French Music
 

So to both satisfy my desire for good music as well as to teach me some French, what is exciting musically at the moment in France? I haven't really been able to find much, but i'm clearly not looking in the right places. People in the know - help me out - some myspaces would be great!

Thanks
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I did a thread about it a while ago:
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...t=French+bands

Believe it or not there's not that much great music in France, but there's still really fantastic bands out there.
But don't always look for something sung in French, cause most good french bands sing in english... Gomm sometimes sing in French though

Woops! That was only a month ago - I should have looked!
Anyway, there's some interesting stuff on there - thanks.

No problem! You should really check Gomm, imo they're one of the best french bands at the moment. Their last album, "4", was fantastic, and so was their first, Destroyed to Perfection (I have it in the first autoproduced edition, bought it before it got reissued on PIAS)

Agree with SYRFox, french music isn't very good at the moment, it depends on what kind of music you're looking for.

Cheveu
http://www.myspace.com/cheveu

Aluk Todolo
http://www.myspace.com/aluktodolo

i like yves montand, but he's old. :)

heliogabale
berg sans nipple (are half french)
herman dune
cornflakes heroes

claude debussy

He's dead.

As there's currently not much good music sung in French I'll make a list of albums worth checking out from any period:

Serge Gainsbourg - Jane et Serge / Histoire de Melody Nelson
Françoise Hardy - Comment te dire adieu / La question
Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte est... / Comme à la radio / S/T / Vous et nous
Alain Bashung - Fantaisie militaire
Dominique A - La mémoire neuve / L'horizon
Jean-Louis Murat - Dolorès / Mustango

You should be able to listen to songs from those albums on http://www.jiwafm.fr/fr or http://www.deezer.com/

The French-singing artist I prefer these days and who's still alive and kicking is Adrienne Pauly.
Her lyrics are clever, but they're sure hard to catch. As they're well written, they carry different meanings.
They're in the booklet of her album.
http://www.myspace.com/adriennepauly
She's really good live.

There's a french label called Maison Drole that has some good stuff
http://www.maisondrole.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...id=126 872658

They don't sing in french, but the best group ever to come out of France is:

Yeah, super-agreed !
Christian Vander is the best drummer of the universe !!!!
He's mad !!

serge is one of my favorites ever. briggite bardots greatest hits is fantastic

charles aznavour had some great songs as well

That's a really good list
the "L'imprudence" LP by A. BASHUNG is also great, dark , wintery and brooding arrangements. ace

Thanks :)