France - One song per day.

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Alain Chamfort - Traces de toi - 1986
Chanson, pop, synthpop

Album: Tendres fièvres (RYM: 3,07/5)

Wikipédia:
Alain Chamfort (born Alain Joseph Yves Le Govic; 2 March 1949) is a French singer.

He was a promising pianist in his youth, and the piano became his instrument of choice. His first band, "The Dreamers" had minor success as a repertory jazz outfit, and was followed by a typically sixties rock music group "Murator".

He met famed writer and producer, Jacques Dutronc, who proposed to help Chamfort with future works for television and film, and it is with Dutronc that Chamfort's career expanded. After being discovered by Dutronc, it was with Claude François and ultimately Serge Gainsbourg that he made a number of albums, including his first album recorded as Alain Chamfort: Poses. A single from the album, "Manureva" remains one of the most famous songs to date by Chamfort, whose subject is the yacht Manureva which disappeared with her skipper Alain Colas, in 1978.

Alain Chamfort composed for the cinema; he worked with Jean-Pierre Mocky and with Arnaud Sélignac. As an actor, he appeared in the short Men/Toys/Girl in 2001. In 2004, he became a member of the board of directors of SACEM.
Tu te donnes à moi sans confession
quand je veux t’aimer
tu glisses une larme d’émotion
dans ton décolleté

Et je voudrais trouver les mots
mais je ne sais plus très bien
si je dois me vouer à ton dieu ou à tes seins
alors sur ma peau tu laisses des
traces de toi

Tout ce que je vois là dans tes yeux
ne regarde que moi
et l’amour c’est tout ce que je veux
refaire avec toi
et même si souvent
je suis envieux de ta jeunesse
si je m’attache à elle comme un esclave
à sa maîtresse
c’est que sur moi je veux garder des
traces de toi

Toutes les larmes du ciel peuvent bien m’emporter
quand ton cœur fait
bing bing bing
tous les tam-tams africains je les fais danser
quand ton cœur fait
bing bing bing
l’amour tu sais c’est pas sorcier
mais toi tu m’as bien possédé

Cette nuit je veux que nous dansions
l’apocalypso
comme si c’était la fin du monde
l’apocalypso
et même si la vie sépare un jour tous ceux qui s’aiment
si les gardiens de l’Éden nous posent des problèmes
dans mon âme je veux garder des
traces de toi

Toutes les larmes du ciel peuvent bien m’emporter
quand ton cœur fait
bing bing bing

Tous les tam-tams africains je les fais danser
quand ton cœur fait
bing bing bing
l’amour tu sais c’est pas sorcier
mais toi tu m’as bien possédé

You surrender to me without a confession
when I want to love you.
You let fall a tear of emotion
in your cleavage

and I'd like to find the right words
but I no longer really know
whether I should trust your God or your breasts1,
and then on my skin you leave
smudges of you2

All that I see there in your eyes
is my private business.
And love is the only kind of conversation
I want to have3
And even if I often
envy your youth
and stick to it like a slave
would to his mistress,
it's on my skin I want to keep
smudges of you.

All the tears of heaven can wash me away for all I care
when your heart goes
bang bang bang
All the African tom-toms, me, I make them dance
when your heart goes
bang bang bang
Love is not rocket science, you know,
but still you sent me into orbit4

Tonight I want us to dance
the apocalypso5
as if it was the end of the world
(the apocalypso)
and even if life eventually drives all lovers apart6,
efen if the guardians of Eden are causing us trouble,
in my soul I want to keep
smudges of you

All the tears of heaven can wash me away for all I care
when your heart goes
bang bang bang

All the African tom-toms, me, I make them dance
when your heart goes
bang bang bang
love is not rocket science, you know,
but still you sent me into orbit


1."saint"(saint) and "sein"(breast) sound exactly the same
2.pun on "traces de doigt" (smudges of finger marks)
3."faire" is used in "faire l'amour"(make love) but "refaire" alludes to "refaire le monde"(set the world to rights)
4.the original idiomatic pun says "love is not wizardry but you bewitched me alright"
5.A calypso with an apocalyptic twist, why not? :)
6.a wink to this timeless classic

Thanks to Salve a Selva on LyricsTranslate.
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Page 46 Pierre Abélard - Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha (Dolorum solatium) - 1130 - Classical
Page 36 Léonin - Viderunt Omnes - 1160 - Classical
Page 9 Adam De La Halle - Jeu de Robin et Marion - 1282 or 1283 - Classical
Page 23 Philippe De Vitry - In Arboris - 1320 - Classical
Page 41 Baude Cordier - Tout par compas suy composés - late 14th - Classical
Page 25 Josquin des Prez - Ave Maria ... Virgo serena - 1485 - Classical
Page 27 Clément Janequin - Le chant des Oyseaulx - 1537 - Classical
Page 35 Nicolas Gombert - In Te Domine Speravi - Motet à six voix - 1539 - Classical
Page 16 Jean-Baptiste Lully - Marche pour la cérémonie des turcs - 1670 - Classical
Page 14 Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Te Deum - 1688/1698 - Classical
Page 29 Michel Richard Delalande - Simphonies pour le Soupers du Roy - Concert de trompettes - 1703 - Classical
Page 42 Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin - Concerto à 5 en mi mineur for flute - 1725 ? - Classical
Page 32 Jean-Philippe Rameau - Rondeau des Indes galantes (Les sauvages) - 1735 - Classical
Page 16 Claude Joseph Rouget De Lisle - Chant de Guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin ou La Marseillaise - 1792
Page 25 Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Marche au supplice - 1830 - Classical
Page 26 Unknown - Les anges dans nos campagnes - before 1846 - Classical
Page 11 Adolphe Adam - Minuit, chrétiens - 1847 - Classical
Page 33 Charles Gounoud - Ave Maria - 1853 - Classical
Page 5 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Au clair de la lune - First recorded song - 1860
Page 34 Jean-Romain Grosjean - Il est né le divin enfant - 1862
Page 1 Georges Bizet - Le pêcheur de perles - Je crois entendre encore - 1863 - Classical
Page 27 Jean-Baptiste Clément / Antoine Renard - Le temps des cerises - 1866
Page 46 Gabriel Fauré - Au bord de l'eau - 1871 - Classical
Page 30 Louis Théodore Gouvy - Requiem op.70 - 1874 - Classical
Page 38 Edouard Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole - Cinquième Mouvement : Rondo - 1874 - Classical
Page 4 Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre op 40 - 1874 - Classical
Page 40 Georges Bizet - Carmen - Habanera - 1875 - Classical
Page 39 Gabriel Pierné - Sérénade op.7 - 1879 - Classical
Page 20 Charles-Marie Widor - Symphonie pour orgue n°5 - Toccata - 1879 - Classical
Page 6 Gabriel Fauré - Élégie pour violoncelle et piano, op 24 - 1880 - Classical
Page 7 Jacques Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann - Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour - 1881 - Classical
Page 11 Léo Delibes - Lakmé - Duo des fleurs - 1883 - Classical
Page 19 Emmanuel Chabrier - España - 1883 - Classical
Page 45 César Franck - Variations symphoniques pour piano et orchestre - 1885 - Classical
Page 30 Yvette Guilbert - Le fiacre - 1888
Page 3 Erik Satie - Gymnopédie n°3 - 1888 - Classical
Page 18 Vincent D'Indy - Tableaux de voyage op.33 - Le Glas - 1889 - Classical
Page 35 Erik Satie - Gnossienne n°1 - 1890 - Classical
Page 13 Ernest Chausson - Concert pour violon, piano et quatuor à cordes en Ré majeur op.21 - Sicilienne - 1892 - Classical
Page 37 Claude Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - 1894 - Classical
Page 4 Paul Dukas - L'apprenti sorcier - 1897 - Classical
Page 34 Louis Vierne - Messe solennelle - 1900- Classical
Page 19 Mado Robin - Frou-Frou - 1897
Page 23 Félix Mayol - Viens, Poupoule ! - 1902
Page 28 Jules Massenet - Thaïs - Méditation - 1903 - Classical
Page 3 Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque - Clair de lune - 1905 - Classical
Page 46 Camille Saint-Saëns - L’Assassinat du duc de Guise - 1908 - OST
Page 43 Albert Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée - 1912 - Classical
Page 45 Reynaldo Hahn - À Chloris - 1913 - Classical
Page 28 Bach - La caissière du Grand Café - 1914
Page 13 Mistinguett - Mon Homme - 1916
Page 22 Lili Boulanger - Vieille prière bouddhique - 1917 - Classical
Page 10 Léo Daniderff - Je cherche après Titine - 1917
Page 46 Darius Milhaud - Le bœuf sur le toit - 1919-20 - Classical
Page 31 Louis Lynel - Nuit de Chine - 1922
Page 40 Joseph Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne - Baïlèro - 1923 - Classical
Page 22 Arthur Honegger - Pacific 231 - 1923 - Classical
Page 8 Darius Milhaud - La Création du monde op.81 - 1923 - Classical
Page 26 Charles Koechlin - Vers la voûte étoilée op. 129 - 1923-33 - Classical
Page 9 Berthe Sylva - Les roses blanches - 1925
Page 37 Yvonne George - J'ai pas su y faire ! - 1925
Page 46 Mistinguett - Ça, c'est Paris - 1926
Page 17 Jean Cras - Journal de Bord - 1927 - Partie III : Quart de 4 à 8 - Classical
Page 2 Maurice Ravel - Boléro - 1928 - Classical
Page 25 Georges Milton - Pouet Pouet - 1929
Page 7 Joséphine Baker - J'ai deux amours - 1930 
Page 3 Lucienne Boyer - Parlez-moi d'amour - 1930
Page 14 Louis Lynel - Ma Normandie - 1930
Page 31 Henri Garat - Avoir un bon copain - 1931
Page 46 Edgard Varèse - Ionisation - 129-1931 - Musique classique
Page 33 Reda Caire -Auprès de ma blonde - 1933
Page 41 Jacques Pills et Georges Tabet - Couchés dans le foin - 1933
Page 23 Pauline Carton - Sous les palétuviers - 1934
Page 24 Damia - La guinguette a fermé ses volets - 1934
Page 1 Gaston Ouvrard - Je ne suis pas bien portant - 1934
Page 18 Alibert - Le plus beau tango du monde - 1935
Page 37 Raymond Ventura - Tout va très bien madame la marquise - 1935
Page 26 Marie Dubas - Le tango stupéfiant - 1936
Page 27 Jean Gabin - Quand on s'promène au bord de l'eau - 1936
Page 21 Henry Garat - C'est un mauvais garçon - 1936
Page 6 Olivier Messiaen - Fête des belles eaux - 1937 - Classical
Page 3 Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli - Minor Swing - 1937 - Jazz
Page 8 Ray Ventura - Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux ? - 1937
Page 12 Fréhel - La Java Bleue - 1938
Page 26 Johnny Hess - Je suis swing - 1938 - Jazz
Page 18 Rina Ketty - J'attendrai - 1938
Page 2 Mireille et Jean Sablon - Puisque vous partez en voyage - 1938
Page 17 Fernandel - Félicie aussi ! - 1939
Page 35 Fréhel - La java bleue - 1939
Page 21 Jean Lumière - La valse au village - 1939
Page 31 Albert Préjean - Amusez-vous ! - 1939
Page 42 Lys Gauty - Les petits pavés - 1940
Page 18 GusViseur - Flambée Montalbanaise - 1940 - Jazz
Page 34 Django Reinhart - Nuages - 1940 - Jazz
Page 14 Léo Marjane - Je suis seule ce soir - 1941
Page 12 Anna Marly - Le chant des partisans - 1941
Page 28 Marie Bizet - Rythme et swing - 1942
Page 3 Lucienne Delyle - Mon amant de Saint-Jean - 1942
Page 2 Charles Trenet - Que Reste-t'il de nos amours ? - 1942
Page 20 Lina Margy - Ah ! Le petit vin blanc - 1943
Page 12 Anna Marly - La complainte du partisan - 1943
Page 46 Charles Trenet - Douce France - 1943
Page 40 Andrex - Y'a des zazous - 1944
Page 45 Nita Berger - Tchiou Tchiou - 1945
Page 43 Josette Daydé - Quand Betty fait boop - 1945
Page 4 Yves Montand - Les Feuilles Mortes - 1945
Page 8 Luis Mariano - La Belle de Cadix - 1945
Page 38 Lina Margy - Voulez-vous danser grand-mère ? - 1946
Page 29 Colette Mars - Le vent emporte ma chanson - 1946
Page 18 Tino Rossi - Petit papa Noël - 1946
Page 23 Fernand Sardou - Aujourd'hui peut-être - 1946
Page 35 Charles Trenet - La mer - 1946
Page 19 Henri Betti - C'est si bon - 1947
Page 29 Pierre Dudan - Clopin-Clopant - 1947
Page 14 Line Renaud - Ma cabane au Canada - 1947
Page 27 Jacqueline François - Mademoiselle de Paris - 1948
Page 44 Robert Marcy - File la laine - 1948
Page 24 Pierre Schaeffer - Cinq Etudes de bruits - 1948 - Classical & Electro
Page 12 Francis Lemarque - À Paris - 1949
Page 24 Francis Lemarque - Bal, petit bal - 1949
Page 33 Edith Piaf - Hymne à l'amour - 1949
Page 46 Pierre Schaeffer et Pierre Henry - Symphonie pour un homme seul - 1949 - Classical

Page 22 André Claveau - Domino - 1950
Page 3 Henri Salvador - Le loup, la biche et le chevalier (une chanson douce) - 1950
Page 11 Jean Bretonnière - Sous le ciel de Paris - 1951
Page 17 Mick Micheyl - Un gamin de Paris -1951
Page 39 Yves Montand - Les grands boulevards - 1951
Page 25 Marcel Mouloudji - Comme un p'tit coquelicot - 1951
Page 1 Brassens & Patachou - Maman, papa - 1952
Page 14 Georges Guetary - La route Fleurie - 1952
Page 33 Georges Brassens - La marine - 1953
Page 7 Maurice Chevalier - Dans la vie faut pas s'en faire - 1953
Page 13 Alain Romans - Quel temps fait-il à Paris - 1953 - OST & Jazz
Page 30 Marcel Landowski - Concerto pour ondes Martenot orchestre à cordes et percussions - 1954 - Classical
Page 13 Cora Vaucaire - La Complainte de la Butte - 1955
Page 9 Boris Vian - Je Bois - 1955
Page 17 René-Louis Lafforgue - Le poseur de rails - 1956
Page 1 Magali Noël - Fais-moi mal, Johnny - 1956
Page 46 Marcel Zanini - Dis-moi oui ou non - 1956
Page 46 Luis Mariano - Mexico - 1957 - OST
Page 25 Léo Arnaud - Bugler's Dream - 1958 - Classical
Page 36 Bourvil - La ballade Irlandaise - 1958
Page 19 Guy Béart - L'eau vive - 1958
Page 15 Anny Flore - Julie la rousse - 1958
Page 46 Patrice et Mario - Vénus - 1958
Page 45 Gilles Sala - Kalou - 1958
Page 45 Henri Salvador - La blouse du dentiste - 1958
Page 7 Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas - 1959
Page 21 Philippe Clay - L'accordéon - 1959
Page 43 Marius Constant - The Twilight Zone Theme - 1959 - OST/classical
Page 28 André Dassary - Adieu tristesse - 1959
Page 42 Serge Gainsbourg - L'eau à la bouche - 1959
Page 20 Roger Guérin - Discord - 1959 - Jazz
Page 45 Marie Mariterangi - Rai Tahiti roa - 1959
Page 22 Darío Moreno - Tout l'amour - 1959
Page 25 Georgette Plana - L'hirondelle du faubourg - 1959
Page 37 Simone Sandry - Les belles amourettes - 1959
Page 25 Michel Simon - Mémère - 1959

Page 41 Bob Azzam - Ya Mustapha - 1960
Page 1 Bourvil - C'était bien (au petit bal perdu) - 1960
Page 35 René Leibowitz - Marijuana, variations non sérieuses, Op. 54 - 1960 - Classical
Page 4 Juliette Gréco - Il n'y a plus d'après - 1960
Page 13 Gillian Hills - Zou bisou bisou - 1960
Page 23 André Hodeir - Jazz et Jazz - 1960 - Jazz
Page 6 Edith Piaf - Non, je ne regrette rien - 1960 
Page 29 Paul Blamar - Moin çé on maléré - 1961
Page 46 Les chaussettes noires - Daniela - 1961
Page 15 Les Double Six - Tickle Toe (Le racket et les balles) - 1961 - Jazz
Page 11 Zizi Jeanmaire - Mon truc en plumes - 1961
Page 45 Michel Labéguerie - Gaztedi berria - 1961
Page 39 Franck Pourcel - Chariot - 1961
Page 14 Marcel Amont - Un Mexicain - 1962
Page 18 Isabelle Aubret - Un premier amour - 1962
Page 36 Gilbert Bécaud - Et maintenant - 1962
Page 24 Leny Escudero - Pour une amourette - 1962
Page 27 Les Fantômes - Cafards - 1962
Page 12 Maurice Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 - OST
Page 19 Michel Magne - Mélodie en sous-sol - Palm Beach thème - 1962 - OST & Jazz
Page 35 Claude Nougaro - Le cinéma - 1962
Page 10 Francis Poulenc - Sonate pour clarinette, 2ème mouvement : Romanza - 1962 - Classical
Page 38 Henri Salvador - Syracuse - 1962
Page 4 Salvatore Adamo - Tombe la neige - 1963
Page 9 Alain Barrière - Elle était si jolie - 1963
Page 21 Patricia Carli - Demain, tu te maries - 1963
Page 6 Georges Delerue - Le Mépris - Camille - 1963 - OST
Page 24 Colette Dereal - La valse folle - 1963
Page 26 Alice Dona - C'est pas prudent - 1963
Page 22 Colette Magny - Melocoton - 1963
Page 46 Jeanne Moreau - J'ai la mémoire qui flanche - 1963
Page 42 Mouloudji - L'amour, l'amour, l'amour - 1963
Page 20 Les Mustangs - Drums - 1963
Page 9 Claude Nougaro - Cécile ma fille - 1963 
Page 11 Colette Renard - Les nuits d'une demoiselle - 1963
Page 9 Sheila - L'école est finie - 1963 
Page 7 Soeur Sourire - Dominique - 1963
Page 45 The Swingle Singers - Fugue in G minor -1963 - Jazz
Page 23 Hélène April - Je m'ennuie - 1964
Page 34 Charles Aznavour - Hier encore - 1964
Page 40 Alain Barrière - Ma vie - 1964
Page 2 Gilbert Bécaud - Nathalie - 1964
Page 46 Georges Brassens - Les copains d'abord - 1964
Page 33 Jacques Brel - Amsterdam - 1964
Page 20 Annie Cordy - Six roses - 1964
Page 12 Henri Dutilleux - Métaboles - 1964 - Classical
Page 4 Jean Ferrat - Que serais-je sans toi ? - 1964
Page 2 France Gall - Laisse tomber les filles - 1964
Page 32 Les Gam's - L'été reviendra - 1964
Page 34 Geneviève Grad - Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez - 1964
Page 36 Françoise Hardy - Mon amie la rose - 1964
Page 2 Françoise Hardy - La Nuit Est Sur La Ville - 1964
Page 34 Michel Legrand - Les parapluies de Cherbourg - Je ne pourrai jamais vivre sans toi - 1964 - OST
Page 30 Félix Marten - T'es moche - 1964
Page 3 Les Parisiennes - Il fait trop beau pour travailler - 1964
Page 25 Rachel - Le chant de mallory - 1964
Page 34 Sylvie Vartan - La plus belle pour aller danser - 1964
Page 43 Christophe - Aline - 1965
Page 29 François Deguelt - Le ciel, le soleil et la mer - 1965
Page 8 Antoine Duhamel - Pierrot Le Fou - Ferdinand - 1965 - OST
Page 22 Gribouille - Mathias - 1965
Page 45 Les Jaguars - Guitare Jet - 1965
Page 19 Chantal Kelly - Mon ami, mon chien - 1965
Page 27 Marjorie Noël - Dans le même wagon - 1965
Page 10 Les Problèmes - Non, je ne vois rien - 1965
Page 15 Annie Philippe - Tout finit à St. Tropez - 1965
Page 4 Régine - Les P'tits papiers - 1965
Page 5 Hervé Vilard - Capri, c'est fini - 1965
Page 5 Antoine - Les élucubrations - 1966
Page 24 Adèle - Je ne veux plus d'accordéon - 1966
Page 8 Michèle Arnaud - les papillons Noirs - 1966
Page 4 Hugues Aufray - Céline - 1966
Page 25 Pierre Barouh - A l'ombre de nous - 1966
Page 26 Les Bowlers - Il est trop tard - 1966
Page 39 Petula Clark - La gadoue - 1966
Page 29 Cléo - Et moi, et toi, et soie - 1966
Page 5 Pascal Danel - Les neiges du Kilimanjaro - 1966
Page 15 Chantal Goya - Si tu gagnes au flipper - 1966
Page 9 Francis Lai - Un homme et une femme - 1966 - OST 
Page 10 Les 5 Gentlemen - Si tu reviens chez moi - 1966
Page 14 Les Pros - Drugstore Midnight - 1966
Page 15 Long Chris - Névralgie Particulière - 1966
Page 3 Mireille Mathieu - Paris en colère - 1966
Page 16 Gilbert Safrani - Les gens s'en vont dans le ciel - 1966
Page 24 Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet - Manège - 1966 - Classical
Page 45 Les Sultans - Va t'en - 1966
Page 25 Les Troubadours - La ballade Polly Maggoo - 1966
Page 14 Zouzou - Il est parti comme il est venu - 1966
Page 10 Charles Aznavour - Emmenez-moi - 1967
Page 1 Brigitte Bardot - Harley Davidson - 1967
Page 22 Clothilde - Saperlipopette - 1967
Page 28 Évariste - Les pommes de lune - 1967
Page 35 Juliette Greco - Déshabillez-moi - 1967
Page 2 Pierre Henry - Psyché Rock - 1967 - Classical & Electro
Page 40 Anna Karina - Sous le soleil exactement - 1967 - OST
Page 16 Marie Laforêt - Mon amour, mon ami - 1967
Page 14 Christie Laume - Rouge Rouge - 1967
Page 30 Michel Legrand - Les demoiselles de Rochefort - Thème d'Andy - 1967 - OST
Page 38 Les fleurs de pavot - pourquoi l'amour à deux - 1967
Page 45 Les homards violets - Le clodo - 1967
Page 32 Charlotte Leslie - Les filles, c'est fait pour faire l'amour - 1967
Page 45 Nicoletta - Il est mort le soleil - 1967
Page 16 Christine Pilzer - Ah-Hem-Ho-Uh-Err - 1967
Page 21 Guy Skornik - Fire - 1967
Page 41 Marc Steckar - Spirit Sound (La Fille Et L'oiseau) - 1967 - Jazz
Page 4 Stella - Si vous connaissez quelque-chose de pire qu'un vampire, parlez m'en toujours, ça pourra peut-être me faire sourire - 1967
Page 46 Sullivan - Jen 'ai pas tout perdu - 1967
Page 7 Jacqueline Taïeb - 7 heures du matin - 1967
Page 10 Dominique Walter - Les petits boudins - 1967
Page 28 Arlette Zola - Deux garçons pour une fille - 1967
Page 2 Barbara - Du bout des lèvres - 1968
Page 18 Barbara - Mon enfance - 1968
Page 23 Richard de Bordeaux & Daniel Beretta - La drogue - 1968
Page 33 Georges Chelon - Nous on s'aime - 1968
Page 43 Gilles Dreu - Alouette - 1968
Page 1 Jacques Dutronc - Proverbes - 1968
Page 34 Jacques Dutronc - Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille - 1968
Page 37 Brigitte Fontaine - Il pleut - 1968
Page 4 Claude François - Comme d'habitude - 1968
Page 33 Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie & Clyde - 1968
Page 35 Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem pour un con - 1968
Page 8 Les Goths - Turn Over - 1968
Page 18 Sophie Makhno - Obsessions 68 - 1968
Page 46 Gérard Manset - Animal, on est mal - 1968
Page 5 Jean-François Michael - Adieu, jolie Candy - 1968
Page 33 The piranha' sounds - La turbie piranhienne - 1968
Page 1 Michel Polnareff - Le bal des Laze - 1968
Page 21 Jean-Claude Risset - Computer suite for little boy - 1968 - Classical
Page 21 Victoire Scott - Quatrième Dimension - 1968
Page 41 Sylvie Vartan - La Maritza - 1968
Page 18 Patrick Abrial - Fétiche - 1969
Page 18 Alec - L'étranger - 1969
Page 31 Les Apollos & la Danse Cosmique - Cosmonautic Blues - 1969
Page 13 Ronnie Bird - Sad Soul - 1969
Page 19 Jacques Charpentier - Pour le Kama Soutra - 1969 - Classical
Page 30 Le cœur - Un soleil assis dans la neige - 1969
Page 40 Le Cœur - Bye-Bye City - 1969
Page 40 Les Compagnons de la Chanson - Je reviens chez nous - 1969
Page 11 Pierre-Alain Dahan - Slowrama - 1969
Page 11 Mireille Darc - Hélicoptère - 1969
Page 20 Eric Demarsan - L'armée des ombres - Thème de Gerbier - 1969 - OST
Page 29 Dickens - Génocide - 1969
Page 19 Docdaïl - Aere Perennius - 1969
Page 31 Pierre Dutour - Tracking - 1969
Page 39 Léo Ferré - C'est extra - 1969
Page 3 Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime... moi non plus ! - 1969
Page 45 Jehan Jonas - Nocturnes - 1969
Page 32 Les Landles - Le monde est mort - 1969
Page 35 Boby Lapointe - Je suis né au Chili - 1969
Page 34 Jean-Pierre Lugan - Le petit proton soviétique - 1969
Page 19 Le Système Crapoutchik - L'horrible rêve - 1969
Page 22 Georges Garvarentz - Le temps des loups - OST - 1969
Page 6 Michel Legrand - Les moulins de mon coeur - 1969
Page 27 Michèle Mercier - Six-Huit - 1969
Page 9 Jean-Pierre Mirouze - Sexopolis - Thème - 1969 - OST
Page 4 Georges Moustaki - Le Métèque - 1969
Page 18 Jean-Claude Oliver - L'invité - 1969
Page 45 Orlane Paquin - Le train de 10h03 - 1969
Page 16 Roland Vincent - L.S.D. partie - 1969

Pagr 26 Ame Son - A coup de hache - 1970 - Jazz
Page 21 Jack Arel - Picture of Spring - 1970
Page 15 Baroque Jazz Trio - Zoma - 1970 - Jazz
Page 39 François Béranger - Tranche de vie - 1970
Page 31 Big Jullien and His All Star - Wake the monster - 1970 -Jazz
Page 14 Claude Bolling - Borsalino - Thème - 1970 - OST
Page 46 Mike Brant - Laisse-moi t'aimer - 1970
Page 7 François De Roubaix - Dernier Domicile Connu - 1970 - OST
Page 20 Jean-Pierre Ferland - Le chat du café des artistes - 1970
Page 37 Luc Ferrari - Presque rien n°1 (Le lever du jour au bord de la mer) - 1970 - Classical
Page 3 Jean-Jacques Perrey - E.V.A. - 1970 - Electro
Page 1 Boby Lapointe - Méli-Mélodie - 1970
Page 34 Philippe Sarde - Les choses de la vie - Thème - 1970 - OST
Page 32 Christine Sèvres - Tu es venu - 1970
Page 34 Stellius - What I'd like - 1970
Page 17 Triangle - Peut-être demain ? - 1970
Page 28 Michel Ypar - Encore - 1970
Page 9 Zanini - Tu veux ou tu veux pas ? - 1970
Page 27 Berenice - Alors Dieu châtia l'Homme - 1971
Page 3 Julien Clerc - Ce n'est rien - 1971
Page 8 Michel Delpech - Pour Un Flirt - 1971
Page 2 Léo Ferré - Avec le temps - 1971
Page 39 Gong - Fohat digs holes in space - 1971
Page 32 Léonie - En Alabama - 1971
Page 46 Gérard Palaprat - Pour la fin du monde - 1971
Page 14 Danyel Gérard - Butterfly - 1971
Page 9 Les Poppys - Non, non, rien n'a changé - 1971
Page 23 Raymond Lefèvre - JO - Générique - 1971 - OST
Page 28 Gilbert Montagné - The Fool - 1971
Page 2 Nicoletta - Mamy Blue - 1971
Page 2 Michel Polnareff - Qui A Tué Grand' Maman - 1971
Page 45 Alan Stivell - Tri Martolod - 1971
Page 22 Tac Poum Système - Asmodaï - 1971
Page 31 Yan Tregger - Sun Adoration - 1971
Page 36 Daniel Vangarde (Yamasuki) - AIEAOA - 1971
Page 23 Igor Wakhevitch - Materia Prima - 1971
Page 9 Dominique Blanc-Francard - Ailleurs/Icare - 1972
Page 20 Charles Dumont - Comme une fugue de Bach - 1972
Page 41 Jean-Noël Dupré - After Shave - 1972
Page 6 Michel Fugain - Une belle histoire - 1972
Page The Moving Gelatine Plates - The world of genius Hans – 1972
Page 31 Jane et Julie - Notre homme à moi - 1972
Page 3 Maxime Le Forestier - San Fransisco - 1972
Page 38 Maxime Le Forestier - Mon frère - 1972
Page 27 Philippe Nicaud - C'ex - 1972
Page 3 Les variations - Je suis juste un rock'n'roller - 1972
Page 20 Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Paix - 1972
Page 13 Véronique Sanson - Amoureuse - 1972 
Page 36 Véronique Sanson - Besoin de personne - 1972
Page 22 Ann Sorel - L'amour à plusieurs - 1972
Page 3 Jean-Claude Vannier - Les gardes volent au secours du roi - 1972
Page 46 Christian Zÿsset - Lento Misterioso - 1972 - Jazz
Page 45 Angelillo Et Hamel ‎– Je Veux Te Dire Une Chanson - 1973
Page 8 Philippe Besombes - La ville - 1973
Page 17 Vladimir Cosma - L'Affaire Crazy Capo - 1973 - OST
Page 46 Dalida (& Alain Delon) - Paroles, paroles... - 1973
Page 7 Diane Dufresne - J'ai Rencontré L'homme De Ma Vie - 1973
Page 25 Les Frères Jacques - La confiture - 1973
Page 2 Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage - 1973 - OST & Electro
Page 22 Pierre Groscolas - Lady Lay - 1973
Page 14 Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Hihache - 1973
Page 39 Marie Laforêt - Viens, viens - 1973
Page 15 Serge Lama - Je suis malade - 1973
Page 2 Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh - 1973/1989
Page 24 Tonio Rubio - Bass in action n°2 - 1973
Page 13 Stone et Charden - Made in Normandie - 1973
Page 11 The Peppers - Pepper Box - 1973 - Electro
Page 37 Pierre Bachelet - Emmanuelle - 1974 - OST
Page 37 Ange - Exode - 1974
Page 6 Areski Belkacem - C'est normal - 1974
Page 35 Bimbo Jet - El Bimbo - 1974
Page 2 Christophe - Les Mots Bleus - 1974 
Page 24 Marcel Dadi - Le derviche tourneur - 1974
Page 3 Dalida - Il venait d'avoir 18 ans - 1974
Page 26 Bernard Estardy - Gang Train - 1974
Page 1 Nino Ferrer - Le sud - 1974
Page 3 Daniel Guichard - Mon vieux - 1974
Page 20 Jean-Claude Pelletier - Hello Streakers! - 1974
Page 42 Tiffanie - Des ombres au soleil - 1974
Page 33 Atoll - L'araignée-Mal - 1975
Page 46 Claude Bolling - Baroque and Blue - 1975 - Jazz/classica
Page 20 Joe Dassin - L'été indien - 1975
Page 39 Joe Dassin - Et si tu n'existais pas - 1975
Page 18 Cortex - La rue - 1975 - Jazz
Page 36 Bernard Fèvre - Molecule Dance - 1975 - Electro
Page 17 Gérard Grisey - Partiels - 1975 - Classical
Page 18 Harlem pop Trotters - Penwick - 1975
Page 20 Il était une fois - J'ai encore rêvé d'elle - 1975
Page 29 Teddy Lasry - Los Angeles - 1975
Page 13 Gérard Lenorman - La Ballade des gens heureux - 1975
Page 3 Gérard Manset - Il voyage en solitaire - 1975
Page 1 Jeanne Moreau - India Song - 1975
Page 11 Janko Nilovic - Drug Song - 1975
Page 36 Nicolas Peyrac - So far away from L.A. - 1975
Page 35 Nicolas Peyrac - Et mon père - 1975
Page 20 Pulsar - Pollen - 1975 - Electro
Page 8 Resonance - OK Chicago - 1975
Page 38 Philippe Sarde - Adieu Poulet - Générique de fin - 1975 - OST
Page 6 Jean Yanne - Chobizeness - Coït - 1975 - OST
Page 45 Eddie Warner - Come - 1975
Page 3 Jane Birkin - Ballade de Johnny Jane - 1976
Page 32 Cerrone - Love in C Minor - 1976
Page 24 Richard Clayderman - Ballade Pour Adeline - 1976
Page 43 Exile One - Rosita - 1976
Page 46 France Gall - La chanson d'une terrienne (partout, je suis chez moi) - 1976
Page 4 Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygène Part IV - 1976 - Electro
Page 16 Michel Colombier - L'Alpagueur - Main Theme - 1976 - OST
Page 30 Dick Rivers - Faire un pont - 1976
Page 3 Philippe Sarde - Le locataire - Main theme - 1976 - OST
Page 43 Mort Shuman - Allo Papa Tango Charlie - 1976
Page 13 The Droids - The Force - 1976 - Electro
Page 10 Wapassou - Messe en ré mineur - 1976
Page 23 Cerrone - Supernature - 1977
Page 6 Philippe Chatel - J't'aime bien Lili - 1977
Page 42 Jean-Pierre Decerf (Magical Ring) - Black Safari - 1977 - Electro
Page 12 Yves Duteil - Prendre un enfant - 1977
Page 42 Patrick Juvet - Où sont les femmes ? - 1977
Page 7 Little Bob Story - Riot in Toulouse - 1977
Page 40 Eddy Mitchell - La dernière séance - 1977
Page 28 Moon Birds - Cristal N°3 - 1977
Page 5 Marie Myriam - L'enfant et l'oiseau - 1977
Page 7 Plastic Bertrand - Ça plane pour moi - 1977
Page 39 Pierre Perret - Lily - 1977
Page 9 Jean-Luc Ponty - Mirage - 1977 - Jazz
Page 11 Zachary Richard - Travailler, c'est trop dur - 1977
Page 23 Yves Simon - Diabolo Menthe - 1977
Page 3 SpAce - Magic Fly - 1977 - Electro
Page 9 Space Art - Onyx - 1977 - Electro
Page 43 Voyage - From East to West - 1977
Page 43 Wapassou - Salammbô Part 2 - 1977
Page 16 A 3 Dans les WC - Contagion - 1978
Page 46 Daniel Balavoine - Le chanteur - 1978
Page 15 Black Devil - H-Friend - 1978 - Electro
Page 31 Bulldozer - J'suis punk - 1978
Page 41 Casino Music - Viol Af015 - 1978
Page 12 Louis Chédid - T'as beau pas être beau - 1978
Page 36 Claude François - Alexandrie Alexandre - 1978
Page 37 Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe 5 - 1978 - Electronique
Page 36 Mama Béa Tekieelski - Ballade pour un bébé robot - 1978
Page 16 Marie et les Garçons - Re-Bop - 1978
Page 8 Métal Urbain - Paris Maquis - 1978
Page 38 Frédéric Mercier - Spirit - 1978 - Electronic music
Page 12 Michel Sardou - Je vole - 1978
Page 28 Richard Vimal - Migrations - 1978
Page 30 Jean-Pierre Alarcen - Premier mouvement - 1979
Page 13 Cabrel - Je l'aime à mourir - 1979
Page 5 Jean-Patrick Capdevielle - Quand t'es dans le désert - 1979
Page 21 Eric Charden - L'été sera chaud - 1979
Page 16 Joël Fajerman - Flowers Love - 1979 - Electro & OST
Page 31 Philippe Guerre - Marche Blues - 1979 - Electro
Page 5 Patrick Hernandez - Born to be alive - 1979
Page 11 Jacques Higelin - Champagne - 1979
Page 29 Lio - Le Banana Split - 1979
Page 18 Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire - 1979
Page 45 Edith Nylon - Edith Nylon - 1979
Page 25 Les Olivensteins - Euthanasie - 1979
Page 12 Jacques Loussier - Pulsion - 1979 - Jazz
Page 31 Chris O'Hara - Sur les coussins de la discothèque - 1979
Page 1 Pierre Perret - Mon P'tit Loup - 1979
Page 45 Sauveur Mallia - 1979 - Musique Electronique
Page 31 Sheila B. Devotion - Spacer - 1979
Page 16 Stinky Toys - Birthday Party - 1979

Page 18 Abus Dangereux - Le Roy est Mort, Vive le Roy - 1980
Page 24 Cha Cha Guitri - 1981
Page 42 Bill Deraime - Faut que j'me tire ailleurs - 1980
Page 10 Elli & Jacno - Main dans la main - 1980
Page 31 Eskaton - Dagon - 1980
Page 6 Le Grand Orchestre du Splendid - La Salsa du démon - 1980
Page 38 Les Misérables - À la volonté du peuple - 1980
Page 8 Mathématiques Modernes - Disco Rough - 1980
Page 9 Modern Guy - Electrique Sylvie - 1980
Page 15 Tristan Murail - Gondwana - 1980 - Classical & Electro
Page 34 Nini Raviolette - Suis-je normale ? - 1980
Page 12 Ottawan - T'es OK - 1980
Page 15 Suicide Roméo - Suicide Roméo - 1980
Page 1 Taxi Girl - Cherchez le garçon - 1980
Page 2 Trust - Antisocial - 1980
Page 18 Pierre Boulez - Répons - 1981 - Classical & Electro
Page 22 Comix - Touche pas mon sexe - 1981
Page 5 Patrick Coutin - J'aime regarder les filles - 1981
Page 2 Charlélie Couture - Comme un avion sans aile - 1981
Page 31 Charles de Goal - Exposition - 1981
Page 5 Hervé Cristiani - Il est libre Max - 1981 
Page 17 Guerre Froide - Demain Berlin - 1981
Page 15 La Souris Déglinguée - Rock'N'Roll Vengance - 1981
Page 4 Marquis de Sade - Wanda's Loving Boy - 1981
Page 39 Marquis de Sade - Cancer and Drugs - 1981
Page 2 Renaud - Manu - 1981
Page 37 Michel Sardou - Les lacs du Connemara - 1981
Page 5 Jean Schultheis - Confidence pour confidence - 1981
Page 29 TGV - T.G.V. (Très Grande Vitesse) Partie 1 - 1981
Page 22 Ti Céleste - Testaman - 1981
Page 45 Warning - Tel que tu l'imaginais - 1981
Page 5 Chagrin d'Amour - Chacun fait c'qui lui plaît - 1982
Page 8 Gérard Blanchard - Rockamadour - 1982
Page 32 Renaud Gagneux - Requiem - Introitus et Kyrie - 1982 - Classical
Page 21 Ici Paris - Allo le monde... - 1982
Page 11 Kas Product - Never Come Back - 1982
Page 46 Rose Laurens - Africa - 1982
Page 17 Les Forbans - Chante - 1982
Page 1 Richard Gotainer - La ballade de l'obsédé - 1982
Page 3 Indochine - L'aventurier - 1982
Page 32 Guy Marchand - Destinée - 1982
Page 42 Marie France - Je ne me quitterai jamais - 1982
Page 40 Vox Dei - Terroriste - 1982
Page 46 Warning - Rock City - 1982
Page 16 Act. - Ping pong - 1983
Page 6 Isabelle Adjani - Pull Marine - 1983 
Page 13 Axel Bauer - Cargo - 1983
Page 36 Michel Berger - Diego, libre dans sa tête - 1983
Page 30 Deux - Game and performance - 1983
Page 31 Catherine Lara - Le rockeuse de diamants - 1983
Page 24 Malavoi - Caressé mwen - 1983
Page 17 Jakie Quartz - Mise au point - 1983
Page 28 Regrets - Je ne veux pas rentrer chez moi seule - 1983
Page 36 Guy Reibel - Suite pour Edgar Poe - 1983 - Classical
Page 24 François Tusques - Le Musichien - 1983 - Jazz
Page 45 Castelhemis - La guerre des regards -1984
Page 30 Complot Bronswick - I know The Power of words - 1984
Page 27 Die Form - Masochist - 1984
Page 25 Cookie Dingler - Femme libérée - 1984
Page 13 Martin Dupont - Just Because - 1984
Page 27 Ice - La grande guerre - 1984
Page 29 Moon Ray - Comanchero - 1984
Page 9 Paul Personne - Barjoland - 1984
Page 34 Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baila - 1984
Page 42 Les Stagiaires - Charles-Hubert - 1984
Page 17 Téléphone - Un autre monde - 1984
Page 18 Daniel Balavoine - Tous les cris, les S.O.S. - 1985
Page 3 Bérurier Noir - Le renard - 1985
Page 5 Bibie - Tout doucement - 1985
Page 45 Louis Chédid - Anne, ma sœur Anne - 1985
Page 26 Etienne Daho - Tombé pour la France - 1985
Page 3 Jean-Jacques Goldman - Je te donne - 1985
Page 31 Johnny Hallyday - Quelque chose de Tennessee - 1985
Page 41 Indochine - 3e sexe - 1985
Page 19 Les Visiteurs Du Soir - Je t'écris d'un pays - 1985
Page 3 Michel Jonasz - La boîte de Jazz - 1985
Page 16 Marc Lavoine - Les yeux revolver - 1985
Page 41 Cecil Leuter - Sad moments - 1985 - Electro
Page 12 Message - Dernière nuit - 1985
Page 21 Partenaire Particulier - Partenaire Particulier - 1985
Page 32 Renaud - Mistral Gagnant - 1985
Page 10 Ruth - Polaroïd/Roman/Photo - 1985
Page 14 Marc Seberg - L'éclaircie - 1985
Pgae 43 Mike Serbee - Song For Denise (Piano Fantasia) - 1985
Page 23 Laurent Voulzy - Belle-Île-en-Mer, Marie-Galante - 1985
Page 14 Buzy - Body Physical - 1986
Page 47 Alain Chamfort - Traces de toi - 1986
Page 31 Corynne Charby - Boule de flipper - 1986
Page 36 L'enfance Eternelle - Violet Winter - 1986
Page 37 Ettika - Ettika - 1986
Page 22 Gold - Ville de lumière - 1986
Page 29 Allain Leprest - Y'a rien qui s'passe - 1986
Page 26 License IV - Viens boire un p'tit coup à la maison - 1986
Page 5 Caroline Loeb - C'est la Ouate - 1986
Page 37 Jeanne Mas - En rouge et noir - 1986
Page 30 Sabine Paturel - Les bêtises - 1986
Page 13 Jean-Claude Petit - Jean de Florette - Theme - 1986 - OST
Page 12 Julie Pietri - Ève lève-toi - 1986
Page 35 Pijon - Cache cache party - 1986
Page 7 Stephanie de Monaco - Ouragan - 1986
Page 2 Mylène Farmer - Libertine - 1986
Page 4 La Compagnie Créole - Ca fait rire les oiseaux - 1986
Page 19 Francis Lalanne - On se retrouvera - 1986
Page 19 Les Ablettes - Jackie s'en fout - 1986
Page 10 Images - Les démons de minuit - 1986
Page 6 Elli Medeiros - Toi mon toit - 1986
Page 28 Ludwig Von 88 - Bière et punk - 1986
Page 46 Opéra de Nuit - Invitation - 1986
Page 14 Parabellum - Cayenne - 1986
Page 35 Philippe Russo - Magie noire - 1986
Page 25 Trisomie 21 - The last song - 1986
Page 20 Arnold Turboust - Adelaïde - 1986
Page 19 À Caus' des Garçons - À Cause des Garçons - 1987
Page 17 Anyway - Face au monde - 1987
Page 26 Art Zoyd - Baboon's Blood - 1987
Page 4 Jean-Louis Aubert - Les plages - 1987
Page 16 Louis Bertignac - Ces idées-là - 1987
Page 5 Desireless - Voyage Voyage - 1987
Page 37 Martin Dupont - Inside Out - 1987
Page 36 Mylène Farmer - Sans contrefaçon - 1987
Page 31 France Gall - Ella, elle l'a - 1987
Page 46 Félix Gray - La gitane - 1987
Page 33 Jean-Jacques Goldman - Là-bas - 1987
Page 9 Patricia Kaas - Mademoiselle chante le blues - 1987
Page 20 Les Calamités - Vélomoteur - 1987
Page 16 Eddy Louiss - Blues for Klook - 1987 - Jazz
Page 45 Philippe Manoury - Jupiter for flute and live electronics, op. 15a - 1987 - Classical
Page 20 Eric Morena - Oh ! Mon bateau - 1987
Page 37 Vanessa Paradis - Joe le taxi - 1987
Page 4 Guesch Patti - Etienne - 1987
Page 23 Michel Portal - Mozambic - 1987 - Jazz
Page 33 Raft - Yaka Dansé - 1987
Page 39 Isabelle Antena - Le poisson des mers du sud - 1988 - Jazz
Page 16 Début de Soirée - Nuit de folie - 1988
Page 35 Dédé Saint-Prix - Mi sé sa - 1988
Page 34 Richard Desjardins - Les Yankees - 1988
Page 46 Excès nocturne - Le soleil s'est noyé - 1988
Page 9 Les Garçons Bouchers - Carnivore - 1988
Page 12 Gipsy King - Djobi Djoba - 1988
Page 35 Jacques Higelin - Tombé du ciel - 1988
Page 45 I Muvrini - Dio Vi Salvi Regina - 1988
Page 28 Véronique Jannot - Aviateurs - 1988
Page 3 Bernard Lavilliers - On The Road Again - 1988
Page 12 Lightwave - Le Parvis - 1988 - Electro
Page 22 Mano Negra - Mala Vida - 1988
Page 1 Les Négresses Vertes - Voilà L'été - 1988 
Page 13 Norma Loy - Power of spirit - 1988
Page 6 Princess Erika - Trop de Bla-bla - 1988
Page 11 Eric Serra - Le grand bleu - Theme - 1988 - OST
Page 24 Soldat Louis - Du rhum, des femmes - 1988
Page 36 Alain Souchon - Quand je serai K.O. - 1988
Page 23 Tristan - Bonne bonne humeur ce matin - 1988
Page 41 Asylum Party - Play Alone - 1989
Page 39 Patrick Bruel - Place des grands hommes - 1989
Page 43 La compagnie créole - Le 14 juillet - 1989
Page 21 Dominic Sonic - When My Tears Run Cold - 1989
Page 15 Jad Wio - Ophélie - 1989
Page 23 Maurane - Toutes les mamas - 1989
Page 1 Richard Gotainer - Le Combat De Rock - 1989 
Page 3 Zouk Machine - Maldòn (La musique dans la peau) - 1989

Page 45 Benny B - Vous êtes fous ! - 1990
Page 21 Michel Berger - Le paradis blanc - 1990
Page 18 Elmer Food Beat - Daniela - 1990
Page 35 Jane Birkin - Love Fifteen - 1990
Page 7 Pauline Ester - Oui, je l'adore - 1990
Page 12 Liane Foly - Au fur et à mesure - 1990
Page 34 Les Freluquets - La débauche - 1990
Page 5 Thierry Hazard - Le Jerk - 1990
Page 39 Maurice Jarre - Ghost - 1990 - OST
Page 24 Little Nemo - L'heure d'hiver - 1990
Page 2 Niagara - J'ai Vu - 1990
Page 18 Vanessa Paradis - Tandem - 1990
Page 1 Pigalle - Dans la salle du bar tabac de la rue des Martyrs - 1990
Page 41 Juan Rozoff - Et alors ? - 1990
Page 17 Diane Tell - La légende de jimmy - 1990
Page 19 Joëlle Ursull - White & Black Blues - 1990
Page 25 Les Wampas - Petite fille - 1990
Page 39 Amina - Le dernier qui a parlé - 1991
Page 22 Assassin - Esclave de votre société - 1991
Page 4 Au P'tit Bonheur - J'Veux du Soleil - 1991
Page 19 Dany Brillant - Suzette - 1991
Page 27 Jil Caplan - Tout c'qui nous sépare - 1991
Page 9 Fédération Française de Funk - New Funk Génération - 1991
Page 24 Kent - Tous les mômes - 1991
Page 6 Les Inconnus - Auteuil, Neuilly, Passy - 1991
Page 14 Jean-Louis Murat - Col de la Croix-Morand - 1991
Page 1 Les Rita Mitsouko - Les Amants - 1991
Page 34 Yannick Noah - Saga Africa - 1991
Page 21 Peter Kitsch - Come On sur mon scoot - 1991
Page 30 Les Rats - Je m'emmerde - 1991
Page 38 RoBERT - Les jupes - 1991
Page 2 William Sheller - un Homme Heureux - 1991
Page 2 Mc Solaar - Bouge de là ! - 1991
Page 28 Caline Georgette - On danse - 1992
Page 18 Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby - 1992
Page 34 Noir Désir - Tostaky (Le continent) - 1992
Page 10 Les innocents - L'autre Finistère - 1992
Page 38 Stéphane Picq - Dune sountrack - Chani's Eyes - 1992 - VGST
Page 10 Pow Wow - Le Chat - 1992
Page 19 Regg'Lyss - Mets de l'huile - 1992
Page 27 Les VRP - Aujourd'hui, c'est dimanche - 1992
Page 2 L'affaire Louis Trio - Mobilis In Mobile - 1993 
Page 31 Âme strong S.A. - Tout est bleu - 1993 - Electro
Page 13 Billy Ze Kick - Mangez-moi ! Mangez-moi ! - 1993
Page 17 Alain Chamfort - L'ennemi dans la glace - 1993
Page 45 Jean-François Coen - La tour de Pise - 1993
Page 23 Pascal Comelade - Promenade des Schizophrenes - 1993
Page 24 Enzo Enzo - Juste quelqu'un de bien - 1993
Page 33 Loudblast - Cross the Threshold - 1993
Page 40 Mano Solo - Au creux de ton bras - 1993
Page 17 Axelle Red - Sensualité - 1993
Page 2 Alain Souchon - Foule Sentimentale - 1993 
Page 10 Les Thugs - As happy as possible - 1993
Page 7 Pierre Vassiliu - La vie ça va - 1993
Page 33 Alai Bashung - Ma petite entreprise - 1994
Page 38 Francis Cabrel - Je t'aimais, je t'aime et je t'aimerai - 1994
Page 13 Daran et les chaises - Dormir dehors - 1994
Page 7 Gérald De Palmas - Sur La Route - 1994
Page 2 IAM - Le Mia - 1994
Page 20 Lynda Lemay - Le plus fort, c'est mon père - 1994
Page 45 Mc Solaar - Nouveau Western - 1994
Page 15 Ministère A.M.E.R. - Plus vite que les balles - 1994
Page 43 Danyèl Waro - Batarsité - 1994
Page 15 Alliance Ethnik - Respect - 1995
Page 29 Arno - Les yeux de ma mère - 1995
Page 26 Blankass - La couleur des blés - 1995
Page 4 Dominique A - Le Twenty-Two bar - 1995
Page 38 Bernard Lavilliers - Melody Tempo Harmony - 1995
Page 38 Napoléon Magloire - Pwan pannié la - 1995
Page 24 Miossec - Non non non non - 1995
Page 21 Mütiilation - Born Under the Master’s Spell - 1995
Page 11 Kat Onoma - La Chambre - 1995
Page 26 Silmarils - Cours vite ! - 1995
Page 2 Suprême NTM - Paris sous les bombes - 1995 
Page 40 Les tétines noires - Têtes fard et lombrics - 1995
Page 43 Total Eclipse - Blade Runner - 1995
Page 46 Aston Villa - Raisonne -1996
Page 30 Blaszcyk et Les Electrolux - Pour vous Madame - 1996
Page 13 Diabologum - La Maman et la Putain - 1996
Page 5 Dimitri from Paris - Sacré Français - 1996 - Electro
Page 6 Doc Gynéco - Nirvana - 1996
Page 33 G-Squad - Aucune fille au monde - 1996
Page 4 Juliette - Rimes Féminines - 1996
Page 6 Khaled - Aïcha - 1996
Page 8 Valérie Lemercier - Goûte mes frites - 1996
Page 20 Philippe Léotard - Lonesome Piéton - 1996
Page 30 Nuttea - La weed brûle - 1996
Page 29 Manu le Malin - An old dream - 1996 - Electro
Page 14 Motorbass - Flying Fingers - 1996
Page 32 Sloy - Idolize - 1996
Page 46 Stomy Bugsy - Mon papa à moi est un gangster - 1996
Page 38 Michel Jonasz - Soul Music Airlines - 1996
Page 3 Yann Tiersen - J'suis jamais allé - 1996
Page 17 Tonton David - Chacun sa route - 1996
Page 8 Ophélie Winter - Dieu m'a donné la foi - 1996
Page 25 Gabriel Yared - The English Patient - Theme - 1996 - OST
Page 39 Akhenaton - Pousse au milieu des cactus, ma rancœur - 1997
Page 3 Daft Punk - Around The World - 1997 - Electro
Page 35 Daft Punk - Da Funk - 1997 - Electro
Page 21 Dolly - Je n'veux pas rester sage - 1997
Page 6 Era - Ameno - 1997
Page 21 Faudel - Tellement je t'aime - 1997
Page 12 Laurent Garnier - Crispy Bacon - 1997 - Electro
Page 38 Louise Attaque - Vous avez l'heure ? - 1997
Page 37 IAM - Petit frère - 1997
Page 10 La Tordue - lola - 1997
Page 20 Les Ogres de Barback - Rue de Panam - 1997
Page 1 Louise Attaque - J't'emmène au vent - 1997
Page 16 Massilia Sound System - Brûle ces papiers - 1997
Page 16 Ménélik - Je me souviens - 1997
Page 19 No One Is Innocent - Nomenklatura - 1997
Page 10 Florent Pagny - Savoir aimer - 1997
Page 46 Michel Petrucciani - Colors - 1997 - Jazz
Page 17 Rachid Taha - Ya Rayah - 1997
Page 12 Air - Sexy Boy - 1998 - Electro
Page 10 René Aubry - La Grande Cascade - 1998 - Classical
Page 25 Autour de Lucie - Sur tes pas - 1998
Page 45 Thomas Bangalter - Club Soda - 1998 - Electro
Page 5 Alain Bashung - La nuit je mens - 1998
Page 46 Cassiya - Séparation - 1998
Page 36 Richard Cocciante/Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou - Belle - Notre-Dame de Paris - 1998
Page 29 Marc Collin - Les Kid Nappeurs - Thème principal - 1998- OST
Page 27 Francis Dhomont - Je te salue, vieil océan ! - 1998 - Classical & Electronic
Page 37 Lara Fabian - Je t'aime - 1998
Page 8 Alex Gopher - The Child - 1998 - Electro
Page 10 Idéal J - Hardcore - 1998
Page 45 Kifondat - The Funk Hunt - 1998
Page 23 Manau - La tribu de Dana - 1998
Page 16 Matmatah - Lambé An Dro - 1998
Page 22 Roudoudou - Peace and Tranquility to Earth - 1998 - Electro
Page 23 Sinclair - Si c'est bon comme ça - 1998
Page 5 Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You - 1998 - Electro
Page 34 Suprême NTM - Ma Benz - 1998
Page 43 Tagada Jones - Plus de bruit - 1998
Page 32 Tryo - L'hymne de nos campagnes - 1998
Page 5 Zebda - Tomber le chemise - 1998
Page 37 Cassius - Cassius 1999 - 1999 - Electro
Page 32 Etienne Charry - Par ici la monnaie - 1999
Page 8 Thomas Fersen - La Chauve-Souris - 1999
Page 20 Laidy Laistee - Et si... ? - 1999
Page 15 Larusso - Tu m'oublieras - 1999
Page 41 Linda Lemay - Le plus fort, c'est mon père - 1999
Page 13 Lofofora - Les Gens - 1999
Page 35 -M- - Onde sensuelle - 1999
Page 25 Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction - 1999
Page 6 Mr Oizo - Flat Beat - 1999 - Electro
Page 7 Michel Petrucciani - Brazilian Like - 1999 - Jazz
Page 10 Saïan Supa Crew - Angela - 1999
Page 29 Damien Saez - Jeune et con - 1999
Page 37 Patrick Sébastien - Le petit bonhomme en mousse - 1999
Page 22 Hélène Ségara - Il y a trop de gens qui t'aiment - 1999
Page 38 Sergent Garcia - Acabar mal - 1999
Page 33 Svinkels - Réveille le punk - 1999
Page 12 Tahiti 80 - Heartbeat - 1999
Page 15 Erik Truffaz - Siegfried - 1999 - Jazz
Page 43 Zoxea - Rap, musique que j'aime ! - 1999

Page 42 Air - Playground Love - The Virgin Suicides OSt - Soundtrack - 2000
Page 6 Alizée - Moi... Lolita - 2000
Page 23 Françoiz Breut - Si tu disais - 2000
Page 41 Garou - Seul - 2000
Page 30 Grand Popo Football Club - Les hommes, c'est pas des mecs bien ! - 2000 - Electro
Page 20 Michel Houellebecq - Célibataires - 2000
Page 37 Java - Sex, accordéon et alcool - 2000
Page 41 Lunatic - Pas l'temps pour les regrets - 2000
Page 10 Mirways - Naïve Song - 2000 - Electro
Page 17 Modjo - Lady (Hear me tonight) - 2000 - Electro
Page 11 Nèg' Marrons - Le bilan - 2000
Page 15 Paris Combo - Living Room - 2000
Page 18 Pierpoljak - Maman - 2000
Page 14 St Germain - Rose rouge - 2000 - Electro & Jazz
Page 30 Carnival in Coal - Don't be happy, worry - 2001
Page 32 Le pélican frisé - Les cervelles sont cuites - 2001
Page 2 Etienne Daho et Dani - Comme un Boomerang - 2001
Page 6 Expérience - Aujourd'hui, maintenant - 2001
Page 1 Brigitte Fontaine et Noir Désir - Bis Baby Boum Boum - 2001
Page 13 Gotan Project - Santa Maria - 2001 - Electro
Page 40 High Tone - Bass température - 2001
Page 28 Manu Chao - Me gustas tu - 2001
Page 40 Meï Teï Shô - Chora Di Alma - 2001 - Jazz
Page 1 Noir Désir - Le vent nous portera - 2001
Page 20 The Supermen Lovers - Starlight - 2001 - Electro
Page 1 Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - Guichet 102 - 2001
Page 46 Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'un autre été : L'Après-midi - 2001 - OST
Page 46 Axelle Red & Renaud - Manhattan Kaboul - 2002
Page 33 Corneille - Parce qu'on vient de loin - 2002
Page 14 Eiffel - Tu vois loin - 2002
Page 2 Johnny Hallyday - Marie ! - 2002
Page 8 Le Peuple de l'Herbe - No Escape - 2002
Page 43 Pleymo - Tank club - 2002
Page 21 One T - The Magic Key - 2002
Page 10 Sanseverino - Mal ô mains - 2002
Page 41 Sylvain Vanot - Il fait soleil - 2002
Page 4 A.S. Dragon - Dirty - 2003
Page 43 Chimène Badi - Entre nous - 2003
Page 24 Stéphane Belmondo - Notre Père -2003 - Jazz
Page 12 Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un m'a dit - 2003
Page 18 Alexandre Desplat - Girl with a pearl earring - Griet's Theme - 2003 - OST
Page 8 Christophe Héral - Hyllian Suite - 2003 - VGST
Page 12 La Grande Sophie - Devenir grand (On savait) - 2003
Page 41 Kyo - Dernière danse - 2003
Page 16 Les Fatals Picards - Goldorak est mort - 2003
Page 2 M - Qui de nous deux ? - 2003
Page 24 Mc Jean-Gab'1 - Donjon - 2003
Page 5 Mickey 3D - Respire - 2003
Page 39 Jean-Jacques Milteau - Blue 3rd - 2003
Page 41 Nemo - La dernière vague - 2003
Page 43 Le Syndicat électronique - À l'intérieur - 2003 - Electro
Page 5 Tété - A la faveur de l'automne - 2003
Page 45 Tragédie - Hey Oh - 2003
Page 6 Keren Ann - La forme et le fond - 2004
Page 45 Bazbaz - Sur le bout de la langue - 2004
Page 30 Amel Bent - Ma philosophie - 2004
Page 23 Anorexia Nervosa - Sister September - 2004
Page 15 Bruno Coulais - Les Choristes - Vois sur ton chemin - 2004 - OST
Page 27 Daniel Darc - Je me souviens, je me rappelle - 2004
Page 9 Vincent Delerm - Fanny Ardant et Moi - 2004
Page 42 Steeve Estatof - 1977 - 2004
Page 39 Eths - Crucifère - 2004
Page 46 K.Maro - Femme Like U (Donne-moi ton corps) - 2004
Page 27 David Lafore - Un baiser, une bombe - 2004
Page 45 Paris Jazz Big Band - Le cyclopathe - 2004 - Jazz
Page 28 Kool Shen - Un ange dans le ciel - 2004
Page 11 La Rue Kétanou - Les hommes que j'aime - 2004
Page 24 Luke - La sentinelle - 2004
Page 42 Bernard Parmegiani - Espèces d'espace - 2004 - Electro
Page 17 Passi - Face à la mer (feat Calogero) - 2004
Page 12 Sinsémilia - Tout le bonheur du monde - 2004
Page 34 Uncommonmenfrommars - You can be evil - 2004
Page 15 Bénabar - Le Dîner - 2005
Pgae 29 Mathieu Boogaerts - Une bonne nouvelle - 2005
Page 3 Camille - Ta Douleur - 2005
Page 25 Clarika - Ne me demande pas - 2005
Page 40 Pauline Croze - T'es beau - 2005
Page 25 Hocus Pocus - Hip-Hop ? - 2005
Page 22 Justin(e) - Parle moi - 2005
Page 33 L'Oeuf Raide - Stange 50's - 2005 - Electro
Page 4 Philippe Katerine - Louxor J'adore - 2005
Page 10 Raphaël - Caravane - 2005
Page 6 Olivia Ruiz - J'traîne des pieds - 2005
Page 26 Smooth - Smooth - 2005 - Electro
Page Martin Solveig - Rejection - 2005 - Electro
Page 46 Stupeflip - Stup monastère - 2005
Page 41 Ti Raoul - man fwansiné - 2005
Page 13 Ulan Bator - Pensées Massacre - 2005
Page 14 Vitalic - My friend Dario - 2005 - Electro
Page 19 Wax Tailor - Our Dance - 2005 - Electro
Page 7 AaRON - U Turn (Lili) - 2006
Page 23 Babx - Crack Maniac - 2006
Page 17 Bob Sinclar - Rock this party (Everybody dance now) - 2006 - Electro
Page 9 Jeanne Cherhal - Voilà - 2006
Page 20 Debout sur le zinc - La déclaration - 2006
Page 30 Diam's - La boulette - 2006
Page 15 Dj Mehdi - Signatune - 2006 - Electro
Page 16 Richard Galliano - Tango pour Claude - 2006 - Jazz
Page 14 Pierre Guimard - Stéphanie - 2006
Page 21 I Love UFO - Like In The Movies - 2006
Page 5 Kamini - Marly-Gomont - 2006
Page 12 Kaolin - Partons vite - 2006
Page 29 Emily Loizeau - Je suis jalouse - 2006
Page 22 Les Shades - Electrique - 2006
Page 5 Renan Luce - La lettre - 2006
Page 9 Mademoiselle K - Ça me vexe - 2006
Page 32 Para One - Dudun dun - 2006 - Electro
Page 25 Adrienne Pauly - J'veux un mec - 2006
Page 13 Rinôçérôse - Cubicle - 2006
Page 3 Emilie Simon - Le vieil amant - 2006 - Electro
Page 43 Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde - 2007
Page 38 AqME - Karma & Nicotine - 2007
Page 13 Cocoon - On my way - 2007
Page 45 Jacques Coursil - Frantz Fanon 1952 - 2007 - Jazz
Page 22 Pauline Croze - Baiser d'adieu - 2007
Page 33 Dionysos - Le jour le plus froid du monde - 2007
Page 19 Fatal Bazooka - J'aime trop ton boule - 2007
Page 34 Fatal Bazooka - Fous ta cagoule - 2007
Page 44 Etienne Daho - L'adorer - 2007
Page 11 Jil Is Lucky - The Wanderer - 2007
Page 45 Lifelike - So Electric - 2007 - Electro
Page 14 Moriarty - Jimmy - 2007
Page 11 Naast - Mauvais Garçon - 2007
Page 33 Panda Dub - Rastamachine - 2007 - Electro
Page 17 Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle - Sing Sing - 2007
Page 28 Les Ramoneurs de menhirs - Dañs Gwadek 1 - 2007
Page 21 Yelle - Ce jeu - 2007
Page 41 Alain Bashung - Tant de nuits - 2008
Page 37 Blackrain - Innocent Rosie - 2008
Page 43 Danakil - Marley - 2008
Page 22 DiscoBitch - C'est beau la bourgeoisie - 2008 - Electro
Page 7 Julien Doré - Les limites - 2008
Page 3 EZ3kiel - Adamantium - 2008 - Electro
Page 16 Grand Corps Malade - Je viens de là - 2008
Page 43 Odezenne - Le plus beau cul du monde - 2008
Page 41 Position Parallèle - Tes lèvres - 2008
Page 37 Sébastien Tellier - Roche - 2008
Page 45 Abd Al Malik - C'Est Du Lourd! - 2008
Page 1 Anaïs - Mon coeur, mon amour - 2009
Page 2 Benjamin Biolay - Brandt Rhapsodie - 2009
Page 45 Bikini Machine - Où vont les cons ? - 2009
Page 1 BB Brunes - Lalalove you - 2009
Page 21 Birdy Nam Nam - The Parachute Ending - 2009 - Electro
Page 10 Chapelier Fou - Darling, Darling, Darling - 2009 - Electro
Page 7 Coeur de Pirate - Comme des enfants - 2009
Page 11 Diving With Andy - Sugar Sugar - 2009
Page 38 Helmut Fritz - Ça m'énerve - 2009
Page 15 Magnetix - Mort Clinique - 2009
Page 19 Daniel Mille - Fin d'été - 2009 - Jazz
Page 26 The Parisians - Time for nothing more - 2009
Page 30 Phoenix - Lisztomania - 2009
Page 8 Plastiscines - Barcelona - 2009
Page 8 Pony Pony Run Run - Hey You - 2009
Page 7 Oxmo Puccino - Soleil du Nord - 2009
Page 27 PZK - Les filles adorent - 2009
Page 42 La Secte Phonétik - Bienvenue dans la secte - 2009
Page 45 Sliimy - Wake Up - 2009
Page 19 Yodelice - Sunday with a flu - 2009

Page 5 Ben L'Oncle Soul - Soulman - 2010
Page 31 Breakbot - Baby I'm yours - 2010 - Electro
Page 11 Cassius - I love you so - 2010 - Electro
Page 32 Les Ennuis Commencent - La belle saison - 2010
Page 38 Les sales majestés - Soi pauvre et tais-toi ! - 2010
Page 40 Electro Deluxe - Let's go to work - 2010
Page 8 Arnaud Fleurent-Didier - France Culture - 2010
Page 12 Camélia Jordana - Calamity Jane - 2010
Page 4 Kavinsky - Nightcall - 2010 - Electro
Page 36 Murmuüre - Murmuüre - 2010
Page 14 Al'Tarba - Pain Killers - 2011
Page 46 Daniel Saez - j'accuse - 2010
Page 4 Arthur H - Cheval de Feu - 2011
Page Nina Attal - Run Away - 2011 - Jazz
Page 22 Ludovic Bource - The Artist - Main Theme - 2011 - OST
Page 3 Cascadeur - Walker - 2011
Page 31 Michel Cloup (Duo) - Le cercle parfait - 2011
Page 13 Déportivo - Ivres et débutants - 2011
Page 6 M83 - Midnight City - 2011 - Electro
Page 18 Ibrahim Maalouf - Beirut - 2011 - Jazz
Page 17 Izïa Higelin - So much trouble - 2011
Page 21 Le Sacre du Tympan - Plurabella's walk - 2011
Page 19 Oldelaf - La Tristitude - 2011
Page 2 Orelsan - Suicide Social - 2011
Page 18 SebastiAn - Embody - 2011 - Electro
Page 36 Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - La ruelle des morts - 2011
Page 28 Tiwony - Mon continent - 2011
Page 16 Arne Vinzon - Lente dépression - 2011
Page 23 Aline - Je bois, et puis je danse - 2012
Page 38 Arlt - Le périscope - 2012
Page 11 Bertrand Burgalat - Bardot's Dance - 2012
Page 9 C2C - Down The Road - 2012 - Electro
Page 8 Barbara Carlotti - L'amour, l'argent, le vent - 2012
Page 21 Cobra - Nihilistes - 2012
Page 19 Andy Emler - Good Games - 2012 - Jazz
Page 16 Gojira - L'enfant sauvage - 2012
Page 15 Klub Des loobers - Volutes - 2012
Page 24 Lescop - La forêt - 2012
Page 33 Bruno Mantovani - Jeux d'eau - 2012 - Classical
Page 27 Zoufris Maracas - Et ta mère - 2012
Page 33 Renart - Au matin, la mort de l'astre - 2012 - Electro
Page 21 Philippe Rombi - Dans la maison - Theme - 2012 - OST
Page 28 Rone - Bye Bye Macadam - 2012 - Electro
Page 9 Rover - Aqualast - 2012
Page 33 Skip The Use - Ghost - 2012
Page 1 Sébastien Tellier - Cochon Ville - 2012
Page 29 Margaux Avril - C'était la nuit - 2013
Page 39 Chassol - Odissi - 2013
Page 32 Cliché - Hélicon - 2013
Page 22 Jabberwocky - Photomaton - 2013 - Electro
Page 15 Jérôme Echenoz - Le chrome et le coton - 2013
Page 46 Éléphant - Collective mon amour - 2013
Page 10 Fauve ≠ - Blizzard - 2013
Page 40 Gesaffelstein - Pursuit - 2013 - Electro
Page 25 La Belle Bleue - Les elephants du Morimondo - 2013
Page 13 La Femme - Sur la planche 2013 - 2013
Page 16 Indila - Dernière Danse - 2013
Page 29 Kaaris - Zoo - 2013
Page 32 Laurent Lamarca - Taxi - 2013
Page 32 La Maison Tellier - Sur un volcan - 2013
Page 27 Thierry Maillard Trio - La côte sauvage - 2013 - Jazz
Page 7 Mendelson - D'un coup - 2013
Page 1 Moodoïd - De Folie Pure - 2013
Page 29 Necrowretch - Putrid Death Sorcery - 2013
Page 27 Oiseaux-Tempête - Ouroboros - 2013
Page 9 Petit Fantôme - Peio - 2013 - Electro
Page 46 Éric Tanguy - Stabat Mater - 2013 - Classical
Page 27 Talisco - The Keys - 2013
Page 36 Tagada Jones - De l'Amour & Du Sang - 2013
Page 27 Woodkid - Iron - 2013
Page 4 Zaz - On ira ! - 2013
Page 32 Daniel Zimmermann - Flying Pachydermes - 2013 - Jazz
Page 26 Black M - Sur ma route - 2014
Page 31 Brigitte - A bouche que veux-tu - 2014
Page 38 Calogero - Le portrait - 2014
Page 15 Christine and The Queens - Christine - 2014
Page 20 Dabeull - TR 707 - 2014 - Electro
Page 31 Leïla Huissoud - Le bistrot - 2014
Page 29 Etienne Jaumet - La visite - 2014 - Electro & Jazz
Page 6 Dorian Pimpernel - OVLAR E - 2014
Page 25 Emile Parisien - Hysm - 2014 - Jazz
Page 30 La Féline - Adieu l'enfance - 2014
Page 15 Forever Pavot - Les cigognes nénuphars - 2014
Page 23 Adrien Gallo - Monokini - 2014
Page 21 Marina Kaye - Homeless - 2014
Page 27 MOOON - Neptune - 2014 - Electro
Page 19 Mustang - Le sens des affaires - 2014
Page 46 Karim Ouellet - Rien ne sert de courir - 2014
Page 10 Shaka ponk - Story O' my LF - 2014
Page 11 Lilly Wood & The Prick - Prayer in C - 2014
Page 8 Kid Francescoli - Blow Up - 2014
Page 10 Charles Pasi - Better with butter - 2014 - Jazz
Page 34 Tiwony Ft. Typical Féfé, Straïka D - Avec Du Love - 2014
Page 14 The Avener - Fade Out Lines - 2014 - Electro
Page 32 Cléa Vincent - Château perdu - 2014
Page 28 Armand Amar - Human - The storm - 2015 - OST
Page 24 Bertrand Belin - Le mot juste (Le beau geste) - 2015
Page 36 Flavien Berger - La fête noire - 2015
Page 19 Jac Berrocal - Solaris - 2015 - Jazz
Page 42 Caravan Palace - Lone Digger - 2015 - Electro-Jazz
Page 30 L'impératrice - Vanille Fraise - 2015
Page 23 Jain - Come - 2015
Page 27 Marvin Jouno - Quitte à me quitter - 2015
Page 20 Feu! Chatterton - La Malinche - 2015
Page 28 Jacques - Tout est magnifique - 2015 - Electro
Page 34 Jean Tonique - Near You - 2015 - Electro
Page 14 Bastien Lallemant - Un million d'années - 2015
Page 18 Bachar Mar-Khalifé - Kyrie Eleison - 2015
Page 40 Pierre de Bethmann Trio - Indifference - 2015 - Jazz
Page 42 Pharaon De Winter - Pointillisme - 2015
Page 36 J.C.Satàn - Waiting For You - 2015
Page 39 L.E.J - La dalle - 2015
Page 35 Natural Snow Buildings - Sun Tower - 2015
Page 31 Ofenbach - Be mine - 2016
Page 35 Pneu - Catadioptre Ambidextre - 2015
Page 30 Maître Gims - Sapé comme jamais - 2015
Page 32 Lisa Urt - La voix du bonheur - 2015 - Jazz
Page 30 Agar Agar - Prettiest Virgin - 2016
Page 23 Juliette Armanet - Manque d'amour - 2016
Page 35 Calypso Valois - Le jour - 2016
Page 35 Dionysos - Guerrier de porcelaine - 2016
Page 24 Facteurs Chevaux - Les dames de pluie - 2016
Page 30 Hadouk Trio - Le matin du Faune - 2016 - Jazz
Page 25 Kery James - Racailles - 2016
Page 45 La Femme - Où va le monde ? - 2016
Page 37 Loïs Le Van - Redwood Meadow - 2016 - Jazz
Page 31 The Limiñanas - Prisunic - 2016
Page 46 Nyaouly-in - Une nuit étoilée - 2016
Page 25 Guillaume Perret - Heavy Dance - 2016 - Jazz & Electro
Page 33 PNL - DA - 2016
Page 28 Séverin - Contrôle ta samba - 2016
Page 26 Sidabitball - JellyFish - 2016 - Electro
Page 33 Sidilarsen - Spread It - 2016
Page 42 Samy Thiébault - Rebirth - 2016 - Jazz
Page 41 uKanDanz - Tchuhetén Betsèmu - 2016 - Jazz
Page 39 Apollo Noir - P.4.R.1.5 - 2017 - Electronic
Page 41 Arcane - L'incendie - 2017
Page 34 Bigflo & Oli - Dommage - 2017
Page 45 Pierre Desprats - Procès - Les garçons sauvages - OST - 2017
Page 30 Les discrets - Le reproche - 2017
Page 30 Eddy de Pretto - Fête de trop - 2017
Page 34 Fishbach - Un autre que moi - 2017
Page 35 Charlotte Gainsbourg - Kate - 2017
Page 36 Jessica93 - Anti cafard 2000 - 2017
Page 32 Christophe Julien - Au revoir là-haut - Bon voyage, soldat Maillard - 2017 - OST
Page 32 Madame Guillotine - Cao Bang - 2017
Page 39 Songhoy Blues - Bamako - 2017
Page 36 Toufic Farroukh - Villes invisibles - 2017 - Jazz
Page 38 Tony Paeleman - Zadar - 2017 - Jazz
Page 36 Polo & Pan - Coeur croisé - 2017 - Electro
Page 41 Ultra Vomit - Evier Métal - 2017
Page 38 ALT 236 - Three Thousand levels - 2018 - Electro
Page 42 Baloji - Soleil de volt - 2018
Page 42 Bisou de Saddam - Printemps noir - 2018
Page 37 Brace! Brace! - I'm a Jelly - 2018
Page 43 Cadillac - Game Over - 2018
Page 45 Olivier Calmel - Les mondes de Lovecraft, Suite Fantastique pour orchestre - 2018 - Classical
Page 38 Cannibale - Not Easy To Cook - 2018
Page 45 DJ Snake - Magenta Riddim - 2018
Page 32 Johnny Hallyday - J'en parlerai au diable - 2018
Page 33 Arnaud Le Gouëfflec - La Faveur de la nuit - 2018
Page 35 Lomepal - Trop beau - 2018
Page 41 Clara Luciani - La grenade - 2018
Page 32 Aya Nakamura - Djadja - 2018
Page 40 Trois cafés gourmands - À nos souvenirs - 2018
Page 42 Voyou - Seul sur ton tandem - 2018
Page 41 Balladur - Kuda Lumping - 2019
Page 39 L'Épée - Springfield 61 - 2019
Page 37 Les Frangines - Si j'osais - 2019
Page 35 Le Superhomard - Paper Girl - 2019
Page 37 Le Villejuif Underground - I'm Sorry JC - 2019
Page 37 Lorenzo - Damdamdeo - 2019
Page 46 Marie-Flore - QCC - 2019
Page 38 Tiwayo - Wild- 2019
Page 40 Vald, Journal perso II - 2019

Page 45 Catastrophe - Encore - 2020
Page 45 Lafawndah - Le malentendu - 2020
Page 43 Roméo Elvis - Chaud - 2020
Page 42 Sages comme des sauvages - Luxe Misère - 2020
Page 43 Suzane - L'insatisfait - 2020
Page 45 Fabio Viscogliosi - Odyssée - 2020
Page 46 Dobet Gnahoré - Lève-toi - 2021
Page 45 Hoshi - J'te pardonne - 2021
Page 46 Clara Luciani - Respire encore - 2021
Page 47 Les Frangines - Notes - 2022

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Zombie Zombie - Consortium - 2022 - Electro
Progressive Electronic, Krautrock

Album: Vae Vobis

Wikipédia (DeepL translate)
Zombie Zombie is a French electronic music band. It was formed in 2006 from the meeting between Étienne Jaumet, saxophonist of The Married Monk, and Cosmic Néman, Herman Düne's drummer.

In 2006, while working together regularly at the Mains d'œuvres studio in Saint-Ouen1, Étienne Jaumet, then saxophonist for the rock band The Married Monk, and Cosmic Néman, who plays drums for the folk-rock combo Herman Düne, decided to form the duo Zombie Zombie, a name chosen in reference to horror films but also to Fela Kuti's song. At the end of the year, they publish a first eponymous EP on the small Parisian label Boomboomtchak, before quickly signing on Versatile, then starting a tour in the United Kingdom.

A first album soon followed. A Land for Renegades was released in August 2008, with the singles Driving this Road Until Death Sets You Free and Dog Walker. Néman provides vocals as well as drums, and Jaumet adds to his saxophone an array of synthesizers (most of them are analog). The result is a kind of modern krautrock, made of hypnotic, dark and psychedelic loops and repetitive rhythms. At the end of 2009, they were invited by the Cité de la Musique in Paris to perform a cine-concert around Battleship Potemkin, and, satisfied by the experience, they reproduced it in different places.

The palpable influence of horror movies in Zombie Zombie's music finds its culmination in the fall of 2010 with the release of the EP Zombie Zombie Plays John Carpenter, produced by Joakim. Already celebrated in the video for Driving this Road Until Death Sets You Free, which parodied The Thing with toy figurines, the American director receives here an even greater homage, with covers of themes borrowed from his films New York 1997, Los Angeles 2013, Assault, Halloween and again The Thing. The tour that accompanies the release of the record culminates in May 2011 at the Cartier Foundation, where the band plays with Alan Howarth, who was responsible for the majority of Carpenter's film scores. This is not the first time the duo has teamed up with an artist they like for a concert: in September 2010, they had already shared the stage with jazz saxophonist Sonny Simmons as part of the Jazz à la Villette festival at the Cabaret Sauvage.
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Pow Wow - Devenir Cheyenne - 1992
Chanson, a capella

Album: Regagner les plaines (RYM: 3,30/5)

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Pow Wow (sometimes typified Pow woW) is a French group, performing mainly a cappella quartets inspired by doo-wop and which had a great success in the 1990s.

Between 1980 and 1985, Alain Chennevière and Pascal Periz recorded an album, a 45 T EP and three singles, under the name of Les Alligators.

In October 1990, they founded Pow Wow, composed at the time of Alain Chennevière, Ahmed Mouici, Pascal Periz and Bertrand Pierre, and began rehearsals in several clubs in Paris (including Le Palace). With only a percussionist, they interpreted songs a cappella with four voices.

In 1997 the group split up. Each member pursues a solo career while continuing to see each other.

David Mignonneau joined the group when it reformed in 2005, replacing Bertrand Pierre. The group released an album, Chanter, and continued to tour throughout France.

In 2016, on the occasion of the French tour of Top 50, Partez en Live, which brings together several groups and artists of the years 1980-1990, Alain Chennevière, Pascal Periz and Bertrand Pierre are accompanied by Laura Mayne, from the duo of Native.

Moho Chemlakh, guitarist, also collaborated as an arranger and conductor for the instrumental part in the 1990s.

Ce chant de guerre qui monte sur la ville
Comme une prière à la lune qui brille
Rappelle à ceux qui dorment derrière les grilles
Qu'on peut toujours même si c'est pas facile

Devenir Cheyenne
Combattre quand même
Devenir Cheyenne
Regagner les plaines

Je veux te prendre au feu de mes tortures
Je veux te faire comprendre tout ce que j'endure
Je veux t'apprendre les signes, les peintures
Qui protègent mieux que toutes les armures

Devenir Cheyenne
Combattre quand même
Devenir Cheyenne
Regagner les plaines

Tu peux aussi quand la vie te malmène
Pousser le cri et devenir Cheyenne
Oublie les plumes, oublie les mocassins
Pas besoin de costume pour devenir indien

Devenir Cheyenne
Combattre quand même
Devenir Cheyenne
Regagner les plaines
Combattre quand même
Et briser ses chaînes
Devenir Cheyenne

This war song that rises in the city
Like a prayer to the shining moon1
Call back those who sleep behind the railings
We always can2even if it’s not easy

Become Cheyenne
Fight anyway
Become Cheyenne
Win back the plains

I want to take you to the fire of my torments
I want to make you understand all that I endure
I want to teach you the signs, the paintings
That protect better than all armour

Become Cheyenne
Fight anyway
Become Cheyenne
Win back the plains

You also can when life mistreats you
Raise the cry and become Cheyenne
Forget the feathers, forget the mocassins3
You don’t need a costume to become Indian

Become Cheyenne
Fight anyway
Become Cheyenne
Win back the plains
Fight anyway
And break their chains
Become Cheyenne

1.lit. the moon that shines
2.you could also say ‘we are able to’ (it’s a bit easier to understand, but I thought I’d include the shorter version)
3.a traditional Native American shoe
Thanks to Rachel Thompson on LyricsTranslate.
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Jean-Baptiste Barrière - Sonate pour violoncelle et basse continue No. 1 en Si Mineur, Livre I : Adagio - Andante - 1733- Classical


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Jean-Baptiste Barrière (2 May 1707 – 6 June 1747) was a French cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris, at 40 years.

Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of viol sonatas. In due course however he became a skilled cellist during a period when the cello was gaining popularity over the viol in France, and later came to completely replace it, as indeed had already happened in Italy some 40 years prior. He became one of the best known virtuoso cellists of his time.

In 1731 he went to Paris, and entered the Académie Royale de Musique (also known as the Opera), with an annual salary of 445 livres. He was accorded special privileges by King Louis XV at Fontainebleau, on 22 October 1733 for six years, to compose and publish several sonatas and other instrumental works. One of his most famous pupils was the Count of Guergorlay, Seigneur of Trousily. After his first book Livre I - Sonates pour violoncelle et basse continue was a success, in November 1733, he published a second edition of it in 1740. His second book, Livre II, was published around 1735.

He went to Italy in 1736 to study with the well-known Italian cellist Francesco Alborea, known as Franciscello, who during that time seems to have also been employed in Vienna from 1726 until 1739. He undertook a further long tour in Italy in April 1737 and returned to Paris in summer of 1738, to appear at the renowned Concert Spirituel on 15 August and 8 September where he impressed his audience with "grand precision", according to the local press. In 1739, a new 12-year privilege was granted to him at Versailles, and registered on 5 January 1740. In that year he published his Livre III, and other works followed suit the following year. He died at a relatively young age of 40 years, at the pinnacle of his creativity.

Whilst not well known to the general public today, Barrière was so renowned a few years after his death that Pierre-Louis Daquin de Chateau-Lyon did not hesitate to describe him as: the famous Barrière, deceased only recently, possessed all that one can desire...few could perform as well as he do.

His works are best known for their sensitivity and fine tonality, their emotional resonance and deep sonority. Several of his works are quite demanding in terms of technical performance, especially in terms of left and right hand coordination, and with complicated fingerings and frequent complex bowing techniques. Much subtlety is required to achieve virtuosity in the performance of several of his pieces, for while he assimilated elements of Italian style, there is also a rich French flavour in his musical discourse and its subtlety.
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ARLT - "Oh bagnole" - 2022
Avant-Folk, Chanson

Album: Turnetable (RYM: 3,15/5)

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Arlt is a French pop rock and folk band from Paris.
Duo composed of Eloise Decazes on vocals and Sing Sing also on vocals, but also on guitar, composition, and writing of all the albums of the group. They are frequently accompanied by Mocke, Thomas Bonvalet, Clément Vercelletto. In 2010, they released their album, La Langue, on the labels Almost Musique and Socadisc. Their first album also contains a traditional song, Je voudrais être mariée.... After two years without a new album, the band announced a follow-up to La Langue. "Next album almost written. But an album only written is not yet an album. You have to forget that it's written in the first place. We don't record a written album. We record an album that we have forgotten was written", they explain3. Called Feu la figure, the second album, was released in 2012, also on the Almost Musique label.

Later, in 2014, they released a third album, entitled Arlt et Thomas Bonvalet, still on the Almost Musique label. Regarding their label, which has supported them since their first album, Gonzaï magazine explains in its words, "Almost Musique is "almost music," because Benjamin Caschera and Benjamin Fain-Robert, the two founders of the label, multiply the activities with underground activities exposed to the open by these two former Differ-Ant." The following year, 2015, sees the release of their fourth album, Deableries.

In November 2019, after a four-year hiatus, the group released their new album, Soleil enculé, created by Sing Sing and Eloise Decazes, at that point a quartet. They release the video clip of the single Les Fleurs, directed with the dancer Madeleine Fournier. The album is published on the Objet Disque and Murailles Music labels, for the first time other than by the Almost Musique label.
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François De Roubaix - La Scoumoune - 1972 - OST

François de Roubaix (3 April 1939, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine – 22 November 1975, Tenerife, Canary Islands) was a French film score composer. In a decade, he created a musical style with new sounds, until his accidental death at 36.

Roubaix did not receive any formal education in music, but began studying jazz on his own at age 15, forming a band and learning trombone as an autodidact. His father, the Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul de Roubaix, who was a producer of the short film, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and the creator of educational films, offered to let François compose scores for the latter. François' first film score was for a 1961 film by Robert Enrico; through the late 1960s and early 1970s he scored films for Enrico, Jose Giovanni, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Pierre Mocky, and Yves Boisset.

Notable in his style is his use of folk elements, as well as electronic musical instruments such as synthesizers and early drum machines. He is thus seen as a precursor of the French electronic music. Roubaix had a home studio where he would overdub parts until he was satisfied with the result. He died in 1975 in a diving accident. In 1976, his score for Le Vieux Fusil was awarded a César Award.

La Scoumoune ("Bad luck") is a 1972 French film directed by José Giovanni, starring Jean Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale and Michel Constantin. It is an adaption of Giovanni's novel L'Excommunié.

La Scoumoune is a remake of a 1961 French movie, A Man Named Rocca, directed by Jean Becker, also based on Giovanni's novel and starring Belmondo in the same part.
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Les Haricots Rouges - Le vieux tacot - 1964 - Jazz
Jazz Nouvelle-Orléans, Dixieland

Wikipédia:
Les Haricots rouges is a French New Orleans and Dixieland jazz band.

As of 2011, they have sold over one million albums worldwide in their fifty-year career (two million with cassettes and vinyl), and celebrated their fifty years of existence in 2013, including the release of a new album, French Melodies. Their latest album, released in 2020, Meilleurs espoirs masculins, revisits the most famous film scores.

Les Haricots rouges, from the same Rodin high school in Paris, made their appearance on the jazz scene in 1963. The group, initially composed of Daniel Barda (trombone), Claude Fontaine (banjo), Pierre Jean (piano), Gilbert Leroux (drums and washboard), Alain Poisson (banjo), Jean-François Rabre (bass), Marc Richard (cornet), and Gérard Tarquin (clarinet), performed in concert in outfits of red jackets and cream pants, and recorded numerous singles, studio albums, and live performances.

In France, they became a "cult band" that added humorous and satirical gags to jazz and achieved great popularity in the late 1960s by performing at the Olympia in Paris, where they opened for the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jacques Brel and many others. During the 1970s, they also gave club concerts with American guests at the Caveau de la Huchette.

Perhaps the group's most notable performance was during the intermission of the 1966 Eurovision Grand Prix de la Chanson in Luxembourg. There they performed two Dixieland songs, including a washboard solo. In Germany, they were often invited to appear on television, for example at the Musikantenstadl (Eurovision) and performed in front of up to 8,000 spectators at the Dixielandfestival in Dresden.

A "50th anniversary album", French Melodies, was released in 2013 by Frémeaux et Associés. In 2021, they will return to their home department of the Cévennes to play at the Jazzoparc.
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Déportivo - La brise - 2007
Album: Déportivo (RYM: 2,78/5)

Allmusic:
Déportivo are a French alternative rock band whose 2004 debut album was well received critically. Founded in Bois-d'Arcy, a commune in Yvelines, Île-de-France, the band is a power trio comprised of Jérôme Coudane (guitar, vocals), Richard Magnac (bass), and Julien Bonnet (drums).
Déportivo made their recording debut in 2004 on the Parisian independent label La Village Vert with the maxi-single La Salade, followed shortly thereafter by the full-length album Parmi Eux. Though Parmi Eux wasn't a major commercial success initially, positive word of mouth spread over the months following its release, and consequently the album began climbing up the French albums chart. In addition to the release of a couple singles ("Roma," "À l'Avance"), Parmi Eux was repackaged with bonus material and reissued in February 2005, at which point the album peaked at number 90 on the French albums chart.
For their self-titled follow-up album, Déportivo collaborated with producer Gordon Raphael, celebrated for his work on the Strokes' Is This It (2001). Released in 2007 in association with Universal Music France, the eponymous album reached the Top 30 of the French albums chart and spawned the single "La Brise." While lacking the surprise of the band's debut effort, Déportivo was similarly well received from a critical standpoint.
Allez rejoins moi dans la brise
On pourra baiser et faire n'importe quoi
Allez rejoins moi dans la brise
Sans la lumière est-ce que c'est mieux?
Je sais pas, je sais pas
Chéri dis moi quand est-ce qu'on rentre
Et si ya plus rien qui nous tente
oh Je sais pas, oh je sais
On a eu mieux que du chagrin
On rentre, on rentre

Quand les jours scintillants auront virés en peine
Qu'il nous faudra rentrer chez nous
Comme ça en titubant
Je me souviendrais des beaux jours
Des roses et des lumières
Et toi qui célèbrais la vie, la nuit toute entière

[Refrain]
Allez rejoins moi dans la brise
On pourra baiser et faire n'importe quoi
Allez rejoins moi dans la briiise
Sans la lumière est-ce que c'est mieux?
Je sais pas, je sais pas
Chéri dis moi quand est-ce qu'on rentre
Et si ya plus rien qui nous tente
oh Je sais pas, oh je sais
On a eu mieux que du chagrin
On rentre, on rentre

Quand nos âmes auront repris leur vol à l'horizon
Qu'on aura chanté du Brassens à l'unisson
Je srais resté pour un seul Toi
Je t'aime bien.
Madit celle là jte l'ai volée
Mais c'est la fin, allez
Mais c'est la fin
Comment te dire...c'est fini
Mais c'est la fin mon ami

Go to join me in the breeze
We can kiss and do anything
Go to join me in the breeze
Without the light is better?
I don't know, I don't know
Darling, tell me, when do we go
And, if there is anything that tempts us
Oh, I don't know, oh, I know
It was better than grief
We go, we go

When the glittering days will collect in pain
That we will go home
As it staggers
I will remember the beautiful days
The roses and the lights
And you, who celebrates life, the whole night

[Chorus]
Go to join me in the breeze
We can kiss and do anything
Go to join me in the breeze
Without the light is better?
I don't know, I don't know
Darling, tell me, when do we go
And, if there is anything that tempts us
Oh, I don't know, oh, I know
It was better than grief
We go, we go

When our souls have taken their flight on the horizon
We will sing Brassens in unison
I will stay for only one, you
I like you.
Madit(?) this one I will have stolen
But it's the end, go
But it is the end
How to tell you... It's over
But it is the end, my friend

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Louis Philippe - L'hiver te va bien - 1994
Baroque Pop, Chamber Pop, Sunshine Pop

Album: Sunshine (RYM: 3,71/5)

Wikipédia:
Philippe Auclair (24 June 1959), also known by his moniker Louis Philippe, is a French singer-songwriter, musician, news correspondent and football journalist who has been active from the mid-1980s onwards. He is associated with the short-lived él record label, where he served as an in-house writer and producer.

Born in Normandy and raised on a fruit farm, Philippe first recorded for Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscle, under the names "The Border Boys" (the Tribute 12-inch EP, produced by Andy Paley, who had worked with The Ramones and the Modern Lovers previously), and 'The Arcadians' (one single and one album, It's a Mad, Mad World, 1986, later re-released on a variety of labels as Let's Pretend). On the advice of A&R man Mike Alway, Louis Philippe moved to London in late 1986, and soon became one of the major figures of cult indie label él Records (1986–1989), a subsidiary of Cherry Red Records for which he recorded five singles and three albums (Appointment With Venus, 1987; Ivory Tower, 1988; Yuri Gagarin, 1989). He also appeared in one guise or another — as songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist or instrumentalist — on more than half of all the label's releases. él, now considered to be one of the most influential labels of its time, was, however, not a commercial success in the UK; but it scored a string of independent hits in Japan, where Louis Philippe (whose "You Mary You" was él's best-selling single) became an iconic figure for the so-called Shibuya-kei, or 'Shibuya Sound'.

Following the demise of él in 1989, he turned to Japan to pursue his career, with the support of celebrity fans such as Cornelius. A number of albums followed, all of them released on the Trattoria label: Rainfall, 1991; Jean Renoir, 1992, both of them recorded with multi-instrumentalist Dean Brodrick; Delta Kiss, 1993; Sunshine, produced by Bertrand Burgalat, 1994; Jackie Girl, 1996, the first of his records to feature XTC guitarist Dave Gregory; Azure, recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and Nusch, a collection of Francis Poulenc mélodies, 1999. All these albums were conceived and realised with the help of long-time collaborator, pianist and double-bassist Danny Manners. Trattoria's help enabled him to find licenses for these records, first in France, Britain and Spain, then in the US. These critically well-received records consolidated his "cult" status in the indiepop world; a couple of them charted: "L'Hiver te va bien" reached the Top 30 in France in 1994, while "She Means Everything To Me" reached the no.1 spot on the Campus Radio Charts in the US in 1998, following an appearance at New York's CMJ Music Marathon.

Louis Philippe has enjoyed a parallel career as an arranger, producer and instrumentalist since the late 1980s. The artists he has worked with or for include Valérie Lemercier, April March, P. J. Proby, Martin Newell, Sean O'Hagan of The High Llamas, Mathilde Santing, Towa Tei, Nina Morato, Cinnamon, Humbert Humbert, Laïla Amezian, La Buena Vida, The Clientele, Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka (contributing to the arranged soundtrack for the Famicom video game Mother in 1989.),[5] Big Big Train (the albums English Electric Part One and English Electric Part Two), Ralegh Long, Bertrand Burgalat and others. A collaboration of note was the album 9th & 13th (Tricatel, 2001), in which he teamed up with Danny Manners and novelist Jonathan Coe, to produce musical settings for the latter's writings. Jonathan Coe, who had contributed the sleevenotes to Azure, and had used a verse of his song "Yuri Gagarin" as an epigraph for his best-seller What a Carve Up!, has also written a number of lyrics for him since My Favourite Part of You (2002).

Louis Philippe has worked with Young Marble Giants leader Stuart Moxham since the 1990s; the duo have played a number of live dates and released a CD, The Huddle House, in 2007. That CD was released on Auclair's own record label, Wonder Records, in London. Louis arranged and co-produced Louise Le May's debut CD Tell Me One Thing That is New (Folkwit Records) in 2010 and completed the same singer's debut album in April 2015. Releases include My Favourite Part of You (2002) and The Wonder of it All (2004). A live double-album was released in February 2007, followed by a new studio album, entitled An Unknown Spring, in May of the same year. The Ocean Tango, conceived and recorded with Swedish band Testbild!, was released in the autumn of 2010. Another duo album with Stuart Moxham, The Devil Laughs, was released in July 2020 on the Chicago-based tinyGLOBAL Solutions label. His new solo album, Thunderclouds, recorded with The Night Mail, a band which comprises Robert Rotifer, Ian Button and Andy Lewis was released on Tapete Records in December 2020.
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Mano Negra - Out Of Time Man - 1991
Alternative Rock, Latin Alternative

Album: King Of Bongo (RYM: 3,45/5)

Wikipédia:
Mano Negra (complete Spanish name: La Mano Negra, sometimes abbreviated to La Mano in France) was a French music group active from 1987 to 1994 and fronted by Manu Chao. The group was founded in Paris by Chao, his brother Antoine and their cousin Santiago, all born of Galician and Basque parents with partly Cuban roots. Their songs were mostly in Spanish, English and French, often switching from one language to the other in the same song or in the middle of a sentence or title (e.g. "Puta's Fever"). They also had a hit song in Arabic. They are considered pioneers of world fusion.

Mano Negra incorporated an impressive array of musical styles: punk rock, folk, flamenco, ska, salsa, French chanson, hip hop, raï, rockabilly, reggae and African rhythms. They also made frequent use of samples of everyday sounds, electronica and experimental post-production techniques. This omnivorous approach, based on absorption and combination of a broad range of styles and sounds, was termed patchanka by the group (literally "patchwork", and the name of their first album). Taking Paris by storm in the winter of 1988–9, Mano Negra was touring the world by the following spring, achieving mainstream success in most of Europe and South America and recording a live album in Japan. However, their embrace by the English-speaking world remained limited. "Mala Vida" (1988, later covered by Gogol Bordello), "King Kong Five" (1990), "Out of Time Man" (1991) and "The Monkey" (1994) are among their most famous songs.

The group earned a cult following through its eclectic sound and festive performances. After the release of their highly anticipated second album, Mano Negra famously declined to play the major Paris venues and toured only the cabarets of Pigalle instead (in accordance with the theme of the album, Puta's Fever i.e. "whore's fever"), sometimes ending their sets with illegal street performances. In 1992 they celebrated the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage with a Latin American tour completed on a cargo ship in which a street of Nantes had been recreated. ("[H]aving transported a street of Paris [sic] across the Atlantic is a marvel [una maravilla]", commented Gabriel García Márquez who visited the attraction.) It included a performance at the Earth Summit where they were joined on stage by Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys.

Their last and most exploratory album, Casa Babylon (1994), was released right before the band's split. The band was signed up to play at Stockholm Vattenfestival, summer 1994, however, its fans received the news about the cancellation and subsequent split of the band right before the concert.

Frontman Manu Chao went on to have a successful solo career, bringing some of Casa Babylon's songs to the stage with his group Radio Bemba Sound System. Mano Negra is now considered a cult band and still spreads their spirit to multiple acts around the world.

I'm walkin' out for love
I'm walkin' bad really down
Like a cool breeze
I'm gonna be late again
Driver, wait for me please!
I'm runnin' all in vain
Tryin' to catch
This fuckin' train
Time don't fool me no more
And I throw my watch to the floor
It's so lazy
Time don't do it again
Now I'm stressed and strained
With anger and pain
In the subway train
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendezvous
Now it's half past three
Time made a foul out of me
Now it's half past four
Oh baby can't you see
No use in waiting no more
It's a timing tragedy
I think it's nine
When clock says ten
This girl wouldn't wait
For the out of time
Out of time man
Time don't fool me no more
And I throw my watch to the floor
It's so lazy
Time don't do it again
Now I'm stressed and strained
With anger and pain
In the subway train
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendezvous
Now it's half past three
Time made a foul out of me
Now it's half past four
Oh baby can't you see
No use in waiting no more
It's a timing tragedy
I think it's nine
When clock says ten
This girl wouldn't wait
For the out of time
Out of time man
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendezvous
Now it's half past three
Time made a foul out of me
Now it's half past four
Oh baby can't you see
No use in waiting no more
It's a timing tragedy
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendezvous
Now it's half past three
Time made a foul out of me
Now it's half past four
Oh baby can't you see
No use in waiting no more
It's a timing tragedy
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendezvous
Now it's half past three
Time made a foul out of me
Now it's half past four
Oh baby can't you see
No use in waiting no more
It's a timing tragedy
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendezvous
Now it's half past three
Time made a foul out of me
Now it's half past four
Oh baby can't you see
No use in waiting no more
It's a timing tragedy
Now it's half past two
Long gone the rendezvous
Now it's half past three
Time made a foul out of me
Now it's half past four
Oh baby can't you see
No use in waiting no more
It's a timing tragedy
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Romain wrote: Mon Jan 09, 2023 5:23 pm Louis Philippe - L'hiver te va bien - 1994
I listened to the song before reading the summary, and it occurred to me that it sounded a bit like old J-pop. Sure enough...
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ProjectTermina wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 3:54 pm
Romain wrote: Mon Jan 09, 2023 5:23 pm Louis Philippe - L'hiver te va bien - 1994
I listened to the song before reading the summary, and it occurred to me that it sounded a bit like old J-pop. Sure enough...
I'm glad to see that people are interested here. Thanks for your comment :-) :greetings-waveyellow:
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Téléphone - Ça c'est vraiment toi -1982
Rock, Power Pop, Pop Rock, Hard Rock, Jangle Pop

Album: Dure limite (RYM: 3,47/5)

Allmusic:
Téléphone Biography by Jason Ankeny
Telephone fused the swagger and energy of hard rock with the urban aggression of punk to emerge as the most admired and influential French band of the post-student revolt era. Their roots lie in Sémolina, an unheralded trio formed in late 1975 by singer/guitarist Jean-Louis Aubert, bassist Daniel Roux, and drummer Richard Kolinka. When their lone WEA single, "Et J'y Vais Déjà," vanished upon its mid-1976 release, Sémolina quickly split; Aubert and Kolinka remained roommates, however, frequently jamming in the cellar of their Paris home.

In late autumn of 1976, Kolinka secured a gig at Paris' American Centre, but when his regular band was unable to commit to the date, he and Aubert recruited Louis Bertignac, a gifted guitarist previously known for supporting singer Jacques Higelin, and bassist Corine Marienneau to assemble a set list comprised of classic rock hits and Aubert's first original compositions. On November 12, Telephone made their debut performance, playing a largely improvised set to a few hundred patrons; loud, snotty, and defiantly primitive, the band effectively reinvigorated French rock in one fell swoop. Though by no means the classic frontman, Aubert nevertheless transcended his limits as a vocalist and guitarist with sheer aggressive energy, becoming the poster boy for a new generation of French rock icons, while Bertignac's raw, electrifying guitar solos evoked antecedents from Keith Richards to Jimmy Page.

After a famously raucous March 1977 appearance at the Paris Metro, Telephone toured in support of British act Eddie & the Hot Rods, followed by a date opening for the seminal American band Television. A June 8th performance at Paris' Bus Palladium yielded Telephone's debut single, "Hygiaphone." Six weeks later, the quartet signed to Pathé-Marconi, teaming with producer Mike Thorne for its self-titled debut LP, issued in November. Telephone supported the album's release with their first headlining tour, culminating in a free show at Paris' Pantin racecourse. With their 1979 sophomore effort, Crache Ton Venin, Telephone rocketed to superstardom -- the single "La Bombe Humaine" emerged as a generational anthem, and the album sold in excess of 600,000 copies, capped off by a performance at the annual Fête de l'Humanité in front of an audience of more than 100,000 people. Tours of Italy, Spain, and North America followed, and while in New York, Telephone began work on their third album, 1981's Au Coeur de la Nuit, which generated the smash single "Argent Trop Cher." The quartet returned home in time for the premiere of Telephone Public, a documentary feature directed by Jean-Marie Périer, previously known as the longtime photographer for the pop magazine Salut les Copaines.

With their contractual obligations to Pathé complete, Telephone leveraged their enormous popularity to negotiate a lucrative new deal with Virgin. Highlighted by the single "Ce Soir Est Ce Soir," their fourth album, Dure Limite, hit stores in conjunction with their June 14, 1982, Paris concert in support of the Rolling Stones. During the headlining tour that followed, Bertignac broke his collarbone in a fall, but Telephone still played the majority of dates, culminating in a sold-out three-night stand at the Paris Hippodrome. But creative dissension began to grow, and breakup rumors reached a fever pitch in the wake of 1984's Un Autre Monde, as all four members of Telephone began to pursue solo projects; while Aubert contributed to an Ethiopian benefit LP recorded by the all-star Chanteurs sans Frontiéres, Marienneau wrote music for the Luc Besson film Subway, and Kolinka founded his own label, Kod.

Finally, in April 1986 Aubert announced the band's demise -- a subsequent live LP proved a bestseller around the same time he and Kolinka reunited with Sémolina bassist Daniel Roux under the name Aubert 'n' Ko, releasing the funk-inspired album Platre et Ciment in 1987, while Bertignac and Marienneau formed Les Visiteurs. With Kolinka still in tow, Aubert began his solo career in earnest with 1989's Bleu Blanc Vert, while Bertignac launched his post-Visiteurs career with 1993's Tony Visconti-produced Elle et Louis. Only Marienneau left the music business, focusing instead on theater.

Dure Limite Review by Dave Thompson (Allmusic)
French post-punk rockers Telephone's third album passed by all but unnoticed outside of their native land, but actually racks up as their strongest album ever. That a characteristically vast Bob Ezrin production plays its own part in that is, of course, inevitable. But, even without the deep canyons of sonic bruising that he layered in, Dure Limite has a clean-kicking rock sound that kicks in with the opening title track and never lets up. Masters of the light-and-shade technique that would dominate the "alternative rock" scene of a decade later, Telephone eschew all the gimmicks that scarred so many of their contemporaries' albums, aiming instead for (and this is Ezrin territory again) a fiery brew of melodic lead guitars, purposeful harmonies, and basslines like bedsprings. The party vibe of "Ça (C'Est Vraiment Toi)," the savage riffola of "Le Temps," and, finally, the unalloyed epic fantasies of the closing "Ce Soir Est Ce Soir" all pinpoint Dure Limite among the most dynamic albums of its age, a universal storm that falters in just one department -- the band's (admittedly admirable) insistence on recording their lyrics in French. It's hard to sing along if you don't know what the words mean!

Quelque chose en toi
ne tourne pas rond,
un je ne sais quoi
qui me laisse con.
Quelque chose en toi
ne tourne pas rond,
mais autour de moi,
tout tourne si rond.

Des balles doum doum
aux roues des bagnoles
au rythme tchouc tchouc
du train des Batignolles,
au murmure de la ville,
au matin des nuits folles,
rien ne t'affole.

Et j'aime encore mieux ça !
Oui, je préfère ça !
Oui, j'aime encore mieux ça
car c'est vraiment toi !
Et rien d'autre que toi,
non rien d'autre que toi,
que toi !
Non rien d'autre que...

Quelque chose en toi
ne tourne pas rond.
Mais dans tes pattes en rond
moi, je fais ron-ron.
Quelque chose en toi
ne tourne pas rond.
Mais autour de moi
toi, tu fais un rond.

Et les balles doum doum
aux roues des bagnoles,
et la vie des saints
et leurs auréoles,
le murmure de la ville
et de ses machines molles,
rien ne t'affole.

Et j'aime encore mieux ça.
Ouh, je préfère ça.
Oui, j'aime encore mieux ça.
J'aime encore mieux ça.
J'adore ça.
Car ça, c'est vraiment toi.
Oui oui ça, c'est vraiment toi.

(Attention les gars)
Ça (Ça) C'est vraiment toi.
Non non non ça (ça), c'est vraiment toi.
Ça se sent.
Ça (ça) c'est vraiment toi.
Ça (ça) Ça se sent, ça se sent,
ça se sent que c'est toi.
Ça se sent,
ça se sent que c'est toi.
Ça se sent,
ça se sent que c'est toi.
Ça se sent,
ça se sent que c'est toi (Ça se sent) !
Ça se sent, ça se sent, ça se sent !
Et rien d'autre que toi !
Non, rien d'autre que toi, que toi !
Non, rien d'autre que toi, que toi !
Non, rien d'autre que toi.

Something within you
Isn't right
An "I don't know what"
Which leaves me dumb
Something within you
Isn't right
But everywhere else
Everything spins so much around

Dum dum bullets
To the car wheels
To the choo choo rhythm
Of the Batignolles train
To the whispering of the city
To the morning of crazy nights

NNNNothing makes you panic
And yes I do love that
Yes I prefer that more
Yes I do love that
Because this is so you
And nothing more than you
No nothing more than you
Than you
No nothing more than...

Something within you
Isn't right
But in your rounded legs
I'm purring
Something within you
Isn't right
But all around me
You go round

Dum dum bullets
To the car wheels
And the saints' life
And their halos
The whispering of the city
And their soft machines

NNNNothing makes you panic
And yes I do love that
Oh I prefer that more
Yes I do love that
I do love that
Love that
Because this, is so you
Yes yes that, is so you

(Watch it guys)
That (That) Is so you
No no no that (That) Is so you
It feels
That (That) Is so you
That (That) It feels, it feels
It feels that its you
It feels
It feels that its you
It feels
It feels that its you
It feels
It feels that its you (It feels)
It feels, it feels, it feels
And nothing else more than you
No nothing else more than you, than you
No nothing else more than you, than you
No nothing else more than you

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Alec Mansion - Où es-tu ? - 1983
Belgium, Synthpop, Synth Funk, French Pop

Wikipédia (DeepL translate)
Alec Mansion, born in Bruges in 1958, is a Belgian singer, best known for being a member of the group Leopold Nord & Vous.

Born to a bassist father and a violinist mother, he studied piano, harmony and solfeggio at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Liege, where he won a first prize. He lived all his youth on the heights of Liege, in Cointe. He was part of several musical groups during his adolescence.

Two albums in solo, in 1982 Microfilms passes unnoticed. Then a light success, in 1983 with the homonymous album: Alec Mansion released in Belgium and the Netherlands by WEA (Warner Europe). This album contains l'eau de Nice, released as a single 45 rpm.

In the 1980s, he also devoted himself to the production, especially that of the titles of his wife of the time, Muriel Dacq (and its success Tropiques). Alec Mansion forms the musical trio Léopold Nord & Vous with two of his four brothers: Benoît and Hubert Mansion. They were successful in 1987 with their first single, C'est l'amour, which sold over a million copies in France and Belgium.

Avec ou sans c’est pas pareil
En t’envolant t’as mis ma plume à sec
Je vois la mer dans la bouteille
Rapplique ça me fera un break

La croisière ça use
Tout ça c’est bateau
Et moi sans ma muse
Je me jetterais à l’eau

Et je me dis l’été avec ou sans soleil ? Avec !
Qu’est ce que ça dit le ciel avec ou sans oiseaux ? Avec !
Et les nuits sans sommeil avec un blues idiot... non !
Avec ou sans c’est pas pareil

Sans celle que j’aime
Ça n’a pas de goût
Pleurent les sirenes
Qui se pendent à mon cou

Et je me dis l’été avec ou sans soleil ? Avec !
Qu’est ce que ça dit le ciel avec ou sans oiseaux ? Avec !
En likant tes photos dans ton simple appareil
Avec ou sans c’est pas pareil

Et je me dis l’été avec ou sans ta peau ? Avec !
Et le midi avec ou sans le sable chaud ? Avec !
Même si on peut faire sans c’est cent fois mieux... avec !
Reviens ça me fera un break !

La croisière ça tangue
Les marins sont saouls
Tant que tu manques
Ils chanteront pour nous

Et je me dis l’été avec ou sans ta peau ? Avec !
Et le midi avec ou sans le sable chaud ? Avec !
Même si on peut faire sans c’est cent fois mieux avec !
Reviens ça me fera un break !

Même si on peut faire sans c’est cent fois mieux avec !
Reviens ça me fera un break !
Même si on peut faire sans
C'est cent fois mieux, cent fois mieux avec !

Et je me dis l’été avec ou sans soleil ? Avec !
Qu’est ce que ça dit le ciel avec ou sans oiseaux ? Avec !
Même si on peut faire sans c’est cent fois mieux avec !
Reviens ça me fera un break !

Avec ou sans c’est pas pareil
En t’envolant t’as mis ma plume à sec
Je vois la mer dans la bouteille
Rapplique ça me fera un break

With or without, it's not the same
As you took off, all my words dried up
I can see the sea in the bottle
Come back quickly, it'll give me a break

The journey is exhausting
The same routine again and again
And I, without my muse
would throw myself to the waters

And I ask myself - summer with or without sun? With!
What about the sky, with or without birds? With!
And sleepless nights with a bad case of the blues...no!
With or without, it's not the same

Without the one I love
I don't have a taste for anything
The mermaids are crying
while hanging onto my neck

And I ask myself - summer with or without sun? With!
What about the sky, with or without birds? With!
Liking your photos on your simple device
With or without, it's not the same

And I ask myself - summer with or without your touch1? With!
How about the south with or without the warm sand?
Even if it's possible without, it's a hundred times better...with!
Come back, it'll give me a break!

The voyage is choppy
The sailors are drunk
As long as you're missing
They'll be singing for us

And I ask myself - summer with or without your touch? With!
How about the south with or without the warm sand?
Even if it's possible without, it's a hundred times better with!
Come back, it'll give me a break!

Even if it's possible without, it's a hundred times better with!
Come back, it'll give me a break!
Even if it's possible without
it's a hundred times better with!

And I ask myself - summer with or without sun? With!
What about the sky, with or without birds? With!
Even if it's possible without, it's a hundred times better with!
Come back, it'll give me a break!

With or without, it's not the same
As you took off, all my words dried up
I can see the sea in the bottle
Reapply, it'll give me a break


1.literally 'skin', but that sounds weird and creepy in English to me
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Nino Ferrer - Mirza - 1965
Pop, Soul, Chanson, Rhythm & Blues

Album: Enregistrement public (RYM: 3,59/5)


Allmusic:
Self-indulgent chameleon or master of artistic disguise? By all means, Nino Ferrer proved himself to be the "homme a tout faire" (jack of all trades) whom he agitatedly sang about in his theme song to the French television series Agence Interim. Ferrer was a late bloomer of the French yé-yé movement, with a legacy not as widely known as that of Jacques Dutronc or Michel Polnareff. His artistic trade should be viewed in the same vein, though; it was an eclectic brew of equal parts goofing around, subversive thinking, and pop genius.

Ferrer was born in 1934 to a French father and an Italian mother, and a considerable part of his preteen years was spent during World War II. While his father was mining the far parts of the world in New Caledonia, in 1939 Ferrer and his mother found themselves stuck after a holiday in a hostile Italy. Reunited after the war, he grew up in a culturally stimulating environment. As a student of ethnology and archaeology, Ferrer developed a fondness for jazz and learned to play several instruments. Returning to Paris from a trip around the world, he decided to become a professional musician. Starting out as a hired hand in the capitol's jazz circles, he was employed by bandleader Richard Bennett and later worked for American singer Nancy Holloway.

After quite a few misfires, his big break came unexpectedly with the EP Mirza in 1965. Apart from its biting lyrics, it stood out for its ecstatic organ bridge, played in one take by Bernard Estardy. Ferrer had befriended Estardy -- nicknamed "Le Baron" -- at college. Their creative but sometimes tense relationship enabled them to cook up several more successful EPs and the Southern soul-styled debut album Enrégistrement Public. Hearing the likes of Otis Redding had been a revelation to Ferrer; he even took his love for soul music as far as proclaiming his desire to be Black on the album's opening track. As a result, Ferrer soon found himself uncomfortably stuck with an eccentric image similar to that of Dutronc. Being ten years the senior of most other yé-yé stars, he was equally unhappy with the show business treadmill of nearly 200 live performances in 1966. Ferrer decided to flee his popularity for Italy, where for several years he co-hosted the television variety show Lo, Agata e Tu with Raffaella Carrá (famed for 1977's European disco smash "A Far l'Amore Comincia Tu"). At the same time, he continued to release a string of increasingly cynical, at times politicized EPs (Mao et Moa, Le Roi de L'Angleterre). The wacky but irresistibly groovy Le Téléfon was a success in 1967 even outside of France.

In 1970 Ferrer returned to France, where he started working on what he perceived as his first "real" album. Serving brooding prog rock accompanied by more personal lyrics, Métronomie was again co-created with Estardy. Though the album went nowhere commercially, its not-so-representative leadoff track, "La Maison Près de la Fontaine," proved a huge mainstream success in France. This apparently irritated Ferrer, whose growing contempt for show business led him to view it as the umpteenth misconception of his artistic vision. In 1973 he found an ally in guitarist Mickey Finn. Together they started the group Leggs, who would accompany Ferrer on several albums from this point onward. With these albums, he would switch directions many times: from rock & roll to gospel and from prog rock to laid-back funk. The latter style made up most of 1974's Nino and Radiah, which included another fruitful Estardy collaboration in the song Ferrer is best remembered for in France: "Le Sud." Over a half-dozen more albums followed in the next 20 years, but their mixed reviews made Ferrer retire to family life and painting for longer and longer intervals. A few days away from his 64th birthday, he dramatically ended his life by shooting himself in the heart in a corn field not far from the castle he had bought from the royalties of "Le Sud."
Z'avez pas vu Mirza ? Oh la la la la la la
Z'avez pas vu Mirza ? Oh la la la la la la
Z'avez pas vu Mirza ? Oh la la la la la la

Où est donc passé ce chien
Je le cherche partout
Où est donc passé ce chien
Il va me rendre fou
Où est donc passé ce chien
Oh ! Ça y est, je le vois !
Veux tu venir ici,
Je n'le répéterai pas
Veux-tu venir ici,
Mmmmm, sale bête va !
Veux-tu venir ici
Oh ! Il est reparti

Où est donc passé ce chien
Je le cherche partout
Où est donc passé ce chien
Il va me rendre fou
Où est donc passé ce chien
Oh ! Ça y est, je le vois !
C'est bien la dernière fois
Que je te cherche comme ça
Veux tu venir ici
Je n'le répèterai pas
Veux tu venir ici
Oh et ne bouge pas
Veux tu venir ici
Oh yeah ! satané Mirza !

Haven't you seen Mirza? Oh lalala...
Z'avez pas vu Mirza ? Oh la la la la la la
Z'avez pas vu Mirza ? Oh la la la la la la

So where did this dog go?
I look for him everywhere
So where did this dog go?
He's gonna drive me crazy
So where did this dog go?
Oh, there he is, I see him
Will you come here?
I won't repeat it
Will you come here
Mmmmm, dirty monster, come on
Will you come here
Oh it went away again

Où est donc passé ce chien
Je le cherche partout
Où est donc passé ce chien
Il va me rendre fou
Où est donc passé ce chien
Oh! Ça y est je le vois !
This will be the last time
That I'm looking for him like this
Veux tu venir ici
Je n'le répèterai pas
Veux tu venir ici
Oh, dont move
Veux tu venir ici
Oh yeah ! satané Mirza Oh yeah! Damn Mirza!

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Danielle Darrieux - Sophie - 1959

Wikipédia:
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (French pronunciation: ​[da.njɛl i.vɔn ma.ʁi ɑ̃.twa.nɛt daʁ.jø]; 1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer.

Beginning in 1931, she appeared in more than 110 films. She was one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career was among the longest in film history.
Lorsque Sophie dansait
Tout le bal s'arrêtait
Séduit, émerveillé
Pour mieux la regarder
Tourbillonner légère

Lorsque Sophie chantait
Tout le bal se taisait
Car sa voix, tout d'un coup
Semblait dire un secret
À chacun d'entre nous

Un peu plus qu'une sœur
Beaucoup plus qu'une amie
Elle avait tous les cœurs
Car bien mieux que jolie
Elle avait du mystère

Lorsque Sophie rêvait
Le bal s'illuminait
Et nous aurions suivi
Jusqu'au bout de la nuit
Sophie et ses folies

Lorsque Sophie aima
Tout le monde trembla
Et ne put s'empêcher
De haïr l'étranger
Qui allait nous la prendre

Lorsque Sophie pleura
La colère gronda
On voulut la venger
Courir la consoler
Et surtout la garder

Mais on savait très bien
Qu'on n'y pouvait plus rien
Car même dans ses pleurs
Son cœur était ailleurs
Trop loin pour nous entendre

Lorsque Sophie partit
Nous n'avons plus rien dit
Car chacun comprenait
Que nos vingt ans venaient
De partir à jamais...

When Sophie was dancing
Everyone stopped moving
Charmed, fascinated
To better look at her
Twirling around, delicately

When Sophie was singing
Everyone stopped talking
Because her voice, all of a sudden
Seemed to tell a secret
To every one of us

A little bit more than a sister
A lot more than a friend
She had every heart
Because, a lot better than just being pretty
She had some mystery

When Sophie was dreaming
Everyone brightened up
And we would follow
To the end of the night
Sophie and her little insanities

When Sophie was in love
Everyone was shivering
And couldn't stop
hating the stranger
Who was about to take her from us

When Sophie was crying
Rage rumbled in us
We wanted to avenge her
To run and comfort her
And especially to keep her

But we knew well
That we couldn't do anything
Because, even when in tears
Her heart was elsewhere
Too far away to hear us

When Sophie left
We didn't say anything else
Because every one of us understood
That our twenty years have just
gone away forever...

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Charlélie Couture - Après la fête / Blues - 1982
Chanson, Pop Rock, Blues Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Soundtrack

Album: Quoi faire ? (RYM: 3,58/5)

Allmusic:
CharlElie Couture, defining himself as a polymorphic artist, is one it wouldn't be fair to reduce to his sole recordings since he also was a writer, a painter, a drawer, and a photographer. Yet, since he was spotted by Chris Blackwell in 1980, Couture has released a large number of records, showcasing a personal kind of pop/rock, with a touch of synth pop at times, and displaying a wide array of atmospheres, crafted lyrics, and a quite singular voice. Considering records, as an object, as a complete work of art, he was found at each and every stage of their making, using his versatile skills from production to sleeve design. Open-minded, Couture has traveled a lot and settled down in New York City in 2004 after some '90s Australian and Chicagoan experiences.

Born Charles-Élie Couture in Nancy on February 26, 1956, he graduated from Nancy's Art School, already capable of handling various artistic activities, including writing, painting, photography, and composition. He had got some of his works exposed at the early age of 15, and by the time he had finished his formation, he had created an artists-trust called "Local à Louer" and written an essay on classical and pop culture crossovers. As a musician, he started recording and releasing self-produced material in 1978, with 12 Chansons Dans la Sciure. He got help for his next record, 1979's Le Pêcheur, but it wasn't until 1980 that he found a recording contract, being spotted by no less than Island Records' Chris Blackwell himself, seduced by CharlElie's uncommon vocal texture and intriguing accent, and making Couture the first-ever French artist to sign to his legendary label. The first born of that newfound collaboration was 1981's classic Poêmes Rock, encountering critical praise and a warm public welcome, thanks, among other qualities, to the hit single "Comme un Avion Sans Ailes." All along the '80s, he went on recording studio and live works at an impressive pace, including the soundtracks to Tchao Pantin (featuring his good friend Coluche) and La Salle de Bain (featuring his brother Tom Novembre). In 1990 and 1991, he alternatively recorded two LPs in Australia (Melbourne Aussie and Victoria Spirit), before returning home with new influences, particularly in the painting field, and, focusing on multiple activities, released a bunch of less successful recordings. In 1997, he got to Chicago to record an heavily blues-influenced LP, Casque Nu, and decided to settle down in New York City in 2004, from where he released two records: 2004's Double Vue and 2006's New Yor-Coeur).
Y'a plus personne
La nappe en papier est toute déchirée
Les couteaux en plastique
Sur les assiettes en carton
La meringue s'enfonce
Dans la glace à la fraise
Qui fond comme un château sur la plage
Tout s'est fini à l'aube
Y'a du verre cassé
Sur le sol de la cuisine
Y'avait une fête ici
Maint'nant ils sont partis
Tous et toutes repartis
Des masques écrasés
Des cotillons debobinés
Et je reste là au milieu de tout ça
La guirlande en papier crépon
Qui pendouille au plafond
J'sais pas si j'suis encore lucide
Alors j'vais sur l'canapé
J'fais le bilan
Tiens t'as oublié ton sweet-shirt orange
I'traine là par terre
Sous la table
Juste à côté de ta chaise
Y'avait une fête ici
Maint'nant ils sont partis
Tous et toutes repartis
... Y'avait un piano
Ils ont joué chacun leur tour
Le piano est tout désaccordé
C'lui-là qui fumait avec un morceau de plastique
Et ces deux cons qui jouaient de la musique concrète et répétitive
Avec deux doigts pendant des heures et des heures
Et ce maladroit qui a renversé du sirop sur les touches
Et l'pire de tout, ça l'a fait rigoler
Y'avait une fête ici
Maint'nant ils sont partis
Tous et toutes repartis
Le tourne-disque tourne encore
Toutes les fêtes s'achèvent
Comme un feu qui s’éteint
Maintenant i'est un peu froid
Un peu froid

There's no one left
The paper tablecloth is all ripped up
The plastic knives
on paper plats
The sinking Meringue
in the strawberry ice cream
which melts like castell on the shore
Every thing ended by dawn
There is broken glass
on the kitchen floor
There was a Party here
Now, They all went away
they all left
Broken masks
Unwrapped Party gifts
And I stay there in the middle of it all
The crepe paper garland
Hanging from the ceiling
I don't know if I still lucid
Come'n, I will go to the sofa
I take stock
you there, you forgot your orange sweet-shirt
lying on the ground
under the table
Just next to the chair
There was a party here
Now, They all went away
they all left
There was a piano
That they took turns playing
The piano was totally out of tune
That one smoking with a piece of plastic
And those two jerks playing repetitive and tangible music
With two fingers, on for hours and hours
And the goofy guy, who spilt syrup on the keys
And worst of all, it made him laugh
There was a party here
Now, They all went away
they all left
The record player is still spinning
All the parties are over
Like a fire going out
Now I'm a little cold
A little cold

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Booba - Repose en paix - 2002
Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop,Gangsta Rap

Album: Temps mort (RYM: 3,65/5)

Wikipédia:
Élie Yaffa (French pronunciation: ​[eli jafa]; born 9 December 1976), better known under his stage name Booba, is a French rapper. After a brief stint as a break dancer in the early 1990s, Booba partnered with his friend Ali to form Lunatic. The duo released a critically acclaimed album in 2000 but disbanded in 2003. Booba has since embarked on a successful solo career, selling more than 10 million discs over his career[1] and becoming the most legally downloaded artist in French history. Booba is praised for the quality of his flow and beats but often criticized because of the controversial nature of his lyrics. He has also established the rap label Tallac Records, and developed a line of jewellery.

Élie Yaffa was born on 9 December 1976 in the outskirts of Paris in Sèvres. His father is Senegalese and his mother is French of Mosellan and Belgian descent.

With his friend Ali they formed the duo Lunatic in 1994. Unable to secure a record deal from a major label because of their controversial lyrics, they created their own independent record label 45 Scientific in 1999. The following year, Lunatic released its first and only album entitled Mauvais œil.

In 2002, Booba released his debut solo album Temps mort. He followed this up with four further albums: Panthéon, Ouest Side (the most successful), 0.9 and Lunatic. In late 2012, he released his sixth solo album Futur. In whole, Booba has ten disks certified, six Disques d'Or (Gold album), three Disques de platine (Platinum album) and one Double disque de platine (Double-Platinum album). In 2011, Booba won the "My Youtube" contest, ahead of popular artists like Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Eminem, Jay-Z, Sexion D'Assaut, Shakira, Stromae,...

Booba was influenced by the American hip-hop scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s – Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, 2Pac, and Biggie Smalls. Dark melodies accompanied with raw lyrics, typical of the rap from New York, are present on every album of his. He is often criticized for being an apologist for easy money and murder. Booba advocates a reduction in the taxes and claims himself in support of individual freedom. Racism is a recurring topic of his songs (see for example "Couleur ébène", "Pitbull", "Ma Couleur"), although he sometimes deliberately advocates communitarian positions.
Je dois marquer mon territoire, on veut m'empêcher de pisser
J'arrive sur toi plus vite que les ragots, mon argot sous un garrot
Derrière des barreaux, les poils hérissés
Négro je vais foutre la merde et je vais me barrer comme au lycée
Ici y'a qu'une marée et elle est noir foncé
Que le hip-hop français repose en paix
Mesdames, messieurs !
Ici-bas pour représenter
On roule tous à 200, certains ont pété l'essieu
J'ai pas prêté mon style aux salopes
Mon crew au top, équipé arch' et je baise les garces avec un hard-top
F-a-u-x débranche
Pé-sa en noir avec une faux, je contourne les MC's à la craie blanche
Le résultat d'une blanche et d'un nègre
Un coup d'hanche et c'est le ravin, fais pas ton nid sur la branche d'un aigle
Je t'ai montré l'Hexagone du doigt du shit sous un ongle
J'suis la belle vie sous un autre angle faut pas t'inquiéter
Le monde est nôtre, un satellite pour défourailler le beat
9-2 petit je te le répète faut pas t'inquiéter
L.U.N.A.T.I.C., y'a que la moitié, attend !

I have to mark my territory, they want to stop me from pissing
I come up on you faster than gossip, my slang in a tourniquet1
Behind bars, hair standing on end
N****2 I'm gonna stir shit up and then scram just like in high school
There's only one tide here and it's dark black
May French hiphop rest in peace
Ladies, gentlemen!
Down here to represent
We're all going 2003, some busted their axles4
I didn't lend my style to any bitches
My crew on top, decked out from top to bottom5 and I fuck bitches with a hardtop6
S-I-K-E7 pull the plug
Dressed up in black with a scythe, I trace all the MCs8 in white chalk
The result of a white woman and a n*****
One little bump and you'll be in the ravine, don't make your nest on the branch of an eagle
I showed you France, just some shit under a fingernail
I'm the good life from another angle, you don't need to worry
The world is ours, a satellite to fire the beat
9-29 kiddo I'm telling you again you don't need to worry
L.U.N.A.T.I.C.10, that's only the half of it, just wait!


1.'garrot' is a tourniquet, but I've never heard the phrase 'sous un garrot', I can only imagine it means something like being squeezed off, strangled? If anyone has a better insight, please let me know
2.I feel like we all know what this word is, I don't think I have to spell it out
3.kmph - roughly 125mph
4.referring to axles on a car
5.'archi' is slang meaning 'very/extremely', and 'équipé' means to be fitted out/geared up
6.I had to look this up, but apparently it's a type of hard automobile roof that can sometimes be detached
7.'faux' typically means 'fake', but in the line below it's referring to a scythe, so I think there's probably a word play here. I tried to replicate it the best I could ('sike' - 'scythe')
8.short for 'master of ceremonies', a person who introduces speakers, players, or entertainers
9.seems to be referring to Département 92 (one of the regions in Paris)
10.Lunatic is the name of a group that Booba was a part of
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Philippe Vachey - Alone In The Dark (Avant la porte) - 1992 - VGST

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Philippe Vachey, born January 7, 1964 in Lyon, is a French composer and musician.

He has composed the soundtracks of Time Commando, Shadow of the Comet, Alone in the Dark and Little Big Adventure.

Philippe Vachey, is self-taught, he adopts a passion for music as a teenager. As a guitarist, he made his first experiences of composition work in studio and live. He got closer to computer music and the first sequencers and samplers, which allowed him to compose and produce solo.

After a short detour in the computer world, as a developer, he returned to musical creation and proposed his first contributions to Infogrames. His beginnings are marked at first by the conception of sound design for several games and adaptations. He then produced his first music for the game Advantage Tennis. Later, Didier Chanfray, Frédérick Raynal and a small team initiated an innovative project that would become the famous Alone in the Dark, for which Philippe Vachey produced the skin and music.

The game and its soundtrack are highly acclaimed by the critics and have become a monument in the history of video games.

Philippe Vachey then pursued a long collaboration with the Adeline Software1 studio and the No Cliché studio, who produced a series of successful games, including Little Big Adventure 1 and 2, whose original soundtracks were acclaimed by the critics and the public.

Philippe Vachey produces the soundtrack and sound design for Nikopol with the studio White Birds Productions, for the adaptation of a game based on Enki Bilal's comic book: La Foire aux Immortels.

In India, near Mumbai, he directs the creation and implementation of Supinfogame, an i-tech school dedicated to video game professions and production. In parallel, he continues his teaching activities related to listening and digital audio.

In 2021, he produces, rearranges and orchestrates a Symphonic Suite, to celebrate the anniversary of the release of Little Big Adventure 1 and 2.

Alone in the Dark is a survival horror video game series originally developed by Infogrames. In most of the games, the player controls private investigator Edward Carnby, who goes to investigate a haunted house or town that is full of undead creatures.

The series, particularly for its debut game, is widely acknowledged as an early instance of survival horror video games and is often credited with the creation of the genre. The original story was based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft; later games in the series drew inspiration from other sources including voodoo, the Wild West, and the works of H. R. Giger. Six installments of the series have been created, with various themes and locations. Two comic books and two films were created based upon the games.
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Adé - Tout savoir - 2022

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Adélaïde Chabannes de Balsac, known professionally by her stage name Adé, born April 20, 1995, is a French singer-songwriter, musician and music executive.

Adé was the lead singer of the band Therapie Taxi, from their début in 2013, up and until their disbanding in 2021. She started a solo career in 2022. She released several albums with them, most notably Hit Sale.In April of the same year, she released her first single: Tout savoir. She released her début album Et alors? on September 23, 2022.

She has collaborated with Benjamin Biolay, notably for the song Parc fermé (2021), with Nolwenn Leroy for the album La Cavale (2021) as well as with Louane for the song Pleure (2020).

Adé's single Tout savoir reached number 5 on the French Singles charts on October 2, 2022. The song had an accompianing music video, released on YouTube, which was directed by Stéphane Barbato.

She has stated that her music is inspired by that of artists such as Cat Power, Elvis Presley, and Neil Young.

Tes cheveux ont poussé je vois
Que ta tête a changé
Je t'aime plus qu'avant je crois
T'as le sourire cassé
J'me dirais à moi-même
Que si j'me reconnais pas
Que si je suis plus la même
C'est peut être grâce à moi

Et je vole encore dans ma joie
J'en veux encore même si je comprends pas
Pourquoi je changeais quelques fois
J'ai tellement peur que la nuit ne vienne pas
Car quand je dors, je rêve de ça
De tout comprendre et de savoir pourquoi
Ce désaccord un peu maladroit
J'arrive encore à capturer ma joie
J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir
J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir

T'as laissé un peu derrière toi ton personnage d'avant
T'as grandi un peu, fait des choix
Y'a jamais d'bons moments
T'as marché, t'as couru , c'est bien
Mais allonge toi maintenant
Raconte, analyse tes histoires
Ça évite les pansements
Et j'me dirais à moi-même
Tu vois, fais toi confiance
Tant qu'on a ceux qu'on aime
On a déjà de la chance

Et je vole encore dans ma joie
J'en veux encore même si je comprends pas
Pourquoi je changeais quelques fois
J'ai tellement peur que la nuit ne vienne pas
Car quand je dors je rêve de ça
De tout comprendre et de savoir pourquoi
Ce désaccord un peu maladroit
J'arrive encore à capturer ma joie

J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir
J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir

Et je vole encore dans ma joie
J'en veux encore même si je comprends pas
Pourquoi je changeais quelques fois
J'ai tellement peur que la nuit ne vienne pas
Car quand je dors je rêve de ça
De tout comprendre et de savoir pourquoi
Ce désaccord un peu maladroit
J'arrive encore à capturer ma joie

J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir
J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir
J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir
J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir
J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir
J'voudrais tout savoir
Et voir dans le noir


I can see that your hair have grown
That your face changed
I think I love you more than before
Your smile is broken
I'd tell myself
That if I don't recognize myself
That if I'm no longer the same person
Maybe it's due to me

And I'm still flying in my joy
I want more even though I don't understand
Why did i change sometimes
I'm so afraid that night doesn't come
Because when I sleep, I dream of it
Of understanding everything and knowing why
This disagreement a little bit clumsy
I can still capture my joy
I want to know everything
And see in the dark
I want to know everything
And see in the dark

You left behind you your former character
You grew a little, made choices
There are never good moments
You walked, you ran, that's good
But now lay down
Tell, analyze your stories
We could avoid dressings with that
And I'd tell myself
See, trust yourself
As long as we have the people we love
We're already lucky

And I'm still flying in my joy
I want more even though I don't understand
Why did i change sometimes
I'm so afraid that night doesn't come
Because when I sleep, I dream of it
Of understanding everything and knowing why
This disagreement a little bit clumsy
I can still capture my joy

I want to know everything
And see in the dark
I want to know everything
And see in the dark

And I'm still flying in my joy
I want more even though I don't understand
Why did i change sometimes
I'm so afraid that night doesn't come
Because when I sleep, I dream of it
Of understanding everything and knowing why
This disagreement a little bit clumsy
I can still capture my joy

I want to know everything
And see in the dark
I want to know everything
And see in the dark
I want to know everything
And see in the dark
I want to know everything
And see in the dark
I want to know everything
And see in the dark
I want to know everything
And see in the dark

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El Blaszczyk - Quand tu m'caresses - 1993
Comedy Rock, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll

Album: The Quirky Lost Tapes (1993-1995) (RYM: 3,51/5)

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Alain Goraguer - Au-Delà De La Peur - 1975 - OST

Wikipédia:
Alain Goraguer (born 20 August 1931, Rosny-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer.

He has composed some or all of the music for films including La Planète Sauvage (1973), La Vie de bohème (1992), Deux jours à tuer (2008) and Saint Laurent (2014).

He was a composer/arranger of music for Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Ferrat, Serge Reggiani and Nana Mouskouri.

In 1965 he was part of the entirely French team behind Luxembourg's winning entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", which was sung by France Gall, written by Serge Gainsbourg, and conducted by Goraguer.

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Kongas - Dr Doo Dah - 1977
Disco, funk

Album: Africanism (RYM: 3,21/5)

Kongas Biography by Steve Huey (Allmusic)

Kongas are notable for launching the career of French disco producer extraordinaire Jean-Marc Cerrone, who served as a percussionist in their early years.
Playing a fusion of guitar-oriented, progressive-minded rock and polyrhythmic, Fela Kuti-style Afro-funk, Kongas took up residency at the Papagayo club in the French Riviera town of St. Tropez in the early '70s. French producer Eddie Barclay signed the group to his Barclay label, where they scored a minor hit single with "Boom," and toured Europe, Japan, and Africa.
They released a debut album, Afro Rock, in 1974; however, musical differences led to Cerrone's departure for a highly successful solo career as a disco performer and producer, leaving writer/producer Alec Costandinos as Kongas' guiding influence. Cerrone returned in 1977 to produce the group's second album, Africanism, which featured a side-long medley of the title track and the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'." 1978 brought the release of a 12" single on the New York-based disco label Salsoul, which featured "Anikana-O" and "Kongas Fun," their two best-known and most-compiled tracks.
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Claudio Capéo - Si j’avais su - 2023
Chanson

Album: Rose des vents

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Claudio Ruccolo ; born 10 January 1985), better known as Claudio Capéo, is a French singer and accordion player. He grew up in Cernay, Alsace.

Early beginnings
He learned to play the accordion at the young age of six and took part in musical competitions. At age 16, he was part of a metal band and later in an African jazz band. Continuing his education, he passed the Brevet d'études professionnelles (BEP) and Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle (CAP) and worked as a carpenter and decorator.

2010–2015: El Vagabond, Miss Mondo and Mr Jack
But never leaving his passion for music, he formed with friends the Campéo band releasing two self-published music albums: El Vagabond (2010) and Miss Mondo (2012) promoting them in live performances in France and neighbouring countries. In 2015 he released the EP Mr Jack.

2016–present: The Voice and Claudio Capéo
In 2016, he took part in season 5 of the French talent competition The Voice: la plus belle voix. In the blind auditions, he sang "Chez Laurette" from Michel Delpech with only Florent Pagny turning his chair. As part of Team Pagny, on 26 March 2016, he performed "Mathilde" from Jacques Brel in a battle against teammate Laurent-Pierre Lecordier and was eliminated. Despite his early exit from the show, Capéo has proven very popular with the French public. Just after the show, he was contacted by Sébastien Saussez, director of the French record label Jo&Co and in 2016 released the self-titled debut album Claudio Capéo that topped the SNEP French Albums chart in its first week of release staying at number 1 for five consecutive weeks. The album was certified three times platinum with sales of 300,000 copies by the beginning of 2017. His debut single "Un homme debout" made it to number 6 on the French Singles Chart also charting in Belgium.
Je t'aurais dit toutes les choses
Que je ne t'avais jamais dites
Que ta peau a l'odeur des roses
Que j'adore le prénom Edith
Je t'aurais dit toutes les choses
Qu'on ne dit pas assez souvent
Car souvent dans la vie on n'ose
Pas dire les choses tant qu'il est temps

Je t'aurais raconté la mer
Que tu la voies une fois encore
On aurait viré l'infirmière
Puis on aurait rigolé fort
Je t'aurais dit que ton visage
Me fait penser à l'océan
Que tes rides ressemblent à des vagues
Où vont se baigner les enfants

Si j'avais su
En partant ce soir là
Si j'avais su
Que le temps n'attend pas
Si j'avais su
Que c'était la première fois
Que j'te voyais pour la dernière fois

Je t'aurais refait ton chignon
Et toi tu m'aurais dit ça tire
Moi j'aurais fait un peu le con
Juste pour regarder ton sourire
J't'aurais promis d'faire une chanson
Qui racont'rait comme t'étais belle
Qui racont'rait comme on est cons
D'croire que les gens sont éternels

Et puis j't'aurais serrée si fort
Qu'il y aurait des marques à ton cou
Je t'aurais regardée encore
Et puis j't'aurais gardée surtout
J't'aurais enfermée dans mes yeux
J'aurais capturé ton parfum
J't'aurais dit au revoir un peu mieux
Puis j'aurais menti à demain

Si j'avais su
En partant ce soir là
Si j'avais su
Que le temps n'attend pas
Si j'avais su
Que c'était la première fois
Que j'te voyais pour la dernière fois

J'me s'rais dépêché de t'aimer
Comme l'on court après la vie
Car on n'aime jamais assez
Je t'aurais dit je t'aime aussi
Les mots faut pas qu'on les conserve
Faut les distribuer à la ronde
Sinon les mots à quoi ils servent
À part à décorer les tombes?

Si j'avais su
En partant ce soir là
Si j'avais su
Que le temps n'attend pas
Si j'avais su
Mais souvent on ne sait pas
Qu'on voit quelqu'un pour la dernière fois

I would have told you the things
That I never told you
That your skin smells of roses
That I love the name Edith
I would have told you the things
That we don't say enough
Because throughout life, we're usually not daring
When there is still time left

I would have told you about the sea
So that you can see it once more
We would have kicked out the nurse
Then we would have laughed out loud
I would have told you your face
Reminds me of the ocean
That your wrinkles remind me of the waves
Where the children go to swim

Had I known
While leaving that night
Had I known
That time wasn't waiting
Had I known
That this would be the first time
For me to see you one last time

I would have done your bun again
You would have told me it's pulling your hair
I would have acted like an idiot
Just to see your smile
I would have promised you to write a song
About how pretty you are
About how stupid we are
About believing that people are eternal

Then I would have hugged you tight
Until marks showed on your neck
I would have looked at you once more
And above all, I would have kept you close
I would have locked you up in my eyes
I would have caught your perfume
I would have said goodbye in a better way
Then I would have lied "see you tomorrow"

Had I known
While leaving that night
Had I known
That time wasn't waiting
Had I known
That this would be the first time
For me to see you one last time

I would have hurried to love you
The same way we run after life
Because we don't love enough
I would have told you I love you too
Words musn't be kept
They have to be shared with everyone
Otherwise what's the point of words
Except adorning graves ?

Had I known
While leaving that night
Had I known
That time wasn't waiting
Had I known
But usually we don't know
That we see someone for the last time

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Michel Delpech - Chez Laurette - 1965
Chanson


Jean-Michel Delpech (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl dɛlpɛʃ]; 26 January 1946 – 2 January 2016), known as Michel Delpech, was a French singer-songwriter and actor.

Its parents having moved to Cormeilles-en-Parisis in Seine-et-Oise (today known as Val-d’Oise), Jean-Michel Delpech studied in the Chabanne college and in the Pontoise’s Camille-Pissarro high-school from 1961 to 1964.

As a teenager he got passionate about famous classic fingers such as Luis Mariano, and then for the great names from the 1950s such as Gilbert Bécaud and Charles Aznavour. In 1963, in high school, he created a little orchestra with his schoolmates.

Before attending his final high school exams, he left high school in january 1964 to focus on singing. He took a chance by attending an audition in Paris to join the disque Vogue record company. Just aged 18, he released his first disc named Anatole, and met the composer Roland Vincent. While going to Roland’s house based in Saint-Cloud for a working session, he rethinks about his highschool years and about the coffee he used to go with his mates after the school day. In the train, between Saint Lazare and Saint Cloud train station, he writes the lyrics of Chez Laurette, for which Roland Vincent felt seduced and inspired and quickly found a melody. Released the 1st of May 1965, during the yéyé period, this nostalgic teenager music wasn't a success at its release but thanks to the numerous radio streams, started to experience a slight celebrity.

In 1965, Michel Delpech attended a musical comedy Copains-Clopant, which was featured for 6 months, before at the Michodière theater and then at the Gymnase Theater in Paris : the integration of the Chez Laurette Music helped him to be famous. During this musical comedy, Delpech meets Chantal SImon, who he sang a song with. Then he’ll marry her at the age of 20 in 1966.

The same year, under the Festival Label, he recorded its 2nd 45 laps : Inventaire 1966, new stepping stone towards the star status. As Jacques Prévert and as a tribute to the poetry, he compiles in the verse of the music, a list of news such as the Vietnam war, the minijupe, the Courrèges boots, the Cacharel trend, the flower shirts,etc. Still in 1966, he made the first part during 38 shows of Jacques Brell who said goodbye to the Olympia.

In 1967, Jonny Stack, Mireille Mathieu’s manager takes Michel Delpech in charge and helps him to build up his star image. As the opener of “La chanteuse d’Avignon”, he starts a international tour from West Germany, to USSR and United States. Same year, he quits the Festival record company et moves to Barclay.

In 1968, he receives the Grand prix of the French song award, for his song “il y a des jours où on ferait mieux de rester au lit”, (there are some days where you’d better stay in bed) written with Jean Jacques Debout

It’s an ear of success, in France and abroad : Wight is Wight (novembre 1969) (in memory of rock Festival of the Wight island, Et Paul chantait yesterday (“And Paul was singing Yesterday), (tribute to the Beatles who are splitting apart), Pour un flirt (“just a fling”) (mai 1971). Wight is Wight, right in the Hippie era, is being sold at more than a million pieces in Europe.

The very Romantic Pour un flirt is a hit in French speaking countries, also. In the Netherlands, his German version is hitting he charts in West Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In just 4 months, more than 4Millions units are being sold. The singer himself is surprised: “I didn’t expect the verses big potentials, will he said.

In 1970, the singer leaves his manager Jonnhy Starck to benefit a much wider artistic liberty, and 2 years later, stops his collaboration with Rolland Vincent looking for other writers.

Now a big star, he’s playing at the Olympia, during 3 weeks in a row in January 1972

In 1973, his breakup with Chantal Somin (who left him) and his co-writer Jean Michel Rivat break up with Christine Haas inspire him the song Les Divorcés, where he speaks about peaceful break up, whereas it’s actually really painful. As this songs contrasts with the usual breezy and happy tone of previous Michel Delpech songs, Barclay company is afraid this song will have a negative iompact on the singer, and they are very hesitating to release the song. The yfinally accept. Good for them, it’s a success with more than hundred of thousands sales. The impact of the lyrics on the society is so big that the mutual agreement divorce law will be adopted 3 years later.

From 1973, success after success, with Que Marianne était jolie, Le Chasseur (1974),or Quand j'étais chanteur (1975),

In 1977, he sings Le Loir-et-Cher, song that speaks with tenderness and irony about Loire et Cher inhabitants, where he was born. « On dirait que ça te gêne de marcher dans la boue, on dirait que ca te gêne de dîner avec nous » « looks like you don’t want to walk in the mud, looks like you don’t want to have dinner with us” is an illustration of the sometime hard and difficult relationship between cities and country sides.

Delpech had long been a heavy smoker, going through a pack of cigarettes daily starting at the age of 18 and quitting only after his diagnosis to throat cancer in 2013. He died at a hospital in Puteaux, France on 2 January 2016 at the age of 69.
À sa façon de nous appeler ses gosses
On voyait bien qu'elle nous aimait beaucoup
C'était chez elle que notre argent de poche
Disparaissait dans les machines à sous

Après les cours on allait boire un verre
Quand on entrait Laurette souriait
Et d'un seul coup, nos leçons, nos problèmes
Disparaissaient quand elle nous embrassait

C'était bien, chez Laurette
Quand on faisait la fête
Elle venait vers nous, Laurette

C'était bien, c'était chouette
Quand on était fauché
Elle payait pour nous, Laurette

Et plus encore, afin qu'on soit tranquille
Dans son café y avait un coin pour nous
On s'y mettait pour voir passer les filles
Et j'en connais qui nous plaisaient beaucoup

Si par hasard on avait l'âme en peine
Laurette seule savait nous consoler
Ell' nous parlait et l'on riait quand même
En un clin d'œil, elle pouvait tout changer

C'était bien chez Laurette
On y retournera
Pour ne pas l'oublier, Laurette

Ce sera bien, ce sera chouette
Et l'on reparlera
Des histoires du passé
Chez Laurette

Ce sera bien, ce sera chouette
Et l'on reparlera
Des histoir's du passé
Chez Laurette

Chez Laurette

By her own way of calling us her kids
You could see that she loved us very much
It's here that our pocket money
Disappeared inside the juke box

After class we'd go there for a drink
And once inside, Laurette would smile to us
And suddenly, our homework, our problems
Would disappear when she kissed us.

It was nice at Laurette's
When we had a party
She was on our side, Laurette

It was good, it was fun
And when we were broken
She would pick-up our tab

And then, too, so we would be at ease
There was a corner in her bar, just for us
We would stay there and see the girls pass
An I know a few that we liked very much

If sometimes our souls ached
Laurette alone knew how to give hope
She talked and we would laugh all the same
In a blink of an eye she could change everything

It was good at Laurette's
We'll return there
So we won't forget her, Laurette

It will be good, it will be fun
And we'll talk
About stories from the past
At Laurette's

It will be good, it will be fun
And we'll talk
About stories from the past
At Laurette's

At Laurette's

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Unknown - Chant Gallican - Ego Sum (Je suis) - Between 400 and 800 - Classical
Medieval music, Chant Gallican

Wikipédia:
Gallican chant refers to the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Gallican rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Gaul, prior to the introduction and development of elements of the Roman rite from which Gregorian chant evolved. Although the music was largely lost, traces are believed to remain in the Gregorian corpus.

Several sources attest the existence of a distinctive Gallican rite in the Frankish lands between the 5th and 9th centuries. The Celtic Rite and Mozarabic rite, which are liturgically related to the Gallican, are sometimes collectively referred to as "Gallican" as opposed to the different structure of the Roman rite. Lack of a central authority led to the development of local traditions of the Gallican rite in Francia, sharing a basic structure but varying in details. These traditions endured until the Carolingian dynasty. During a papal visit in 752-3, Pope Stephen II had Mass celebrated using Roman chant. According to Charlemagne, his father Pepin and Chrodegang of Metz abolished the Gallican rites in favor of the Roman use, in order to strengthen ties with Rome that would culminate in Charlemagne's elevation to Holy Roman Emperor. Charlemagne completed the job his father had begun, so that by the 9th century the Gallican rite and chant had effectively been eliminated. However, the Roman chant brought to the Carolingian churches was incomplete, and ended up incorporating musical and liturgical elements from the local Gallican traditions. The resulting Carolingian chant, which developed into Gregorian chant, was a Romanized chant, but one in which traces of the lost Gallican repertory may still be found.

No chantbooks of Gallican chant have survived, although the first documented reference to a book of Western plainchant is to a Gallican text with psalms and chants. What we know of Gallican chant comes from contemporary descriptions of the chant, and Gallican elements that survived in later Gregorian sources.

Gallican chant was said to be recognizably different from Roman chant in both its texts and its music. Walahfrid Strabo, writing in the 9th century, judged Roman chant as "more perfect" and Gallican as incorrect and "inelegant." The Gallican rite and texts were often florid and dramatic compared with their Roman counterparts, which may be reflected in the importance of melismatic music in Gallican chant compared with Roman. The use of two reciting tones in Gregorian psalmody may derive from Gallican chant. Another element of Gregorian chant not found in Roman chant, which may reflect Gallican conventions, is the "Gallican cadence," in which the final neume, found only in Gaulish sources, is an upward step whose second pitch is repeated, such as C-D-D. Some types of Gallican chant show direct influence from Byzantine chant, including the use of Greek texts.

Compositional techniques included certain common incipits, cadences, and the use of centonization.

The chief candidates for chants in the Gregorian repertory that may be Gallican fossils are those chants not occurring in the Roman tradition, but having counterparts in the Mozarabic chant and Ambrosian chant traditions, and local and votive chants specific to French saints and locations.
Ego sum alpha et O,
primus et novissimus,
initium et finis,
qui ante mundi principium
et in saeculum saeculi
vivo in aeternum.
Ego sum vestra redemptio,
ego sum rex vester,
ego vos resuscitabo in die novissimo.
Alleluia
Alleluia

Je suis Alpha et Omega
Le premier et le tout dernier
Le début et la fin
Qui vient avant le monde pour l’éternité
Pour les siècles des sciècles
Je suis votre rédemption
Je suis votre roi
Je vous ressusciterai le tout dernier jour
Alléluia
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MNNQNS - Satellite - 2022
Rock, Post-Punk, Synth Rock

Album: The Second Principle (RYM: 3,34/5)

MNNQNS is a rock band from Rouen, created in Cardiff1 in 2013 by Adrian d'Epinay (singer and guitarist). At first alone, he is quickly joined by Grégoire Mainot (drums), Félix Ramaën (bass) and Hugo Van Leene (guitar) who succeeds to the guitarist position after Marc Lebreuilly

In 2013, in Cardiff, Adrian discovered the rock scene and went on to play many concerts, he was then a musicology student himself. When he returns to France, in Rouen, he takes the decision to create MNNQNS (a contraction of the word Mannequins). He then met the 3 future members of his group: Grégoire, Marc and Félix.

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Oldelaf et monsieur D - Le café - 2006
Nouvelle chanson française, pop, chanson

Album: L'album de la maturité (RYM: 3,28/5)

Wikipédia:
Oldelaf et Monsieur D is an active humoristic song group created in 2000 and disbanded for its tenth anniversary with a farewell concert at the Olympia on January 30, 2010. Oldelaf has since pursued his solo career. He describes his works as songs "that make you laugh, tap your foot, your hands and even your neighbor's elbows for the less skilled. The group takes care of the stage work and the quality of the costumes. One finds in their songs a childish side in certain melodies, poetry sometimes and worked words.

Pour bien commencer
Ma petite journée
Et me réveiller
Moi j'ai pris un café
Un arabica
Noir et bien corsé
J'enfile ma parka
Ça y est, je peux y aller

« Où est-ce que tu vas ? »
Me crie mon aimée
« Prenons un caoua
Je viens de me lever »
Étant en avance et un peu forcé
Je change de sens
Et reprends un café

À huit heures moins l'quart
Faut bien avouer
Les bureaux sont vides
On pourrait s'ennuyer
Mais je reste calme
Je sais m'adapter
Le temps qu'ils arrivent
J'ai l'temps pour un café

La journée s'emballe
Tout l'monde peut bosser
Au moins jusqu'à l'heure
De la pause café
Ma secrétaire entre
« Fort comme vous l'aimez ! »
Ah mince, je viens d'en prendre
Mais maintenant qu'il est fait

Un repas d'affaires
Tout près du Sentier
Y fait un temps super
Mais je me sens stressé
Mes collègues se marrent
« Détends-toi, René
Prends un bon cigare
Et un p'tit café »

Une fois fini
Mes collègues crevés
Appellent un taxi
Mais moi j'ai envie d'sauter
Je fais tout Paris
Puis je vois un troquet
J'commande un déca
Mais recaféiné

J'arrive au bureau
Ma secrétaire me fait
« Vous êtes un peu en retard
Je me suis inquiétée »
J'la jette par la fenêtre
Elle l'avait bien cherché
D'façon faut que j'rentre
Mais avant, un café

Attendant l'métro
Je me fais agresser
Une p'tite vielle me dit
« Vous avez l'heure s'il vous plaît »
Je lui casse la tête
Et j'la pousse sur le quai
Je file à la maison
Et je me sers un devinez

« Papa, mon papa
En classe je suis premier »
P'tain mais quoi ?
Tu vas arrêter de me faire chier ?
Mais qu'il est con ce gosse
En plus y s'met à chialer
J'm'enferme dans la cuisine
Y reste un peu d'café

Ça fait quatorze jours
Que je suis enfermé
J'suis seul dans ma cuisine
Et je bois du café
Y faudrait bien que j'dorme
Les flics vont m'choper
Alors je cloue les portes
Et je reprends du café

To get my day
Started well
And to wake myself up
I had a coffee
An arabica
Black and strong
I put on my jacket
There, I can go now

"Where are you going?"
Cries my love
"Lets have a cup of joe
I just got up"
Being ahead of time, and a little hasty
I change directions
And have another coffee

At quarter to eight
Gotta admit
The desks are empty
One could get bored
But I stay calm
I know how to adapt myself
Before they get here
I have the time for a coffee

The day flies by
Everyone can work
At least until
The coffee break
My secretary enters
"Strong, as you like it"
Ah shoot, I just had some
But now that it's made

A business lunch
Right by the Sentier
It's a beautiful day
But I'm stressed
My colleagues are having a good time
"Relax, René
Have a nice cigar
And a little coffee"

Once we're done
My colleagues, exhausted
Call a taxi
But I just wanna jump
I do all of Paris
Then I find a coffee shop
I order a decaf
But recaffeinated

I get back to the office
My secretary tells me
"You're a little late
I was worried"
I throw her out the window
She was asking for it
Anyway, I gotta get home
But before that, a coffee

Waiting for the subway
I'm assaulted
A little old woman asks me
"Do you have the time, please?"
I break her head open
I push her on the platform
I run back home
And serve up a guess what

"Father, father dearest
I'm first in class"
What the hell is it?
Stop pissing me off
This kid's so dumb
He even starts to cry
I lock myself in the kitchen
There's still some coffee left

I've been cooped up
For fourteen days
I'm alone in my kitchen
And I'm drinking coffee
I should get some sleep
The cops are gonna get me
So I board up the door
And have some more coffee

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Laurent Voulzy - Rockollection - 1977
Chanson

Wikipédia:
Lucien Voulzy (French pronunciation: ​[lysjɛ̃ vulzi], born 18 December 1948), better known as Laurent Voulzy ([loʁɑ̃ vulzi]), is a French singer-songwriter, composer and musician.

Voulzy was born in Paris, France. He originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus before joining Pascal Danel as guitarist from 1969 to 1974. However, he is best known for his collaborative songwriting efforts with singer-songwriter Alain Souchon and his solo singing career, which spanned several successful singles and albums.

Voulzy had an international hit with the song "Rockollection". The French lyrics were interspersed with some lines from classic rock hits after the chorus.
His major hits also include the singles "Paradoxal Système" (which reached the French Top 10), "Le Soleil Donne" – sung in French, English and Spanish – and the double "Belle-Île-en-Mer, Marie-Galante"/"Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde" ("Nights without Kim Wilde"; a song inspired by the chart-topping English singer). Other songs entered the French charts ("Bopper en larmes", "Le coeur Grenadine", "Désir, désir", etc.).
Voulzy also enjoys success in Belgium, Switzerland and Québec; and although being a French artist, his songs often contain multiple languages (including lyrics in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, etc.).

In 2005, he co-produced and co-composed Nolwenn Leroy's second album Histoires Naturelles.

Voulzy had a huge hit with his album La Septième Vague which reached number one in 2006. Featured on the album is a cover of the Everly Brothers hit "All I Have to Do Is Dream", recorded as a duet with Irish singer Andrea Corr. The song was released as a single and was also included on The Corrs' greatest hits album Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection.

He recorded in 2007 a duet with the French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel on his hit album Guitar Connection 2. The song hit the French charts at No. 7 in 2008. For his 2011 album, Lys and Love, Voulzy recorded a duet on the song "Ma seule amour" with English singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In 2007, He toured France.

Song:

In April 1977, all the French youth recognized themselves in Laurent Voulzy's Rockollection, which became one of the great hits of the year. Flashback on the history of this title whose music was to be used for another song.

If the artistic collaborations between Laurent Voulzy and Alain Souchon have allowed the latter to record several hits such as J'ai dix ans in 1974 and Bidon in 1976, it was not until the following year that it was Laurent Voulzy's turn to experience success and enter the light with Rockollection. The story of this song, whose originality is to mix nostalgic verses in French with covers of great Anglo-Saxon standards of the sixties, begins one evening in the summer of 1974.

At that time, Laurent Voulzy was having dinner at a friend's house and had fun improvising a song about the tribulations of a friend named Daniel. A year later, while Laurent Voulzy was working on a demo for an American artist named Anne Calvert, who sings under the pseudonym of Anne C. Sheridan, the melody imagined during the dinner, one year earlier, comes back in his memory. Anne then wrote a song in English called Thriller, about a girl who is chased down the street by an angry-looking character. In the end, this song never saw the light of day and Laurent put his score back in a drawer.

Two years later, when he was preparing his sixth single as a singer, Laurent Voulzy thought about this music and decided to recycle it to tell his teenage memories by illustrating them with musical extracts. This idea came to him while listening to Claude François' hit: Cette année-là. At the time, Laurent thought it was a pity that Claude had not included extracts of the songs from 1962 that he talks about in this hit.

At the beginning, Laurent Voulzy had written a text on his music himself. He made Alain Souchon listen to his song and he found the idea nice but the text not so good... And, in one afternoon, Alain rewrote five verses. The text was initially entitled Recollection in reference to the English word which means, to remember something. Finally, Alain has the idea to create a neologism by associating rock with collection to give birth to Rockollection.

The studio work on this title lasts nearly two months. Laurent Voulzy, who believed in this song, did not want to leave anything to chance. To give the song a club atmosphere with applause and exchanges between young teenagers, he had high school students from Le Perreux in the Paris region come to the studio.

If one can think that the nine extracts of English songs which punctuate the title, were chosen in a rigorous and reflected way, it is nothing like that. On the contrary, the choice was totally arbitrary and was made in the urgency, the very day of the final recording!
The 45 rpm record was released by RCA, at the beginning of April 1977. It lasts 11 minutes and 40 seconds and occupies both sides of the record. It is the artistic director of Laurent Voulzy, at RCA, Bob Socquet, who had insisted that the singer lengthen the song.
The radio programmers broadcast only the first side, which quickly became a huge success and reached number 1 in the hit parade on May 6, 1977. The success of Rockollection largely exceeds the French borders. The title is ranked N°1 in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Quebec and Italy. Laurent Voulzy records an English version, with which he obtains a gold record in Spain and Scandinavia. He also records a Brazilian version, in which the title Gloria is replaced by Guantanamera.

Integral song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTWPSioRZHY

On a tous dans l'cœur une petite fille oubliée
Une jupe plissée queue d'cheval à la sortie du lycée
On a tous dans l'cœur un morceau de feraille usée
Un vieux scooter de rêve pour faire le cirque dans le quartier
Et la p'tite fille chantait (x2)
Un truc qui m'colle encore au cœur et au corps

Everybody's doing a brand new dance now
(Come on baby, do the loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it
If you give it a chance now
(Come on baby, do the loco-motion)

On a tous dans l'cœur le ticket pour Liverpool
Sortie de scène hélicoptère pour échapper à la foule
Excuse-me Sir mais j'entends plus Big Ben qui sonne
Les scarabées bourdonnent c'est la folie à London
Et les Beatles chantaient (x2)
Un truc qui m'colle encore au cœur et au corps

It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, yeah yeah yeah yeah

A quoi ça va me servir d'aller m'faire couper les tifs
Est-ce que ma vie sera mieux une fois qu'j'aurais mon certif'
Betty a rigolé devant ma boule à zéro
Je lui dis si ça te plait pas
T'as qu'à te plaindre au dirlo
Et je me suis fait virer
Et les Beach Boys chantaient
Un truc qui m'colle encore au cœur et au corps
Ca f'sait

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
Get around
Get around get around

On a tous dans l'cœur des vacances à Saint-Malo
Et des parents en maillot qui dansent chez Luis Mariano
Au " Camping des flots bleus " je me traîne des tonnes de cafard
Si j'avais bossé un peu je me serais payé une guitare
Et Saint-Malo dormait
Et les radios chantaient
Un truc qui m'colle encore au cœur et au corps

Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria

Au café de ma banlieue t'as vu la bande à Jimmy
Ça frime pas mal, ça roule autour du baby
Le pauvre Jimmy s'est fait piquer chez le disquaire, c'est dingue
Avec un single des Stones caché sous ses fringues
Et les loulous roulaient
Et les cailloux chantaient
Un truc qui m'colle encore au cœur et au corps

I can't get no, I can't get no, satisfaction. yeah! yeah! yeah!


We all have in the heart a small forgotten girl
With a ponytail, dressed in a pleated skirt at the exit of the lycée
We all have in the heart a bunch of used scrap metal
An old fantasised scooter to clown around in the neighbourhood
And the little girl sang
Something that still sticks to my heart and body

Everybody's doing a brand new dance now
(Come on baby, do the loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it
If you give it a chance now
(Come on baby, do the loco-motion)

We all have in the heart the ticket to Liverpool
Leaving the stage in an helicopter to escape to the crowd
Excuse-me Sir but I can't hear the ringing of Big Ben anymore
The beetles buzz , it's craziness down in London
And the Beatles sang
Something that still sticks to my heart and body

It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, yeah yeah yeah yeah

What's the point in cutting my hairs ?
Is my life going to be better once I got my Certif ?
Betty laughed when she saw the result
I told her " If it doesn't please you
You can complain to the school manager ! "
And I got fired ...
And the Beach Boys sang
Something that still sticks to my heart and body
It was like ...

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Get around round round I get around

We all have in the heart some holidays in Saint-Malo
And your parents in swimsuit, dancing on a Luis Mariano's song
At the Flot-Bleus Camping , I only receive refusals
If only I worked a bit , I could have buy a guitar
And Saint-Malo was sleeping
And the radio sang
Something that still sticks to my heart and body

Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria

At the café of my suburb , you see the Jimmy's tribe
They're all showing off around the table soccer
The poor Jimmy got caught in the record shop , it's crazy !
With a single of the Rolling Stones hidden under his clothes
And Jagger was rolling
And the Stones sang
Something that still sticks to my heart and body
I can't get no, I can't get no, satisfaction. yeah! yeah ! yeah !

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Alice - Le nouveau monde - 1970
Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Folk

Album : Alice (RYM: 3,44/5)

RockmadeinFrance.com (DeepL translate)
For Alice, everything was born from two festivals. The one in Amougies, Belgium, where Jean-Pierre Auffredo (Oboe, Flute, Sax, Violin, Guitar, Voice), Sylvain Duplan (Bass, Guitar, Voice), Claude Olmos (Guitar) and Jean Falissard (Drums) met in 1969.
They settled in a community in the Paris region. It was at the Blois festival that the group met Alain Suzan (Keyboards, Bass, Vocals), giving birth to Alice, whose name was directly inspired by the world of Lewis Caroll. It doesn't take long for them to sign a contract with Byg, release a first 45t in 1970 and be noticed by the Best magazine.
Before taking the summer road, the group signs the music of the film " Alizé et Chloé ". At the beginning of the year, a second SP was published, accentuating the originality of the combo, which left a lot of room for instruments.
The first upheavals occur in the wake of the departure of Claude Olmos and Jean Falissard replaced respectively by Bruno Besse and Alain Weiss. It is this formation which records the first eponymous album of the group. Between King Crimson and Jethro Tull, Alice continues its instrumental journey with 12 efficient and refined tracks.
After a third 45t, the band splits up because of the financial difficulties of its label. Alain Suzan doesn't stay there and reforms the band with Alain Weiss, Luc Bertin (Keyboards), Paul Scemama (Guitar, Vocals) and the Englishman Ian Jelfs (Guitar).
It is this line up that released in 1972 the second album "Arrêtez le monde" recorded at the famous castle of Hérouville for Polydor. An album entirely composed by Alain Suzan contrary to the first opus much more collective. In 1973, the English are entitled to their version under the name "All Ice" not to be confused with Alice Cooper. However, the success is not there and the group separates a new and last time.

Le vent ne souffle plus
Une époque est finie
Ouvrez vos yeux
Le Nouveau Monde est là
Nous n'avons plus longtemps
À marcher sous la pluie

Nous verrons le soleil aussi
Les mois deviendront des années
Nous verrons le soleil aussi
Les mois deviendront des années

Il se passe des choses
Que vous ne voyez pas
Le ciel et les nuages
Ont changé de couleur
Ouvrez vos yeux
Le Nouveau Monde est là

Vous verrez le soleil aussi
Les mois deviendront des années
Vous verrez le soleil aussi
Les mois deviendront des années
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Magic System - Premier Gaou - 1999
Côte d'Ivoire, zouglou

Album: 1er Gaou (RYM: 2,55/5)

Wikipédia (DeepL translate)
Magic System is an Ivorian music group of zouglou genre. Famous for performing festive-themed songs, the group's main hits are the singles Premier Gaou (1999), Bouger bouger (2005), Zouglou dance (2007), Chérie coco (2011) and Magic in the Air (2014).

Originally from Abidjan in Ivory Coast, the original group had more than fifty members (calling themselves "magicians") including the current members: Asalfo (Salif Traoré), Goudé, Tino and Manadja (Adama Fanny) and four other members with whom they drew their inspiration from the zouglou movement, an Ivorian cultural movement combining music and dance that allows the country's young people to describe the problems and evils of the society in which they live.

Very quickly, the group splits up not only because of its too many members but also and especially because of the presence of two singers Camso and Asalfo. Camso decides then, with two other members, to create the group "Les marabouts" which met only successes in West Africa and within the African community in Europe.

As early as 1996, the four magicians performed at local parties and events.

It was only a year later, in 1997, that their first album, Papitou, was released with the single Momo, which was a commercial failure. Despite this, they did not lose motivation and recorded a second one, Gaou. This one is released two years later in Ivory Coast and its success decides them to distribute it in France. However, the beginnings were not easy. Indeed, no record company wanted to produce the title.

The album was then entirely financed by Ephrem Youkpo - journalist/radio and TV host - (initiator of La nuit du zouglou in 1998 in France and since then boss of the x-pol music label) who strongly believed in the success of the project that Tony Adams had presented to him. Following the refusal of the majors and other record companies to distribute the title, Ephrem Youkpo gave up the distribution of the album 1er Gaou to the Sonima structure as soon as it was released in December 1999. The group was then invited to open for Bisso Na Bisso, a collective of Congolese rappers led by Passi.

In 2001, their 3rd album, Poisson d'avril, met with mixed success.

The following year, the remix of 1er Gaou by Bob Sinclar will have the effect of reviving the title dating from 1999 and will make the group known to the French public.

Magic System took advantage of the wave and released 3 other albums: Un Gaou à Paris (2003), Petit Pompier (2005), and Cessa kié la vérité (2005). On April 2, 2012, the Magicians released their first best-of entitled D'Abidjan à Paris with their new single Tango Tango as an unreleased track.

On May 19, 2014, the group released the opus Africainement Vôtre3, containing the single Magic in the Air, produced by RedOne featuring Chawki4, whose video has several hundred million views. On June 13, 2014, the group Bana C4 covers the track 1er Gaou. In the video clip of the song, the group also makes an appearance. Note that the singer K-Reen appears as a backup singer on the track.

On June 29, 2015 the album Radio Afrika was released.

On May 1, 2016, Didier Bonaventure Deigna, drummer and backup singer of the group, drowned in Jacqueville (Ivory Coast) while trying to save a person5.

On June 16, 2017, the group released a new album entitled Ya Foye.

In 2018, Magic in the Air meets a second success by becoming the anthem of the French Football Team at the 2018 World Cup after its broadcast in the stadium at each goal of the Blues.

At the end of 2020, the group leaves Parlophone and Warner and signs on the new label Universal Music Africa, to release a new album Envolée zougloutique on 21 June 2021.

C'est dans ma galère que la go Antou m'a quitté oh ah {x4}

Quand j'avais un peu
Matin midi soir
On été ensemble
A la rue Princesse
Aux mille maquis
Santos payait les poulets
L'argent est fini
Antou a changé de côté
Wari ban nan
Elle a changé de copain

Nan guin nan wan, nan guin nan wan
Nan guin nan wan, nan guin nan wan

Dieu merci pour moi je savais chanter un peu
J'ai fait ma cassette oh on me voit à la télé
Matin midi soir c'est moi je chante à la radio
Antou a vu çà elle dit le gaou a percé
Attends je vais partir le couper

{Refrain:}
Et on dit premier gaou n'est pas gaou oh
C'est deuxième gaou qui est niata oh ah
Et on dit premier gaou n'est pas gaou oh
C'est deuxième gaou qui est niata oh ah

Dimanche matin koko on frappe à ma porte
A ma grande surprise c'est la go Antou je vois
On s embrasse j'ai dit y'a longtemps qu'on c'est plus revu
Elle veut me mentir elle dit chéri j'avais voyagé
Je suis de retour
Je t'appartiens
Prends moi cadeau, fais ce que tu veux

{au Refrain}

J'ai dit chéri koko qu'est ce que tu veux manger
Sans même hésiter elle me dit poulet braisé

J'ai dit chéri koko c'est poulet tu veux manger
Poulet est trop petit çà peut pas te rassasier
C'est caïman braisé, je vais te donner
Kedjenou d'éléphant, tu vas manger

Nan guin nan wan, nan guin nan wan

Elle est fâché elle dit elle s'en va à la maison
Si elle va à la maison, coagulation va me tuer
Je lui ai demandé pardon, elle a accepté
A un moment donné, elle a tout gâté
Elle est quitté dans poulet, elle s'en va dans aloco
Si c'est aloco c'est pas compliqué
C'est plantation de bananes
Tu vas griller
Au lieu de fourchette,
Ca peut pas bien piquer
C'est avec râteau, tu vas manger

Nan guin nan wan, nan guin nan wan
Nan guin nan wan, nan guin nan wan

{au Refrain}

Kader gaou oh ah
Blé go gaou oh ah
Soro guillaume gaou oh ah
Sabine yo so gaou oh ah
Angelo gaou oh ah
Hotorino gaou oh ah
Blé niata oh ah
Dieu fit niata oh ah
Kader niata oh ah
Kader tu m'a niata oh ah
Blé niata oh ah
Michel est gaou oh ah
Emile est gaou oh ah

Honoré gaou oh ah
J'ai dit tu danses ah oh ah
Regardes ta sciences oh ah
J'ai dit tu danses ah oh ah

Nan guin nan wan, nan guin nan wan
Oh tu danses ah oh ah

{au Refrain}

it's when i was down that the gal Antou left me oh ah {x4}1

when i had little(money)
morning noon evening
we were together
at the "Rue Princesse" ( famous Abidjan bar)
at the "Mille Maquis" (famous Abidjan bar)
together at the""inaudible" oh (famous abidjan bar)
when the money was gone
Antou changed side
wari bana (means "no more money" in african dialect)
she changed boyfriend

na gnere na gnere wa, na gnere na gnere wah (means you are crazy in african dialect)

thank god for me, i knew how to sing a little
i did my demo tape, people saw me on TV
morning noon evening its me singing on radio
Antou saw that and said the fool made it (GAOU means FOOL in slang)
wait, let me go and take his money (like scam him)

{Refrain:}
and we say first fool is not a fool
its the second fool who is the real fool
and we say first fool is not a fool
its the second fool who is the real fool
(african verison of "fool me once shame on you,fool me twice shame on me"

sunday morning knock knock someone's knocking at my door
to my great surprise it's the gal Antou i see
jokingly i say its been a while we've seen each other
(wrong translation on your original he says "EN SEMBLANT" not "ON S'EMBRASSE")
she wants to lie to me she says darling i had traveled
i am back
i belong to you
take me as a gift and do what you want with me

{au Refrain}

i say sweet darling what do you want to eat
without hesitation she says barbecued chicken
when we say first fool is not a fool
its the second fool who is the real fool
i say sweet darling, its chicken you want to eat
chicken is too small and wont satisfy you
its barbecued cayman i will give you
"kedjenou" of elephant you are going to eat (kedjenou is an african dish)

na gnere na gnere wah, na gnere na gnere wah

she is upset and says she is going home
if she goes home, horniness is going to kill me
(coagulation means like coagulated sperm for lack of sex)
i ask for her forgiveness and she accepted
then at one point, she messed it all up
she stop asking for chicken and now wants alloco (alloco its an african fried plantain dish)
if its alloco,its not complicated
its a banana plantation
that you are going to fry
instead of a fork
that cant fill you up
its with a rake that you are going to eat
na gnere na gnere wa, na gnere na gnere wah
{au Refrain}

Kader fool oh ah
Blé go fool oh ah
Soro guillaume fool oh ah
Sabine yo so fool oh ah
Angelo fool oh ah
Hotorino fool oh ah
Blé niata oh ah
Dieu fit niata oh ah
Kader niata oh ah
Kader tu m'a niata oh ah
Blé niata oh ah
Michel is a fool oh ah
Emile is a fool oh ah

Honoré fool oh ah
i sAy you dance ah oh ah
look at your stuff oh ah
i say you dance ah oh ah

Nan guin nan wan, nan guin nan wan
Oh youdance ah oh ah

{au Refrain}

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Niagara - Quand la ville dort - 1986
New Wave, Synthpop, Chanson

Album: Encore un dernier baiser (RYM: 3,43/5)


Niagara was a French rock band that achieved popularity both in France and Canada in the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] The band, who was known under the name L'Ombre jaune from 1982 to 1984, was formed in Rennes, France by vocalist Muriel Laporte (later known as Muriel Moreno [fr]) and keyboardist Daniel Chenevez. Early on, the band also included guitarist José Tamarin, although he left before the release of their first album.

Evolving from a new wave and synthpop style on their earlier albums to a more rock-oriented style on their later ones, they were frequently compared to the duo Eurythmics.



The band originally took their name from the 1950 Marilyn Monroe film Niagara.

They became famous in France when they issued in 1985 their first single, "Tchiki boum" (a Top 20 hit), which was followed in the summer 1986 by their second single and Top 5 hit, "L'amour à la plage". 200,000 copies of each single were sold in France. Driven by Laporte's charisma and vocal style, the duo released their first album in 1986, Encore un dernier baiser which included their first two successes and two new singles, "Je dois m'en aller" and "Quand La Ville Dort" (both also reaching the Top 20).

Their second and most popular release was the album Quel enfer! in 1988; the video for its single "Soleil d'hiver" received frequent airplay in Canada, leading to the group forming a following in North America. This song was also a hit in France, reaching n°12, and two other singles from the album ("Assez !" and "Flammes de l'Enfer") entered the French Top 50.

Their next album, Religion (1990), introduced a harder-edged sound to their music. Its singles "J'ai vu" and "Pendant que les champs brûlent" became minor hits in central Europe and reached the French Top 50.
Around this time, they received some interest from record labels in the United States, but declined a deal as it was conditional on the band recording an English language version of the album.

They released their fourth and final album, La Vérité, in 1992.

Following La Vérité, the band and the real-life couple of Laporte/Moreno-Chenevez separated. Both musicians went on to solo careers.

In 2002, a compilation entitled Flammes was released as a double CD and DVD, containing all the band's hits. It hit No. 1 for three weeks on the French Compilations Chart.
Un peu plus tard après la nuit
Et je n´ai pas encore dormi
Un peu plus tard après la fin de l´aurore
Mais est-ce que je t´aime encore.
Et pourquoi je l´ignore
Mes larmes s´évaporent
Et le silence, le silence est d´or.
Quand la ville dort
Je laisse aller le sort
Je n´ai aucun, je n´ai aucun, je n´ai aucun remords

Mais
Si le ciel ne me tombe pas sur la tête
Si la lune a comme un air de fête
Si la neige ne fond pas au printemps
Alors j´aurais peut-être le temps.

J´ai oublié ce que j´ai fait la veille
Mais c´était sûrement des merveilles
Et quand la ville brûle sous les feux du soleil

J´attends alors que tu t´éveilles.
La nuit porte conseil
Je ne suis pas de celles que tu en
Que tu ensorcelles
Je me rebelle et si tu me décèles
Je me ferai, je me ferai, je me ferai la belle

Mais
Si le ciel ne me tombe pas sur la tête
Si la lune a comme un air de fête
Si la neige ne fond pas au printemps
Alors j´aurais peut-être le temps.

Et pourquoi, je l´ignore
Mes larmes s´évaporent
Et le silence, le silence est d´or
Quand la ville dort
Je laisse aller le sort
Je n´ai aucun, je n´ai aucun remords.

A little after the night
And I haven't slept yet.
A little lat after the end of the dawn
But do I still love you ?
And why, I don't know,
Do my tears evaporate
And (why is) the silence gold ?
When the city sleeps
I let go the fate
I don't have any, I don't have any, I don't have any remorse.

But
If the sky doesn't fall on my head,
If the Moon is a party-mood,
If the snow doesn't melt during springtime,
Then I may have the time

I've forgotten what I've done yesterday
But surely it was marvellous
And when the city burns under the Sun's fires

I wait for you to wake up
The night is a great counseller
I'm not one of those you en-
One of those you enchant
I rebel and if you discover me,
I'll make myself, I'll make myself, I'll make myself beautiful**

But
If the sky doesn't fall on my head,
If the Moon is a party-mood,
If the snow doesn't melt during springtime,
Then I may have the time

And why, I don't know,
Do my tears evaporate
And (why is) the silence gold ?
When the city sleeps
I let go the fate
I don't have any, I don't have any, I don't have any remorse.

* The English idiom equivalent is : "Things always look better in the morning"
** Goodlooking
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Jacques Pills - Elle était swing - 1941 - Jazz
Music and Lyrics: Loulou Gasté


Jacques Pills (born René Jacques Ducos; 7 January 1906, Tulle, France – 12 September 1970) was a French singer and actor. His impresario was Bruno Coquatrix. In 1959, Pills was the Monegasque entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Mon ami Pierrot". The song ended last, in eleventh place and got only one point.

During the 1930s he appeared frequently alongside Georges Tabet.

He married Lucienne Boyer in 1939 and they were divorced in 1951. On 20 September 1952, he married singer Édith Piaf. However, in 1957, this marriage also ended in divorce. He was the father of Jacqueline Boyer, who won the 1960 Eurovision contest the year after her father's participation. Upon his death, he became the first Eurovision contestant to die.

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La Main - La mélodie du sombre - 2020
Minimal synth

Album: La mélodie du sombre

Ssolo-project driven by Joann Guyonnet
L’œil noir brûlant sous tes dents
Craque et glisse seul en entrant
Dévorant le seuil jusqu'au sang
Entre et prends le temps il t'accueille

Des dizaine de pattes sous la peau
Griffent déchirent et grattent les lambeaux
Ce sourire de glace à tes lèvres
Apparaît soudain sur la gréve

Douce est la mélodie du sombre
Tendre est le cri caché dans l'ombre

Sauter à nouveau dans les flots
Étendre les bras et serrer
L'ombre de ton corps emmêlé
Dans les algues noires oubliées

Douce est la mélodie du sombre
Tendre est le cri caché dans l'ombre
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The dark eye burning beneath your teeth
Cracks and slips alone upon entering
Devouring the threshold to the blood
Enter and take your time, it welcomes you

Dozens of paws under the skin
Tearing and scratching the shreds
That icy smile on your lips
Suddenly appears on the shore

Sweet is the melody of darkness
Tender is the cry hidden in the shadow

Jumping once again into the waves
Stretching the arms and embracing
The shadow of your entangled body
In the forgotten black seaweed

Sweet is the melody of darkness
Tender is the cry hidden in the shadow

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Nino Nardini - Tropicola - 1972
Library Music, Musique concrète

Album: Mindbender (Stringtronics)
Nino Nardini is actually not his real name. He was Georges Achille Teperin (Georges Teperino), a french musician & electronic pop pioneer.
After second world war ended,he began his public apparitions and fully dedicated his personal conductor ability and composer taste to the Spanish and Mexican ethnic and circus/folk-related music, with a hint for exotic percussions. Along with a bunch of former dependable session club musicians he formed the "Nino Nardini Orchestra" in 1951.

At the very beginning of the Sixties he entered slowly the new born world of Music Library in France, Europe and Uk, recording mostly avant-jazz and be bop blues and drama scores, using preminently uncommon instruments like Harpsichord, Marimba or Electric organ, just like his old childhood friend Roger Roger was doing around the same time with him.

This parallel carrer and strong friendship led the two to one overgrowing real musical-partnership, with a costant rate that took the two to finally build up the Studio Ganaro, a personal recording space where they started to work together on composing many kind of music and then heavily experimenting, before many others, on the moog synthesizer and other analogue electronic systems.
In particular,Teperino was the one heavily oriented to innovative experiments with musique-concrete blended with common concert instruments, following the path of that era along with Pierre Henry to Jean-Jacques Perrey.
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Fabienne Thibeault - Starmania - Le monde est Stone - 1979
Opéra Rock, musical

Wikipédia:
Fabienne Thibeault (born 16 June 1952 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian singer. She is particularly known for her role in Starmania. Thibeault has released numerous albums over her career. She has been the recipient of two Félix Awards.

She began her singing career at 21, placing third at the Festival international de la chanson de Granby in 1972. In 1973 she won the same competition. She then went on to touring and singing with other better known Quebec artists, including Plume Latraverse and Sylvain Lelièvre. She released her first album De laine et de bois (Of Wool and Wood) in 1976.

By 1972, she had caught the attention of producer Luc Plamondon. He asked Thibeault to join the cast of Starmania, which he had written with Michel Berger, in the role of Marie-Jeanne. Thibeault toured with the show in Quebec and Europe, then on her own.

Thibeault has been recognised with two Félix Awards. The first in 1979 as Female Performer of the Year, and the second in 1981 for pop LP of the year.

Success in Europe, along with marriage to French saxophone player Jean-Pierre Debarbat, led her to spend increasing amounts of time in France, where she now lives. In July 2001, Thibeault and her husband announced they were getting divorced. They promised, however, to continue their work together promoting rural life in the diverse regions of France where they live, and the preservation of agricultural traditions, through the various associations they have created.

Starmania is a Canadian-French cyberpunk rock opera written in 1976 with music by Michel Berger and book and lyrics by Luc Plamondon. It debuted in 1978 with a studio recording of the songs, before premiering on stage in 1979. Several of its songs have passed into mainstream Francophone pop culture, and helped original cast members Daniel Balavoine and Diane Dufresne to rise in popularity in France; it is now considered one of the most famous rock operas in French history.

An English version with lyrics by Tim Rice, titled Tycoon, premiered with the release of a studio recording in 1992, which starred Kim Carnes, Celine Dion, Nina Hagen, Peter Kingsbery, Cyndi Lauper, Willy DeVille, Kevin Robinson and Tom Jones.

A comeback tour, directed by Thomas Jolly, Nicolas Ghesquière and Victor Le Masne (Housse de Racket), was announced in 2020 and set to premiere in France on November 11, 2021. It was postponed to November 8, 2022, because of the COVID-19 pandemic


In 1978, its first recording was released (in French), sub-titled Starmania, ou la passion de Johnny Rockfort selon les évangiles télévisés ("Starmania, or the Passion of Johnny Rockfort According to the Televised Gospels") with the leading roles filled by Daniel Balavoine, Claude Dubois, Diane Dufresne, Nanette Workman, France Gall, Eric Esteve and Fabienne Thibeault.

In 1979 the show was given its theatrical debut in Paris, starring Balavoine, Étienne Chicot, Dufresne, Gall, and Thibeault, followed by Canadian productions in 1980 and 1986 and French revivals in 1988 and throughout the 1990s. The 1980 Canadian production had a cast that included France Castel, Louise Forestier, Gilles Valiquette, and Martine St-Clair.

Céline Dion recorded several songs from the musical on her 1991 album Dion chante Plamondon.

In 1992, an English version of the show was created with the release of the album Tycoon, with lyrics by Tim Rice, and starring Kim Carnes, Celine Dion, Nina Hagen, Peter Kingsbery, Cyndi Lauper, Willy Deville, Kevin Robinson and Tom Jones in the principal roles on the recording. The American premiere of Tycoon, with English lyrics, was produced at the UTEP Dinner Theatre in El Paso, Texas in 1996, with Plamondon in attendance. It was alternated on stage in Paris with the French version for a few months.

In 2004, Starmania was honoured as a MasterWork by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada.

Brief plot outline
In the near future, Monopolis, the capital of the recently united Occident, is terrorized by the Black Stars, a gang headed by Johnny Rockfort, who dances to the tune of Sadia, a student-agitator, originally from the upper crust, who cross-dresses at night and descends into the underground to hand out orders. They meet at the Underground Café, under the amused gaze of Marie-Jeanne, the robotic waitress.

Above this underground café stands the Golden Tower, a 121-floor building, the top of which is the office of Zéro Janvier, a billionaire getting into politics by running for the presidency of the Occident. He bases his electoral campaign on a return to order and on the construction of the new atomic world. Zéro Janvier thus becomes the sworn enemy of Johnny Rockfort and the Black Stars. It is in this framework that three parallel love affairs take shape and come undone: the impossible love of Marie-Jeanne for Ziggy, a young androgynous and mythomaniac record dealer; the sensational romance of Zéro Janvier and Stella Spotlight, a sex symbol who has just said farewell to the silver screen; and the passion of Johnny Rockfort and Cristal, a true nexus of the plot.

Cristal, the host and star of a TV show called “Starmania,” gets a call from Sadia offering her a clandestine interview with Johnny Rockfort, whose face no one knows. The get-together takes place at the Underground Café. For Cristal and Johnny, it is love at first sight. They go off together; therefore, Sadia has lost her hold over Johnny. Cristal decides to become the spokeswoman for the Black Stars, transmitting pirate messages by means of a neutron camera that lets her take over television frequencies.

Sadia, furious with jealousy, denounces Johnny and Cristal to Zéro Janvier on the evening that he is celebrating his engagement with Stella Spotlight at Naziland, a gigantic revolving discothèque above Monopolis. The Black Stars have chosen this very evening to set off a bomb in the Golden Tower.

Zéro Janvier's men hunt the Black Stars. Cristal is shot by Sadia and dies in Johnny's arms. The shadow of Johnny Rockfort will darken the victory of Zéro Janvier, elected president of the Occident. Terrorism against totalitarianism, two living forces in opposition, two dangers that threaten the world.

Stella Spotlight, revolted by power, ends her own life and returns to her dream of immortality; Marie-Jeanne, having had enough of the underground world, heads off in search of sunlight.
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J'ai la tête qui éclate
J'voudrais seulement dormir
M'étendre sur l'asphalte
Et me laisser mourir.

Stone, le monde est stone
Je cherche le soleil
Au milieu de la nuit.

J'sais pas si c'est la terre
Qui tourne à l'envers
Ou bien si c'est moi
Qui m'fait du cinéma
Qui m'fait mon cinéma

Je cherche le soleil
Au milieu de la nuit

Stone, le monde est stone

J'ai plus envie de me battre
J'ai plus envie d'courir
Comme tous ces automates
Qui bâtissent des empires
Que le vent peut détruire
Comme des châteaux de cartes.

Stone, le monde est stone

Laissez moi me débattre
Venez pas me secourir
Venez plutôt m'abattre
Pour m'empêcher de souffrir.

J'ai la tête qui éclate
J'voudrais seulement dormir
M'étendre sur l'asphalte
Et me laisser mourir
Et me laisser mourir

Laissez moi me débattre
Venez pas me secourir
Venez plutôt m'abattre
Pour m'empêcher de souffrir.

J'ai la tête qui éclate
J'voudrais seulement dormir
M'étendre sur l'asphalte
Et me laisser mourir
Et me laisser mourir

My mind is bursting
I would just like to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt3
And let myself die.

Stoned, the world is stoned
I'm looking for the sun
In the middle of the night.

I don't know if it's the earth
That's rotating backwards
Or if I'm the one
Who's fantasizing
And deluding myself

I'm looking for the sun
In the middle of the night

Stoned, the world is stoned

I don't want to fight anymore
I don't want to run
Like all of these robots
Who are building empires
Who can be brought down by the wind
Like house of cards.

Stoned, the world is stoned

Let me struggle
Don't come to rescue me
Come and shoot me down
So that I don't hurt anymore.

My mind is bursting
I would just like to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt
And let myself die
And let myself die

Let me struggle
Don't come to rescue me
Come and shoot me down
So that I don't hurt anymore.

My mind is bursting
I would just like to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt
And let myself die
And let myself die

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Alexandre Desplat - The Shape Of Water - 2017 - OST

Album: The Shape Of Water (RYM: 3,59/5)

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Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dɛspla]; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has won many awards, including two Academy Awards, for his musical scores to the films The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water, and has received nine additional Academy Award nominations, ten César nominations (winning three), eleven BAFTA nominations (winning three), twelve Golden Globe Award nominations (winning two) and ten Grammy nominations (winning two).

Alexandre Desplat was born in Paris. His father, Jacques Desplat, was a Frenchman originally from Sarlat-la-Canéda. His mother, Katie Ladopoulou, is a Greek poet originally from Athens. Desplat's parents had met in the United States while they were both students at the University of California, Berkeley. They married in San Francisco and returned to France, settling in Paris. Alexandre has two older sisters, Marie-Christine (also known as Kiki) and Rosalinda.

Desplat began playing the piano at the age of five. He later picked up the trumpet, before switching to flute at nine.Desplat's musical interests were wide, ranging from French composers as Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, to jazz and world music. He developed an early appreciation for film music, courtesy of the movie soundtracks his parents brought back from the United States. He began collecting Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock soundtracks as a teen and eventually decided to pursue a career as a film composer after hearing John Williams's Star Wars score in 1977. Other early sources of Desplat's inspiration include the music of Maurice Jarre, Nino Rota and Georges Delerue.

Desplat studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Claude Ballif. During this period, he also took a summer course under Iannis Xenakis. Desplat also studied under Jack Hayes in Los Angeles. After leaving the Conservatoire, the then 20-year-old Desplat joined a theatrical troupe, where he wrote and played music.

When recording the music for his first film, he met violinist Dominique Lemonnier, who became his favorite soloist and artistic director. They later married.

Desplat has worked on many films since the 1980s. His big Hollywood break came in 2003 with the soundtrack for the film Girl with a Pearl Earring, a drama set in 17th-century Delft exploring a fictional muse of Vermeer.

Career
Desplat has composed extensively for French cinema, Hollywood, and incidental music for over 100 films, including Lapse of Memory (1992), Family Express (1992), Regarde Les Hommes Tomber (1994), Les Péchés Mortels (1995), César-nominated Un Héros Très Discret (1996), Une Minute de Silence (1998), Sweet Revenge (1998), Le Château des Singes (1999), Reines d'un Jour (2001), the César-nominated Sur mes lèvres (2002), Rire et Châtiment (2003), Syriana (2005), the César-winner The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), The Queen (2006), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Ghost Writer (2010), Daniel Auteuil's remake of La Fille du Puisatier (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).

Desplat has composed individual songs that have been sung in films by such artists as Akhenaton, Kate Beckinsale, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Valérie Lemercier, Miosotis and Catherine Ringer. He has also written music for the theatre, including pieces performed at the Comédie Française. Desplat has conducted performances of his music played by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Desplat has also given Master Classes at La Sorbonne in Paris and the Royal College of Music in London.

In 2007, he composed the scores for Philip Pullman's Golden Compass; Zach Helm's BAFTA nominated directorial debut Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium with American composer Aaron Zigman; and the Ang Lee movie Lust, Caution. Prior to these break-out works, he contributed scores for The Luzhin Defence, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Syriana, Birth, Hostage, Casanova and The Nest.

For The Painted Veil, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music, and the 2006 World Soundtrack Award. He won the 2007 BMI Film Music Award, 2007 World Soundtrack Award, 2007 European Film Award, and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for The Queen. He also won the Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Best Film Music in The Beat that My Heart Skipped. In 2008, Desplat received his second Oscar nomination for David Fincher's Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Desplat received his third Oscar nomination and a BAFTA nomination for Fantastic Mr. Fox in 2010, both of which were won by Michael Giacchino for Up.

Desplat has composed music for Largo Winch, based on the Belgian comic; Afterwards a French-Canadian psychological thriller film directed by Gilles Bourdos in English; Anne Fontaine's Coco avant Chanel, based on the life of designer Coco Chanel; Robert Guédiguian's L'Armée du Crime; Cheri, reuniting him with director Stephen Frears, whom he collaborated with on The Queen; Un Prophète reuniting with director Jacques Audiard; Julie & Julia[12] directed by Nora Ephron; Fantastic Mr. Fox, directed by Wes Anderson and based on the novel by Roald Dahl; New Moon, directed by Chris Weitz; Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer; Tamara Drewe; The Special Relationship; and The King's Speech which earned Desplat his fourth Oscar nomination.

In early 2011, Desplat began to write the music to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. He reunited with director David Yates, who offered Desplat the opportunity to score the second part after his work on the Part 1 soundtrack in 2010 "enchanted everyone in the control room". Desplat's soundtrack sequel to the 2008 film Largo Winch was released in 2011 and was well received. Desplat's 2011 projects included The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick (which he actually recorded in early 2010), A Better Life, La Fille du Puisatier, Roman Polanski's Carnage, George Clooney's Ides of March, and the logo for the French film company StudioCanal.

Desplat started 2012 with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the Florent Emilio Siri-directed biopic Cloclo, and DreamWorks Animation's Rise of the Guardians. His other scores of 2013 included Rust and Bone, Zero Dark Thirty, and Argo, the latter of which earned him Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

In June 2013, Desplat's first Concerto for Flute & Orchestra premiered in France with flautist Jean Ferrandis and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire conducted by John Axelrod. His Trois Etudes for piano originally written for pianist Lang Lang had its U.S. premiere in October 2013 played by pianist Gloria Cheng. He received a sixth Oscar nomination for his score to Philomena, which marked his fourth collaboration with director Stephen Frears.

On 23 June 2014, it was announced that Desplat would head the jury at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. He wrote five major scores during 2014, with The Grand Budapest Hotel winning him his first Academy Award. His score for The Imitation Game was also nominated, and his win therefore marked the first time a composer had won against another of their own scores since John Williams won for Star Wars (beating Close Encounters of the Third Kind) in 1978, and only the seventh time overall (Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, Miklos Rozsa and Johnny Green are the only other composers to achieve this).

On 16 March 2015, It was announced that Desplat would be composing the first anthology film of the new Disney Star Wars films, called Rogue One. In September 2016, he stepped down due to reshoots of the film, and was then replaced by Michael Giacchino.

In 2018, he won his second Academy Award for The Shape of Water and premiered a new work for solo flute played by Emmanuel Pahud.

2022 saw Desplat nominated for Best Original Score for The French Dispatch at the BAFTA Awards.

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Alain Kan - Le premier bébé de Lady Star Lune - 1975
Glam Rock, Chanson, Cabaret

Album: Et Gary Cooper s'éloigna dans le désert... (RYM: 3,48/5)

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Alain Kan (born 14 September 1947), is a French singer who disappeared on 14 April 1990.

Born Alain Michel Zisa in Paris, France, on 14 September 1947. Kan was raised by his mother and stepfather, and grew up with his stepsister Véronique, seven years older than him. "Kan" is the surname of his stepfather, Kan never knew his biological father.

In the spring of 1963, at the age of 18, Kan released his first 45 rpm at Pathé-Marconi, "Si l'amore" (written by Bob du Pac and Jean-Louis Chauby) on the A-side, and "Quand tu reviendras" (written by Michel Jourdan and Danyel Gérard) on the B-side. The following year, in 1964, he released three 4-track EPs from Decca, mostly consisting of covers of American and Canadian singers, including Paul Anka.

In the 1970s, Kan travelled to London, England, where he developed an interest in the music of Lou Reed, T. Rex, and David Bowie, who would go on to be an enormous influence on him, and he met Marie France. Inspired by the glam rock music of these musicians, Kan made a foray into glam rock with the album "Et Gary Cooper s'éloigna dans le désert..." (1975), followed by "Heureusement en France on ne se drogue pas" (1976). While recording the latter at the Château d'Hérouville, in Hérouville-en-Vexin, Val-d'Oise, he met David Bowie. Kan said of this meeting: "In Hérouville, I met Bowie, who took me away for ten days in his black Mercedes. Since then I have not missed my discoloration ... There have been lots of photos in the press and since then there has been a kind of respect for me".

Alain Kan disappeared on 14 April 1990. He was last seen at the Rue de la Pompe Parisian metro station.

Hé ! Venez voir, il est arrivé
Poussez-vous, laissez-le respirer
Il est beau, il est laid
Mais quelle importance
Il est là et il est le premier

Du sexe des anges
Aux couleurs étranges
Le premier bébé de Lady Star Lune

Taisez-vous, c'est curieux
Il parle déjà l'anglais
Il demande un grand verre de whisky
À son âge, il est fou
Il faudra l'enfermer
Si Gilles l'voit (?), on devra le tuer

Des cheveux tout bleus
Et des yeux de feu
Le premier bébé de Lady Star Lune

Dis, hé ! Lady Lune
Ah ! Avec qui as-tu flirté ?
Dis, hé ! Lady Lune
Qui est le père de ton bébé ?

Un Russe, un Américain ?
Ah peut-être n'en sais-tu rien

C'est pas vrai, qui l'eut cru ?
Il joue de la guitare
Écoutez, même qu'on dirait Jimi
Il connaît les chansons de Jagger et Bowie
Quelle histoire, est-ce un monstre, un génie ?
Des dents de guépard
Aux reflets d'ivoire
Le premier bébé de Lady Star Lune

Dis, hé ! Lady Lune
Ah ! Avec qui as-tu flirté ?
Dis, hé ! Lady Lune
Qui est le père de ton bébé ?
Est-ce un Russe, un Américain ?
Peut-être n'en sais-tu rien

Oh, venez voir, regardez, il est arrivé
Poussez-vous, laissez-le respirer
Il est beau, il est laid
Mais quelle importance
Il est là et il est le premier

Du sexe des anges
Aux couleurs étranges
Le premier bébé de Lady Star Lune
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Les Rita Mitsouko - Le petit train - 1988
Pop, Pop Rock, New Wave, Synthpop

Album: Marc & Robert (RYM: 3,34/5)


Les Rita Mitsouko Biography by Bradley Torreano (Allmusic)
An iconic and critically-acclaimed French pop duo of the 1980s, Les Rita Mitsouko represented the collaboration of singer Catherine Ringer and multi-instrumentalist Fred Chichin. Emerging out of the Parisian new wave scene, the group's vivid art-pop blended elements of punk, jazz, electronic, and musical theater which found a significant European audience in the middle part of the decade thanks to albums like The No Comprendo and Marc et Robert. The duo's openness and adventurous approach saw them constantly reinventing themselves and by the mid-90s, their diverse work included musical scores and collaborations with filmmakers, fashion designers, and artists like Sparks and Iggy Pop. They remained active into the 2000s, releasing a final album, Variety, in April 2007 before the Chichin's death from cancer later that year ended their career.

Les Rita Mitsouko came together in the spring of 1979 when former Gazoline guitarist Chichin and Ringer began working together on the same theater production. Upon their first meeting, they became inseparable and quickly left the production to form a rock band. With Ringer on vocals and Chichin handling much of the instrumentation, they debuted later that year as the Sprats, playing around local clubs and bars for a couple of years before rebranding as Rita Mitsouko which combined the names of famed French actress/stripper Rita Renoir and the perfume Mitsouko.

With their highly stylized look and mix of minimalist art-pop and new wave, they became a popular live act while keeping one foot in the theater world, most notably composing the music to Armando Llamas' d'Aux limites de la mer shortly before the playwright's death in 1981. Signing to Virgin Records in 1982, the duo issued their first single, "Minuit Dansant," though it was the B-side, "Don't Forget the Nite," which became a surprise radio hit and was quickly re-released on top. They moved to Cologne and began recording their eponymous 1984 debut album, which spawned the European hits "La Jalousie" and "Marcia Baila." Ensuing tours with the Smiths and Kid Creole revealed their growing popularity, and by 1986 they were ready to record their follow-up album.

With producer Tony Visconti at the helm and filmmaker Jean-Luc Goddard documenting the sessions, 1986's The No Comprendo was both a critical and commercial success, vaulting the now plural Les Rita Mitsouko into the European mainstream and earning an Album of the Year award from Victoires de la Musique. Footage from the album's sessions appeared the following year in Goddard's experimental film Soigne Ta Droite. The band moved to New York in early 1987 to hold auditions for a live band. The following tour, which covered most of Europe, was an enormous success and led to the eventual re-launching of La Cigale, an old Parisian theater that the band enjoyed. During the tour they also made friends with pioneering British art-pop duo Sparks, with whom they collaborated on 1988's synth-heavy Marc et Robert, which was also produced by Visconti. Another tour followed, leading to the construction of the band's new studio in their home. 1990 saw the release of Re, a remix album consisting of songs from their first three albums, as well as a month-long engagement at La Cigale. The performances were so successful that the two agreed to prolong the appearance, staying at the theater until January of 1991. Although they had planned to reunite with Visconti for their next album, Ringer and Chichin ended up producing the sessions themselves, recording in a large rented house in Morocco. Released in 1993, Systeme D was another critical success and included a duet with Iggy Pop on the song, "My Love Is Bad." Another European tour resulted from the release, and they worked with several other musicians during their trips, including Coba and Richard Galliano. Les Rita Mitsouko's first live album, Acoustiques, appeared in 1996 with their full catalog finally receiving a proper American release in 1999.

The band began the millennium with Cool Frenesie, their first studio album in seven years which they followed with a greatest hits compilation, Le Bestov. They released their sixth studio album, La Femme Trombone in 2002 and a live album entitled En Concert avec l'Orchestre Lamoureux in 2004. Following a relatively quiet period, Les Rita Mitsouko returned with 2007's Variety, which would unfortunately be their last album together. With concert dates already on the calendar, Chichin received a cancer diagnosis that September and succombed to the disease just two months later on November 28, 2007. Ringer continued under her own name and released the live album Chante Les Rita Mitsouko and more a la Cigalle in 2008. Over a decade later, the band's entire catalog was honored with the 2019 career-spanning box set, L'Integrale.

Album (Wikipédia)
Marc & Robert is the third studio album b French pop rock group Les Rita Mitsouko. It was released in 1988 and reached number thirty-five on the French Albums Chart. Marc & Robert includes the singles "Mandolino City", "Singing in the Shower", "Le Petit Train" and "Tongue Dance".

The album was recorded and mixed with veteran producer Tony Visconti at Studio Good Earth, London and Studio Davout, Paris. Receiving mixed reviews the album was originally released as an LP, Cassette and CD in November 1988. CD editions include a bonus track. The artwork was designed by Fabrice Pernisco with photography by Luc Choquer.

The album marked the group's second collaboration with Tony Visconti after working together on The No Comprendo. The entire album was remixed by Jesse Johnson, though only his mixes of "Tongue Dance", "Singing in the Shower", and "Live in Las Vegas" were used. In an effort to appeal to Anglophone audiences the group collaborated with the American duo Sparks. Brothers Ron Mael and Russell Mael contributed and performed on "Singing in the Shower" and "Live in Las Vegas". Russell Mael also appeared on the Les Rita Mitsouko composition and album opener "Hip Kit".

Marc & Robert displays a notable shift into a greater electronic emphasis, with sequencers and keyboards driving tracks while acoustic instruments are often absent.

The album features a mixture of songs with lyrical themes that range from light in tone ("Singing in the Shower") to more reflective and bitter-sweet.

Le petit train

The single "Le Petit Train" (English translation: "The little train") is an example of a song that reflects the dual nature of the lyrics. The song is opens musically and lyrically in a light tone with an almost childish melody. As the song progresses, the lyrical themes turn to serious references such as the use of trains in the deportation of Ethnic minorities and political prisoners during the Holocaust. The music video directed by Jean Achache, conveys the song's disjointed tones by shifting between increasingly oppressive scenes often backed by fencing reminiscent of a concentration camp and a playful Bollywood homage that makes up the lighter sections.
Le petit train s'en va dans la campagne
Va et vient poursuit son chemin
Serpentin de bois et de ferraille
Rouille et vert de gris sous la pluie
Il est beau quand le soleil l'enflamme
Au couchant à travers champs
Les chapeaux des paysannes
Ondulent sous le vent
Elles rient parfois jusqu'aux larmes
En rêvant à leurs amants
L'avoine est déjà germée, as-tu rentré le blé ?
Cette année les vaches ont fait des hectolitres de lait
Petit train, où t'en vas-tu ?
Train de la mort, mais que fais-tu ?
Le referas-tu encore ?
Personne ne sait ce qui s'y fait
Personne ne croit, il faut qu'il voie
Mais moi je suis quand même là
Le petit train dans la campagne
Et les enfants?
Le petit train dans la montagne
Les grands-parents
Petit train conduis-les aux flammes
À travers champs
Le petit train s'en va dans la campagne
Va et vient poursuit son chemin
Serpentin de bois, de ferraille
Marron et gris sous la pluie
Reverra-t-on une autre fois
Passer des trains comme autrefois ?
C'est pas moi qui répondra
Personne ne sait ce qui s'y fait
Personne en croit, il faut qu'il voie
Mais moi je suis quand même là
Petit train où t'en vas-tu ?
Train de la mort mais que fais-tu ?
Le referas-tu encore ?
Reverra-t-on une autre fois
Passer des trains comme celui-là ?
C'est pas moi qui répondra.

The little train goes through the countryside,
It goes and it comes following it's path,
A serpent of wood and of scrap iron,
Rusty and greeny-grey in the rain;
It is beautiful when the sun shines,
From sleeping to travelling through the countryside,
The farmers' hats
Wave in it's wind,
They laugh sometimes through their tears
Dreaming of their lovers,
The oats have already germinated, have you brought in the wheat?
This year the cows have produced gallons of milk,
Little train, where are you going to?
Train of death, but what are you doing?
Will you do that again?
No-one knows what you're doing there,
No-one believes, they must see it,
But me, I am even when there
The little train in the countryside,
And the children?
The little train in the mountains,
The grand parents?
Little train, drive them through the flames,
Cross the countryside,
The little train is going into the countryside,
It goes and it comes following it's path,
Serpent of wood, of scrap iron,
Brown and grey in the rain,
Will you return another time,
Pass these trains like the other times?
It's not me who will reply,
No-one knows what you're doing there,
No-one believes it, they have to see it,
But me, I am when even there,
Little train, where are you going?
Train of death, but what are you doing?
Will you do that again?
Return to us another time
Pass the trains like that one there?
It's not me who will reply.

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Louise Farrenc -Symphonie n°3 - Adagio cantabile - 1847 - Classical
Romantic


Wikipédia:
Louise Farrenc (née Jeanne-Louise Dumont; 31 May 1804 – 15 September 1875) was a French composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher of the Romantic period. Her compositions include three symphonies, a few choral works, numerous chamber pieces and a wide variety of piano music.

Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont, a successful sculptor, and sister to Auguste Dumont, also a sculptor. She began piano studies at an early age with Cecile Soria, a former student of Muzio Clementi. When it became clear that she had the ability to become a professional pianist she was given lessons by such masters as Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and, given the talent she showed as a composer, her parents decided to let her, in 1819 at the age of fifteen, study composition with Anton Reicha, the composition teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris. However, she was taught through private lessons as women were forbidden to enroll in the traditional composition classes at that time. In 1821 she married Aristide Farrenc, a flute student ten years her senior, who performed at some of the concerts regularly given at the artists' colony of the Sorbonne, where Louise's family lived. Following her marriage, Farrenc interrupted her studies to give concerts throughout France with her husband. He, however, soon grew tired of the concert life and, with her help, opened a publishing house in Paris, which, as Éditions Farrenc, became one of France's leading music publishers for nearly 40 years.

In Paris, Farrenc returned to her studies with Reicha, after which she re-embarked on a concert career, briefly interrupted in 1826 when she gave birth to a daughter, Victorine, who also became a concert pianist but who died in 1859 aged thirty-three. In the 1830s, Farrenc gained considerable fame as a performer and her reputation was such that in 1842 she was appointed to the permanent position of Professor of Piano at the Paris Conservatory, a position she held for thirty years and one which was among the most prestigious in Europe. In fact, Farrenc was the only woman to hold the esteemed position and rank at the Paris Conservatory throughout the 19th century. Accounts of the time record that she was an excellent instructor, with many of her students graduating with first prizes and becoming professional musicians. Despite this, Farrenc was paid less than her male counterparts for nearly a decade. Only after the triumphant premiere of her nonet, at which the famous violinist Joseph Joachim took part, did she demand and receive equal pay. Besides her teaching and performing career, she also produced and edited an influential book, Le Trésor des pianistes, about early music performance style, and was twice awarded the Prix Chartier [fr] of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, in 1861 and 1869.

Farrenc died in Paris.

Music:
At first, during the 1820s and 1830s, she composed exclusively for the piano. Several of these pieces drew high praise from critics, including Robert Schumann. In the 1830s, she tried her hand at larger compositions for both chamber ensemble and orchestra. It was during the 1840s that much of her chamber music was written. While the great bulk of Farrenc's compositions were for the piano alone, her chamber music is generally regarded as her best work.

Throughout her life, chamber music remained of great interest. She wrote works for various combinations of winds and or strings and piano. These include two piano quintets, Opp. 30 and 31; a sextet for piano and winds, Op. 40, which later appeared in an arrangement for piano quintet; two piano trios, Opp. 33 and 34; the nonet for winds and strings, Op. 38; a trio for clarinet (or violin), cello, and piano, Op. 44; a trio for flute (or violin), cello, and piano, Op. 45; and several instrumental sonatas (a string quartet sometimes attributed to her is regarded by specialists as the work of another composer, not yet identified).

In addition to chamber music and works for solo piano, she wrote two overtures and three symphonies. She heard her third symphony, Op. 36, performed at the Société des concerts du Conservatoire in 1849. The one area which is conspicuously missing from her output is opera, an important gap as opera was at the time the central musical form in France. Several sources indicate that she was also ambitious in that field, but did not succeed in being given a libretto to set to music by the Théâtre de l'Opéra or the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, for reasons still to be discovered.
Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 36, is a work by Louise Farrenc, the last of the symphonies she composed. It is the best known and most appreciated of her symphonies.

The composition of this symphony was completed in 18471, two years after her Symphony in D major, op. 35 (1845).

The work was premiered in Paris on April 22, 1849, by the Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire under the direction of Narcisse Girard.

Although less performed and recorded, it is nevertheless compared by the music journalist Tom Service to the symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann.

The symphony opens with a brief adagio that leads to a "nervous allegro where the themes are conducted with energy and authority, illuminated by the timbre of the winds treated with great mastery. In the second movement, "noble and almost religious," where it is "the clarinet that first sings the beautiful and expressive motive [...], soon repeated by the strings," and in which "a certain tension emerges. The third movement seems "straight out of the opera. Finally, the finale "with a triumphant energy".
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Lucas Trouble - La découverte - 1981
Post-Punk, Coldwave, Minimal Wave

Album: Le Roy défiguré (RYM: 2,96/5)

Lucas Trouble was the band/alias of Jean-Luc Taccard (d. 2016) whose main contributions to the French scene came as a producer and engineer for Kaiser Studio. But he started playing music in the late 70s early 80s, right as the the experimental French Psych/Prog scene was mutating into the cold wave and other new wave/postpunk forms. The only thing of Lucas Trouble recorded from that era was a single, and then this album, released on the seminal SCOPA/Invisible Imprint, which at the time was also putting out things like Ilitch's Ten Suicides.
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Françoise Hardy - Le temps de l'amour - 1962
Yé-yé, pop

Album: Tous les garçons et les filles (RYM: 3,54/5)

Wikipédia:
Françoise Madeleine Hardy (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃swaz madlɛn aʁdi]; born 17 January 1944) is a retired French singer, actress and songwriter. Mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, Hardy has been an important figure in French pop music since her debut, spanning a career of more than fifty years with over thirty studio albums released. She rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure of the yé-yé wave, a genre of pop music and associated youth culture phenomenon that adapted to French the pop and rock styles that came from the United States and the United Kingdom. The singer differentiated herself from her peers by writing her own material, a rare feat in an industry dominated by older, male composers and producers. France's most exportable female singer of the era, Hardy rose to international fame and released music sung in English, Italian and German, in addition to her native French. She also landed roles as a supporting actress in the films Château en Suède, Une balle au cœur and the American big-budget production Grand Prix, although she never pursued a serious acting career. In the mid-1960s, she also established herself as a pop and fashion icon with the aid of photographer Jean-Marie Périer, becoming a muse for top designers such as André Courrèges, Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne. In the English-speaking world, her trendy public image and personal style led her to become an icon for the Swinging London scene, and attracted the admiration of several famous artists. Long after the height of her career in the 1960s, Hardy remains one of the best-selling singers in French history, and continues to be regarded as an iconic and influential figure in both music and fashion. Her work has appeared on several critics' lists.

Born and raised in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Hardy had a troubled childhood marked by the strict upbringing of her single mother and a largely absent father. As a teenager, she discovered English-language rock and roll performers including Elvis Presley and Brill Building pop acts such as Paul Anka through the radio, and decided to pursue a singing career. Hardy made her musical debut in 1962 on French label Disques Vogue and found immediate success through the hit song "Tous les garçons et les filles", which remains one of her most popular compositions. Disliking the production of her early releases, she began to record in London in 1964, which allowed her to broaden her sound with albums such as Mon amie la rose, L'amitié, La maison où j'ai grandi and Ma jeunesse fout le camp.... In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Hardy sought to assert herself as an artist, although this implied less commercial repercussion. The albums Comment te dire adieu, La question and Message personnel—released during this period—are among her most influential and critically acclaimed works. In them, Hardy began to work with more renowned songwriters such as Serge Gainsbourg, Patrick Modiano, Michel Berger and Catherine Lara. Between 1977 and 1988, she worked with producer Gabriel Yared in a string of successful albums, including Star, Musique saoûle, Gin Tonic and À suivre. Her 1988 record Décalages was widely publicized as Hardy's final album, although she returned eight years later with Le danger, which completely reinvented her sound to a harsher alternative rock. Her following albums of the 2000s—Clair-obscur, Tant de belles choses and (Parenthèses...)—saw a return to her mellow style.

As a public figure, Hardy is known for her shyness, disenchantment with celebrity life and self-deprecatory attitude—attributed to her lifelong struggles with anxiety and insecurity. In addition to music, Hardy has developed a renowned career as an astrologer, having written extensively on the subject since the 1970s as a proponent of the "conditionalist" school of thought—outlined by Jean-Pierre Nicola—which rejects the divinatory use of the discipline. Since the 2000s, she has also worked as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction books, including a bestselling autobiography and two essays. Through these works, Hardy has been noted for her frankness in discussing her family life and health problems related to MALT lymphoma and old age, as well as her sometimes controversial political ideas. In 2006, she was awarded the Grande médaille de la chanson française honorary award given by the Académie française, in recognition of her career in music. In the 2010s, Hardy released her last three albums: La pluie sans parapluie, L'amour fou—released alongside her eponymous first novel in celebration of the 50th anniversary of her music career—and Personne d'autre—which brought her out of a previously declared retirement. She has been married to fellow French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc since 1981 and their only son, Thomas, is also a musician. In 2021, Hardy announced that her health had worsened and that she would not be able to sing again owing to the effects of cancer therapy.

Album:
Tous les garçons et les filles is the debut studio album by French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy, released in November 1962 on Disques Vogue. Like many of her following records, it was originally released without a title and to be referred to, later on, by the name of its most popular song. Released when Hardy was 18 years old, the album was a commercial success and "went on to top charts". It was originally released in the United States under the title The "Yeh-Yeh" Girl From Paris! in 1965 on "proto-world music label" Four Corners.

Tous les garçons et les filles is a yé-yé album that combines elements of rockabilly, folk, jazz and blues. Marc Hogan of Pitchfork felt that the album "finds an enduring middle ground between rockabilly shimmy and Gallic introspection". It has been noted for its simplicity, featuring a minimalist jazz percussion, prominent bass, and twangy guitars. Stewart Mason of AllMusic considered the album to be "the '60s pop equivalent of Shaker furniture: free of ornamentation and exquisitely simple." This distanced Hardy from the "bombastic" music of her yé-yé contemporaries. John Paul of Spectrum Culture felt that, although Hardy's music has "its origins in the American girl group sounds and their trademark harmonies," it is interesting that it "[features] little more than this stripped down approach, allowing for her voice to ring through clearly without being saddled with superfluous instrumentation and backing vocals."

Although Tous les garçons et les filles followed the formula of the yé-yé movement—characterized by attractive teenage girls singing innocent pop songs about adolescence—Hardy set herself apart from her peers by writing most of her own material. Moreover, her love-focused lyrics were "devoid of older, male sexualization or control, a privilege not many others of her era enjoyed. Hardy's vocal delivery has been described as "disarmingly conversational". Mason felt that throughout the record, she sings "in an attractive but chilly drop-dead monotone that's far removed from the perkiness of almost every other female singer (minus Nico and Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las) of the '60s."

C'est le temps de l'amour,
le temps des copains et de l'aventure.
Quand le temps va et vient,
on ne pense à rien malgré ses blessures.
Car le temps de l'amour
c'est long et c'est court,
ça dure toujours, on s'en souvient.

On se dit qu'à vingt ans on est le roi du monde,
et qu'éternellement il y aura dans nos yeux
tout le ciel bleu.

C'est le temps de l'amour,
le temps des copains et de l'aventure.
Quand le temps va et vient,
on ne pense à rien malgré ses blessures.
Car le temps de l'amour
ça vous met au cœur
beaucoup de chaleur et de bonheur.

Un beau jour c'est l'amour et le cœur bat plus vite,
car la vie suit son cours
et l'on est tout heureux d'être amoureux.

C'est le temps de l'amour,
le temps des copains et de l'aventure.
Quand le temps va et vient,
on ne pense à rien malgré ses blessures.
Car le temps de l'amour
c'est long et c'est court,
ça dure toujours, on s'en souvient.

It is the time of love,
the time of friends and adventure.2
As the time comes and goes,
one thinks of nothing in spite of one's wounds.
Because the time of love
it's long and it's short,
it lasts forever, one remembers it.

At twenty, we tell ourselves that we rule the world,
and that all the blue sky will be in our eyes forever.

It is the time of love,
the time of friends and adventure.
As the time comes and goes,
We think of nothing in spite of our wounds.
For the time of love
it fills your heart
with so much warmth and happiness.

One fine day it's love and the heart beats faster,
for life follows its course
and one is totally happy to be in love.

It is the time of love,
the time of friends and adventure.
When the time comes and goes,
one thinks of nothing in spite of one's wounds.
For the time of love
it's long and it's short,
it lasts forever, one remembers it.

The word "on" in French translates "one" and sounds kind of stuffy in English. It's more like "you" or "we" -- used collectively, to mean everyone. I've mixed it up here. Also, "copains" is more like "pals" or "buds". But they'd be weird here, so I've left it as "friends", though that sounds more formal than I'd like. This song is used to perfection in "Moonrise Kingdom" -- an insanely original movie with a vibe all its own.
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Mathieu Boogaerts - Super - 1996
Nouvelle chanson française, Pop, Pop Reggae, Folk Pop, Slacker Rock, Indie Pop

Album: Super (3,53/5)

Wikipédia:
Mathieu Boogaerts (born 1970 in Fontenay-sous-Bois), is a French singer-songwriter.

The son of a pharmacist mother and antiquarian father, Mathieu spent his early childhood in Fontenay sous Bois before acquainting himself with the piano. At age ten he started playing an organ - intended for use by his mother, but who never picked it up. After two years of taking courses, he started his first musical group at age 13 with two fellow students and friends from middle school.
After many years travelling the world, mostly Africa (especially Kenya), he started penning some naive, minimalistic ditties.
His sketchy, intimate sound sometimes mixes African rhythms with reggae, and his influences such as the Dutch singer Dick Annegarn, with whom he toured in 1997.

His album Michel is accompanied by an amateur film made by Boogaerts himself.

His music is known for its laid-back style and many of his songs include a very light and delicate drum beat.

SUPER, je cours le long du port
LA MER, autour de moi j'adore
CE VENT, cette humide atmosphère
ME DETEND,
JE DECIDE DE M'Y PLAIRE
Je décide de m'y plaire
JE SOUPIRE,
J'accours aux sons de L'AIR
Qui S'EMPIRENT,
Autour du rond des dunes
C'EST PUR,
Sentir les eaux de la mer
CE POUR, SENTIR LES MAUX
QUI S'ANNULENT
Sentir les maux qui s'annulent ... ulent
Sentir les maux qui s'annulent ... ulent
Oui J'AI PERCU,
CES JOURS TROP LONGS alors
DECU, des forts torts DE L'EFFORT
J'AI CRU, par amour pour le soleil
EN LA VERTU D'UN DEPART POUR LA MER
D'un départ pour la mer
JE M'INSPIRE,
Des tons et des LUMIERES
QUI M'ATTIRENT,
L'attention, C'EST SUPER
JE M'ETIRE,
Je retourne vers le port
J'ASPIRE AU PROCHE RECONFORT
Au proche réconfort ...ort
Au proche réconfort
J'AI SUBI L'AIR IMPUR
DES VOITURES, HEY!
QU'EST-CE QUE T'EN PENSES?
CA C'EST PAS SUPER
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Giselle Pascal - Un oiseau chante - 1945
Chanson.

Wikipédia:
Gisèle Pascal (17 September 1921 – 2 February 2007) was a French actress and a former lover of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.

She was born Gisèle Marie Madeleine Tallone at Cannes, France. Her first movie role was in 1942's L'Arlésienne.

For six years, she was involved in a relationship with Prince Rainier, and lived together in a villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Rainier's sister, seeking to obtain the throne of Monaco for her own son, spread malicious rumors that Pascal was incapable of bearing children. A contemplated marriage was called off when a medical examination mistakenly reported that she was infertile.

Pascal subsequently married actor Raymond Pellegrin on 8 October 1955 and had a daughter, Pascale Pellegrin, on 12 September 1962.

Un oiseau chante dans mon cœur
Et sa chanson est douce comme une caresse
Un oiseau chante dans mon cœur
C'est le printemps, tout est joyeux, tout est en fleurs

Il fait si beau sous les lilas
En souriant, l'amour nous tend les bras
Toujours plus tendre, plus charmant
Un oiseau chante, chante dans mon cœur

Le ciel me semble plus bleu
Et voici qu'à mes yeux
L'univers est en fête
L'air me paraît plus léger
Pour moi, tout est changé
Je crois perdre la tête

Un oiseau chante dans mon cœur
Et sa chanson est douce comme une caresse
Un oiseau chante dans mon cœur
C'est le printemps, tout est joyeux, tout est en fleurs

Il fait si beau sous les lilas
En souriant, l'amour nous tend les bras
Toujours plus tendre, plus charmant
Un oiseau chante, chante dans mon cœur
~ ~ ~
Il fait si beau sous les lilas
En souriant, l'amour nous tend les bras
Toujours plus tendre, plus charmant
Un oiseau chante, chante dans mon cœur

A bird is singing in my heart
and its song is soft as a caress.
A bird is singing in my heart
It's springtime, everything is joyful and blooming.

The weather is so nice under the lilacs,
a smiling love opens up its arms,
ever more tender, ever more charming.
A bird is singing, singing in my heart.

The sky seems bluer,
and in my eyes the universe
is suddently in a festive mood.
The air seems lighter,
everything has changed for me,
I think I'm losing my mind.

A bird is singing in my heart
and its song is soft as a stroke.
A bird is singing in my heart
It's springtime, everything is joyful and blooming.

The weather is so nice under the lilacs,
a smiling love opens up its arms,
ever more tender, ever more charming.
A bird is singing, singing in my heart.
~ ~ ~
The weather is so nice under the lilacs,
a smiling love opens up its arms,
ever more tender, ever more charming.
A bird is singing, singing in my heart.

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Martin Circus - Disco Circus - 1979
Disco, Boogie, Garage House

Wikipédia:
Martin Circus was a French band formed in the late 1960s, whose musical style developed over time from progressive rock through pop to disco and new wave music in the 1970s and 1980s.

The band formed in 1968, at a time when the popular music scene in France was dominated by singers and bands performing versions of American and British songs, and established yé-yé and chanson-style singers. Martin Circus was one of the first French bands set up with the aim of writing and performing rock music with French language lyrics. The band was established by Gérard Pisani (b. 1941, saxophone) – who had also been in Hallyday's band – and Jean-Pierre "Bob" Brault (b. 1945, bass, vocals), soon joined by Patrick Dietsch (vocals, guitar), Paul-Jean Borowsky (vocals, keyboards), and Jean-Francois Leroi (drums). Their first single "Tout tremblant de fièvre", written by Dietsch and Pisani and released by Disques Vogue, was successful in 1969, and they recorded an LP, En Direct du Rock 'n Roll Circus.

By 1971, Dietsch, Borowsky and Leroi had left the band, to be replaced by Alain Pewsner (b. 1948, guitar), Gérard Blanc (1947–2009, vocals, guitar), Sylvain Pauchard (b. 1950, keyboards), and René Guérin (b. 1949, drums). Pewsner and Guérin had been members of the Alan Jack Civilization, and Blanc and Pauchard joined from the band Balthazar. They released a lavishly-produced double album, Acte II, in 1971, featuring the hit single "Je m'éclate au Sénégal", written by Brault and Pisani. The band toured widely, performed at many festivals, and appeared in the 1971 movie Les Bidasses en folie. Pisani left the band in 1972, following which they appeared in the 1973 rock opera show La Révolution Française. They released the album Acte III in 1974.

By now, a four-piece pop group comprising Blanc, Pewsner, Pauchard and Guérin, Martin Circus released the album No. 1 USA Hits of the 60's, on which they recorded French language versions of American pop hits. They had their biggest hit single in 1975 with "Ma-ry-lène", a version of the Beach Boys' arrangement of "Barbara Ann". The albums Tu Joues Ton Cœur and Rock'n'Roll Circus followed in 1976, and the band continued to perform live.

In 1978, they appeared in, and provided the soundtrack for, the movie Les Bidasses en vadrouille, one of a long-running series of Bidasses comic movies. The soundtrack album was released as Martin 'Disco' Circus, and featured a 14-minute track, "Disco Circus", written by Blanc and Pewsner and arranged by Gilles Tinayre, who also played keyboards. Several versions of the track were issued internationally, including a version edited by François Kevorkian, and it has been widely sampled and appeared on several compilations of dance music. The album was issued in the US by Prelude Records as Disco Circus, with a revised track order.

Guérin left Martin Circus as their use of drum machines developed, and the remaining trio of Pewsner, Pauchard and Blanc released the album Shine Baby Shine in 1979. The band then shifted towards a new wave focus with the album De sang froid, which featured the return of original songwriter and saxophonist Gérard Pisani. However, it was not successful, and the band split up in the mid-1980s.

In 2001, an early line-up of Brault, Pisani, Borowsky, Dietsch, Blanc, and Guérin came together to record the album Origines, comprising a mixture of new and re-recorded material. Blanc died in 2009. Another reunion under the Martin Circus name, this time of Pewsner and Pauchard with singer Tom Bock and drummer Félix Sabal-Lecco, took place in 2016.

Song: (Allmusic)
One of the most enduring disco epics, the 14-minute-long "Disco Circus." The song originated on a 1979 album and was edited down to eight minutes by disco/house vet François Kevorkian. A French 12" release that same year (on the Vogue label) featured "Disco Circus" in its full glory, albeit as the B-side to "Before It Gets Dark." Also in 1979, the legendary U.S. label Prelude released another 12" with the lengthier version included. Five years later, Unidisc pressed 12" singles with the full version on the A-side and a medley of similar length on the B-side. Since its original release, "Disco Circus" has popped up on a couple compilations (Harmless' Jumpin' 2 and SPLK's Prelude's Greatest Hits, Vol. 4, both of which went out of print shortly after release) and it was also thrown onto Juan Atkins' Wax Trax! Mastermix disc in the late '90s.

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Jean Felzine - Chord Memory - 2023
Pop, synthpop

Album: Chord Memory (RYM: 3,50/5)



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Voyou - L'hiver - 2023
Pop, chanson

Album: Les royaumes minuscules

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Thibaud Vanhooland was born in Lille and learned music from his father, a music teacher, at a very early age. He entered the conservatory at the age of 4 years in trumpet class.

After the separation of his parents, he spends his adolescence in Nantes. He first participates in several Nantes bands, including Elephanz, Rhum For Pauline and Pégase, as a bass player and then begins to write his songs in French to become an author, composer and performer under the pseudonym of Voyov, which quickly became Voyou.
Était-ce l'hiver, qui coulait de ses yeux?
Ce salaud d'hiver, il éteignait le feu, qui courait hier, encore
Dans ce corps soudain là, figé, en bloc de pierre
Tu passais des heures, avant, entre les marronniers
À compter les boutons d'or, à jouer sans arrêt
Quand d'un coup de vent, de terre, augure d'hiver
Tu t'es recroquevillée, en bloc de pierre
Et ce quelque chose dans l'air, qui fleurait la fin des beaux jours
Ce je ne sais quoi dans l'atmosphère, te faisait mal comme un amour
Qu'on voit s'éloigner sans rien dire, et tu restais sans rien dire
À fixer le néant, comme un aimant
Et c'était pas des journées joyeuses, et c'était pas fait pour aller mieux
Toi, t'étais pas encore amoureuse, mais déjà l'air égarée
Tu regardais passer les heures, assise au fond du canapé, rideaux tirés
Que rien ne t'atteigne, pas même les jours heureux
C'est vrai que la mer, est froide et silencieuse
Que rien ne rayonne plus sous ton ciel pluvieux
Mais dans les chaumières, quand la nuit tombe
Et que s'allument les cheminées, les cœurs s'éclairent
On passait des heures ensemble, à s'amuser de peu
À crier à ta fenêtre, de prendre part à nos jeux
Mais maintenant que la pire des peurs, t'a prise de court
Comment te dire, que chaque jour qui passe est une aubaine à qui le veut?
Et c'était pas des journées joyeuses, et c'était pas fait pour aller mieux
Toi t'étais pas encore amoureuse, mais déjà l'air égarée
Tu regardais passer les heures, assise au fond du canapé, rideaux tirés
Que rien ne t'atteigne, pas même les jours heureux
Et ce quelque chose dans l'air, qui fleurait la fin des beaux jours
Ce je ne sais quoi dans l'atmosphère, te faisait mal comme un amour
Qu'on voit s'éloigner sans rien dire, et tu restais sans rien dire
À fixer le néant, comme un aimant
Et ça viendra les journées joyeuses, on fera tout pour t'y emmener
Toi tu tomberas enfin amoureuse, t'en as déjà l'air égarée
Et tu verras plus passer les heures
À t'évader, vent dans le dos, cheveux lâchés
Que rien ne t'atteigne, pas même les jours pluvieux
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