Who listens to music from other contries?

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Eternal_Saber
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05 Mar 2009, 8:08 pm

Myself, I listen to music from japan. I just love how catchy the songs are, and the language inspires me to learn more about the people. ^_^

It also fuels my love for japanese pop culture. Things like Anime and Manga.

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05 Mar 2009, 9:29 pm

i am in canada and one of my fav bands is battlelore. battlelore is from finland and unfortunately, they are not well know here in north america.

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05 Mar 2009, 9:37 pm

I listened to many British bands over the years...does that count?...

Maddino87
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05 Mar 2009, 9:40 pm

Same here. Almost all the bands I listen to are from Britain.

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05 Mar 2009, 9:40 pm

pakled wrote:

I listened to many British bands over the years...does that count?...

Sure it does. As long as it is music from countries other than your own.

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05 Mar 2009, 10:14 pm

Two words: Sigur Ros.

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05 Mar 2009, 10:18 pm

I often don't know if it's from a different country or not,
but I know that most of the music I listen to IS from a different country.

A long time ago when my age only had one number in it,
I thought that if I couldn't understand the language,
(this is silly...)
then it meant they had so much awesome stuff there to sing about,
and that the reason I didn't know what the words meant
was because I never saw any of the stuff they were singing about before.

(If the music was beautiful sounding, I imagined they were singing about
colors I never saw before around here, and all kinds of happy things.)

How wrong could I be? This sounds beautiful but is sad lyrics.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5HeEoa5oj0[/youtube]

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05 Mar 2009, 10:31 pm

My favourite band is from Israel, but my favourite music genre is decidedly international.

Melodic Trance/Goa/Psytrance/Ambient Electronica

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05 Mar 2009, 10:37 pm

I listen to a LOT of music from other countries. I don't like J-Pop, but you also have to admit that Japan has had an interesting and influential underground rock scene since the late 60's.

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05 Mar 2009, 11:08 pm

I listen to Nightwish since an aquaintence of mine shared a song or two of theirs. I have two of their CDs now, might get another later. I would like to try other songs from different countries, but I'm a tad picky, and needs to hear some prior to purchase.

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05 Mar 2009, 11:27 pm

I listen to a lot of world music. From too many countries to name here. Unlike a lot of Americans, I am not weirded out by different tonalities and instrumentation or foreign languages.

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