I think you are right.
I think these words are English(Anglo-Saxon):

eight, oxen, the common words.

Gilton

"japanese rock is wayyy to pop-y?"

So Guitar Wolf, Ghost and say The Boredoms are way to poppy? These are the better known Japan bands in America.

I think you need to listen to Japanese rock before you can make such a sweeping statement.

I guess it depens on what you mean by "rock".

the beatles could have existed in pretty much any language.

And, i think about 1/2 the stuff by zep would have been fine...

Russian is as hard as german, but doesn't have that hard rock sound.

Ultimatly, this is one of those questions that is so "post fact" dependant, it can never be argued.

Thanks for playing.

I saw a comedy routine years ago about that - some English band in an interview with really thick working-class English accents, then singing with an American accent, and an American band talking to the interviewer in an American accent, then singing with an English accent. It was really funny, partly because the guy had the accents and the banality of the rock-band interview down.

People seem to be under the impression that i think no other languages can sing pop or rock 'n' roll. That is far from the truth.

What I originally wrote was: "...is considered the language of rock 'n' roll." To back-up that statement, I pointed out how all of the 60s British Invaision bands sang with an American accent. I even remember, but have no source, for John Lennon speaking about this. It is a pretty common understanding and people that don't recognize it probably don't listen to that much music. Just because a handful of bands sing in their own English accents, doesn't mean that the above is not true.

This doesn't mean that 1) i don't think it can be done or 2) that I don't like it.

1) not at all and i even show an example of someone rocking in French. 2) far from the truth. did anyone click on the link and check out what I am doing?

Even if one were to count the punk rock bands, the sheer number of songs from these countries that are in American accents far outweights the contrary. And the fact that in America you can only name maybe one or two foreign language songs that hit the top 20 charts (the singing nun song (folk), eres tu (very slow, barely pop, soft pop) and that german 99 baloons song (oh, ok yeah the Macharina (sp?)) I think also points to this issue. (Now I said 'points to this issue' with the last example OF COURSE there are other issues going on here having to do with American tastes and avoidance of things foreign etc, but I am not talking about those things right now.)

One of the main aspects of my movie is that it is difficult to sing rock 'n' roll/pop in French. This has been pointed out to me by several singers/songwriters that I have interviewed in the film. Eventually, artists learned how to sing good pop songs in French, even rock. But it took a long time for it to happen and at times they have to really alter the pronounciation of the language to do so (ie Nino Ferrer).

Contray to what someone wrote above, a professor of linguistics will probably 1) confirm what I am saying and 2 ) be able to speak about it in a technical way that I am unable to nor are the people that I have been interviewing are able to. And thus, since this was a linguist tribe, I thought that there might be people on here who actually knew someone with some authority who I could speak to on the subject.

In regards to KALX:

Saturday morning is usually a new DJ try-out slot. So they could have been new DJs. If you want to know more about some really good French Pop/ Rock from the 60s I again point you to my site:

bardotagogo.com/bwww/misc_page.php

and there is our annual dance party on July 14th in San Francisco.

I suspect music type follows this paradigm.
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Of course.

Taht's partly why i think this whole idea taht there is a "language" or anything, is pretty much, bunk.

Rock and Roll is an american experience that cannot be seperated FROM that american experience. But it's not about *language* but rather, *culture*. Americans are a culture of youth. They are a culture of economic spend v. save (or, commericialism). Americans are a culture of the "american dream" real or not. We have a "wild wild west", or "uncouth americans" attitude (real or not). and, most importnatly, we had a southern culture that had slavery than extreme racism, creating a full under-the-radar culture primed for explosive expression against authority.

we are, fundimentally, independant. Rock and roll FULLY reflects that. we don't listen to "the man". We don't do what we are told. rock and roll is a language of teenage youth and rebellion only produced by a country that is a teenager and in her rebellion phases.

confluence of events. but nothing suggests to me it's aobut the way english rhymes, or the way english is accented or sylibafied (sp)...