Since most of the music I listen to is written in English, lately I've been questing for music in different languages. It doens't matter at all whether I can understand the lyrics or not, in fact, things that would probably be standard or lukewarm at best if written in English, sound completely different just by the sound of unknown words.
Case in point,
Wir sind Helden . Standard pop post-punk, nothing that special really. But...I dunno, everytime I listen to them, I almost feel that the whole genre of post-punk was meant to be written in german, without discrediting any quality english post-punk.
Or
Monade, related to Stereolab,
Serge Gainsbourg (I cannot recommend this song enough, by the way). I know, duh, their songs "sound" french because they
ARE written in french. But you get what I'm saying right? Hopefully, you do.
I realize that my notions of what these languages are supposed to sound like music-wise revolve around stereotypes, which are not universal, I might add. I also realize the QC userbase is composed mostly of english speakers. But still, you know your music, so...you know what to do. Any good music, any language other than english. I'd prefer it if the genre and the language were not
that immediately associated, i.e., scandinavian metal, j-pop, and acts that have achieved some international reknown, Nouvelle Vague and the like, but if you feel it's really outsanding, please go ahead.
PS: Being a native spanish speaker, I already have my share of music written in spanish. But again, do as you please. Perhaps other people are interested in this as well.
