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Hey guys!

So some might know that I love Japanese pop music. I'm also familiar with a lot of Korean music. However, I'd like to expand my horizons on this. Recs?

what type of music do you like to listen to? like, do you want pop bands recs only?

I like pop music, but I have extremely open tastes, so I'd just like to hear what F!S likes and maybe go from there. :)

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Ofra Haza!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b48C0U3ZaKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxBVNxm_zM8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iYQlSogG-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIvuClUUAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRijgRZmqvI

ooh, this looks like it'll be up my alley, thank you!

Listen to Deep Forest! They remix music from many parts of the world and it sounds cool.

I liked Alizée's first album (Gourmandises( too. (French pop singer.)

Françoise Hardy has nice songs too, but it's kind of old music.

I can't recommend Cusco enough. They're a German band that has been active since... the seventies? I think. Anyway, they're electronic/new age, but their songs are great. They have dozens of albums, but I recommend checking out Cool Island, Tales From a Distant Land, and Planet Voyage mostly.

Enigma? Awesome songs, too. (Be careful if you search for their videos... some of them tend to be a liiittle on the NSFW side.)

If you like electronic music, check out Ladytron!

Also, listen someday to Nana Mouskouri. Very prolific singer. Beautiful voice. Sang in a lot of languages.

Lots of great stuff, thank you so much! I'll definitely give these a shot. I've actually wanted to listen to more French pop, so I'll absolutely give Alizée a try!

i'd like to second Françoise Hardy and Ladytron -- a very excellent friend with very excellent taste had me listen to both recently, and they are very different but very fantastic!

I especially like Étonnez-moi, Benoît" off of "Comment Te Dire Adieu?" and "J'ai Jete Mon Coeur" off of "The Yeh-Yeh Girl from Paris!", both by Françoise Hardy. Her songs are just so much fun! even when they're probably a little melancholy, i can't tell, because i don't speak French. =]

Diablo Swing Orchestra!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsmAF9cVPm4

Oh wow, I'm really liking this, thank you so much!

Eh, most of my international music in my IPhone are either Touhou, HetaOni or Malay music. But just in case...

Search: Youtube: Selamat Malam Faisal Tahir.

French music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipO2aFH_i3k Féloche
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYqU7mYDDfk Thomas Fersen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ryxk41HtI Camille
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwxh6GVW-9s Brigitte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdyQOytE_8 Alain Bashung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hV-UnrC9tU M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNeIW2zyPM Arthur H
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ejnv15bPk Brigitte Fontaine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Yemyz-zL0 Philippe Katerine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=259yZDfxs4c Daphné
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiOMjzNUPvs Emily Loizeau
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAGlkhujVAU Emilie Simon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6FVlfOgTo8 Rita Mitsouko (all of their songs are very catchy even if the subject matter is very grave: case in point, this one is a tribute to Marcia Moretto, a choregrapher who died of cancer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQzPJ6AWN38 Tri Yann (that's traditional music from Brittany by the way)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrS8d1EbYfs Mano Negra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqinwy0RdQs Juliette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_SNDGwwGFM Alain Souchon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaBcs0NEc6w&feature=related Yann Tiersen

Electronic music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy1dYFGkPUE Justice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oHp5wKdxDg Birdy Nam Nam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkJOvBHXlNg Yuksek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJIOi4LL5U Vitalic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvSJUAJUxBw Modeselektor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YzKNdIGN9Y Daft Punk

Rap music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPpyIanvzcc NTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up5oEw55QO4 Joey Starr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To_YjKKnaE IAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEyPRe-yl8A Puppetmastaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz89dO1F7fs Omnikrom

Belgian music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kkr0e_dTQ Jacques Brel

Danish music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4YuX4aDVwo Agnes Obel

Spanish music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-SKt4OPSsE Mecano (this came out in 1990, you can imagine the scandal at the time)

Algerian music (well, the singer is Algerian, but I'm not implying that her music is Algerian and Algerian alone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAvA3UG3Yq8 Souad Massi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbjY89cn8VY Souad Massi feat Ismaël Lo (he's Senegalese, and he's pretty good as well!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGD1heHnCuA Rachid Taha (he's both French and Algerian)

And that's it! It's not exhaustive, but there's a wide range of genres in here. Hope you'll find something you'll like!

Aw, a bit more:

Epic music: ERA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQAY_za79BM

Funny/parodic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWGbMUsLug (it parodies the usual rap music clips with scantily-clad women, when it actually is the same kind of music but the singer is actively chatting up burly men)

Zouk (music from the French Caribbean islands): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyc3Tjxr4X0
I love this one because one host of the César (French Academy Awards) made her entrance like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NwNCwnR57I

Bubbly (?) pop music/other:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NK0K3NKASM Zazie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d03wJOgoq1k Mylène Farmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ap0yptTd4 Keren Ann (I loove her!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKb0QcXcZH8 Dionysos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIUKag1mzvs Olivia Ruiz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlU8pUVQwUw&feature=related Anaïs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQPNj38WscM&feature=related Superbus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R_6sP_6VWE Vanessa Paradis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNpU3dOPvLI Jeanne Cherhal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8QjHpYE1E Christophe Willem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ5miTHZXV8 Julien Doré

That's all for tonight, this time! :-)

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Brel isn't all that 'pop', but he's just the fucking best.

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(Anonymous) - 2012-07-20 09:19 (UTC) - Expand

This is an amazing list, oh my goodness!! Thank you!

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(Anonymous) - 2012-07-20 09:20 (UTC) - Expand

Hey you missed AIR! :P

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(Anonymous) - 2012-07-20 09:19 (UTC) - Expand

My favorite singer is Laura Pausini. She's Italian and has songs in Italian, English, and Spanish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_cy-dvCZYQ - My favorite song of hers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlYf1oArQg - My favorite non-English song of hers in case that matters to you.

Others:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HM_PGuSbeo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpOEN93LX-E

Ooh, thank you! Italian artists are definitely something I'd like to learn more about, as I was slightly disappointed to hear a lot of American music when I was there back in 2006; I wanted to hear more Italian music than I did!

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writerserenyty - 2012-07-20 07:54 (UTC) - Expand

I really like Alejandro Sanz

Corazon Partio from the album Mas

And for something completely different than breathy Spanish pop, I also really Die Antwoord. Most of their videos and songs are NSFW.

Evil Boy and I Fink U Freeky.

Mai Nahar (River Waters) - by the Idan Raichel Project
Silbermond

Listen to Tonks's band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4vOkuT4Ero

I have some recs from Sweden:
Salem al Fakir does some very cute pop - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1vDHgNf7CuE

Zeigeist have disbanded but they are still wonderful electronica/synth pop - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHXMYz_5Lc

Kent is one of the greats over here ( Swedish lyrics, though) - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fWxUr_vDwwE

If you like rock, I'd recommend The Hives - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1M02bAWDFkI

Thank you!! =D You had me at cute pop, haha

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fickletastictot - 2012-07-20 05:10 (UTC) - Expand

Fever Ray! Only one album out so far, but it is ay-mazing and got many "album of the year" when it came out. Pop, but sort of hypnotic/emotional/strange. Very Scandinavian, if you like that sort of thing.

North African/Mid-East
Azam Ali: Iranian-American vocalist, composer, and hammer-dulcimer player. Also a vocalist for Vas, Niyaz, and The Dune Soundtrack
Khaled: Rai (Algerian)
Toufic Farroukh: Lebanese jazz composer.

Americas
Bebo and Chucho Valdez: Cuban Jazz Pianists. A beautiful reunion performance.
Astor Piazzola: Influential Argentine composer who bridged classical, jazz and tango music. (This video is Yo-Yo Ma with some members of Piazzola's band.)
Gotan Project: French-Argentine collaboration.
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Mexico: You know that trick of really good acoustic guitarists who can make one guitar sound like two or more? Now put them in a duet.

Europe
Gypsy Kings: Spanish Romani
Giorgio Conte: Italian Singer-Songwriter

Of course, European rock/pop groups are too numerous to name. High on my playlists right now are Jam & Spoon, Giorgio Moroder (big early influence on electronica and dance music), Wolfsheim, Beborn Beton, (synthpop) Lacuna Coil (Goth/Metal), Within Temptation (Symphonic Metal, with one of the sexiest bassists in music), and of course The Pet Shop Boys and rediscovering Yazoo.

Unfortunately I discovered The Jade's brilliant cover of "It's a Sin" just as they broke up. The Pogues defined Celtic Punk for a while.

And then there's Van Canto. Spine tingling a cappella chops on heavy metal and a wonderful sense of fun.

Oh I forgot trip-hop master Wax Tailor (frequently featuring the etherial Charlotte Savary) and the more energetic turntable masters Birdy Nam Nam (also this trippy video.)

Edited 2012-07-20 22:33 (UTC)

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