Topic: languages. (Read 17983 times)

salada · « **on:** 12 Jun 2005, 00:52 »

i don't think there's been a thread on this yet... i stole this idea off a post on kottke.org. what languages do you have in your music collection? i just looked now and there's more than i thought.

english - most of everything i own (with lyrics).

french - amelie soundtrack, a fair chunk of french hip-hop, and some poppy stuff.

german - some indie stuff and a random hip-hop compilation. and kraftwerk.

spanish - beuna vista social club, and some pixies stuff, and i think there's some spanish on the new mars volta, but i need to listen to it again.

swedish - more hip hop (although a lot of it's actually in english)

japanese - mostly random vocals on DJ krush albums, and some odd soundscape-y stuff.

icelandic, and, err hopelandic - you know who. and i think some múm stuff might have some icelandic lyrics?

arabic - miscellaneous stuff by asian dub foundation, nitin sawhney, natacha atlas and some local guys.

so yeh. what've you got? i imagine resident classicalheads will be able to come up with a pretty good list.

(edited for spelling mistaeks, ps.)

La Creme · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 01:14 »

About half my stuff is instrumental, but besides that:

English - I'm american, what do you think? 99%ish.

Tongues - Mostly all my Mr. Bungle. Some other assorted stuff, like "Berserker" from the Clerks soundtrack. What the duck are they saying? Would you like some making fuck?

French - Mano Negra, the Tripplettes of Bellville soundtrack, and some other assorted stuffis.

Spanish - Hardly any.

Unintelligible Irish - The Pogues. Sexiest Irish accent in ever.

Assorted other. I'm not that multi-cultural really. I should be. Plus I'm too lazy to check what language some of my musics are in.

*EDIT* I FORGOT ALL ABOUT KRAFTWERK! I listen to Autobahn almost every week.

jeremy · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 02:52 »

This is my favorite topic ever. Finally, a way to combine my dorky love of language and my dorky love of music.

I have music from probably 50+ countries and territories, so this might not be all of it, but it covers most of it:

Albanian (Blla-Blla-Blla, Roe Dae Woo)
Alsacian (Kroch)
Amharic (Girma Beyene, Samuel Belay, Alemayehu Eshete)
Arabic (Jaffar Hasa'an, Aicha Realizania)
Basque (BAP!!, Kortatu, Kashbad)
Belarusian (Hate To State, Deviation, Pet Nihil)
Bosnian (Rupa U Zidu, No Ones, Zabranjeno Pusenje)
Bulgarian (Review, Novi Cvetya, Control)
Burmese (The Ants, Ghostrider)
Chinese (Blackbird, Brainfailure, A-Jerks)
Croatian/Serbo-Croatian (Kud Idijoti, Nula, Radikalna Promjena)
Czech (Zemezluc, FPB, Radegast)
Danish (City X, Lost Kids, Freshly Riots)
Dutch (BGK, Murder Inc. III, Pandemonium)
English (pretty much everything ever)
Esperanto (Picismo)
Estonian (Osakond 79, Propeller, J.M.K.E.)
Farsi (Mud, Oolanbator, Alookal, Dark Earth)
Finnish (Eppu Normaali, Ypo-Viis, Mopot)
French (Plastic Bertrand, Metal Urbain, Berurier Noir)
Georgian (Retsepti)
German (PVC, Buttocks, Chaos Z)
Greek (Genia Tou Haous, Rita Abadzi, Adiexodo)
Hebrew (Nekhei Naatza, Jean Conflict, Dir Yassin)
Hindi (Nilam Bai)
Hungarian (Aurora, Tizedes Mega Tobbiek, Ulloi Uti Fak)
Icelandic (Purrkur Pillnikk, Fraebbblarnir, Peyr)
Italian (Wretched, I Refuse It!, Cani)
Japanese (The Stalin, Gas, Cobra)
Korean (The Stewducts, Slobbery Dognose, Crying Nut)
Latvian (Inokentijs Marpls)
Lithuanian (Cita Attieksme, Invazija, Turboreanimacija)
Macedonian (Padot Na Vizantija, No Name Nation, F.P.O.)
Malagasy (Sweety Punk)
Malayalam (Specops, Karut, Dirty Dogs)
Mongolian (Mongol Ajalguu)
Nepali (Rai Ko Ris, Jlke & The Rockers, Inside 2 Stoopid Triangles)
Norwegian (Bannlyst, Haeverk, Akutt Inleggelse)
Oromo (Tamrat Ferendji)
Polish (Dezerter, Armia, Moskwa)
Portuguese (Crise Total, Os Replicantes, Ohlo Seco)
Quechua (Enemigos De La Clase, Psicosis Social, Markahuasi)
Romanian (Terror Art, Guranii, Tectonic)
Russian (Vladimir Vysotsky, Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Yanka)
Serbian/Serbo-Croatian (Pekinska Patka, Electricni Orgazam, Ritam Nereda)
Slovak (Extip, Davova Psychoza, Zona A)
Slovenian (Uporniki Bez Razloga, Kuzle, Pankrti)
Spanish (Bajo Tierra, Sedicion, Polo Pepo)
Swedish (Disarm, Grisen Skriker, Mob 47)
Tagalog (Philippine Violators)
Thai (Flesh & Skin, Sepia, Donpheebin)
Turkish (Rashit, Headbangers, Less)
Ukrainian (Vopli Vidopljasova)
Xhosa (Myriam Makeba)

kikanjuuneko · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 04:02 »

Holy crap. With the exception of a couple of, ahem, O-Zone songs (which are in Romanian), all of my music is in English. I feel so uncultured.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 06:48 »

English - Most of it
Finnish - Pax Americana, maybe a couple of other bands I don't play much
French - Some Submission Hold, Belle Epoque, Daitro and I think I'm forgetting a couple here
German - Chorea, Asmodinas Leichenhaus, verious other pretty harsh hardcore stuff
Japanese - Some of the stuff on Thrash Ahoy!!!, I'm sure a few others if I checked
Spanish - Los Crudos
Swedish - Some D.S.-13

Hmm, I'm sure there's more, I really need to go have a look. Interesting topic, it's got me thinking.

_grace_ · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 07:21 »

and i have... ENGLISH. and that's pretty much all i think.

i loved reading this thread (as small as it is so far) just to know that there are other people out there who appreciate those awesome recent french movies

i.e Amelie, Triplettes of Belleville, and A Very Long Engagement (not mentioned, but great)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 07:30 »

Right...

Ancient Egyptian (Nile)
Aztec (Ewigkeit)
Catalan (Atrium Musicae de Madrid)
Dutch (Ancient Rites)
Finnish (Horna, Korpiklaani, Moonspell etc.)
French (Anorexia Nervosa, Count Nosferatu Kommando, Theatres Des Vampires etc.)
Icelandic (Falkenbach)
Italian (Theatres Des Vampires, various classical works)
Irish Gaelic (Cruachan, Lothlorien, Waylander etc.)
Japanese (Abigail, Malize Mizer, X-Japan etc.)
German (E Nomine, Rammstein, Subway to Sally, :wumpscut: etc.)
Latin (E Nomine, Nazgul etc.)
Norse (Therion)
Norwegian (Borknagar, Isengard, Ulver etc.)
Old English (Forefather)
Polish (Behemoth)
Romanian (Theatres Des Vampires)
Russian (NskMetal, Various classical works)
Spanish (Atrium Musicae de Madrid)
Swedish (Finntroll, Therion etc.)
Ukrainian (Nokturnal Mortum)
Yiddish (Salem)

These are not all whole songs...I think Theatres Des Vampires did four languages in one song once, for instance.

Also, there's various dialect and type stuff: for example, I believe a lot of Ulver is written in archaic Norwegian, same for E Nomine and German.

negative creep · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 07:58 »

hm i don't really have many languages in my collection, maybe because it's not really big....

there's english (of course), german (most of it being tocotronic, kettcar and such a surge), swedish (well... dungen), french (some stuff by such a surge), turkish (again such a surge, but only one song, and it was a guest-rapper, does that even count?)

Kai · « **Reply #8 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 08:04 »

English.
Spanish.
French.
German.
Finnish.
Norwegian.
Swedish.
Mole. (Yes, mole. The Residents Mole Trilogy/Big Bubble. woo!)
Italian.
Japanese.
Korean.
Eskimo. (Once again. The Residents. STOP INVENTING LANGUAGES, DAMMIT)

I think that's it.

EDIT: I have a song by the arrogant worms in Gaelic. At least, I'm assuming they're speaking gaelic, since it's called the gaelic song or something of the sort.

Signum_Tenebrae · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 09:51 »

English
Norwegian
French
German
Finnish
Swedish
Japanese
Ukranian
Polish
Italian
Icelandic
Dutch
Ancient Egyptian
Latin
Sumerian
Aztec

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #10 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 10:06 »

English (Lots)
French (Sniper)
Japanese (Tha Blue Herb, DJ Krush)
Chinese (DJ Krush again. Only one song though)
Portugese (Jorge Ben, Tohquino, DJ Marky, DJ Patife)
German (Noisy Stylus, Kraftwerk)
Icelandic (múm?)
Arabic (Thievery Corporation, Nitin Sawhney)
Spanish (Bueno Vista Social Club, a bunch of awesome Cuban stuff my Aunt gave me with no names)
Hungarian (Venetian Snares)
The international language of instrumental music (Mega lots)

Not great going I know. I'm probobly missing some stuff, but still only 10 real languages. Oh well.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #11 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 10:06 »

Here's a few more:
Ancient Egyptian - I listen to Nile too
Italian - how could I forget La Quiete?
Dutch - some Mihoen! songs, I think I'll have some other Dutch thrash kicking about too
And I have some songs which are in African languages, but I forget which. I still think I must be forgetting a few others.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #12 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 10:58 »

Danish(Under Byen, Entakt, Kå, Malk de Koijn and Sorten Muld)
Norwegian(Kaizers Orchestra, Gåte)
German(Rammstein, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Toten Hosen)
a bit of spanish(Manu Chao, The Mars Volta, Devendra Banhart(though that's nonsense)

and the rest is in english

Merkava · « **Reply #13 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 10:59 »

English

British

That's it. Other languages annoy me. It's the only thing I'm close-minded about.

Robbo · « **Reply #14 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 11:03 »

Why would other languages annoy you?

Myself....noticing a theme among the Metal fans anyone?

Ancient Egyptian
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
Icelandic
Italian
Irish Gaelic
Japanese
German
Norse
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Swedish
Ukrainian

Merkava · « **Reply #15 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 11:08 »

I mean, speaking, I like, but rock singing just sounds too wierd to me. The way the accents and words fit together just hit me in a wierd way. Mabe I wasn't exposed to enough of it or something, but I'm not very partial to other languages in terms of rock music.

kikanjuuneko · « **Reply #16 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 12:23 »

Hmm, I did now realize I have a few Nile and Mars Volta records. So I guess I can add Spanish and Ancient Egyptian as well.

Merkava · « **Reply #17 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 12:29 »

Oh, that's right, I have both Mars Volta LP's, so add spanish to my list. XP

JLM · « **Reply #18 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 12:53 »

English
German
Japanese
Spanish
Portuguese
Bulgarian
Ukranian
Latin
French
Icelandic
Swedish...

I'm sure there's more...

Jeridus · « **Reply #19 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 14:49 »

Quote from: Kai

EDIT: I have a song by the arrogant worms in Gaelic. At least, I'm assuming they're speaking gaelic, since it's called the gaelic song or something of the sort.

Hahaha... oh man... no, they aren't actually speaking gaelic... well, there may be a few actual gaelic words, but most of it is just randomness meant to make fun of gaelic... ie. "Meow Meow Meow Meow [...] BARK! meow..."... unless they're impersonating celtic domestic animals... hrm...

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #20 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 15:22 »

English
French
Russian
Portugese
Spanish
Dutch

That is all.

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #21 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 16:21 »

HOPELANDIC!!

Psiogen · « **Reply #22 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 20:27 »

English
Kobaian (Magma, of colurse)
Portuguese (Tropicalia, bossa nova, some Angolan music too)
German (Krautrock!)
Italian (prog)
Norwegian (prog)
Swedish (prog)
Icelandic (prog)
Spanish (prog)
French (Various French/Canadian pop music through the ages. And prog.)
Russian (5'Nizza)
Japanese (Polysics, etc)
Korean (Doctor Lee)
Bulgarian (traditional)
Chinese (trad)
Vietnamese (trad)
Thai (trad)
Cambodian (trad)
Balinese (trad)
Hindi (trad)

californaya · « **Reply #23 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 20:43 »

Quote from: Merkava

Oh, that's right, I have both Mars Volta LP's, so add spanish to my list. XP

Ditto.

German: almost every Rammstein album released
Spanish: Chingon, Kinky, the aforementioned Mars Volta
French: "Voulez-Vous Danser" by Ace of Base, some Arcade Fire (thanks for the reminder, Johnny C)
Icelandic: Quarashi

If I got into where the bands are from, I could include The Hives, In Flames, Blindside, etc., but I won't.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #24 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 20:59 »

Quote from: californaya

If I got into where the bands are from, I could include The Hives, In Flames, Blindside, etc., but I won't.

Seriously, don't.

I have way over half the countries in the world.

Johnny C · « **Reply #25 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 21:20 »

Engilsh - most
French - The Arcade Fire at times, a rap album from a group called Tryptik.
Japanese - Some band called Pizzacato Five
Spanish - The Mars Volta
Occasional made-up words - The Mars Volta, The Fiery Furnaces

siobhan · « **Reply #26 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 21:33 »

this is vaguely related, and somewhat amusing so i thought i'd share

i had a tourist (from a neighboring, and sometimes stereotyped country) ask me if we only had CD's in Canadian, or if we sold them in English as well.

Johnny C · « **Reply #27 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 21:46 »

Did you slap him?

deborah · « **Reply #28 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 07:51 »

english
welsh (apparently i'm the only one listening to the SFA)
spanish
spanglish (used to DJ for a gay bar...it's ricky martin)
german
french
icelandic

heretic · « **Reply #29 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 08:00 »

Quote from: siobhan

this is vaguely related, and somewhat amusing so i thought i'd share

i had a tourist (from a neighboring, and sometimes stereotyped country) ask me if we only had CD's in Canadian, or if we sold them in English as well.

bwahahahaha, i get it, americans are dumb

deborah · « **Reply #30 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 08:17 »

perhaps the tourist's initials were gwb

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #31 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 08:23 »

English for pretty much everything.

French I have some punk in. (Camera Silens!)

German I used to have some folk music in.

Norweigan - Dimmu Borgir

Italian - a goth CD of my brother's I borrowed.

Russian - a couple Leningrad songs. Menya zovut Shnur!

Jeridus · « **Reply #32 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 09:07 »

Only a few

English (Most of the stuff on my comp)
French (some quebec bands, a bit of Arcade Fire, a few old songs from france, and of course NoFX's cover of Champs Elysee)
German (a bunch of rammstein, and some Wagner and some Orff)
Spanish (Mars Volta... that's about it for spanish, I think)

Ooh... and the beatles song "Across The Universe" has some random hindi in it... or punjabi... i really don't know, seeing as how I don't speak any of the indian dialects

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #33 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 13:40 »

Quote from: bucky_2300

Russian - a couple Leningrad songs. Menya zovut Shnur!

OH Dear Lord, I LOVE YOU. Leningrad is so fucking funny....well, to me since I understand what they're saying. I love them to death.

ALSO: Forgot Japanese on my list.

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #34 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 13:52 »

Their lyrics are funny.

"When a cop stops me
“You’re not registered anywhere!”
I’m calmly answering
“My address, today, goes like this:”

W-W-W LENINGRAD S-P-B DOT RU"

That's a good song. Almost ska-ish. Yeah, it is. Russian ska, there's something to wrap my head around. :S

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #35 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 14:05 »

Yup, Russian ska cracks me up. My favourite song is Bez Tibyia Pizdetz (life fucking sucks without you). I use that word all the time when I talk to my Russian friends. I gotta potty-mouth in three different langauges.

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #36 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 14:13 »

I know a guy who speaks russian, I should get him to help me learn. All my mom can say is "thank you," from her trip to Russia in (get this) 1978

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #37 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 15:54 »

How the hell did she get in!?! Or out for that matter!

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #38 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 15:59 »

It was a high school trip, and for some reason they were allowed in and out, as long as they didn't take any photos home with them, or any Russian currency. Of course, my mom found ways of getting both out. Such a renegade she was.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #39 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 19:44 »

The only things I can say in russian are 'Yes', 'No', 'Hello' and 'Fried Chicken'.

Repeating the latter kept me alive when I was in Moscow. I'm rather ashamed I don't know any decent swear-words in Russian. I like swearing in other languages. What I know of Finnish, for example, is almost entirely swear words.

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #40 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 20:28 »

I tried translating "fuck" into Russian and back...it came out as "trahnites" :\

jeremy · « **Reply #41 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 00:16 »

Wow, this thread just keeps getting more interesting.

So...who here speaks Russian? Skibas, me, and...?

Good swearing in Russian? Pick up The Dictionary of Russian Slang & Colloquial Expressions by Vladimir Shlyakov and Eve Adler (Barron's 1999; ISBN 0-7641-1019-5) and Dictionary of Russian Obscenities compiled by D.A. Drummond and G. Perkins (Scythian Books 1987; ISBN 0-933884-54-0). Those two are quite nice.

Now...пошли вы все на хуй! We'll see if that displays correctly... =p

("trahnites"?)

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #42 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 07:58 »

^ Don't ask me, ask translation2.paralink.com .

Russian is a funny language, especially written. I really liked that QC parody comic I did almost entirely in Russian.

atari · « **Reply #43 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 10:57 »

English [just about everything]

French [MC Solaar, Yelo Molo, Rufus Wainwright, Les Colocs, Mitsou, Les Miladys, Les Triplettes de Belleville]

German [Nena Hagen, Rammstein, Franz Ferdinand, ]

Latin [Final Fantasy]

Japanese [Utada, Koda Kumi, Gackt, Pierrot, L'arc~en~ciel, Meiko Kaji]

Icelantic/Scandinavian/whatever it is [Sigur Ros, Bjork]

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #44 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 12:23 »

Quote from: jeremy

Wow, this thread just keeps getting more interesting.

So...who here speaks Russian? Skibas, me, and...?

Now...пошли вы все на хуй! We'll see if that displays correctly... =p

BAHAHA, that made me laugh! You speak Russian? That's awesome! I wasn't born here, so both my parents speak Russian to me. I'm not completely fluent, but as close as I'm going to get. Unfortunately, you forget some of the language when you don't live in the country.

jeremy · « **Reply #45 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 14:34 »

Yes, I speak Russian. I am not a native, and I'm surely not fluent, but I can carry on a conversation well enough and have decent reading comprehension.

godbowstomath · « **Reply #46 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 16:25 »

English - blah blah blah....

French - Stereolab, Keren Ann, Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Montand etc etc etc

German - NEU!, Kraftwerk, Faust

Japanese - Deerhoof (Green Cosmos,) Boredoms, OOIOO

Icelandic: Post-rock spiel

Hopelandic: yeah...

Total Gibberish: Damo-era CAN

Probably alot more. My Japanese speaking group clearly dominates.

zmeiat_joro · « **Reply #47 on:** 04 Jul 2005, 08:26 »

Quote from: jeremy

Bulgarian (Review, Novi Cvetya, Control)

Awesome

Quote from: jeremy

Xhosa (Myriam Makeba)

:jaw drops: Xhosa!

Tinjessla · « **Reply #48 on:** 04 Jul 2005, 11:37 »

I guess theres some:

English
Icelandic
Spanish
Egyptian
Japanese
French
German
and Algerian in my music collection.

Jed · « **Reply #49 on:** 04 Jul 2005, 11:55 »

Finnish (YUP, CMX, Zen Café, Leevi & The Leavings, Viikate etc.)
English (Cradle of Filth, Marilyn Manson, Turbonegro, Children of Bodom etc.)
Japanese (Acid Mothers Temple, Juicy Panic, Kanno & The Seatbelts)
Brazilian or Brazil? (Os Mutantes)
German (Rammstein)
Made up words, but mostly Japanese noise

(The Boredoms)
Italian

I recommend YUP for everyone even if you don't understand Finnish.

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Author Topic: languages. (Read 17983 times)

La Creme

jeremy

kikanjuuneko

_grace_

Signum_Tenebrae

MilkmanDan

Praeserpium Machinarum

Merkava

Robbo

Merkava

kikanjuuneko

Merkava

Jeridus

thehoopiestfrood

Psiogen

californaya

siobhan

deborah

heretic

deborah

Jeridus

jeremy

atari

jeremy

godbowstomath

Tinjessla