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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I really like that French band Air. This intrigues me, and I want to look into more French pop. Many of the artists I like say they were influenced by Serge Gainsbourg.
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Serge Gainsbourg : very famous in France
really really wonderful songs, I hope you can find them
French people love him because he was a bad boy always drunk, provocative but very sensitive. He wrote also songs for Jane Birkin (English girl only famous in France ?) and Birgitte Bardot (when she was young !). He was quite ugly but always seduced the most beautiful and famous women.
His lyrics are often based on play on words and poetry. His music is very rich, a lot of different styles.
I think his last songs were “easier”.
Most famous Songs : “Initials BB”, “Je t’aime moi non plus“ (with sexual whisper melt in the music), “Ballade de Melody Nelson”, “Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais”, “la javanaise“…
Famous also in having said, in a TV French show where Witney Houston was the guest star, that he "wanted to fuck her". She became white for few seconds : What !!!!!
From the 60’s to 80’s there were always in France about the same 20 singers. And French were inhibited compared to US and British music, trying to copy. It wasn’t so good and almost forgot to sing like they before used to.
Now French music is influenced by anglo saxon pop, soul, techno, African, Arabian and Spanish rythm and the French touch… : the result is good.
Since nearly 2000 we've really got plenty of good singers : about 5 to 10 new per year, for us it’s an explosion, in every kind of style.
Exemples : Juliette (French style, humour), Manu Chao (world music, latino), Souad Massi (Algerian, pop, rai, flamenco), Thomas Fersen (French style), Yann Tiersen (music from the film “Amélie from Montmartre”), Lo Jo (world music), Camille (sounds like Bjork), Tiken Jah Fakoli (Coast of Ivory ? african political reggae), Lhasa (French/Spanish/English jazz/world music), Pink Martini (French/US jazz latino), St Germain (album “Tourist”, jazz techno, no lyrics)…
Less recent : Mano Negra (Rock latino), Noir Désir (French pop Rock), Rita mitSouko (French pop rock), Etienne Daho (French pop), I Muvrini (traditional band from Corsica), Renaud (beautiful lyrics, awful voice, made a song against “Miss Maggie”), Bernard Lavilliers (our Bruce Springsteen in spirit with latino-American influences), Laurent Voulzy (album “caché derrière” and others, good pop), Alain Souchon (beautiful lyrics, good pop), Francis Cabrel (soothing French pop Rock ), William Sheller (pop classic, piano), Mylène Farmer (pop quite original and successful), Enzo Enzo (French style), Zazie (pop), Michel Jonasz (Jazz), Claude Nougaro (Jazz + song “Toulouse” !), Jean Jacques Goldman (our national song maker, cautious humanist, the man French people would like to meet once, pop rock), songs of Starmania (“Tycoon”), Air, Daft Punk ……
If you like Serge Gainsbourg’s music, maybe you’ll enjoy “M“ (Matthieu Chedid), Dominique A, Alain Bashung, in a more modern way… and MC Solaar (pop rap)
Our French star : Johnny Hallyday (I think he isn’t original for US people)
Our French god : Charles Aznavour, we can’t say anything bad about this man. Respect.
You can find them on the web. (emule, kasaa, (un)official sites)
Lyrics French songs :
http://www.paroles.net/
And French singers with number of songs : clic “La Liste Complète des Interprètes“ :
http://www.paroles.net/artis/*
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Originally Posted by marichiko
You don't want to know about John Denver. He's dead, thank God. Forget you ever even heard his name. Here in the US, he's just about everyone's favorite singer to hate. Now Jean Luc Ponty...  |
Sorry, Jazz is really a fashion in France but I’m not a specialist despite there’s a little jazz festival in my birth village. I just know St Germain, Michel Petrucciani and some US jazz. An Old album : “Giants of jazz play Brassens”. Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Leo Ferré
are our 3 poets in songs, it’s often not really funny nor modern but the lyrics are timeless.
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Originally Posted by lookout123
there were concerns that our green, unbloodied young men would be slaughtered if they weren't FULLY trained - and everyone's definition for that is different. there were many different proposals for ops plans, but in the end it was decided that the best course of action was to wait until the US had trained and equipped (haha) an overwhelming number of GI's to send over to the theater.
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I think that real militaries like Eisenhower who said it was technically possible earlier are more qualified for this kind of opinion than politicians like Roosevelt and Churchill. Usually leaders decide and the technical people have to reach the objective.
But I won’t declare the war for that !
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
That's always been true but Wilson's input to the treaty was very small because we were the new kids. We had only been in the war a short time and not considered a major player by the rest of the allies.
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In my books Wilson is Rotshild’s puppet
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Tell me, has France had to face the largest Evil the world has ever known ....WalMart?  |
Walmart ? Why ? Is it another joke I never understand ? I’ve just heard the name. I’ve no idea about that.
I hope it’s not worst than Monsanto !
Have you got Alicia Key’s phone number ? or Nora Jones’s ?
Bye