Song Language Meme

[gfish]

I've been thinking this would be a fun little meme, so I'm going to try to start it.

List every non-natively-spoken language represented in your music collection, and give an example for each.

French: Resistant, Da Octopusss
German: Engel, Rammstein
Romanian: Dragostei Din Tei, O-Zone
Japanese: Katamari Damacy soundtrack
Afrikaans: De la Rey, Bok Van Berk
Swedish: Boten Anna, Basshunter
Russian: Polyushka
Irish Gaelic: Ebudæ, Enya
Scottish Gaelic: Mouth Music
Spanish: Avalancha, Héroes del Silencio
C: Descramble (DeCSS song)
Hindi: Jaan Pehechan Ho, Mohammed Rafi
Korean: DPRK Anthem

Huh. I really thought this would be longer.

Comments

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

I have Jaan Pehechan Ho. I've heard, but do not have, Dragostea din tei and De la Rey.

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll play. Trying to think of a way to add a social/game component to it, though, that is cleverer than "match the language to the song".

[zzyzx-xyzzy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure some of these are in Max/MSP/pd and some other ones are in CSound but I don't know which is which.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

French: Raspberries, Strawberries - The Kingston Trio; Jimmy Buffet, Chanson Pour les Petits Enfants
Japanese: Styx - Mr. Roboto; Rockapella - Live from Japan!
Russian: Hymn to Red October
Irish Gaelic: Ebudæ, Enya; several bits from Clannad and the Chieftans
Spanish: Coplas! - The Kingston Trio
Math: Jonathan Coulton: Mandelbrot Set; also a User Friendly track involving DeCSS
Alien: Blake Hodgetts, "Proteins" :)
Trucker: C.W. McCall, "Convoy"

All I can think of now....

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

You've got more than that. I don't recall the name of the language being sung by Yossou N'Dour in "In Your Eyes" from Peter Gabriel's "So", but it's sometihing not on your list I'd guess.

[corivax.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you have some sort of Latin in a chanty something or other, right?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I didn't look that closely, but probably. I was originally trying to limit myself to pop-ish songs, and only ones entirely in a given language. That kind of drifted...

[filkferengi]

If you'd like some Welsh, I could upload it for you.