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Re: Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?

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Post by culopatin »

galfarragem wrote: post #3

Very easy to listen, my favourite album in Brazilian Portuguese - Elis and Tom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiKfu7sQXA8 Easy to listen - Amor Electro - Portuguese band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwCyqvpJZwE More difficult to listen - Ornatos Violeta - Portuguese band with brilliant but honest lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRDr4ivis4o Even more difficult to listen - Zeca Afonso - songs against form…

I have a flight coming up next week and I’ve downloaded the first album in my Spotify. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?

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Post by culopatin »

Some of my favorites from the south of the planet:

The intro ends at 0:14 and I can never keep my feet still with this song: https://youtu.be/yf6kTjLVG2Y

A band with an incredible history. The singer is an Italian-Scottish born after his family escaped China. He attended the same school as Prince Charles but ran away one year before graduating. Somehow landed in the middle of the mountains in Argentina and started a reggae band that would morph into what’s in the link below. The most influential band of the underground music in Argentina in my opinion.

https://youtu.be/-hGUyebsf60

https://youtu.be/jlUXIfPt5tk

And a band with lyrics you wouldn’t understand even if you knew the language:

https://youtu.be/AG_0HlSSUdw

https://youtu.be/pntSoXv-cqU

Re: Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?

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Post by stzup7 »

Oldies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2FmAzArl4 (Baldorba / Benito Lertxundi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IthTQD6XonM (Eperrak / Anje Duhalde)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXmWm-sCzA (Xorieri mintzo zen / Erramun martikorena)

Modern:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8bc3kQF040 (Lau Teilatu / Itoiz)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwgPX3XUnsc (Ilargia / Ken zazpi)

Re: Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?

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Post by robotmay »

I'm an English folk musician and it's perhaps surprising to many people, considering the prevalence of English and our modern music, that we as a country have lost a huge amount of our songs and music over the years. We have however re-entered a folk revival since the 70s and it has combined with the national pastime of peculiar hobbiests having documented a lot of really obscure things.

But anyway, my partner sings one of our oldest documented songs, which I would classify as fairly unknown outside of historical circles and in an older form of English that is quite tricky to decipher: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr2LRpx4Uyk

I learn quite a few tunes and songs from various countries and it's interesting as to which I find immediately feel familiar to me. Scandinavian, French, Belgian, Breton, Quebecois stuff etc is very popular in folk circles here in the UK and I both listen and play a lot of it. Though a lot of us might struggle to sing along you might be surprised at how far some traditional songs travel :D

Re: Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?

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Post by robotmay »

robotmay wrote: post #15

I'm an English folk musician and it's perhaps surprising to many people, considering the prevalence of English and our modern music, that we as a country have lost a huge amount of our songs and music over the years. We have however re-entered a folk revival since the 70s and it has combined with the national pastime of peculiar hobbiests having documented a lot of really obscure things. But anyway, my partner sings…

These days I live in Wales and there's one band here I really quite like who sing in both Welsh and English: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnLAg_O0NJA

Re: Ask HN: What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?

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Post by constantinum »

From across Indian subcontinent: In India, music and songs are predominately from movies as a source. So collected a few numbers that might be earworm or makes you tap your feet.

1. 1957 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69pPYkGiEAQ 2. 1975 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2HQGNuIY-Y 3. 1991 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyUe_BWqoOE (fourth most popular song in a poll conducted by the BBC World Service worldwide in 2002) 4. 1956 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtV2i4JWzJg 5. 1952 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwXL_xznCmc

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