SA included a lovely Europop song from Italy about Vespas in her last year's Frankenmix.
Hee! That was me, and I *love* that song; it's "50 Special" by Luna Pop. I can re-send it if you can't find it, Laura.
Lots of good suggestions from people (megan: yay, De Palmas!). Luaka Bop put out a cool compilation a few years ago called
Cuisine Non-Stop: Introduction to the French Nouvelle Generation
that I like a lot. I'll send Lo'Jo's "Baji Larabat" from that album to BR2. Also, not really obscure (at least, not to anyone keeping up with popular YouTube videos: [link] but I can send O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei" (from Moldova, I think) as well, if you want.
Just remembered another that may win coolness points. The Mammas, a vocal group of four women from four different Mediterranean countries -- one Spanish, one Italian, one Greek, and one French Algerian (IIRC). They recorded at least one album in the mid-'90s, with songs in several languages. "Amaria" in particular is a wonderful song sung in Italian -- with a great video if you can find it.
And seconding "Dragostea Din Tei," though Brendon may not appreciate boy bands.
I'll look for the selections noted above today and let you know if I can't find them. Looking forward to listening.
Er... Would you believe that Kate and SA look a lot alike?
::tapdances distractingly::
Has anyone ever seen them together?
Has anyone ever seen them together?
Come to think of it... Kate was staying at the Zmayhems last year, and then she left, and the very next night SA stayed there...
I tried to get into buffistarawk2 and gmail wouldn't let me. It couldn't log me in for some reason. (Meanwhile, I'm getting into my own gmail account fine. Weird.)
Come to think of it... Kate was staying at the Zmayhems last year, and then she left, and the very next night SA stayed there...
They both have brown curly hair and graduated from college in the last five years and travel the world extensively....Hmmm.
Wow, looks like all bases are covered for Brendon's europop explosion.
I've got some Swedish and Danish stuff I could add. Of course, I've got tons of French, but megan's got that covered. Germany can be done - I like the "Hallo Gallo" suggestion. Even if the teacher guesses, Brendon would get major coolness points for using Neu! Iceland is Bjork, but I doubt that will stump him. (Is Iceland Europe anyway?)
Oh! I've got some Dutch garage rock I could throw out. Q65 and The Outsiders.
Let me know when the teacher gets to Asia and South America 'cuz I can do some stuff there as well.
I just realized "Hallogallo" has no words so you can't really identify it as German.
I do have an Irish song in Gaelic, though.
(Is Iceland Europe anyway?)
Well, it's not part of the Union, but then again neither is Switzerland. Damn Swiss.
I think the North America/Europe line is between Greenland (N.A.) and Iceland (Europe).