foreign-language songs

[kagenaki koe]

enrique iglesias covered Yazoo's "Only You" called Solo En Ti (multiple versions...one in spanish, one in english and one with both spanish and english)

[mmm skyscraper]

Athena - 'Köpek'



cover of Nirvana's 'Breed'

[esaias]

Hah!

There are loads old british and US hit songs sung in finnish. and they do sound ridicilous.



I couldn't find any in youtube
, but I can do some more extensive searching if you really need these.


edit:

AAARGH I FOUND ONE, PROBABLY THE MOST HORRIBLE EVER MADE, EVEN WITH A "VIDEO"



In the meanwhile you can enjoy these:






-Tomi

[Ally]

There's a gorgeous cover of No No No by a French trip-hop act called Melaaz on the Lamb Back To Mine.

[gambit]

And from the Japanese delegation:

The Pillows - Crazy Sunshine, Last Dinosaur, and a bunch more of their stuff. Really excellent rock right there.

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by esaias

Hah!

There are loads old british and US hit songs sung in finnish. and they do sound ridicilous.
-Tomi

I can vouch for that. Find some Finnhits. Its awful but hilariously awful. Tomi: who's that old finnish guy that murdered Sting's Fields of Gold?

I used to have to put up with this crap on the bus on the way to work when I lived in Finland. Seems to be bus drivers radio.

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnhits

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Ally

There's a gorgeous cover of No No No by a French trip-hop act called Melaaz on the Lamb Back To Mine.

Oh yeah, it's also on the DJ Kicks by Daddy G from Massive Attack. Great track, that.

[chino]

There's a popular mexican group that plays band music that made some time ago covers of well known classics such The Night Chicago Died and Hotel California... they resulted damn funny... and danceable.

[GforGroove]

I discovered in a gig in Berlin a few months ago this incredible label called
Sublime Frequencies, that compiles music from non-western regions..
the set was min blowing and was foreign foregin though they are in Sf i guess
..
Music from Iraq, palestina, syria, thailand, algeria.. Radio algeria and Choubi Choubi: Pop Sounds from Iraq are awsome.. that's foreign!... Teh music is so funky and they have so many tracks form the 60's (or at least sounds)
it's truly enlighting to hear this music

www.sublimefrequencies.com/ -

If you want to try something more mainstream (spanish!)
you can listen to:
Silverio, Maria Daniela y Su Sonido Lasser, la Monareta...

[darktrain]

Ben Folds Five did a version of their "Song for the Dumped" in Japanese.

also, there's a german-language version of "Rapper's Delight", but i'm not sure who did it.