What is the greatest song which includes some of the lyrics in a foreign language?
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Roxy Music "A Song for Europe." French lyrics in the second half. I'm not even sure if it's good French.
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"Je t'aime" -- Serg Gainsbourge & Jane Birkin
The whole song is in French, so that doesn't count. So how about:
"Loser" -- Beck
"Mr Roboto" -- Styx
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" -- Ian Dury
"Eyes Without a Face" -- Billy Idol not so obvious, but the backup vocals are "Les yeaux sans visage"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpDf6XX_j0
OK, that's all I can think of .... well.....except this..... RICO SUAVE! -
If you count conlangs, then you can add any Snoop Dogg song to the list.
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For me it's a toss up between "The Girl from Ipanema"- Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz; and Leonard Cohen's "The Partisan". Honorable mention Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QfXjsoNe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34cVkL6zCE
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I always rather liked this tune
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What The wrote:
Roxy Music "A Song for Europe." French lyrics in the second half. I'm not even sure if it's good French.
Yeah, I though that Roxy Music would have a few -- Sade and Leonard Cohen, as well, but I couldn't think of any examples.
Oh, yeaah, that Rammstein song. -
You talkin bout Du Hast? If so it's all German lyrics.
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The red balloon song.
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A lot of the metal bands from Sweden and Scandinavia will sometimes sing parts of there songs in I think there native tongue.
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Oh yeah. All Kraut, No count. ;-)
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This is the winner.
Cheap Trick; Auf Wiedersehen
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Blitkrieg Bop by the Ramones.
Sounds foreign, anyways. And it is a great song. -
* Blitzkrieg Bop
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Should I stay or Should I go
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Hard to beat 'Suite, Judy Blue Eyes' but how about 'Acadian Driftwood' by The Band?
Sais tu, Acadie j'ai le mal do pays
Ta neige, Acadie, fait des larmes au soleil
J'arrive Acadie, teedle um, teedle um, teedle oo -
I'd also add 'Romance In Durango" by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy
No llores, mi querida
Dios nos vigila
Soon the horse will take us to Durango
Agarrame, mi vida -
Heaven by Los Lonely Boys
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7 seconds by youssou n'dour and neneh cherry:
https://youtu.be/wqCpjFMvz-k
