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@foreigncovers.bsky.social
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Migrant from another place.

Familiar songs sung in other languages, suggestions more than welcome!

Now with more than 3000 scrollable foreign covers archived from that aforementioned other place, most of which have links that still work.
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foreigncovers.bsky.social
You may not believe this but I OWN THIS RECORD and also the Yves Mourousi French dub too!

John Peel actually played this German version on his programme when it went to number one!
12" of Paul Hardcastle's 19 And the French version of 19, also crediting Yves Mourousi, a French TV news anchor who voiced the resampled spoken bits off the dubbed Vietnam documentary
May 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
Cheers for that!! Actually originally posted it nearly 14 years ago at the bad place but stupidly used a bit.ly link which is of course stone dead at this moment in time!

Thanks for resurrecting!
Screenshot of imported tweet detailing "The Smiths' Panic as interpreted by Fangoria, in Spanish" but with a dead bitly link. The post is listed as archived from November 18, 2011 at 12:55 pm which means that was when it was originally posted on Twitter.
April 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
Great one, that!

Did find it a while back at the bad place though 😉
An actual 2017 tweet from the precursor of this account, deeming this Spanish cover of Propaganda's "Duel" to be "oddly more Teutonic than the original"
October 30, 2024 at 8:17 PM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
Will keep an eye out for this disc next time I'm at a local second-hand music emporium... it contains a Spanish-language take on The Blue Nile's "Tinsel Town In The Rain" but has somehow not been uploaded to YouTube, Spotify or Bandcamp.

#isitbalearic
November 13, 2024 at 3:20 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
The @foreigncovers "Scrooge of Christmas 2022" award goes to whoever blocked Pavel Bobek's Czech version of Bing Crosby's "Mele Kilikimaka" on YouTube AND on Spotify.

#Scrooge
November 13, 2024 at 4:12 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
(* I hope you saw what I did there)
November 13, 2024 at 4:17 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
Lest we forget.

Eleven years of @foreigncovers, which is a fair few songs.

Remember to scroll back!

#MyTwitterAnniversary
November 13, 2024 at 4:17 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
But not necessarily in that order.
November 13, 2024 at 4:50 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
Other than the obvious but still splendid work of Peter Solowka's Ukrainians (Peel Sessions, Smiths covers), does anyone out there know of any Ukrainian cover versions of well known English-language hits?

#Ukriane #YKPAIHA #UkraineUnderAttack
November 13, 2024 at 6:29 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
No, seriously
November 13, 2024 at 7:07 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
Impressed that @rideox4 were able to produce a grammatically perfect Finnish-language rendition of Little Jimmy Osmond's chart-topping 1972 hit "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" in their formative years

https://youtu.be/ejwwfDlfs5w
November 13, 2024 at 8:40 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I didn't, but those nice people at Twitter just reminded me, yeh?
#MyTwitterAnniversary
November 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM
foreigncovers.bsky.social
Kind follower @HankToledo has furnished me w the French version of Sunday Girl by Blondie, sadly not viewable here

https://youtu.be/HE_kMqeBHbc
November 13, 2024 at 12:16 PM