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minimal
Kraftwerk
2024-07-26 20813, 2024
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Erin
but yeah, not what i was referring to
2024-07-26 20823, 2024
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minimal
Tangerine Dream
2024-07-26 20843, 2024
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Erin
i also have lesiem on my server ap parently but i do not remember them
2024-07-26 20857, 2024
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lw
Wolfsheim did a couple of really good tracks but i find them generally a bit bland :-(
2024-07-26 20859, 2024
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Erin
non industrial whatever type music though, i like peter fox
2024-07-26 20802, 2024
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lw
like putting the "pop" in synthpop
2024-07-26 20810, 2024
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Erin
oh yeah they're definitely like ... the one or two kind of thing
2024-07-26 20814, 2024
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lw
"herion, she said" is amazing though
2024-07-26 20819, 2024
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Erin
there's very few bands i like the entire work of
2024-07-26 20822, 2024
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Erin
...maybe only 2?
2024-07-26 20827, 2024
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lw
s/herion/heroin/
2024-07-26 20836, 2024
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Erin
Herion sounds like a metal band
2024-07-26 20845, 2024
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minimal
German rap is "interesting" lol
2024-07-26 20856, 2024
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Erin
i have not gotten into that
2024-07-26 20825, 2024
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minimal
like Die Fantastischen Vier
2024-07-26 20844, 2024
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Erin
it's not really wolfsheim but the singer worked on a thing
2024-07-26 20801, 2024
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minimal
there's awful stuff like Scooter
2024-07-26 20830, 2024
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Erin
2024-07-26 20839, 2024
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Erin
not wolfsheim, but the singer from it
2024-07-26 20842, 2024
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Erin
i like that one
2024-07-26 20823, 2024
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Erin
Find You're Gone is the one that tends to get stuck in my head
2024-07-26 20818, 2024
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reosarevok[m]
minimal: Eh, it's good awful. Or godawful. Often both.
2024-07-26 20853, 2024
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Erin
XD
2024-07-26 20854, 2024
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lw
that's not bad actually (Die Flut)
2024-07-26 20811, 2024
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Erin
its a nice uplifting song about the pointlessness of the human condition
2024-07-26 20812, 2024
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Erin
XD
2024-07-26 20814, 2024
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lw
it literally sounds like a Wolfsheim outtake though :-D
2024-07-26 20820, 2024
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Erin
kinda yeah
2024-07-26 20822, 2024
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lw
at least when he starts singing
2024-07-26 20839, 2024
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Erin
back in the old internet pirate days in the early 2000s, it was often packaged as if it was theirs
2024-07-26 20849, 2024
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minimal
well Schlager is awful stuff also
2024-07-26 20853, 2024
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lw
ah, soulseek
2024-07-26 20808, 2024
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Erin
i should do a count again of how many languages are represented in my music server
2024-07-26 20820, 2024
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lw
minimal: eh. i actually quite like Santiano, and i say that as an actual Irish fiddle player who should hate it
2024-07-26 20821, 2024
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minimal recalls those times of years when Schlager is everywhere :-(
2024-07-26 20840, 2024
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lw
maybe Folk-Schlager is a different genre from Pop-Schlager though
2024-07-26 20801, 2024
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Erin
lw: on that note, are you familiar with the Orthodox Celts?
2024-07-26 20803, 2024
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lw
i mean it's cheesey as hell but you can tell they have fun doing it
2024-07-26 20819, 2024
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lw
Erin: the name sounds vaguely familiar... are they eastern European?
2024-07-26 20822, 2024
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Erin
yes
2024-07-26 20824, 2024
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Erin
that's the fun part
2024-07-26 20835, 2024
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Erin
there's also Enter the Haggis .... who are canadian
2024-07-26 20837, 2024
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minimal
orthodox celts
2024-07-26 20818, 2024
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Erin
2024-07-26 20832, 2024
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Erin
that and Congress are pretty good songs
2024-07-26 20856, 2024
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lw
2024-07-26 20820, 2024
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minimal
just remembered "Reamonn", German band with Irish lead singer
2024-07-26 20828, 2024
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Erin
hmmmmm
2024-07-26 20803, 2024
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Erin
alsot he enter the haggis version of minstrel boy is pretty awesome
2024-07-26 20810, 2024
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lw
Erin: i remember listening to them ages ago (Orthodox Celts, i mean) and completely forgot about them, i'll have to have another look
2024-07-26 20817, 2024
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Erin
heh yeahhhhhh
2024-07-26 20824, 2024
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Erin
they were fine .... and then i never paid attention again xD
2024-07-26 20838, 2024
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lw
maybe they just did worse versions of songs i already know, hmm
2024-07-26 20843, 2024
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Erin
ohgod probably
2024-07-26 20847, 2024
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lw
but then disk space is cheap ~shrug~
2024-07-26 20825, 2024
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Erin
2024-07-26 20851, 2024
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Erin
im trying to remember which orthodox celt song(s) i liked but it's been too long
2024-07-26 20854, 2024
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minimal
I recall by chance seeing a Swedish or Norwegian Folk/Speedmetal band in Germany....was a bit sureall
2024-07-26 20859, 2024
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lw
2024-07-26 20812, 2024
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minimal
well I am Irish ;-)
2024-07-26 20819, 2024
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lw
this is the most famous recorder track among irish trad players, i think
2024-07-26 20827, 2024
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lw
16 minutes of tunes without a mistake!
2024-07-26 20830, 2024
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Erin
XD
2024-07-26 20841, 2024
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lw
s/recorder/recorded
2024-07-26 20845, 2024
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Erin
i have irish ancestry but am in america
2024-07-26 20851, 2024
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Erin
and ohgod the things ive seen done to irish music
2024-07-26 20809, 2024
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lw
you remind me of that guy... Andre something?
2024-07-26 20817, 2024
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lw
he does like pop music with "celtic" stuff
2024-07-26 20823, 2024
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Erin
hm
2024-07-26 20835, 2024
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Erin
i do not know
2024-07-26 20838, 2024
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lw
absolutely awful imo (no offence to anyone who likes it) but so many people love him
2024-07-26 20841, 2024
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Erin
the only pop celtic band i know is the corrs
2024-07-26 20858, 2024
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Erin
and lets just say it's been a while on that one XD
2024-07-26 20800, 2024
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lw
heh, i actually don't mind the Corrs
2024-07-26 20807, 2024
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Erin
they have a few really good songs
2024-07-26 20813, 2024
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Erin
.......but that's kind of a theme with a lot of bands
2024-07-26 20815, 2024
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lw
as far as pop music goes, i've heard worse
2024-07-26 20826, 2024
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Erin
one thing i dont seem to like
2024-07-26 20832, 2024
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Erin
when irish music gets "pop"
2024-07-26 20844, 2024
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Erin
something weird seems to happen, and i can't quite explain it, but it makes it weird
2024-07-26 20815, 2024
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Erin
ahhhhh i found it
2024-07-26 20836, 2024
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Erin
the thing the orthodox celts did that i liked was Fields of Athenry
2024-07-26 20847, 2024
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Erin
2024-07-26 20825, 2024
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lw
ah i'm not very fond of that song, it's very over done
2024-07-26 20830, 2024
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minimal
Clannad were "celtic pop" at times, as was Enya
2024-07-26 20845, 2024
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Erin
ohgod
2024-07-26 20849, 2024
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Erin
enya i can listen to
2024-07-26 20852, 2024
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Erin
clannad i ... can't
2024-07-26 20804, 2024
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Erin
enya is at least doing something
2024-07-26 20813, 2024
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minimal
other way around, can't listen to Enya apart from her 1st album
2024-07-26 20813, 2024
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Erin
but clannad felt like they wanted to ride the "idea" of irish music
2024-07-26 20818, 2024
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lw
were Clannad ever pop? (not disagreeing, i just didn't realise they were ever popular)
2024-07-26 20829, 2024
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Erin
i honestly dont even know
2024-07-26 20830, 2024
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minimal
which is probably an album you've not heard "The Celts", soundtrack to a BBC documentary
2024-07-26 20801, 2024
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lw
2024-07-26 20809, 2024
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Erin
the only clannad on my server is the anime
2024-07-26 20817, 2024
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minimal
lw: yeah, Clannad went from singing (mainly) in Irish, back when Enya was a member, to then adding syncs etc and becoming more Americanised
2024-07-26 20819, 2024
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lw
these guys actually seem pretty trad
2024-07-26 20835, 2024
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lw
minimal: ah i did not realise Enya and Clannad were related!
2024-07-26 20850, 2024
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Erin
...oh that sounds nice
2024-07-26 20855, 2024
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minimal
Clannad was a "family band" from Donegal
2024-07-26 20814, 2024
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Erin
thats another thing
2024-07-26 20826, 2024
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minimal
Enya is the sister of the lead singer of Clannad and was a band member back in the early 80s (late 70s?)
2024-07-26 20827, 2024
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Erin
looking for music in gaelic is ridiculous cause the internet thinks it knows the answer and it really /really/ doesn't
2024-07-26 20855, 2024
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lw
the only band i can think of that's recorded in Gaelic (Irish, not Scottish, in this case) is Altan
2024-07-26 20800, 2024
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Erin
"do you mean <these 5 stereotypes>?"
2024-07-26 20805, 2024
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lw
definitely not common
2024-07-26 20807, 2024
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Erin
yeah
2024-07-26 20819, 2024
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Erin
there's a part of me that wants to learn
2024-07-26 20824, 2024
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Erin
but then effort T.T
2024-07-26 20857, 2024
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lw
man i really like being in a channel i can actually talk about this stuff with
2024-07-26 20803, 2024
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Erin
=^.^=
2024-07-26 20813, 2024
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Erin
so i have a thing with music and lyrics
2024-07-26 20831, 2024
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minimal
lw: look at the track listings for early Clannad albums, lots of Gaelic track titles
2024-07-26 20833, 2024
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Erin
i work as a software engineer and i use music when i'm like, full on "heads down" paying attention to a deep problem
2024-07-26 20850, 2024
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lw
minimal: i've been meaning to check them out anyway, so i will do! they seem to get mentioned on
thesession.org a lot
2024-07-26 20854, 2024
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Erin
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
2024-07-26 20857, 2024
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minimal
as Clannad came from the Donegal Gaeltacht
2024-07-26 20816, 2024
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minimal
one of the handful of Gaelic-speaking areas in Ireland
2024-07-26 20818, 2024
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Erin
so i either need acoustic only stuff, or i need languages i dont speak
2024-07-26 20858, 2024
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minimal
Erin: so you need some Klingon songs? ;-)
2024-07-26 20800, 2024
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Erin
heh
2024-07-26 20806, 2024
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Erin
i only speak english
2024-07-26 20813, 2024
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Erin
i know enough spanish that that's bad
2024-07-26 20821, 2024
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Erin
so i tend to go for everything else
2024-07-26 20827, 2024
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Erin
japanese cause anime fan
2024-07-26 20832, 2024
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Erin
but also non anime related music
2024-07-26 20853, 2024
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Erin
ningen isu for example
2024-07-26 20808, 2024
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Erin
or buck tick ... although i guess they've been used in anime
2024-07-26 20817, 2024
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Erin
the german stuff we talked about
2024-07-26 20827, 2024
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Erin
also The Hu are amazing
2024-07-26 20852, 2024
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minimal
Japanese: YMO and some of their solo stuff
2024-07-26 20810, 2024
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Erin
lessee what all languages do i keep around
2024-07-26 20808, 2024
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minimal
"we play both types of music, Country *and* Western" :-)
2024-07-26 20835, 2024
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Erin
i know i have stuff in english, spanish, french, german, japanese, gaelic, russian, swahili, portuguese, turkish, xhosa, mongolian, greek, italian, lango
2024-07-26 20844, 2024
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Erin
its hard to remember offhand though
2024-07-26 20804, 2024
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Erin
oh, an eastern russian native thing i cant recall
2024-07-26 20845, 2024
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Erin
might have stuff in finnish?
2024-07-26 20834, 2024
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Erin
oh, icelandic
2024-07-26 20815, 2024
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lw
ooh finnish, a lot of good music comes from there
2024-07-26 20857, 2024
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lw
2024-07-26 20824, 2024
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Erin
also now that i think about it
2024-07-26 20832, 2024
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Erin
all the finnish metal bands on my list sing in english XD
2024-07-26 20848, 2024
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Erin
i guess nightwish has one non english song 8b
2024-07-26 20806, 2024
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lw
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?
2024-07-26 20826, 2024
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lw
maybe if i was into mariachi that ratio would be different
2024-07-26 20829, 2024
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Erin
i guess it's down to speaking and level of international appeal?
2024-07-26 20841, 2024
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Erin
japan and china stay pretty on home ground too
2024-07-26 20856, 2024
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Erin
actually a lot of asia does
