French language music

Teetonetal

EricTheWeary said:

I still haven't heard everything yet but I had Pierpoljak on streaming whilst I was making the tea. Don't know if it's helping my pronunciation yet, I still sound like a Harry Enfield character when I'm doing my French course. 

If you are learnign french, then check out some French films too.

La Heine, The Dreamers, 13 Tzameti and Irreversible are all great, but dark films.

EricTheWeary

Teetonetal said:

EricTheWeary said:

I still haven't heard everything yet but I had Pierpoljak on streaming whilst I was making the tea. Don't know if it's helping my pronunciation yet, I still sound like a Harry Enfield character when I'm doing my French course. 

If you are learnign french, then check out some French films too.

La Heine, The Dreamers, 13 Tzameti and Irreversible are all great, but dark films.

Yeh, I need to sit with some French films. I have picked things up reasonably well when in France but it takes me ages to get back to that point - and it's still a fairly low point - so I'm doing some pre emptive work. Although beginners French stuff isn't that useful, my opportunities for saying the black cat is an animal might be limited. 

Jalapeno

saw Christine and the Queens on Jools - she must have some French recordings

fields5069

I very much like Francoiz Breut.

EricTheWeary

Jalapeno said:

saw Christine and the Queens on Jools - she must have some French recordings

@Jalapeno the all French version of one of her songs is in one of the posts above.

I was listening to Thomas Dutronc who is posted on here, mixes up gypsy jazz with rockabilly and other stuff. It's very, very French but putting gypsy jazz guitar in a modern context - occured to me it might be something to your taste. 

Philly_Q

Teetonetal said:

EricTheWeary said:

I still haven't heard everything yet but I had Pierpoljak on streaming whilst I was making the tea. Don't know if it's helping my pronunciation yet, I still sound like a Harry Enfield character when I'm doing my French course. 

If you are learnign french, then check out some French films too.

La Heine, The Dreamers, 13 Tzameti and Irreversible are all great, but dark films.

It's a good suggestion, but there are probably less traumatic ways of picking up a bit of French than spending an evening watching Irreversible.  But if you're going for it, might as well make it a double bill with Martyrs or something.

EricTheWeary

I did watch the first series of porn based French sitcom Hard so I might rewatch that and pay attention to the words this time

jellyroll said:
I forgot earlier who had posted this, thanks @jellyroll . I can't imagine enjoying an English language equivalent somehow but Dutronc is as French eating a croissant up the Eiffel Tower and wonderfully evocative of traipsing around small towns wondering what to do when all the shops shut for two hours for lunch. 
 

jellyroll

je vous en prie

blobb

Ha! Good to see 'Telephone' getting a shout, never heard them but they were the reference 'cool' thing in the French text books we had at school. Once we figured out that you could rub out the printed text in the photo stories we had great fun exploring all the ways French kids (usually from La Rochelle for some reason) could swear at each other and insult their parents, usually ending up with the line 'Vous aimez Telephone?' which became the default (sarcastic) reply for any question thrown out by the French teacher. I shall have to listen to them now to see what the fuss was all about.

Back on topic, how about some Gong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddrlmVz6GU4

dogload

Kevin Ayers en francais


The classic La Poupee Qui Fait Non by Michel Polnareff


And the inimitable Jacques Dutronc

DarnWeight

First couple of albums by The Young Gods (Swiss metal/samples outfit) were almost exclusively in French (barring a Gary Glitter cover), and they've always had at least one or two songs in French per album since.

Here's "Crier Les Chiens"...

thecolourbox

thecolourbox said:

I don't know how accessible they are to find on Youtube Spotify et al (I'll look later when I'm not at work) but there is/was an Austrian band called Les Hommes Sauvages who sing/sang in French, German (well, Austrian) and English, and whose singer I got to know quite well when I lived in Vienna (not in the biblical sense). In particular their album "Trafic" is wonderful with some great French language songs. They describe themselves as "music noir" so a bit arty but nice guitar work and some good rocking bits in there as well. You're very welcome to borrow the CD if you like if you're in Brum town any time soon

I found them on MySpace! Who even knew MySpace was still going?   https://myspace.com/leshommessauvages/music/songs

DiscoStu

I'm a huge dEUS fan. They normally sing in English despite being Belgian, but they did a wee French number too.

boogieman

If you like world music, try Les Negresses Vertes.

Also I saw these guys at a French punk festival a few years back, Les Ramoneurs de Menhir. They play Breton folk tunes in a punk stylee. Very good they were too. The guitarist was a complete nutter, apparently he was in the French equivalent of the Sex Pistols many moons ago. 

 

Mickeyji

Check out Francis Cabrel - the man is huge in France. Good voice, good songwriter.