Foreign Bands

[Division56]

I don't know about most of you guys, but I love foreign music. Especially foreign rock.

It would be great if a few of you (ahem, Vaga and Six, this definitly means you) could post the names of good bands in your countries. that way we could use P2P to download it.

[Division56]

*bump*

[int]

Wizo is a good German "punk" group.

[Melody]

The Seatbelts... possibly...

[The Architect]

Canada- Boards of Canada, of Montreal, Broken Social Scene (Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mountain Zion are kind of grouped with Broken Social Scene, same people, different type of music though)

Scandanavian- Bjork, Sigur Ros

France- Yann Tierson

UK- Mogwai, John Digweed, Lamb, and I think Portishead, both Radiohead and Coldplay even though they're known pretty well in the States

Dave Matthews is from South Africa if that counts

Australia- Spoon

I know more, but that's all I can think of at the moment. For the most part I avoid American music, it tends to suck

[paladinoflunaria]

Canada - Crash Test Dummies
France - Deep Forest
Norway - Amethystium, Secret Garden
England/US - Gaelic Storm
Japan - Kitaro

Only the Crash Test Dummies are a band per se, but I like all of those artists.

[Mithgwathiel]

From Finland:
Nightwish (kind of heavymetal with a female vocalist who sings "operastyle", a bit like Evanescense, but much more original & personal)
HIM ("Lovemetal")
The Rasmus

These are the ones that I like to listen and that are currently somewhat popular also outside Finland (mainly in Europe). If someone is interested, I could give some names of those that are not so known outside Finland (and older bands as well). Would it make a difference if the lyrics were in Finnish instead of English?

[Spartan26]

Gosh, I screwed up. I initially thought it said favorite bands not foreign bands.

Has anyone one heard of Serralde? From Mexico. He actually had a cut on the Crazy/Beautiful soundtrack but my favorite track by him is Encadenado A Ti on his album No Hay Na' Mejor.

[Avengardh]

Maná, Jaguares, Ricardo Arjona, Silvio Rodriguez, Armando Manzanero.

Mexican, Mexican, Guatemalan, Cuban, Mexican.

Those are just some of my favorites.

~*Aven*~

[Sugaraddict2702]

German rock with a weird twist: Rammstein

Ellen*

[themuseum]

Japan: Envy, Melt Banana
France: Comity
Aside from a few already listed, that's all I can think of at the moment.


Broken Social Scene (Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mountain Zion are kind of grouped with Broken Social Scene, same people, different type of music though)
Could you get a bit more specific please?

[Bubbs]

UK: PJ Harvey, Muse, Faithless
Norway : Madrugada
?: Blonde Redhead

[file cabinet]

Maná, Jaguares, Ricardo Arjona, Silvio Rodriguez, Armando Manzanero.

Mexican, Mexican, Guatemalan, Cuban, Mexican.

Those are just some of my favorites.

~*Aven*~

I used to occasionally listen to a Spanish death metal band called Brujeria.. I have them in MP3 format if you're interested

[file cabinet]

Germany - Rechenzentrum
Canada - Deadbeat
Germany - Vladislav Delay
India - Sheila Chandra
Australia - The Berzerker

[file cabinet]

that reminds me, I was listening to NPR and they were talking about Greek music and an instrument that was forbidden by whoever was ruling Greece at the time... and.. yeah.. I think it was Greek folk music with a twist.

[Vagabond]

I don't know about forbidden instruments :blush: Chances are, they weren't talking about rock music anyway ;)

OK, it took me ages... I don't know where rock stops and other genres begin. You could check Trypes, Paulos Sidiropoulos, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Katsimixa, Portokaloglou, Ksilina Spathia, Ypogeia Reumata, Diafana Krina (boy, greeklish looks weird) [blah blah... etc...]

If you can bear to listen to the weird kind of greek music I listen to mostly and that is not rock, check Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Melina Kana, Socratis (or Sokratis) Malamas, Thivaios, Nikos Papazoglou, bleh... now I can't find the fullstop and shut up :D

Oh, keep in mind it will all sound greek to you. :ph34r:

[Melody]

lol

Has anyone played Xenogears? From my time in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I learned the Greek word 'xeno.' I have not played Xenogears. I understand where they got 'gears,' but why is 'xeno' in there?

An instrument spoken a lot about in Plato's dialogues is the lyre. Gonna see if I can find some music of that. Its name sounds like it is a violin-like harpsichord.

[Vagabond]

I doubt you will find the kind of lyre you read about in Plato's dialogues nowadays... you might find few other kinds though.

[HairlessBluetick]

Xeno is a root meaning "foreign" or "alien" i believe

[Melody]

I know that. =p Yep yep. I just haven't played Xenogears so I was curious why it was part of the name. My best guess is the robots in the game are from a "higher" source. Maybe heaven or some extraterrestrials. yeah, anyway

No strikethrough tag? d'oh

[HairlessBluetick]

Oh. :( sorry... I'm stupid *smacks forehead* sorry...

[The Architect]

Could you get a bit more specific please?

I guess. It's the whole Toronto music scene, there are an unusually high number of very talented people up there who all know each other. Godspeed You! Black Emporer is a group of 15 or 20 musicians (I think) who got together to make a few art house records. Pretty good stuff. A few of them (maybe 4?) broke off to record a few more art house records as A Silver Mt. Zion, and I'm pretty sure there were a few other groups that formed as well, although I'm not positive. Eventually a few of them decided to make a pop album and thus Broken Social Scene was born. Everyone wanted to be a part of it and so there are between 10 and 15 regulars on You Forgot It In People, not including the 2 or 3 "guest performers." You Forgot It In People is a really damn good album, everyone should go listen to it. If you don't like it listen to it a few more times and it'll probably grow on you.

[Postblank]

The Smiths (UK)
Bjork (Iceland)
Sigur Ros (Iceland)
The Seatbealts/Yoko Kanno/Tsuneo Imahori (Japan)

[Melody]

Oh. :( sorry... I'm stupid *smacks forehead* sorry...
Me too. I would have deleted that [ignore] part, but then whoever saw it at first and noticed I deleted it later would question whether the portrait I write of myself is realistic or significantly molded by how I desire to present myself.

[spaced]

I'll throw in another vote for Sigur Ros, they make some jaw-droppingly gorgeous music.

[BritainOphira]

I'll throw in another vote for Sigur Ros, they make some jaw-droppingly gorgeous music.

Sigor Ros...love them.

[libertarianjim]

I'm an American metalhead, so a good many of my favorites are foriegn (top 2 each):

Canadian: Annihilator, Sheavy
Australian: AC/DC, Rollerball
British: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden (probably about half my collection)
German: Scorpions, Accept
Danish: King Diamond, Mercyful Fate
Swedish: Yngwie Malmsteen, Hammerfall
Finnish: Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica
Hungarian: Stereochrist

[Avengardh]

Maná, Jaguares, Ricardo Arjona, Silvio Rodriguez, Armando Manzanero.

Mexican, Mexican, Guatemalan, Cuban, Mexican.

Those are just some of my favorites.

~*Aven*~

I used to occasionally listen to a Spanish death metal band called Brujeria.. I have them in MP3 format if you're interested

Hn...I never saw this...sorry, I'm kinda slow with replies.

I am not really into metal, but if you liked them you might like "Maldita Vecindad" I like some of their songs.

I am willing to send some other music too if you are interested, I mainly listen to rock/pop, hey, this is a cool idea, I wonder if we can make a thread like that?
Trading music? Is that allowed? ^__^

~*Aven*~

[Melody]

I doubt you will find the kind of lyre you read about in Plato's dialogues nowadays... you might find few other kinds though.
I am curious. How is "lyre" pronounced in Greek? Is it like "liar" or like "lee reh?" Following the pronounciation of "Pythagoras," I am guessing it is "lee reh."

The coolest aspect of my Spanish-speaking ability is that I can pronounce Greek. I think? The sounds are similar.

[Salad]

yea sigur ros!

architect mentioned mogwai. if you like sigur ros chances are you'll like mogwai.

[HackerX]

I doubt you will find the kind of lyre you read about in Plato's dialogues nowadays... you might find few other kinds though.
I am curious. How is "lyre" pronounced in Greek? Is it like "liar" or like "lee reh?" Following the pronounciation of "Pythagoras," I am guessing it is "lee reh."

The coolest aspect of my Spanish-speaking ability is that I can pronounce Greek. I think? The sounds are similar.

Lyre as in the australian Lyre bird is pronounced "liar", actually, closer to "lie-er" (err instead of a sound)

[HackerX]

I'm an American metalhead, so a good many of my favorites are foriegn (top 2 each):

Canadian: Annihilator, Sheavy
Australian: AC/DC, Rollerball
British: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden (probably about half my collection)
German: Scorpions, Accept
Danish: King Diamond, Mercyful Fate
Swedish: Yngwie Malmsteen, Hammerfall
Finnish: Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica
Hungarian: Stereochrist

Some very nice bands in that collection!

*listens to Sonata Arctica - The End Of This Chapter* :D

heard/heard of Masterplan?

[Melody]

I doubt you will find the kind of lyre you read about in Plato's dialogues nowadays... you might find few other kinds though.
I am curious. How is "lyre" pronounced in Greek? Is it like "liar" or like "lee reh?" Following the pronounciation of "Pythagoras," I am guessing it is "lee reh."

The coolest aspect of my Spanish-speaking ability is that I can pronounce Greek. I think? The sounds are similar.

Lyre as in the australian Lyre bird is pronounced "liar", actually, closer to "lie-er" (err instead of a sound)
That sounds like English. I know English. =b