a the ripe old age of 16 !

Kokorokoo (warning contains some inglish )

Mentumi

JokuMuu · July 24, 2024, 5:39pm

I still find this thread absolutely fascinating… Almost every post makes me want to do research on artists, bands, music genres, music history etc. …

But no… Gotta to be strong, should practice… So I will only post the probably most mous song of one of my favourite Finnish bands… And then practice still a bit…

TheMadman_tobyjenner · July 24, 2024, 5:57pm

Sacre bleu ! I cannae see that one !

JokuMuu · July 24, 2024, 6:07pm

Which one? The YUP song I had posted? Something else? In case it was YUP… Here is a live version

TheMadman_tobyjenner · July 24, 2024, 6:32pm

Yeah that was the one. Not my usual java but an eclectic catchy little song.

blackLight · July 25, 2024, 5:12pm

Anything by Cheik Lo or Youssou N’dour

nusrat

niyaz

roger_holland · July 26, 2024, 1:58pm

Well ,Good songs good song , you may have doubts about this one, but with the sun in the garden, the terrace coming up… it just makes me happy now

Specially on the radio today in the special Olympic radio broadcast…

I’m looking forward to it …Paris here we come

JokuMuu · October 15, 2024, 7:47am

When I first heard a song from Daniel Kahn, my immediate reaction was. “He has listened to his Tom Waits…”

Seems, he also covered at least one Tom Waits song. Please find below a hauntingly beautiful version of a magnificent song.

beejay56 · October 15, 2024, 12:40pm

Nicole

Quite a discovery: perhaps not as passionate as Tom, still an interesting version.

Brian

roger_holland · October 15, 2024, 12:53pm

You never know who will get lost scrolling somewhere and crashed here…

JokuMuu · October 15, 2024, 2:56pm

It’s a discovery indeed @beejay56 .
I can recommend Kahn’s albums “The building and other songs” and “Word beggar” if you want to check.

I never knew that Yiddish sounds so magical when sung. Of course as a native German speaker with a love for dialects and language varieties that are not “standard”, I can’t help picking up odds and ends.

This one is from “Word beggar” and it’s amazing how gracefully and poetically he translated the lyrics of an iconic song