I will second the Pogues, early U2, Peter Murphy -- also Soundgarden's I'm Still Hungry; almost all of Warren Zevon and Tom Waits; a lot of Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska, for example).
Going beyond Western Europe, there are the Cretan rizítika and the Epirot laments; the entire oeuvre of Mikis Theodhorákis, especially the works based on the poetry of Ritsos, Elytis and Seféris; most of Stávros Ksarhákos, Yiánnis Markópoulos and Dhionyssis Savvópoulos; Mauthausen by Iakóvos Kambanéllis; Canto Nero and Elo Hi from Goran Bercovic''s music for Queen Margot; flamenco; the drum-with-vocables Plains Nations songs.
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Going beyond Western Europe, there are the Cretan rizítika and the Epirot laments; the entire oeuvre of Mikis Theodhorákis, especially the works based on the poetry of Ritsos, Elytis and Seféris; most of Stávros Ksarhákos, Yiánnis Markópoulos and Dhionyssis Savvópoulos; Mauthausen by Iakóvos Kambanéllis; Canto Nero and Elo Hi from Goran Bercovic''s music for Queen Margot; flamenco; the drum-with-vocables Plains Nations songs.
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