Yeah, my first thought was Kveikur. Such a vibe.

The Seatbelts, “The Real Folk Blues”

https://altingun.bandcamp.com/music

Rush Job - Sheena Ringo

Swamp - Mid-Air Thief, but the whole album Gongjoong Doduk is pretty good.

Dixie - Harmonium

Le tombeau est vide - Chromb!

For fun:

El Corazón - Hard n Phirm

Honorable mention that might not technically count:

Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano

Kraftwerk is such a gem. They sound exactly like a 80s computer in music form, and I love it.

I'm a basic bitch, so some of the first that came to mind have already been mentioned by others:

• Papoutai - Stromae (along with some other of his songs)
• Baba Yetu - Christopher Tin
• Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone

To those, I'll add some other meme songs / songs that have been used in English-speaking media:

• Tunak Tunak Tun - Daler Mehndi
• Je survivrai - Michele Richard

Also the ultra-popular ones everybody already knows and I won't bother to link, such as Bad Apple, Gangnam Style, the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack, etc.

Catalán
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wM5QK_G7WRo

Gaelic
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNRfUK6qv98

Japanese
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKw_Astidg

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JK_hBk2f01k

https://youtu.be/uFJ2I3jvw_Y

A rap about abes odyssee. Probably. Thats what the title and video say. Got some serious flow.

Pentagram - Bir (Turkish metal)
Arkona - Yarilo (Russian folk metal)

I married an Indian woman and have been getting into Bollywood music, and honestly there’s so many good songs!

Two of my favorites are:

Qaafirana

Khuda Jaane

• INTERNETFREUNDIN by SALÒ (I'm learning German though and the lyrics aren't hard to understand)
• Cần Một Ngày by Cá Hồi Hoang
• La fin du Monde by Juniore
• Les Garçons de L'Été by Sébastien Delage

I could go on and on...

Several Japanese songs, such as Summer of Goodbye, Message in Rouge and Contrails

Garland of a Hundred Flowers - My neighbours' national anthem can't be this cute! (Nepali)

Halls of Hueyteotl and Baba Yetu (both Swahili, both from video games)

Dragostea Din Tei ("Numa Numa") is unironically one of my favourite songs. It wouldn't have blown up as a meme if it didn't go so hard.

Pepas by Farruko is another bop.

The lyrics of Rouge no Dengon are really good. It's about a woman who's on a train, leaving town to get away from her cheating husband. She left a "message in rouge" for him to find in the bathroom, that she won't be back until he changes his ways. She's actually going to his mother's house, and she'll have his mother call him to scold him in the morning.

If you're familiar with the song as the opening theme to Kiki's Delivery Service, it really really fits Kiki's character as she listens to the song while leaving home for the first time. You might get the feeling that the themes of the song are things relates to herself: independence, anxiety, maturity, and female solidarity. And of course, if you watch the movie, those are all things she experiences in her new town.

Basically it's a REALLY REALLY good song and absolutely perfect choice for the movie it's in. I also love the singer's other Ghibli movie song you mention, Contrails/Hikoukigumo.

Liu Yuning - Unintentional Big Dream (Fangs of Fortune OST)

刘宇宁 - 无心生大梦

This song is a departure from LY’s usual genre. It goes hard and is so exciting. All my friends know this song and can sing the chorus because I made them listen to it many times.

These guys are badass!

They've also done a cover of The Trooper. Some of their best ones also include Shoog Shoog and Yuve Yuve Yu.

Thats taken me down the rabbit hole of other Mongolian throat singing songs. These will start playing in the car and my wife is like "WTF is this".

"Baba Yetu" - we learned it for the choir. Luckily, i found a translation, so we now know that we are not ordering fridges or something. Look for "baba yetu stellenbosch" for a nice version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBTNyJ33LWI I like rammstein's zick zack, I know they are lambasting plastic surgery but as a trans person I love enthusiastically shouting CUT IT OFF when the chorus happens in a sort of ironic way

Ya maulana

Dragostea De Inchiriat

Iselilja

Tein kai lottorivini väärin

NAIMONONEDARI (not sure how much this counts. I took Japanese in high school but can't maintain a conversation to save my life.)

Sommernacht

Mikrofonkåt

Hit Sale

Сама-сама

Песенка (also grey area for me, I took Russian in uni but I'm far from conversational with it.)

Skyscrapers

LALALILALA

Dime Que Me Quieres

edit: forgot to include Spanish

万能青年旅店 - 大石碎胸口
Apashe ft. Instasamka - Uebok (Gotta Run)

I love their version. Also Maytree.

Came here for numa-numa. I.T in my region has a large number of Romanians, and I was glad to know it wasn't a cookie recipe or something.

Luna - Diljit Dosanjh

Dude! I love mundian to bach ke!

But most of my "foreign" language music pleasures are less identifiable.

Like, there's a lot of zydeco that's in French that I love, but it's hard to find recordings of any kind, much less digital options.

And I can essentially endlessly listen to what's called throat singing, but have no idea what titles would be to recommend. Almost all that I have is Mongolian or tuvan, and didn't come from a CD.

Cafe Tacvba - Hola Adiós

This is what I came here to post. Bonus for it being in a dead language (Gaulish).

Seu Jorge's full album of Bowie covers is so epic. Love it, and really adds to the Life Aquatic

Good news everyone!

https://youtu.be/FM3aJQzqV90

And if you don't speak English, let me know what you think:

https://youtu.be/O3gz3nnYv68

if anyone here likes goth music, i highly recommend:

• she past away, most of their discography tbh (turkish)
• lebanon hanover (german, some of it)
• στο σκοτάδι (sto skotadi) by selofan (greek)
• nasha by aurat (urdu)
• reflejos by vacíos cuerpos (spanish)
• fantasmas by twin tribes (spanish)
• à contrecœur by hante. (french)

absolutely perfect choice for the movie it's in.

I'm aware of the meaning, but I actually found it strange that they put a song about cheating in a film aimed at children.

New World, by L'Arc~en~Ciel

Wardruna - Helvegen (and the Kalandra cover)
Bendik - Stille (all of the old albums before the style pivot are amazing)

Those are immediately on my mind and needed to share them in case someone else might enjoy! There is a lot more, those just popped right up without even thinking

Edit: Ekkolodd - Perler too, Asgeir - Heimförin!

These four songs are a solid intro to the bands if anyone’s interested!

Edit2: Well fuck me, I did mention Kalandra, but the absolute best from them in my opinion happens to be in Norwegian (I think?): Kalandra - Virkelighetens Etterklang!

Tldr:

Wardruna - Helvegen

Kalandra - Helvegen (cover of above)

Bendik - Stille

Ekkolodd - Perler

Asgeir - Heimförin

Kalandra - Virkelighetens Etterklang

Basically anything by Ado. This one's probably my favorite.

Судно (Борис Рыжий) - by Molchat Doma

I got this one. Just fun vibes.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3-zq0s5kw&desc_update=1

Otherwise some Anri songs like

Remember Summer Days

And similar City Pop (i think that's the genre)

Anda inn by Ouse
Idk what it means but by god is it catchy

Anything by Maximum the Hormone and Band-Maid to be honest, but I like "F" and "Different" most :D

Hjerteknuser by Kaizers Orchestra but it's a lil' cheat since I understand a little Norwegian.

Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós this one sounds so so beautiful.

Jumalan terve by Markus Krunegård when he expanded to Finnish music I was a bit surprised to learn he speaks Finnish natively. So when he then released this album I was very excited. It's Swedish styled pop but in Finnish.

Nao Force - Joutro Mundo https://youtu.be/A2I6dEdQqOY

Tongo Barra - Vieux Farke Touré, Khruangbin https://youtu.be/bVDRTYeGw6Q

Un Simple Histoire - Thievery Corporation https://youtu.be/sCoeuDvwUFk

The French Open - Foals https://youtu.be/MuRODr6vygw

Sexy Doll by Republika
Sola by Amplifiki
Hudey Hudey by Asu Maralman
Viszlát Nyár by AWS
Matando Sueños by Euroshima
Kufi by Duman
Mówię Ci, że by Tilt
Ich zieh nur noch einmal um by Das Auge Gottes

Just to name a few

Songs in Russian minorities languages:

• In Bashkir language Homay by Ay Yola
• In Tatar language Piala by Aigel
• In Chulym language Legend by Otyken

I love tuvan throat singing! I always recommend Tuva Groove off the album Back Tuva Future for an easy intro to the music and style. I'll add it to the playlist.

these are perfectly drenched in sorrow. i saved every one that I've not heard before 🤌

I think it's in part because the song is slightly too mature for her that it appeals to Kiki, and maybe to the younger audience who relates to her.

This was the intro song for civ 4. It is "the Lord's Prayer" in Swahili I think? I'd sometimes just both it up to hear the intro, lol

"Buka" by Kwiat Jabłoni

Ah, that makes sense.

*Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, great pick btw. ;)