#musicbrainz

Kraftwerk

but yeah, not what i was referring to

Tangerine Dream

i also have lesiem on my server ap parently but i do not remember them

Wolfsheim did a couple of really good tracks but i find them generally a bit bland :-(

non industrial whatever type music though, i like peter fox

like putting the "pop" in synthpop

oh yeah they're definitely like ... the one or two kind of thing

"herion, she said" is amazing though

there's very few bands i like the entire work of

...maybe only 2?

s/herion/heroin/

Herion sounds like a metal band

German rap is "interesting" lol

i have not gotten into that

like Die Fantastischen Vier

it's not really wolfsheim but the singer worked on a thing

there's awful stuff like Scooter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIOSucOj2_k this

not wolfsheim, but the singer from it

i like that one

Find You're Gone is the one that tends to get stuck in my head

minimal: Eh, it's good awful. Or godawful. Often both.

XD

that's not bad actually (Die Flut)

its a nice uplifting song about the pointlessness of the human condition

XD

kinda yeah

at least when he starts singing

back in the old internet pirate days in the early 2000s, it was often packaged as if it was theirs

well Schlager is awful stuff also

ah, soulseek

i should do a count again of how many languages are represented in my music server

minimal: eh. i actually quite like Santiano, and i say that as an actual Irish fiddle player who should hate it

maybe Folk-Schlager is a different genre from Pop-Schlager though

lw: on that note, are you familiar with the Orthodox Celts?

i mean it's cheesey as hell but you can tell they have fun doing it

Erin: the name sounds vaguely familiar... are they eastern European?

yes

that's the fun part

there's also Enter the Haggis .... who are canadian

orthodox celts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SajCw61JSh4 but while they do hit some typical "irish" stuff, they also do this

that and Congress are pretty good songs

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=7Q1OSams0ok i am prepared to be made fun of for this but i think this is a great Schlager song

just remembered "Reamonn", German band with Irish lead singer

hmmmmm

alsot he enter the haggis version of minstrel boy is pretty awesome

Erin: i remember listening to them ages ago (Orthodox Celts, i mean) and completely forgot about them, i'll have to have another look

heh yeahhhhhh

they were fine .... and then i never paid attention again xD

maybe they just did worse versions of songs i already know, hmm

ohgod probably

but then disk space is cheap ~shrug~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPqagEHBhw but yeah,t his might be my favorite modern take on minstrel boy

im trying to remember which orthodox celt song(s) i liked but it's been too long

I recall by chance seeing a Swedish or Norwegian Folk/Speedmetal band in Germany....was a bit sureall

if you like Irish/Celtic stuff, can i recommend https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=Utca4fIpS18 ?

well I am Irish ;-)

this is the most famous recorder track among irish trad players, i think

16 minutes of tunes without a mistake!

XD

s/recorder/recorded

i have irish ancestry but am in america

and ohgod the things ive seen done to irish music

you remind me of that guy... Andre something?

he does like pop music with "celtic" stuff

hm

i do not know

absolutely awful imo (no offence to anyone who likes it) but so many people love him

the only pop celtic band i know is the corrs

and lets just say it's been a while on that one XD

heh, i actually don't mind the Corrs

they have a few really good songs

.......but that's kind of a theme with a lot of bands

as far as pop music goes, i've heard worse

one thing i dont seem to like

when irish music gets "pop"

something weird seems to happen, and i can't quite explain it, but it makes it weird

ahhhhh i found it

the thing the orthodox celts did that i liked was Fields of Athenry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpuY_u2o95Q ...which they conveniently misspelled on their own page XD

ah i'm not very fond of that song, it's very over done

Clannad were "celtic pop" at times, as was Enya

ohgod

enya i can listen to

clannad i ... can't

enya is at least doing something

other way around, can't listen to Enya apart from her 1st album

but clannad felt like they wanted to ride the "idea" of irish music

were Clannad ever pop? (not disagreeing, i just didn't realise they were ever popular)

i honestly dont even know

which is probably an album you've not heard "The Celts", soundtrack to a BBC documentary

probably my favourite (modern) Celtic-Pop song: https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=_E5LjgnTOB4

the only clannad on my server is the anime

lw: yeah, Clannad went from singing (mainly) in Irish, back when Enya was a member, to then adding syncs etc and becoming more Americanised

these guys actually seem pretty trad

minimal: ah i did not realise Enya and Clannad were related!

...oh that sounds nice

Clannad was a "family band" from Donegal

thats another thing

Enya is the sister of the lead singer of Clannad and was a band member back in the early 80s (late 70s?)

looking for music in gaelic is ridiculous cause the internet thinks it knows the answer and it really /really/ doesn't

the only band i can think of that's recorded in Gaelic (Irish, not Scottish, in this case) is Altan

"do you mean <these 5 stereotypes>?"

definitely not common

yeah

there's a part of me that wants to learn

but then effort T.T

man i really like being in a channel i can actually talk about this stuff with

=^.^=

so i have a thing with music and lyrics

lw: look at the track listings for early Clannad albums, lots of Gaelic track titles

i work as a software engineer and i use music when i'm like, full on "heads down" paying attention to a deep problem

minimal: i've been meaning to check them out anyway, so i will do! they seem to get mentioned on thesession.org a lot

and the problem is, lyrics in a language i know ... my brain recognizes that i know those words and i get pulled out of the zone

as Clannad came from the Donegal Gaeltacht

one of the handful of Gaelic-speaking areas in Ireland

so i either need acoustic only stuff, or i need languages i dont speak

Erin: so you need some Klingon songs? ;-)

heh

i only speak english

i know enough spanish that that's bad

so i tend to go for everything else

japanese cause anime fan

but also non anime related music

ningen isu for example

or buck tick ... although i guess they've been used in anime

the german stuff we talked about

also The Hu are amazing

Japanese: YMO and some of their solo stuff

lessee what all languages do i keep around

"we play both types of music, Country *and* Western" :-)

i know i have stuff in english, spanish, french, german, japanese, gaelic, russian, swahili, portuguese, turkish, xhosa, mongolian, greek, italian, lango

its hard to remember offhand though

oh, an eastern russian native thing i cant recall

might have stuff in finnish?

oh, icelandic

ooh finnish, a lot of good music comes from there

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=rA-XIXy5vw4 literally a crime that this single was never released internationally

also now that i think about it

all the finnish metal bands on my list sing in english XD

i guess nightwish has one non english song 8b

i guess about 98% of my library is in either English or German... Germans seems more likely to sing in their native language for some reason?

maybe if i was into mariachi that ratio would be different

i guess it's down to speaking and level of international appeal?

japan and china stay pretty on home ground too

actually a lot of asia does