Originally Posted by fripouille

Found that this is a nice way to learn the language..and for you lazy ones it's great because you don't have to do much work, just sit and listen..

Florent Pagny - Mathilde
Francis Cabrel - Petite Marie
Calogero - En Apesenteur (Weightlessness)

Johnny Hallyday (all of his songs are good!)

Laquelle de toi (Which one of you)
Ce que j'ai fait de ma vie (What I've done with my life)

Originally Posted by treskillard

Sodding Belgians

Originally Posted by brussels_sprout

In a recent effort to become more popular, French music companies (like french cinema companies) have become more "Anglo-Saxon", ie they are making an effort to make something that people actually like. But as a consequence, French music has lost any exclusiveness it once had and only offers a pale ersatz copy of it's more dynamic Anglo-Saxon original, at least Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf could be identified as actually being French (or French-Belgian in case of Brel). I mean French RAP!! What's that all about ? "I live in an HLM, i come from Algeria, i throw rocks at ze fleeks" Can it get any worse, but all the good ol' boys are still rolling out the middle of the road, poptastic "Chansons francaises"! Listening to the performances of french music is a throwback to the 70s London Palladium, music halls, with a few FrogRap songs thrown in for the inhabitants of the banlieues to riot to, funny funny funny

Originally Posted by fripouille

Hope it's the right one. I tried to send it to you by e:mail but I couldn't find your e:mail address on your profile.

Originally Posted by fripouille

Found that this is a nice way to learn the language..and for you lazy ones it's great because you don't have to do much work, just sit and listen..

Florent Pagny - Mathilde
Francis Cabrel - Petite Marie
Calogero - En Apesenteur (Weightlessness)

Johnny Hallyday (all of his songs are good!)

Laquelle de toi (Which one of you)
Ce que j'ai fait de ma vie (What I've done with my life)

Originally Posted by Tweedpipe

Hi Fripouille,
If you like to listen & learn the language, you may enjoy a few of my favourites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUt6YLeECGI
http://www.paroles.net/chanson/19627.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgskh...eature=related
http://www.paroles.net/chanson/21718.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfkQQ...eature=related
http://www.paroles.net/chanson/11437.1

No relation, but I enjoyed this too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFst8...eature=related

Originally Posted by treskillard

Really thanks for this!
So nice to hear such crap songs!

Originally Posted by dreamcatcher

They werelovely Tweedpipe.

Originally Posted by Tweedpipe

Glad you enjoyed them.
And there's more..... Souchon/Voulzy, two good songwriters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeAjyQJ7X0A
http://www.paroles.net/chanson/11488.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5RcTEwemWU
http://www.paroles.net/chanson/15218.1

Originally Posted by Tweedpipe

Another oldie, Souchon/Voulzy catchy number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZccxQo130k
http://www.paroles.net/chanson/11222.1

Originally Posted by fripouille

Whilst trawling through youtube I stumbled upon this..Its not something I'd usually listen to, but this guy is pretty amazing...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NI1Lqm...eature=related

...There are loads of his songs (with English subtitles) but this is my favourite