# Rock songs with non-English lyrics?

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**Created:** [January 31, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-non-english-lyrics/151804 "2003-01-31T04:16:06Z")\
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I thought of an interesting one: German indie legends Flowerpornoes did a cover of R.E.M.'s “Losing My Religion” in 1993 called, well, “Remcover” in German. The lyrics are only loosely directly translated, but they keep most of the motives of the original.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Nq8lvgEKxzs/hqdefault.jpg "Flowerpornoes - REMCOVER") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq8lvgEKxzs)

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