pastermil, Nier Replicant & Nier Automata soundtracks
All in chaos language (a.k.a. pure gibberish).
StineD, Have you listened to Hanezeve Caradhina from Made in Abyss? youtube.com/watch?v=sFzDQ2OjFko
The anime is really dark, but have some bright and hopeful moments which this song captures so well.
Caesium, yes, I am obsessed with songs with non-language lyrics! I know of four sources (including Nier) that does it and I just love it
pastermil, Is Cult of the Lamb soundtrack in that list?
Caesium, I haven’t, actually! looks like I’ll need to give it a listen
grue, Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol:
Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish but are intended to sound like English in an American accent.
Celentano’s intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. The intent was to demonstrate how English sounds to people who do not understand the language proficiently.
PrincessLeiasCat, (edited ) Kind of a joke but the song is catchy.
The guy is a Norwegian comedian I think & he bet his friends that he could get a dumb song into the Billboard top 10 or something. I believe he succeeded in a few European countries.
The song is absolutely ridiculous considering he doesn’t speak Spanish, but it’s just a funny story.
meco03211, La Bamba
Scotty_Trees, 
Any from the Buena Vista Social Club, album is beautiful, their song Chan Chan is one of my all time favorites:
Tier1BuildABear, (edited ) 
La Vie en Rose - Eddie Piaf
Ievan Polka
Du Hast - Rammstein
I think that’s a pretty good spread
cerement, 
I think that would describe half my catalog :-/
- Finnish Iskelmä
- Stig - Puumaa mä metsästä
- Arttu Wiskari - Sirpa
- Lemon - Nainen Tummissa (cover of Lady in Black)
- Thai
- จ๊อบ บรรจบ - ดูเธอทำ (Job 2 Do - Doo doo doo)
- Soreng Santi (สรวง สันติ) - Kuen Kuen Lueng Lueng (cover of Iron Man … sort of)
- most versions of Bella Ciao (except La Casa de Papel for some reason)
- Bella ciao cantata dal coro R’Esistente del Pratello
- the “fun” stuff coming out of Ukraine
- О.Пономарьов М.Хома Т.Тополя Є.Кошовий Ю.Ткач П.Чорний - УКРАЇНА ПЕРЕМОЖЕ
- Andriy Khlyvnyuk x The Kiffness - Ukrainian Folk Song ARMY REMIX
- Cвітоглядець - Bayraktar
dditty, Tunak Tunak Tun will forever be a banger.
UnrepententProcrastinator, Discovered Leningrad - Fish
in a similar post on Reddit a while back
charlytune, “Prisencolinensinainciusol” by Adriano Celentano. I don’t know if we could really say what language it’s in, but I definitely don’t speak it.
clay_pidgin, I have shown this to so many people. I guess it’s not harder to learn nonsense words than words in a language you don’t know.
fleet, (edited ) Love this thread. Here are some of my favs off the top of my head. My music tastes are all over the place.
jpreston2005, searched for Elis Regina - Aguas de Marco before I posted it, glad to see it’s here. such a beautiful song
iarigby, Omg Dakhabrakha’s baby is one of the most powerful songs I’ve ever heard. The lyrics are in Ukranian but can be vaguely understood from Russian and damn they hurt. You might’ve already seen but here is the English translation
TheBananaKing, My playlist of Armenian music is inappropriately huge. You will regret asking this question.
- Garabala - Habrban
- Serj Tankian ft. Larisa Ryan - Ari Im Sokhag
- Serj Tankian - Artsakh
- Garik and Sona - Mayro I do not have a huge crush on Sona Rubenyan shut up.
- Adana Project - Gini Lic maybe turn off the subtitles unless you hate Turkey as much as Armenia does…
- Sevak Amroyan - Yarkhushta aw fuck yeah
- Nare Gevorgyan - Mer Ergire
I have many, MANY more. I am not remotely Armenian, just a huge SOAD fan who fell down a youtube rabbit hole one day…
funkajunk, 
Yelle - A Cause Des Garçons (Tepr Remix)
SinningStromgald, All of Warduna and Heilung. Don’t understand a single word but love the music.
Raineacha, Yes!! I absolutely adore all of their stuff! Heilung has been on repeat the past few years.
Sir_Fridge, I quite like stromae on occasion. And I’m a fan of rammstein, but while I don’t speak German I do understand it reasonably well so I’m not sure that counts
sanguinepar, 
Great thread - I’ll throw in a few although I’m late to the party.
Gaspar Nali - Abale Ndikuwuzeni
Anything from the Afro-Cuban All Stars or Buena Vista Social Club albums
Orchestra Baobab - Sey
Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor mix)
Lexicon Avenue - Here I Am (Rutabaga mix)
Scotty_Trees, I can’t barely converse in Spanish, but I’ve been playing Buena Vista Social Club for like the last 15 years, such great music.
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