YOUR COUNTRY'S MUSIC.

Hey this is a cool topic! Nice music from Brazil <3

Trinidad and Tobago:




We mostly make "party" music...

Not to forget Bryan Adams.

author=kentona
*sigh*

does this mean I have to post videos of Justin Beiber and Celine Dion?

You don't have to post music that is terrible (in my case, stuff like Kent and Carola would probably be somekind of equivelent). There's a lot of great canadian music!

Also, I'm no fan of ABBA so sorry if you thought everyone in sweden likes them.

Exhibit A: Swedish prog
the word "prog" in sweden is actually referring to a unique swedish genre, more akin to psychadelic, acid-ridden seventies bands (most notably the above, which is awesome). there's also great music, such as
Blå tåget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTAvm_Fk09M - many bands were left-wing oriented
Hansson & Karlsson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c4EoiQwb4k
Bo Hansson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU2_SRCLKbY - this guy made a soundtrack for LORD OF THE RINGS in the seventies, which is INCREDIBLE

Exhibit B: Vispop
I'm not very into the genre, but another typical swedish musicstyle developed in the seventies.

Exhibit C: Chip, mod, sid, etc.
Sweden is actually known for alot of great chip, mod and sid-tunes (mostly due to the still on-going scene but also partly due to this masterpiece). There's evensomoe mainstream bands () who poularized it; Slagsmålsklubben - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD50Rf49pU8
Pluxus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6yD35nN8Zg

Exhibit D: Extreme metal
Another glaring truth is that sweden is known for a slew of metal bands (nowadays, shitty stuff like In Flames, Arch Enemy, At the gates, etc.) but the reason for this would ultimately be Bathory's debut album in 1984 (although the first songs were released in 1982) making the self-titled debut most likely the first black metal album ever (yeah way! Venom had NOTHING on this) another famous contender that actually validates good music in this category is
Entombed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlg4m-n7Wvw - can you say death n'roll?

ALSO; there's a swedish rammstein for the curious (sung in swedish by angry lumberjacks and all that jazz)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogLwHEPyXBE if you happen to notice any SIMILARITIES between this and say... das krupps or even (gasp!) rammstein, don't hesitate to let me know! (also, I'm not a very big fan of raubtier but I figured it's pretty hilarious so they deserve a mention)

I'd post more variety but really, right now I can't think of much else that's typically swedish or has swedish vocals that I really like.

EDIT: that being said, I DO think KENT is the epitome of angsty swedish teenagers;
(I think they're awful)

Mr. Nemo you forgot all the lovely trallpunk like...
Dia Psalma and DLK :D

Edit: Also Kent isn't THAT bad... is it?

I think everyone has liked and/or listened to Ebba Grön at some point in their lives.

There's that one Kent song I like... FF or something. I should probably dig up something Finnish Finnish. Because I looked through youtube and there's hardly any Finland-Swedish songs there worth listening to (except for the Traktor Alban one. That's an old favourite).

EDIT: HOLY SHIT RAUBTIER: THAT'S SOME BRILLIANT SHIT!

author=kentona
*sigh*

does this mean I have to post videos of Justin Beiber and Celine Dion?

you should get on the arcade fire bandwagon

i want to contribute to this topic but i also don't want to post an entire book's worth of content. help

author=geodude

author=kentona
*sigh*

does this mean I have to post videos of Justin Beiber and Celine Dion?

you should get on the arcade fire bandwagon

i want to contribute to this topic but i also don't want to post an entire book's worth of content. help

all we need to hear is bowie

I want to add to Brazilian music: