Your favourite songs not in English

[ImpOfDarkness]

I went down a youtube rabbit hole last night and ended up listening to loads of 80s Europop. Rock me Amadeus, Voyage Voyage etc. Good times 😁 it got me wondering about other non-English songs that have hit the charts. The Macarena and Gangnam Style I guess? Any other favourites?

I don't know if anyone else is having issues with this page not wanting to load. I don't know if it's my iPad or the amount of videos being posted.

Anyway, my suggestions are...along with a few already mentioned esp Voyage Voyage and Dragostea Din Tei

Isla De Encanta by Pixies
Sexy Boy by Air

I have several foreign language songs in my Deezer playlist that I have added over the years, heard on adverts etc, and these are a couple
La Perla by Sofia Kourtesis
Bamako by Songhoy Blues

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YnopHCL1Jk8

Classic!

Bella Ciao

I loved die toten hosen when I was at school!

Eurovision playlist!

Agreed.

Plus a Swedish folk song "Herr Mannelig".

this was my jam as a teenager

and this is regularly played as it’s on my workout/motivation playlist

Came on here to say Peter Schilling's Major Tom! I think it was the theme time to Deutschland 83.

One for the Stromae fans: Claude. He sings in a mixture of Dutch and French.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(singer)

Oh and anything by Nena, and not just 99 red balloons!

They weren’t red, the balloons.
They were 99 Luftballons.

The English translation had the Red added.

cheb khaled sbabi

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDcvdwzDRHY

Another vote for Manu Chao
Also love Ayicha by Khaled
Mas que nada
Jean Jacques Goldman
Amadou et Mariam

And Wahrane by Cheb Khaled

ABBA - Al Andar.
It's the Spanish version of Move On, and I think it's a lot nicer than the English version.

Hrdza - Stefan (folksy toe tapper)

Bomba Estéreo was on permanent repeat here for a while.

Jacques Brel, Amsterdam
The Bowie version in English is also a masterpiece

Well the world is turning to shit but I've had a great morning listening to all these, thanks everyone!

Has no one mentioned Joe le Taxi (Vanessa Paradis)? An 80s classic!

I have to say some are pretty what the fuck... I don't speak a word of Finnish and even I can tell Eddie the Eagle has a Cheltenham accent 😅

that was my initial thought, that and Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi
and "Je t'aime... moi non plus

@ImpOfDarkness yes the world is indeed turning to shit. This song is my happy place - Aguas de Março

Can't beat singing 'Cunt in the Mirror' during form time.