Wow, this thread is so awesome :heart I've checked out a lot of music from some artists here, and I have to say I've been missing out on a lot of good music. Thanks for sharing, everyone! I'd like to share some British music, since I'm from England.

Adele

http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/x.../114_adele.jpg

Adele is actually known internationally now...so you may of already heard of her. Her album 21 is the highest selling album worldwide this year so far :yes She actually made her debut two years ago, with her first album 19 (both albums are her age when she released them :laugh), and although popular back then, she took a long break and then seemed to reach super stardom with her second album this year. I'll post two videos, one from each album.

Chasing Pavements

Someone Like You

This video was recorded in her home, and has a mini-interview explaining why she wrote the song and the meaning behind it, and she also sang this song live. This song is hugely popular here in the U.K, and it's absolutely beautiful.

^ Oh, I love Someone like you! <3

Just pick someone! ^__^ Maybe some who is pretty popular?

Oh, I have to show you this really awesome album cover from PMMP, it's from the 21st Century special box. It is manga styled, and has even japanese in it.
The album is Kovemmat kädet [Kumipainos] [Tougher hands, and now, we are not talking about Kuu-chan here, "kumi" happens to mean rubber/tire in Finnish :D]

Isn't it lovely <3?

OMG THE ONE GIRL IS WITH LAURI ISN'T SHE?!!!!!! Unf unf unf lucky b**** Lauri is like my favorite person ever x____X I want his babbbyyyyy. I'm excited to get to know them!!!

I love Adele's "Hometown Glory". THis song made me cry thousand times ~.~

Yes, Paula [the blonde one] is Lauri's girlfriend ^_^ Oh, really? Cool that you like him so much!
Y' know what? When I was in P!nk's tuor in '10, PMMP did short performance too, and Lauri was standing almost next to me! XD I would have said "Hi!" to him if I would have noticed him sooner :,D

I wanna translate this song so bad <3

It's called Kesäkaverit [Summer pals] and it's just so summery and happy! I'm sure you gonna love it!
I didn't find the studio version, so here's live one from 2007~

Dolphin / Del'fin

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6932/52501.jpg

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I think he is one the best artists in Russia. I don't have his albums and I've never listened them entirely, but I like some of his songs and I want to show his videos here.

Dolphin - Spring (2004)


Dolphin - Radiowave (2000)


Dolphin - Love (1999)

SO LUCKY!!!! yeah I LOVE THE Rasmus!!!! Om nom :D I think the feathers in his hair are so sexy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fefe Dobson
Genre: Pop, Rock
Language: English
Main Studio Albums: Fefe Dobson (2003), Joy (2010)

I've never really been much of a Fefe fan until recently. At first I thought she was just like all the other Canadian pop acts but now I see that she puts a lot more effort into her music than most would think.

Here's her first single from her latest album, Joy.
"Ghost"

If I were you, I'd pick Jens Lekman, Kent, Håkan Hellström, Veronica Maggio, Lykke Li...there are so many, but they're fantastic. Kent may have been played A LOT on the radio back in the day, but they're one of my all time favorite bands. Listening to the 'Du & Jag Döden' album makes me tear up, every time I listen to it :weep

well, I haven't yet listened to all the music here, but I'm def going to. the thread is a great idea :D

from me... I wanted to introduce you to one of the most famous Polish rock bands - Budka Suflera (the translation would be the Prompt Corner xD)

http://tabulatury-taby.pl/wp-content...kasuflera1.jpg

Budka Suflera is a Polish rock band which was started in 1969 in Lublin by Krzysztof Cugowski, and, after disbanding soon thereafter, resurrected by Cugowski and Romuald Lipko in 1974 and active to this day. They are perhaps best known for their rock ballads, such as "Jolka Jolka" and "Za ostatni grosz" that are often quoted as some of the best songs of Polish rock.

well, my Mum always says that they form the most ugly music band of Poland xDDD

personally my favorite song form them is Martwe Morze (The Dead Sea)


Translation (rough, by me):


and another one... called Nowa Wieża Babel (The New Tower of Babel)


Translation (rough, by me):


hope you like these ballads. I'm in love with them since I was a little child and couldn't really understand the lyrics...

Awww... France is a country of failed singers x__x
No one worth it.

WHAT??? France has many amazing musicians!!!!! :luv2

I've wanted to do this for soooo long. Time to introduce my favorite band, Stella!

Stella

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/234/stella.png

Members: From left to right in the picture: Tuomas, Maria, Heikki, Matti, Janne
Maria Tahvanainen (formerly known as Maria Kiiskilä) (Vocals)
Heikki Marttila (Guitar, background vocals, composition)
Janne Sivonen (Guitar, synthesizer, composition, lyrics)
Tuomas Tahvanainen (Bass)
Matti Virkkunen (Drums)
Years active: 2002-present
Genre: Pop-rock, rock, alternative
Language: Finnish
Studio albums:
Kuuntelija (The Listener, 2004)
Pelkääjän paikalla (On the front seat [in a car]; this album title is a hard one to translate because Pelkääjä can also be translated as "a person who fears [something]", 2006)
Löytäjä saa pitää (Who finds can keep [it], 2008)
Jokin on muutumassa (Something is about to change, 2011)

A brief history & introduction: Stella was formed in Joensuu in 2002 when the vocalist Maria Kiiskilä was tricked into the band. The band made a record contract with Sony Music in 2003 and consequently, released the first album Kuuntelija in 2004. At first, the band failed to grab much attention, but when Katri Ylander, a contestant in Idols, sang their song Piste on the show, Stella rose quickly to public attention and the original song became a smashing hit. Ever since, Stella has been gaining popularity while touring around the country. Their first three studio albums have all been certified gold records and have sold over 60 000 copies so far. In 2011, they released their long-awaited 4th studio album Jokin on muuttumassa, which landed on the fifth spot on the Finnish album chart and received high praise from critics all over.

Stella is best known for their very melancholic songs and lyrics and Maria's voice, which is often described as "nasal but beautiful". Personally, I love Stella for their unique sound and lyrics, which have precisely the right balance between straightforward and vague, are easy to get and are touchingly beautiful. The topics tend to be dark-natured: suicide, fearing a friend's death, rape, domestic violence...

If you're interested in how they sound, Stella has been described as "Finland's most Swedish band" and been compared to Kent. But it would probably be better to hear for yourselves, right? I'll present a couple of my favorites.

Here's Kultasiipi (Goldenwing) from their second studio album. This is probably the epitome of Stella's darkness and melancholy.



Next, some newer material: Kesän heinä on hiljaa hetken (Summer hay is silent for a moment) from their newest album, Jokin on muuttumassa. This song has been widely praised for its lyrics and its progressive rock influences.

Pfiuu introduce them to me then lol because to me, only worthy music makers are classical composers (Chopin, Ravel, Gounod, etc...).

Dominique A for example, keeps on doing wonderful music :P

I love this group, been following them for years now. They don't rerease a lot of music, but when they do it's always brilliant. I like their newest stuff best though, from 2005-ish and up.

I'm still not tired of their last single.



It's annoying how often they switch members though. xD

I really liked the song. And the video. And their outfits. Everything lol. Thank you for sharing this!

^^
wow, it's nice to see here people who like them too!! thanks for sharing the video, I haven't seen it yet :P

Haha I have been thinking about this post a lot, I already had Veronica Maggio and Lykke Li in my mind before I read your comment :) I really like their latest albums! And Kent are like... legends? haha But I have my Kent periods, and right now isn't one :/ But I totally had one when they released their latest album :P haha

But yeah, let's introduce some Swedish music here!!

First of all, I won't make this post as fancy looking as all the other with pictures and stuff, because I'm too lazy to do so :P

I have actually only been listening to Swedish music for like the three, four past years, because I reaaaally disliked everything I heard on the radio before that, but I got a friend who introduced me to so much and I'm really amazed how much great music we actually have, but that isn't played as much on the radio as the bad music from Melodifestivalen and Eurovision (I hope I won't offend anyone :))

I won't write entire biographies so if you get interested you probably can find them on Wikipedia :)

I will start with the obvious, Robyn.

She has been around since like forever, I think she debuted when she was 15, and now she's 30-something. I never liked her when I was a kid, but my friend told me to listen to her album "Robyn" which was amazing (check "With every heartbeat" on Youtube), and her latest release, "Body talk" which she released last year was really good. She released the album as three mini albums and then one 15 track album with the best songs! If you like what your hear, just check it out :)

This is Dancing on my own, which probably is one the most popular songs in Sweden last year-now :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ

And if you like her, check out her music video for "Indestructible"! I love that song, and the video is good!

I haven't seen her live yet, but from what I have heard, she's amazing live.


The next artist I'll introduce is Lykke Li!

She is a popular indie artist, and has been around the past couple of years. She's very interesting and I really like her music! Don't know what to write about her, just watch this video of "I Follow rivers", because I think the song is great and the video is really good :)

Seriously, it's like perfection haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZYbEL06lEU

Check her out if you like it :)


The third one I'll introduce sings in Swedish, and is called Veronica Maggio! She has released three albums, the latest just a little while ago, and she's just getting better and better with every release (can't stand most tracks on her first album though, but really like the second and third^^).

She's half Italian and has always been famous for having fun/interesting lyrics, and this song I will post here is interesting ineed :P it can be interpreted in two ways, number one is that she's trying to reach her beloved one even though it's very hard, and the other interpretation has a more sexual meaning and can be interpreted as if the song is about an orgasm (if I'm allowed to use a word like that on this forum...). She really plays with the lyrics though, which she does in almost all of her songs. And she's very good live, saw here last summer :)

It's a nice song though and it's really popular in Sweden right now :) And the video is quite interesting!

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZwz3yxS9I


The next artist I will introduce is the electronic indie duo, The Knife!

This duo is made of the siblings Karin and Olof Dreijer, and they make the most amazing electronic music together. They have a very interesting concept and image and almost never appeares in interviews, and when they do they always wear masks and disort their voices :)

Their most famous song is probably "Heartbeats", so check it on youtube. There is an amazing live version of it.

This is the song "Marble House". It's good, but not their best, but it has an interesting video haha. I was going to post the video for their song "Silent Shout", but I can't find it on Youtube! :( Totally sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WhQ5TiBHVk

And Karin has a solo project called Fever ray, where she released an album with the same name like two years ago, and it's in my opinion one of the best albums of all time :)

Here is "When I grow up", it's really good!! Seriously, watch this!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-CpE73o2M

This is getting long, but if you like the Swedish music I posted here and want more, check out "Anna Ternheim (the song "What have I done"), Miss Li (really fun live), Kent (probably THE most famous band in Sweden), Maia Hirasawa (half Swedish, half Japanese girl who just released her first album here in Japan :)), Oskar Linnros (very popular last year), Jenny Wilson (released a GREAT album called "Motherhood"), Laleh (does a lot of good music), and probably a lot of other artists that I have forgotten!!

Hope you enjoy, and don't only listen to the songs from Melodifestivalen! haha

Kthxbai

^^


*Edit*

I totally failed with the Youtube links, sorry about that and please forgive me!!!