I was just singing this last night.
At that time for us kids, it was of course âKing Buttâ.
Blasphemy! I had too much respect for his highness to sully the song in such a way.
And Tutankhamen deserved more respect as well.
But what if I donât want to get rid of it?
Iâve shared this one with family and friends, but they donât seem to appreciate it. Maybe one of you will. Itâs so beautiful, both relaxing and energizing in that odd way that some music does.
I wish I understood German, because thatâs totally my kind of jamâŚ
This song is so effortlessly cool.
Does it really matter? The language of the lyrics doesnât matter to me, music seems pretty universal. I have favorites that are German, Russian, French, one I suspect is an Indian language (but not really certain) and in one case the extinct language of Gaulish - (click the link - something youâd probably also like). We seem to all be humans, regardless of language barriers. The older I get, and the more that I hear, the more I believe it. It all carries over, people who speak differently arenât really that different as people; the things that they sing about arenât that different either. To me at least, beauty in a foreign language is still beauty.
Music has to matter to me. It needs a story in order for me to appreciate it.
Note, that doesnât mean it had to have lyrics that I understand. Movie soundtracks where I can match up the cues with plot points (e.g. LOTR), or instrumental songs with music videos that tell stories (e.g. Lindsey Sterling) also work.
But Iâm not the kind of guy who will just sit down and listen to Beethovenâs symphonies; masterful as they are, they have no emotional resonance with me, so I donât enjoy them.
Itâs not that I disagree with anything you said; music with lyrics I canât understand just doesnât hit the spot for me.
Oh that makes sense. I get most of my music from Youtube nowadays, so I get a story from the videos. Whether or not the story in my head from the video matches what was intended by what was written in the lyrics isnât something that Iâve thought much about in most cases. But sometimes I do look up lyrics explanations (and sometimes theyâre quite interesting, especially when the writers themselves write about their inspirations and thoughts! I love things like https://www.ayria.com/2010/06/song-dissection-7-blue-alice/ where I went and re-watched the movie with the song and the artistâs notes in mind.) Definitely cool to have that bigger picture.
There are also cases like Hexenpolizei by Santa Hates You - I think if you speak any Germanic-derived language you can get the gist of that one pretty clearly. I found a translation at https://www.elyrics.net/read/s/santa-hates-you-lyrics/hexenpolizei-lyrics.html, though I donât know how accurate it is - I always hear it as âthought policeâ instead of âwitch policeâ, and the 3rd verse as listed doesnât entirely make sense to me (whatâs a mental breakwater and how would that transmit the zeitgeist? I have to assume that thereâs an unfamiliar German expression/idiom there.), but overall it works and is close enough to what I hear.
ETA:
Songs also gather their own stories for me. Old instrumental beach music by The Ventures is all about me being a kid learning how to play records on my dadâs giant stereo and dancing around like a goofy kid would while he watched and laughed. Green Onions is just every chill time throughout my life; I donât know what the story was to the writer, but Booker T. seems pretty chill playing it.
My wife is the opposite - she loves songs that I donât like at all because she likes the lyrics. Meanwhile she completely doesnât like some songs that I love because they donât have the lyrics to appeal to her. She doesnât feel the sound the way I do, and I donât feel the words the way she does. Different strokes for different folks, as they say. Always nice to find out how other people perceive the world differently.
A great earworm thatâs been getting a lot of play on the CBC lately
While I may not share this opinion, I can certainly appreciate where youâre coming from.
Iâm not even sure where I originally heard this.
But the bass line got stuck so I had to go hunt it down and listen to the whole thing.
Now it wonât leave.
Well youâve successfully passed it on, so now Iâm stuck with it! 
In return, take this
or if you prefer, also on theme