Foreign Lyrics

Who?

Sure it is personal taste. If you notice many
reviews and import record sales sites make mention
of the use of foreign language, sparse use of foreign
language and wordless vocals. This can be a
hinderance for some. I think it is easiest to digest
foreign language bands that are not vocally oriented.
I recognize the musical capabilities of many of these
bands but trying to introduce them to non prog music
fans or your average listener is difficult. After all most
english speaking music is very vocally oriented and
they are trained to follow the story. I think the great
bands of england and america have a story to tell
also that adds to the musical text. The biggest
movement of foreign language bands in progressive
rock is italy. The italians probably due to the time
period of their best output sang mostly in italian
which is a great romantic language, no doubt! But
they later saw the need to record in english for a
broader audience. Most all of the italian reedits with
english are inferior to the originals. Later 70's in
continental Europe many bands followed the
Kosmiche thread from germany focusing on the
music and away from the vocals. The europeans
saw the need to capture the international audience
as the language barrier was a part of their everyday
life. Dont think we should necessarily downplay the
need of americans or english to learn the many
foreign languages that are in europe. Its just not a
necessity for many people to know many languages
in some parts of the world because it will never be
used. I prefer the music that was made for the
international audience and applaud the great
wisdom used to devise such. Many great bands
such as Mezquita, Jose Cid, Bacamarte, the whole
italian scene, Atoll, Ange, Eskaton, Harmonium,
german progressive folk, etc should be listened to
for their great contributions. Very few are actually
enhanced by vocals(words as another instrument) to
my ears. Samla Mammas Manna, Atila and Il Volo
are a few that come to mind that benefitted the music
by their use of foreign vocals, wordless vocals and
sparse use of the native tongue to capture the
international audience.

IMO

I like bands that sing in their native tongue (). In fact I encourage it. It sounds so...different (duh) and it's cool.

Ok, bad rationale.

But some languages are so beautiful.

goose wrote: What are you talking about? You say it's impossible to convert lyrics into English without losing meaning, but if someone's native language isn't English, he has to convert his ideas into English, losing just as much, if not more, meaning. I honestly thought you were trolling at first...

Ideas aren't dependant on the language. Ideas are not words.

Doesn't that mean when one makes a song in English, one's saying that people who don't speak English don't deserve it? You might want to look at http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html I have no idea where the sources are but it tied in with what my ideas were...

Yeah, no sh*t. It just so happens that English is something that most people will be able to understand. It is the international language.

"But, Poxx, lol more people people speaks mandarin. lol". More people has mandarin as native langauge, than English, yes, but there are more people who understands English..

You nitwits should get a grip, it seems like you are offended by my foul language, but respond to it with inane babble that doesn't make any sense.