how many langauges do you have in yr music collection (via kottke.org

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zulu, yoruba, welsh and punjabi
italian
english
portugese (brazillian)
Tamil
French (Quebec and France)
Iroquis
Sioux
Ojibway
Japanese
Swedish
Scots Galeic
Catonese
Mandrian
Ecclestical Latin
Classical Latin
Hebrew
Yiddish
German
Dutch
Hindi
Finnish
Tagalog
Ukranian
Russian
zulu, yoruba, welsh and punjabi
hawaiian
korean pop

― anthony, Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Hawaiian (though I haven't ever bothered listening to it)
Japanese
English
Dutch/Flemish
French
German

That's about it really.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

English
French
German
Icelandic
Japanese
Welsh
and whatever language the Cocteau Twins are in.

― Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

at least 68. this is true.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

About two prob

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

English
(most stuff)
French
(Davida, Supa Saiian Crew, Vive La Fete)
German
(Kraftwerk)
Spanish
(Manu Chao)
Italian
(Jonathan Richman)
Portuguese
(Samba music, Brazilian Post-Punk, Os Mutantes)
Korean
(Old Boy soundtrack)
Swedish
(Dungen, and a bunch of Black Metal)
Norwegian
(Emperor and countless black metal bands etc)
Dutch
(Gabba)
Hopelandic
(Guess who)
Icelandic
(Sigur Ros and others)
Japanese
(Sigh and others)

Probably a lot more, but I'm at my work desk right now. Maybe not-so strangely it's the Metal section of my collection that has the most linguistic diversity.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Malay/Indonesian (they're only slightly different)
Arabic
Icelandic
Japanese
Cantonese
Norwegian
Korean
French
German
Portugeuse
Spanish
Italian
Hindi
Ofra Haza sings in Hebrew, right? Then Hebrew.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Else of Vive La Fete of course sings like a 5 yr old Walloonian nymfette.

Cocteau Twins: Glossolalia. ;-)

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

i work in the music library

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Other than some single tracks on world music related compilations, I do at least have the following:

English
German
Norwegian
Swedish
French
Japanese
Hebrew
Icelandic
Italian
Portoguese
Urdu
Welsch
Gaelic
Spanish
Finnish
Plus whatever language Khaled sings in.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

*Waits for Edward O's response*

― brittle-lemon, Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Hungarian
English
German (from Kraftwerk to Wir Sind Helden)
French (Gainsbourg, Mano Negra)
Spanish (Mano Negra, Manu Chao, some spanish punk and new wave)
Catalan (Dusminguet)
Basque (Almost everything that Fermin Muguruza ever did)
Portuguese (tropicalia, plus some baile funk)
Italian (countless versions of Bella Ciao)
Norwegian (Turbonegro plus all the classic black metal bands)
Polish (some weird-sounding hiphop)
Welsh (Super Furry Animals)
Japanese (Pizzicato Five, Cornelius...)
Arabic (Rachid Taha)
Tamil (M.I.A)

― matulageci (matulageci), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeh, I have Tamil (didn't know MIA actually sang in Tamil) and Welsh and possibly Gaelic if Primordial sing in that language.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

English
German (Rammstein)
French (Gainsbourg, Carla Bruni, etc)
Chukchi (Yat-Kha)
Russian (Kino, Aquarium, Nautilus Pompilius, Mummy Troll)
Moldavian (Kuibul)
Ukrainian (Okean Elzy)
Latvian (Prata Vetra AKA Brainstorm)
Hopelandish (nah, I don't actually own any Sigur Ros)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Czech (The Ecstasy of St. Teresa) and Polish (some hip hop). As you can see, I'm all about the Warsaw Pact.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

What about Kobaian?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Kurd Kobaian?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

English
Spanish
Portugese
French
German
Italian
Mandarin
Japanese
Tamil (if M.I.A. counts?)
Swedish
Icelandic
Hopelandish
Yoruba

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Anybody own THIS? (I don't):
http://www.espdisk.com/cdliners/1001_liners.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

No, but I do own this:

http://img.hmv.co.jp/image/jacket/190/05/6/1/375.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

YA'LLZ FORGOT ABOUT ZEUHL!!!!

http://membres.lycos.fr/ojouan/magma5.jpg

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

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