# What one particular song best represents a particular country in your opinion? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 12, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812 "2025-11-12T22:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/41 "2025-11-14T20:47:52Z")
But it is a beautiful song, I knew the Serrat version first. And thanks to your very fine translation I have finally found out that cambalache means bazaar. TIL. Concerning @EinsteinsHund optimism, I will not join in. Ode to Joy, if only! I’ll be slightly more realistic: Eigekühlter Bommerlunder, by die Toten Hosen: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t03Nh0hyBY4/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/t03Nh0hyBY4?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDt03Nh0hyBY4 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/42 "2025-11-14T21:07:59Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I’ll be slightly more realistic: Eigekühlter Bommerlunder, by die Toten Hosen: Hah, that was the unauthorized video shot that desecrated a church in Bavaria, which had to be consecrated anew after that abomination. It was a minor scandal back then, and as a Hosen fan I snickered a lot about it, back when they were still punks and before their later schlageresque songs got played on CDU election parties… And was that Marianne Sägebrecht as the bride? I hadn’t seen that video in 40 years and never noticed it. It was before she became a rather famous actress, at least in underground cinema. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/43 "2025-11-14T21:20:47Z")
If it is not her it must have been her younger thinner sister, I hadn’t noticed either, but it seems obvious now you point it out. She had a couple of international movie hits too in the '80s: _Zuckerbaby, Out of Rosenheim_ and _Rosalie goes shopping_ come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/44 "2025-11-14T21:23:11Z")
USA - Take Me Home, Country Roads ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/45 "2025-11-14T22:16:07Z")
Mongolia: [The Steppes](https://youtu.be/fTvw1afVGaE?si=IABnJYb0WG34rWey) by Steve Hackett. I think the song would be a perfect backing track for a series of slow aerial flyover shots of impossibly vast plains surrounded by distant snow-capped mountains. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/46 "2025-11-15T02:30:25Z")
I was lucky enough to see Ofra Haza in San Francisco, on one of her very rare tours of the US. Such a great concert. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/47 "2025-11-15T02:33:26Z")
South Korea: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0k2Zzkw_-0I/maxresdefault.jpg "Girls' Generation 소녀시대 '다시 만난 세계 (Into The New World)' MV") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k2Zzkw_-0I) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/48 "2025-11-15T03:08:21Z")
[I was going to post that K-Pop Demon Hunter song all the kids like for South Korea.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yebNIHKAC4A&t=183s) I also had a bunch more cliches to add to @Alessan ‘s list (ie every Edith Piaf song for France) but that didn’t seem to be in the spirit of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/49 "2025-11-15T03:12:34Z")
I will submit [Naacho Nachoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzlWScHTc4) for India. Only because RRR is such a wonderfully bonkers film [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812.md?page=2)