Music from your country!
 

We had this kind of thread a while ago, but I couldn't find it anymore so I decided to make a new one! ( I guess this is the right place? If not, please move it. ) The idea is to post recommendations or even Youtube links or something of bands/artists from your own country! :)

So, I'm from Finland and I will now introduce you to my new fandom, a band called Sunrise avenue!

Youtube-links:
2nd single - Romeo (don't mind about that stupid text -__- )
3rd single - Fairytale gone bad

+ Official site - MySpace

well, im from Malaysia a multi-racial country...
Malays, Chinese & Indians...:yes
Here ya go! Enjoy!! Ayu song! haha... ayu means beautiful n pretty in malay..
Ayu, you r ayu!!!:D

Siti Nurhaliza - Biarlah Rahsia
V.E - Ayu
Michael Wong - Tong Hua (Fairytale)
Fish Leong - SilkRoad
Himmesh Reshammiya - I love you Sayyoni (not a malaysian, but found this song.. to say indian is part of m'sia...):P

I can't upload anything because I think it's pretty licensed in the US... but you all know ABBA I suspect ;).

From Sweden there's also the lesser known artists/bands...

For pop/rock we have Gyllene Tider (Golden Times) and Carola who are, or have been, pretty popular. For Hip Hop we have Kent, Fronda and tons more... Swedish hip hop is funny, and it can be really good even though I don't enjoy it much.

I belive a lot of people know about Roxette, some of the band members in Roxette is the same as in Gyllene Tider.

^I've listened Petter sometimes, I like swedish as a language used in rap/hip-hop :yes

And from my country there are few popular bands who have had success in US/Europe

Him, you should know it lol and The Rasmus in Germany at least :b

I think there are couple more but I dont listen to finnish music so I cant remember :x

Yes, it actually sounds really good, and I forgot about Petter, I knew there was one of the bigger artists I had forgotten the name of :).

Some of my favourite bands happen to be finnish, Sonata Arctica, Nightwish... though they sing in English.

Aren't one or two members of Kent Sweden Finns or something like that? Isn't that the name of a rockish band that sings in Swedish?

Music from my country, well, I love Nightwish and I'm glad they released five wonderful albums before Tarja left and the tabloid !drama! started. Maybe YouTube has their great cover of Gary Moore's Over the Hills and Far Away?

Nylon Beat is brought up every once in a while because SES (Korea) covered one of their songs. They started out as a terribly commercial girl duo but ended up being pretty good.

^I think it's a Swedish band but it has 1 or 2 members from Finland o.O

But the main band is Swedish or something..?

I don't know :f...

Over the Hills and Far Away is a great song :yes.

Hard Fi <3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4fs9aoiUU

Try one of these songs: (México)

Motel - Olvídame
Ely Guerra - Vete
Belanova - Rosa pastel

My country doesn't have music. All you find in music stores here is crap.

^poor you, your country must be very boring place to live in :(

Here in Cucumber Land we have random rap. And the band Greenday. Which I don't like.

Listen and let your ears be pwned by Edyta's voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsKolaMhzg - To nie ja bylam Ewa [It wasn't me who was Eve]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCKUfLXduXg - One and One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoMqIvJce1s - theme song from Pocachontas [Polish], it's a bit out of sync...

Most of her English songs suck. And so does everything else about her career, except for her voice and appearance. For the years, the way she's been managed is a disaster.

this post reminded me about another Swedish artist that's also a bit popular internationally, she is called Robyn. If you can, make sure to listen to her songs Be Mine and Who's That Girl, they are excellent if you like catchy, a bit retro, pop.

hmmm...i live in America so...yeah....*crap* :laugh,,,with a few exceptions of course...I would recommend...Tool....system of a down (though I like their older works better)....hmm...i can't think of any now...

(okej okej I'm going to sleep)

^System of a down o.O

Are they from States, coz atleast the singer is like half Albanian or something..?

Again! o.O

"okej" is how you write the pronounciation of "O.K." in Polish!

In Swedish aswell ;).

More Swedish bands that are quite known, make good music and sing in english are:

The Cardigans
The Ark

Both of them are really worth a try :yes.

Wow~! The perfect thread for me. *_* I love discovering music from different countries. <3

I actually don't like Edyta THAT much. She has a great voice and nice songs, but I liked her earlier personality more... ._. So I share some other Polish songs. ^^

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gW6iMM3Rsvg
Natalia Kukulska: I L O V E this song. And the lyrics are A M A Z I N G (for those who understand Polish). They reflect my own way of thinking well.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0pc30-KebmA
SiStars: From their second album, which in my opinion is better than their first. MUCH BETTER. No guest-rappers, less tracks... They won the EMAs for "Best Polish Act" twice. I like how the lyrics seem to talk about a woman, but are in fact about music.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dZQX7USWQXQ
Anna Maria Jopek: With Pat Metheny. I don't know the original tune, just this version (if there's any difference). It's a rather calm song with driving lyrics. (She also recorded an all-English album called "Secret".)

Hopefully you'll like it and enjoy! ^.^

I figured I should post some links to the music I mention so that people don't overlook the artists, because some of their songs are simply great :).

Here's some of The Arks' best songs, almost all of their songs are good, but here's some that I found the PVs of:

It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane

Father of a Son (Title explanation: the vocalist is gay)

Let Your Body Decide (a personal favourite)

Robyn
Be Mine!

Who's That Girl (I only found a AMV of it, I don't think it's got a PV)

Well if anyone is interested in vietnamese stuff...

I happen to enjoy Minh Tuyet's stuff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RORYIAN1r_c

The performance is only four or five minutes.

NO..U must like Greenday


I live in the US...yea..you know all my music

Greenday's kinda... annoying. Honestly I don't have anything to recommend. >__> Music here pretty much sucks.

I'm from the US, and I can't post our music xD

^^recommendations!!!

I also like Journey....because...man...Steve perry (right?) god he can sing like...just...insane.

i like how swedish/polish/german/others are all so close together...I feel like I know like 5 languages in one (even thought I don't completely know swedish at all yet :laugh).

seriously...Journey...I think it's a bit of an acquired taste if you are not used to that style of music...but his voice just captivates...omg...he's amazing.

Greenday doesn't burn ears. But their fandom burns brains.


are awesome. Maybe I'll try The Ark too sometime.

I looooved that song. The performance was really cool. It's not like a lot of Vietnamese music I've heard, although I really haven't heard that much. I would love to hear more.

Agnes Monica.
Bukan Milikmu Lagi / Not Yours Anymore
Ku T'lah Jatuh Cinta / I've Fallen in Love
Bilang Saja / Just Say So
Indah / Beautiful
Jera / Fed Up
Tanpa Kekashiku / Without My Love, a must try.
Tanpa Kekasihku / Without My Love LIVE Performance

She's Indonesian Urban, R&B, & some touch of Hip Hop.

Swedish is like a mix of German and English to me... it's the same family/genre/smth of languages, so it's quite right... As for Polish, it's different family, along with Slovakian, Czech, Russian and few others from Eastern Europe.

I think I should start learning some Swedish through e-mail or something again... :P

The Latin family, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish (and more~) are all based on Latin, thus often sounding very similar, sharing many words.

German was very popular to speak here during like the 19th century, that left heavy tracks in our language.

We have quite a number of words that's borrowed from English aswell, and they grow in numbers steadily as the English education here in Sweden start really early and is very serious.

:yes.

September <33
September - Satellites
September - Looking For Love
read about her here

Oooh, I like September :yes This was the first time I actually saw the singer ^^ I had very different ideas for her :D

This is quite unfamiliar band to many of you, maybe to everyone :D
They have pretty good songs and if anyone is interested.. :lech

Von Hertzen Brothers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qREMWea17ys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznTadcvWr4

A lot of vietnamese songs are covers of other songs, or variants of covers. I honestly don't know which are covers or not because the credits are random a lot of the time. Also, from what I've heard, and I've heard a lot, vietnamese songs are hit or miss to me. I like the modern stuff. The country/traditional stuff is not my favorite type of music. But anyways.. more of her stuff since she's the only person I'm really familiar with...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EusDY1INNCg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWIsZBFYa24 -Duet action...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uJdfZFUlg0 -Duet, LTQ is popular with ladies...

That should be good. Enjoy.

:love :love :love :love
I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE agnes, a young diva in Indonesia, she even play a role in some drama in Taiwan (even with F4 member, Jerry Yan)

So lovely, with an urban music, makes her more... lovely ^^

Chris, why dont you gave 'em TAK ADA LOGIKA (no logical things), or LIGHT A CANDLE (feat. Keith Martin)???

BassHunter, an artist who had a hit song called "boten anna", it was and is still being played everywhere... it's the shame of my country :D...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6eQRnNJjKUo

Don't know Swedish, but I do feel this song has somewhat silly lyrics XD

Speaking of 'the same of your country', I proudly present Blog 27:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dBZgTeT5Jo0 [Wid Out Ya]

hate them or love them, that's how it is.

Uh... Yeah...

Piece of the lyrics:
"I know a bot
her name is anna
anna is her name
she can ban you
ban you so hard

she's cleaning our channel
I have to tell you that, I know a bot

...."

No Logical Things suck. XD
I'll Light a Candle is my TOP favorite. Sadly though, it has no PV and I don't think she ever live-perform it.

A-Teens = swedish :yes
Floor filler
Upside Down
wiki


Marie Serneholt a member from A-Teens..she makes solo now:):yes
That's The Way My Heart Goes
wiki

I like Marie Serneholt, she has a nice voice ^^

oops I forgot 1 group xD

Da Buzz Swedish eurodance group
Tonight (Is The Night)
Do You Want Me
wiki

Marie Serneholt was in A-Teens? I've seen a couple of magazine headlines promoting her as a hot new star, but I didn't recognise the name and never realised she wasn't actually a new discovery.

Thank you very much! I love the first song especially! It is soooo cool!

I absolutely hate her makeup and hair in the video... she looks like a walking Barbie doll, seriously! Nice voice, though the song is kinda bland... I hope she comes up with something more original than such a foreseenable pop.

As for A-Teens, I used to love them, lol :D Anyone there have their 3rd/4th album [Pop 'Till you drop/New Arrival] to share? :D

I guess for Australia.

Kylie Minogue
Delta Goodrem
Kate Dearaugo

US music isn't really worth promoting, but i'll list some artists i lke outside of the US. Give em a listen, but don't criticize me because i like them, i don't have to explain why, i just do.

Lisa Scott-Lee
Marie Serneholt
The Veronicas
Within Temptation
Shaznay lewis
Faye Wong (one of the best voices in the world)
Sugababes
Girls Aloud

Meh that's the majority of my fav bands, and yes, i'm a pop fanatic.

(sarcasm start)

So obviously I must be a teeny bopper with no brain who just listens to what is fed to me, because nobody on this planet would like pop music because it's actually good.

(sarcasm end)

i'm from Japan :)

I was watching a music channel today, and saw a song called "From Here On It Got Rough"... I googled it, and found out he was a norwegian artist named Kaada... The songs is very interesting, relaxing and I like it! The music video is at YT; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW18idL8X_o

The video is also very pretty... Check it out:)


His MySpace http://myspace.com/kaada

Deathstars are an industrial metal from Sweden
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b8...Deathstars.jpg
Deathstars - Cyanide(my favorite)
Deathstars - Synthetic Generations
Deathstars - blitzkrieg
Deathstars - Syndrome

listen to Bjork, trust me

Oh god, "Inspirations" is an amazing song.

Obey her.

As for Estonia, we have some good and some not so good music here.

Ines
She represented Estonia at ESC in 2000 and placed 4th, after that her label "forgot about her". She got a new deal and released a new album in 2004 which had many radio hits. It sold well, thanks to being a host of numerous TV shows. At the end of 2005, a new album was released, this time she wrote everything. It contained a lot of well-known radio hits including her entry to Eurovision 2006, "Iseendale" ("For Myself"). I found a video on YouTube, check it out of you're interested.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NdjJ3ZDogFc

Um, there aren't any other videos that I'd like to show you so I guess you're gonna have to settle with Ines. :D

Australia:

Kylie Minogue
Holly Valance
Dannii Minogue
Delta Goodrem
Stephanie Mcintosh
Natalie Imbruglia
Rogue Traders
The Veronica's

I think there all pretty good.

Well here is some music from Mexico that I hope someone enjoys or takes a look at it. It's mainly POP and some Rock

Jeans - Yo No Te Pido La Luna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Ekr7BULvI

Motel - Olvidame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QjETUweurY

Fey - Aqui Estoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvsFUpYx5L0

Belanova - Rosa Pastel & Escena Final
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pPZpuE5x0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB97fXreLgU

Panda - Narcisita Por Excelencia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKLZPkmbwE0

RBD - Nuestro Amor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAJAvlVtO8

Thalia - Seduccion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgfrbOy2HzA

Paulina Rubio - Ni Una Sola Palabra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6fJpgBwzR0

They are not from my country but this video is so cool....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIAKxjKhac

i'm sure many mandopop fans are familiar with Stefanie Sun and JJ Lin from Singapore, but here are some great local indie bands :)

Electrico - Runaway : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdY5k2e-7g4
Ronin - Black Maria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYY4rhJwTYQ
Saw Loser (previously Pug Jelly) - Big Shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjiFbezMFuQ

Bumping this up again... This is a pretty cool tune from a Norwegian band... Always gets me in a good mood!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC6LQMPJv4w

I'm from Slovakia.

Desmod - Zhori vsetko co mam
Desmod - Niekto ti to povie skor nez ja
Desmod is slovak group.

Peha - Za tebou
Peha - Spomal
Peha is slovak group.

:laugh Ew.

Australia

Missy Higgins
Guy Sebastian
Delta Goodrem
The Veronicas
Shannon Noll
Kylie Minogue
Young Divas

Blah~ iunno, not interested much in australian singers rofl!

INDONESIA
anggun
kangen band
samsons
inul daratista
nidji band
project pop

I AM NOT FROM FINLAND. BUT I LOVE FINNISH MUSIC!

The Rasmus is <3

Please marry me Lauri.

Canada

Rosette - Crushed

It's pretty much how I'm feeling right now =\

Crushed,
By the sweetest lips I've never kissed
And your fingertips and the
warmest touch I've always missed
Crushed,
By the softest hands I've never held
Probably never tell,
You're the strongest love
that I've ever felt
Crushed,
That I haven't ever let you know
How it always goes
'Cause I lose my nerve
whenever you get close
And so I'm left,
Short of breath
With that heavy feeling in my chest
Baby, I'm so crushed

French music is quite poor but there is some great songs :D

Superbus (rock band ! i love it ! )

Lola
Travel the world

Najoua Belyzel :

Gabriel

Alizée :

Mademoiselle Juliette

hope you will like these songs ><

Denmark

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_fguUEfIeIs

INFERNAL - I Won't Be Crying

FINLAND

Jenni Vartiainen - Ihmisten edessä
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKidLh1Ryq4

The 69 eyes - Dance D'Amour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TLYDF00Jts

Disco Ensemble - Black euro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKU8yu9O5BY

Scandinavian Music Group - Minne katosi päivät?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4KEAv5hYqE

PMMP - Päiväkoti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jZ-QOa4VyI

Irina - Pokka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rHJCyQVNfk

Islaja - Pete P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBpWiUqwcQY

The Chrash - Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao6jcPRMn9k

Maija Vilkkumaa - Ingalsin Laura
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zP03avD5Ac

Regina
Myspace : http://www.myspace.com/reginaxxx


Apulanta - Trauma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bLGkqtKY3o

Sentenced - Ever Frost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY3PFySufFw

Amorphis - House of sleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdG8PZjVog

Australian music ftw.

Currently listening to:
> Delta Goodrem
> Sarah Blasko
> Silverchair
> Josh Pyke
> Missy Higgins
> Cut Copy
> Van She
> PNAU
> Sneaky Sound System
> Operator Please

:)

Are you kidding me?! Michael Flatley rocks!
If you call that ew... this is what's eeeeww: girlbands from the Netherlands... EW:

Djumbo - Hide and Seek (Namie Amuro's Hide & Seek is waaaay better)
Kus - Dag & Nacht (which means: Kiss - Day & Night)

And then you also have artist as these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5PUcQM9_iw (I need to puke!)

m2yuUnlike you m2yu , Ayu means a Fool in our language. . . but which could also mean that a person has brilliant and creative mind like an artist . . I think that definition suit Ayu . . cos I'm Ayu fan .
I feel so embarrassed to show music form my country because most of them are copy form the other countries. Thank god , a little know about Ayu so they haven't copy her music yet.

Music from my country, Chile (with english subtitles)
These are a bit old, but you might like some of them

Supernova
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/475
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/476

Coni Lewin
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/451
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/477
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/478

Los Tres
http://secsecae.multiply.com/journal/item/12

Chancho en Piedra
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/450
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/452
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/456
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/453
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/439
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/438
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/436
http://secsecae.multiply.com/video/item/437

very intersting thread
i'm half arabic and half thai so i will post music from both :P

arab music

AMR DIAB -WALA A'ALA BALW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq7bxBf120o

Myriam Fares-Nadini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH3-w8bGpj8

Nancy Ajram-saher a'ayonuh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOHgIc1HULY

thai music

Katreeya English-Sarb Sah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwCYInqMIMo

katreeya english-Chai Si
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNgfRBpoJJ4

DDZ feat. Lydia - You have a call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl8Zdn0B2do

hey I love these kinds of threads :D
Thai music sounds really hot!!

So I'll just list some of my favourite songs from Germany...

Reamonn - Serpentine
this sometimes makes me cry. the singer is Irish, by the way.
Ich & Ich - Stark ("strong")
this is a great, strong ballad!! very popular right now in Germany.
Killerpilze - Liebmichhassmich ("lovemehateme")
such a funny video xDDD
Wir sind Helden - Nur ein Wort ("just one word")
such a great video!
Karpatenhund - Gegen den Rest ("against the rest")
still rather unknown band, but this song ROCKS!!
Sportfreunde Stiller - Alles Roger ("everything roger")
so crazy xDDD the lyrics are soooo funny. pity you won't understand them >_<
Jenna + Ron - Jung und willig ("young and willing")
pretty strange but cool xDD

Finland

Nerdee: "Finnish poprock-band with catchy melodies and beautiful harmonies".
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=nerdee

Eternal Erection
Eternal Erection featuring Michael Monroe "Heaven is in the backseat of my Cadillac"

I don't know Infernal is from Denmark!

I LOVEEEEEEEEEE INFERNAL so much... From Paris to Berlin... and Vienna.. Argh... Love it :)

cater2u...gues you don't have to included 'Kangen Band'...hehehehe

I used to like these singers before I switched to JPop and KPop, which is much better

Jamelia

Beware of the Dog
DJ
Superstar
Something About You

Girls Aloud

Sound of the Underground
Love Machine
Biology
Sexy! No No No

UK

Radiohead
Coldplay
McFLY
Keane
Muse
Oasis
The Who
Leona Lewis
The Beatles
Snow Patrol
David Bowie

Gah we got some Legends

^ Blasphemy.... There's so much good music here.

U.S Music:

A Perfect Circle
Mike Patton
Tracy Chapman
Janis Joplin
Jefferson Airplane
Soundgarden
Pixies
Alice in Chains
Grateful Dead
Mute Math
Styx
Jimi Hendrix
Pearl Jam
Fiona Apple
Billie Holiday
The Mamas & the Papas

I love Girls aloud :) Sound of the underground is the best... I always loved it :)

Honestly, I dislike 99% of the music of my country. It's terrible. I just like:

- Rouge (died girls-band trying to be the brazilian spice girls)
- Sandy & Junior
- S.N.Z. (their song Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You, featured in their english album rocks)

^
Yeah, they aren't much good... i liked Sandy&Junior when I was like 10, or something...
Ivete Sangalo has some nice songs, and she is a good singer

But yeah, I'm not a big fan of brazilian music either...

hmm my original country's song is dangdut..im very2 hate this genre..
but if pop or band i like it ^^

Everywere in Russia...on TV & radio playing this song
it's a ballad
Her name's Макsим
Знаешь ли ты (Do you know)

taki is that the genre of russian songs similar with tatu??
because i love tatu very much..the sounds colourful

R-pop then?

hmm i love tatu's osngs very much..
if russian music genre similar with tatu..waww im so happy:yes:yes

but i confused with the pronouncation..
its really hard.

I miss this thread. :(

My country music is currently... a crap. People mostly listen to turbo folk and they don't know for better :( But our music in the 90s used to be very beautiful (from both Croatia and Serbia) so I'll post some :) Please listen to and judge :)

Magazin is the pop band from Croatia, and their singer Jelena Rozga has a beautiful voice, too bad she's not the part of the group anymore :)

Colonia is also the pop/dance band from Croatia. Kinki Kids covered their song Deja Vu into Junetsu :)

And some other songs I like...

I can say this about music from my country too =))
for me it's hard to find something that I want to listen

uhh well lets see what music do we have here...

vids are never gonna center so I'm not even gonna try

Nigthwish




Sonata Arctica




PMMP




The Rasmus




HIM




Indica




Irina




Kemopetrol




Children of Bodom




Tarja Turunen




tiktak

and yes we hate sugary pop

I'm from Finland too so...

- Chisu
- Underwater Sleeping Society
- Rubik
- Vuk
- Anna Puu
- Regina
- Hanna Marsh
- Pintandwefall
- Disco Ensemble
- Haloo Helsinki!
- Islaja
- Cats on Fire
- Joensuu 1685
- Cosmobile
- Astrid Swan
- Jenni Vartiainen
- Anna Abreu

^ Joensuu 1685 for example debuted in 2008 and Hanna Marsh participated in the 2008 Finland's Eurovision Song Contest prequalification. Maybe they are kinda new or at least even Finnish people don't know much about some of them...it's a pity. :(