Music

Train Train by Blue Hearts

Not wholly accurate to say I don't know the lyrics, as I've since gone through and found a translation, but it's not at the fore of my mind while listening. Lo Vi by Amanda Miguel (particularly this live performance) is a stunner of a song.

Mdou Moctar’s discography

This song by Slot. I know nothing about the band except that they're Russian so I've always been a tiny bit worried I was actually listening to some anthem singing the glories of the Putin regime.

Entire Kpop. If I understood any of it I'd probably hate it.

yeah. a whole lot. the one i wish i understood the most was mc solaar. he has amazing flow but i have no idea what hes saying

I would like to understand Jacques Brel. Have been thinking about learning french for a few years now. Not just for his music, but he certainly plays a part.

Hmm. Since English is a foreign language I'll restrict myself to that:

Black Midi
Ex-Cult/GØGGS
Heaven's Gate
Liars
Orchestra of Spheres
Erasers
Psychedeli Porn Crumpets
Pure Adult
Silver Daggers
Thee Oh Sees

All Bands I love, but I rarely understand more than disjointed words of what they're singing. (not an exhausting list)

A Million Possibilities by Christine Welch.

Also, a hell of a lot of Rammstein.

Kpop, kr&b, jpop, jrock, rammstein, panzerballett.

Almost ny whole music library.

Anything that isn't my native language or in english I don't understand and that's literally about 50% of library of songs that I listen to

I just check the translation these days, that's how I know when something in German is a masterpiece.

edit: Igorrr is a kind of outlier pertinent to this discussion, most songs are in an invented nonsense language, the human voice is literally just a musical instrument, here. And I discovered I enjoy it immensely, even approximating the syllables in the shower like a demented Pavarotti.

I mostly enjoy viking metal, and while I understand Norwegian and Swedish on a conversational level, Finnish is completely beyond me. Still love their music.

In recent history: Moola Prayer by Sudha & Maneesh De Moor, it's Hindi I believe, and playing in my yoga studio during meditation sessions.

And speaking of Hindi, there's Bloodywood, a great metal band from India, that has a few songs entirely in Hindi, and some bilingual ones (English/Hindi). Ajj is one of my favorites, the video is also epic.

Fishmaster.

Iirc Ramstein and E Nomine were basically my gateway drug that led me to symphonic metal.

Shit still slaps. No fucking clue what they're saying, and no desire to change that: with no meaning in the lyrics, they just melt into the rest of the song as one of the 'instruments'.

I don't know the lyrics to any of my foreign songs lol. Mostly listen to kneecap, molchat doma, and kino

My entire jpop playlist.