Thursday, 22 May 2025

Foreign Language Songs

At The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians we are nothing if not multi-cultural but it has been pointed out that almost every one of the songs and singers installed within are English speaking.
Of course i denied it and pointed out that we have Scots and Australians included and you can't hardly call what they utter as English but they meant proper foreign songs sung entirely in another language and that is true but the problem is there is not that many.  
Blondie went all 'Hey, j'ai vu ton mec avec une autre fille' in Sunday Girl but that was just repeating the earlier verses which was sung in English so that doesn't count and the only other one that springs to mind is the excellent 'Ca Plane Poure Moi' but that song is already in the Museum on it's own merit so i was struggling to think of many more.
There are novelty songs such as Gangham Style, Macarena and The Ketchup Song but i wouldn't touch them with a ten foot microphone stand so they are out as is that weird one by the nuns, Dominique
and Gaudete by Steeleye Span which is in Latin and nobody can sing along to, Tempus ad est gratiae hoc quod optabamus and all that but i did manage to scrawl through my MP3 collection and come up with 5 which are now proudly positioned under the Foreign Langue sign somewhere at the back by the toilets.  
Enigma's 'Sadeness Part 1' is sung in Gregorian Chanting apparently but its a pleasant tune as is the Romanian language 'Dragostea Din Tei' by O-Zone although you guys would have to wear some VERY tight under-crackers to get as high pitched as the singer.
My Top 3 would then be 'We Speak No Americano' by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP sung in Italian about not speaking American (clue in the song title) and with a hook that will stay in your head for the rest of the week and then Falco's German language song 'Rock Me Amadeus' about Mozart who according to him was the first punk but number one has to be 99 Luftballons which explains a series of events which starts with the releasing of balloons to a World War which probably makes more sense in German.  
One song which i really should give an honorary mention to is 'Da Da Da' by Trio because when you make something this insane that breaks through the threshold of being so awful that it becomes amazing in any language, that has to be recognised.

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