French music
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petroniaHave downloaded from all of you, and now the cycle starts anew! Er. XD French oldies as promised; kind of a lazy selection, as it mostly comes out of Ced's shared folder. If I had any way of ripping the dusty vinyl and tapes piled in my basement you'd have Nana Mouskouri's "Le Roi a fait battre tambour" (a folksong with some significance to anyone who's read Anne Golon's Angélique novels), or Edith Piaf or, I dunno, really old oldies. "Frou-Frou", "Valentine", something sung by Mistinguett or Josephine Baker. But I don't, so you don't. XD
Actually, most of this isn't even oldies. Some is shiny new.
Françoise Hardy - Il est des choses
One of Rémy's archetypally beautiful women, in Barbarian Invasions - Ced's been trying desperately to track down the ED theme to the movie, also by Mlle. Hardy - and one thing you have to allow Rémy is good taste. Track twelve off a best-of album that runs from "Tous les garçons et les filles" (how I wish I were in love) to "Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux" (how I wish I'd never known love) in sixteen yé-yé classics. Actually the tune reminds me of the OP theme to Maria-sama ga miteru; it would be nice if that had lyrics like this.
Tell yourself always that I loved you
Even if it's me who has to leave you
I'll suffer more than you will
Don't look at me like that, I know
You hold it against me already
(I've peppered my commentary with badly-translated lyrics, because French music is always, always about the lyrics.)
Sylvie Vartan - La Maritza
Sylvie Vartan, who during her 60's heyday was actually married to Johnny Hallyday (I'm convinced that French popmuzik can be indexed according to degrees of separation from Johnny XD), was born not French but Bulgarian. So this is an accordion-backed ballad about a river in Bulgaria, and... it makes me cry. Because songs about rivers do that to me. ._.
The Maritza is my river
As the Seine is yours
But only my father remembers
From time to time
Jane Birkin - Valse de Mélody
Jane Birkin! Off her latest live album Arabesque, the concept of which is... Jane Birkin doing arabesque. Yeah, that's what I thought too. But it works, amazingly enough, or at any rate not any less well than Sting copping a quarter-note melody - possibly because she leaves the worldmuzik to the supporting act and sticks to basics herself. Good schtuff, I swear.
Greatest soundtrack for Higuri Yuu's Casbah fantasias evar. XD
Sunlight is rare
And happiness also
Love loses its way
Along the length of life
Elsa - T'en va pas
Thank God For Little Girls, Part One. Bleach fans will know this as Orihime's image song. I suspect Tite Kubo (like me) doesn't care about the lyrics so much as the overall mood - which is indeed fitting, sweet and retro and a bit melancholic (verging on hankie-pathos downer once you do understand what she's singing).
Don't go
If you love me, don't go
Papa, if you love her, tell her
She's the woman of your life
Papa don't leave
We can't live without you
Don't go away to the end of the night
Mylène Farmer - Sans contrefaçon
(Ogg file. Trust you don't mind? I still can't figure out how to play those m4a files, me. ^^;;;) Earlyish Mylène, virally infectious synthpop about... gender dysphoria. You know the sort of song that's so catchy you find yourself absentmindedly humming the chorus in public, possibly shocking little old ladies you don't know with the lyrics? Like that.
Since I must choose
I can say, softly
In all honesty
That I'm a boy
And not for an empire
Would I undress
As in all honesty
I'm a boy
Katerine - Je vous emmerde
Katerine is... a man, first of all, which is something I only found out when I put on headphones at the listening post in Renaud-Bray to check out this new indies-electronica-folk artist I'd been hearing about. Monsieur Philippe Katerine. Basically? Picture a sleazy, Gallic, ambiguously gay version of Beck, and you about have it. XD
This is shambling funk, spoken-word electronica with brass stylings, musically near the Kahimi Karie/P5/Cornelius vector. Monsieur Katerine tries to pick up a chick, at one point telling her, "Je suis un poète et je vous emmerde." She is, ah, less than impressed. XD It's funny because everyone sounds so French.
Sentimental slacker
Professionally suicidal
You see? I'm fucked
And I say fuck you too
Jean Leloup - I Lost My Baby
In English, only sort of not (i.e. Montreal in a nutshell). Jean Leloup is... if I had no mercy at all for you I'd have put up the 7:32 live version of "Je joue de la guitare" with the lengthy vocal riff during which he sings a stanza of Emile Nelligan's iconic 19th-century poem Soir d'hiver in between maybe she had AIDS but wasn't saying and fuck the system do it do it - but, well. And this song? I want the following lyrics on a t-shirt.
When I can't live with you
But I can't live without you
And you can live just fine without me
Either way I'm screwed
EDIT -- forgot to mention but I'm pretty sure the female vocalist on this is Sara Johnston out of Bran Van 3000. On the off-chance some Brits will care. XD;;
Alizée - Moi... Lolita
Thank God For Little Girls, Part Two. ...Look, it's been a buttzillion years since the infamous Heero In Pink Apron pitasblog layout, OK? XD Time to pimp this song to the masses again. There are other good Alizée songs, but this one is especially, er, special.
My name is Lolita
Lo or Lola, it's all the same
My name is Lolita
When I dream of wolves
It's Lola who bleeds
I think we can safely conclude that the French are big, big pervs.
Actually, most of this isn't even oldies. Some is shiny new.
Françoise Hardy - Il est des choses
One of Rémy's archetypally beautiful women, in Barbarian Invasions - Ced's been trying desperately to track down the ED theme to the movie, also by Mlle. Hardy - and one thing you have to allow Rémy is good taste. Track twelve off a best-of album that runs from "Tous les garçons et les filles" (how I wish I were in love) to "Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux" (how I wish I'd never known love) in sixteen yé-yé classics. Actually the tune reminds me of the OP theme to Maria-sama ga miteru; it would be nice if that had lyrics like this.
Tell yourself always that I loved you
Even if it's me who has to leave you
I'll suffer more than you will
Don't look at me like that, I know
You hold it against me already
(I've peppered my commentary with badly-translated lyrics, because French music is always, always about the lyrics.)
Sylvie Vartan - La Maritza
Sylvie Vartan, who during her 60's heyday was actually married to Johnny Hallyday (I'm convinced that French popmuzik can be indexed according to degrees of separation from Johnny XD), was born not French but Bulgarian. So this is an accordion-backed ballad about a river in Bulgaria, and... it makes me cry. Because songs about rivers do that to me. ._.
The Maritza is my river
As the Seine is yours
But only my father remembers
From time to time
Jane Birkin - Valse de Mélody
Jane Birkin! Off her latest live album Arabesque, the concept of which is... Jane Birkin doing arabesque. Yeah, that's what I thought too. But it works, amazingly enough, or at any rate not any less well than Sting copping a quarter-note melody - possibly because she leaves the worldmuzik to the supporting act and sticks to basics herself. Good schtuff, I swear.
Greatest soundtrack for Higuri Yuu's Casbah fantasias evar. XD
Sunlight is rare
And happiness also
Love loses its way
Along the length of life
Elsa - T'en va pas
Thank God For Little Girls, Part One. Bleach fans will know this as Orihime's image song. I suspect Tite Kubo (like me) doesn't care about the lyrics so much as the overall mood - which is indeed fitting, sweet and retro and a bit melancholic (verging on hankie-pathos downer once you do understand what she's singing).
Don't go
If you love me, don't go
Papa, if you love her, tell her
She's the woman of your life
Papa don't leave
We can't live without you
Don't go away to the end of the night
Mylène Farmer - Sans contrefaçon
(Ogg file. Trust you don't mind? I still can't figure out how to play those m4a files, me. ^^;;;) Earlyish Mylène, virally infectious synthpop about... gender dysphoria. You know the sort of song that's so catchy you find yourself absentmindedly humming the chorus in public, possibly shocking little old ladies you don't know with the lyrics? Like that.
Since I must choose
I can say, softly
In all honesty
That I'm a boy
And not for an empire
Would I undress
As in all honesty
I'm a boy
Katerine - Je vous emmerde
Katerine is... a man, first of all, which is something I only found out when I put on headphones at the listening post in Renaud-Bray to check out this new indies-electronica-folk artist I'd been hearing about. Monsieur Philippe Katerine. Basically? Picture a sleazy, Gallic, ambiguously gay version of Beck, and you about have it. XD
This is shambling funk, spoken-word electronica with brass stylings, musically near the Kahimi Karie/P5/Cornelius vector. Monsieur Katerine tries to pick up a chick, at one point telling her, "Je suis un poète et je vous emmerde." She is, ah, less than impressed. XD It's funny because everyone sounds so French.
Sentimental slacker
Professionally suicidal
You see? I'm fucked
And I say fuck you too
Jean Leloup - I Lost My Baby
In English, only sort of not (i.e. Montreal in a nutshell). Jean Leloup is... if I had no mercy at all for you I'd have put up the 7:32 live version of "Je joue de la guitare" with the lengthy vocal riff during which he sings a stanza of Emile Nelligan's iconic 19th-century poem Soir d'hiver in between maybe she had AIDS but wasn't saying and fuck the system do it do it - but, well. And this song? I want the following lyrics on a t-shirt.
When I can't live with you
But I can't live without you
And you can live just fine without me
Either way I'm screwed
EDIT -- forgot to mention but I'm pretty sure the female vocalist on this is Sara Johnston out of Bran Van 3000. On the off-chance some Brits will care. XD;;
Alizée - Moi... Lolita
Thank God For Little Girls, Part Two. ...Look, it's been a buttzillion years since the infamous Heero In Pink Apron pitasblog layout, OK? XD Time to pimp this song to the masses again. There are other good Alizée songs, but this one is especially, er, special.
My name is Lolita
Lo or Lola, it's all the same
My name is Lolita
When I dream of wolves
It's Lola who bleeds
I think we can safely conclude that the French are big, big pervs.
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Date: 2004-03-08 02:18 pm (UTC)i worried about the m4as...iTunes seems to default to those, and no one had mentioned having problems with them so far. am sorry. if i'm a/the guilty party here, anything you'd like to request in a different format...?
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Date: 2004-03-08 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 07:52 am (UTC)and yes, OMG YOU MUST LISTEN TO FRANZ FERDINAND. ^^
they'll be here at the end of the month. have tickets already. am way too excited. and sorry for friend in Toronto, since i think they're playing there next Monday night so he can't go...:P
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Date: 2004-03-08 05:01 pm (UTC)For like the first time evar I already have one of these, but that's only because I went hunting for Alizee after "J'en ai marre," and naturally when a Lolita-related song presented itself...um.
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Date: 2004-03-08 09:26 pm (UTC)"Moi Lolita" is Alizée's first single, and still her most famous one methinks, though she's now a bona fide star. Which is as it should be. (The video caused a spot of controversy as well - "Do you have 100 francs?" XD).
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Date: 2004-03-08 05:19 pm (UTC)*twitches*
*downloads*
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Date: 2004-03-08 09:30 pm (UTC)(But no more until the end of the month. I'm fairly sure of it.)
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Date: 2004-03-08 10:12 pm (UTC)*has a good laugh*
seriously, thank you for sharing! *loves your music sl0ring* :)
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Date: 2004-03-09 07:25 am (UTC)*happily downloads the rest*
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Date: 2004-03-10 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-10 06:03 pm (UTC)My favorites were probably "La Maritza" - it was so hauntingly beautiful - and "Il est des choses" - such wonderful lyrics, and I love Francoise Hardy's voice.
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Date: 2004-03-15 09:15 am (UTC)