And Fatboy Slim -- okay, I'll save these for an actual thread from now on.
French 80s pop kinda shit? Synth pop, minimal pop, electro pop
This comp looks kinda promising:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/bippp
― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
My aunt lived in France during the 80s and she forced French crap circa that period on my developing brain when she came back, so I have a weird affection for it.
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that compilation sounds pretty cool
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
get the Les Rita Mitsouko "Bestov" and take it from there
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
here's an awesome compilation of french rock
― Edward III, Thursday, 26 June 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
France is the center of rock n roll these days. The thing is it can be summed up in two words, "Ed" and "Banger", and a lot of people here apparently don't like it.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 26 June 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Burt, I made a list in the "rough guide thread" of 80's french synth poo. I'll try to dig it out
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
But you might already wanna start with 80's Etienne Daho, Indochine and Mylene Farmer
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Stanton, why do you use the words 'shit' and 'crap' to denote things you like or want to hear?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Why does the word "bad" mean "good"? I mean really.
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, found it:
The Rough Guide to 80's French Pop:
1. Mylene Farmer - Libertine 2. Partenaire Particulier - Partenaire Particulier 3. Etienne Daho - Week-End a Rome 4. Vanessa Paradis - Maxou 5. Alain Souchon - Quand Je Serai K.O. 6. Caroline Loeb - C'est la Ouatte 7. Alain Bashung - Gaby 8. Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baila 9. Negresses Vertes - Sous le Soleil 10. Indochine - L'Aventurier 11. Jeanne Mas - Coeur en Stereo 12. Desireless - Voyage, Voyage 13. Guesh Patti - Etienne 14. France Gall - Debranche 15. Marc Lavoine - Les Yeux Revolver
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, all this stuff is perfect. Thanks
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't really stand Daho except for one song i've never been able to find again that sounded almost like Felt!!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Does French people ever want to rock?
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 27 June 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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Christ on a pointed stick. Yeah, synth rock -- rock out, Claudette, rock out.
I'm listening to Illimite -- a deluxe Telephone thing that came out on EMI France in 2006. Two CDs, one a "best of," the other a live shot. Centerpiece of live stuff is a show at CBGBs in 1980, apparently in front of about a dozen, where the band tore up the floorboards. Segment of show from Montreal, one year earlier, has them sounding -- tone and attackwise -- like Metallic KO for 15 minutes of material, only more polite than Iggy. Well, they could have been impolite, but I don't know French. Just way too early for anyone in the US to get their brains around Frenchmen, singing in French, who had a rhythm section and two guitar players who knew roots rock and hard rock better than a lot of people prowling big stages in '80. 'Course, it seems not to have been too early for their countrymen who bought their albums by the bagload, so much so the badn retired around the mid-80's.
I kick myself for having missed them at some dive in Philly.
― Gorge, Friday, 27 June 2008 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Seconding and thirding SOGGY. Holy crap this album is great!
Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o49KyJQl-Og
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^SERIOUSLY JUST LOOKIT THAT GUY
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_rock
Other notes: There's a French series of psych comps called Freakout Totale that are pretty good, though they're francophone (so include Quebec etc.).
Once I get home, I'll be able to drag through the huge archive I found on SLSK from some user named Docteur Stein, which was all a bunch of 7"s in French, with a good half of them rock and roll (bands like Alex et les Lizards).
Bérurier Noir are pretty fun, though they're on the goofy quasi-political new wave tip, at least as I've been able to figure out. I had a pal send me a mixtape of their stuff once and I've downloaded a bit over the years.
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
2100-ish words on Les Rita Mitsouko, Niagara, Elmer Food Beat, Indochine, Les Négresses Vertes, Mylene Farmer, Noir Désir, Les Hatepinks.
http://www.spin.com/articles/french-modern-rock-essentials-phoenix-daft-punk/
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 07:08 (eleven years ago) link