French pop music.

[Globalti]

Is there any that's any good? I lived in France for three years and seldom heard anything I liked. Saw Les Negresses Vertes at Band on the Wall in Manchester once though and was blown away by their amazing energy and weirdness:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yapXaWsZ9g&feature=related


Have a listen to this one as well:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLTG3Vn7MN0&feature=related


A French colleague once spent 6 months in the UK on training and came back absolutely in love with the whole music scene; he said to me "You British are SO talented!" What really impressed him was the last night at the proms, he bought the CD and never stopped playing it.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I really like this track by Vanessa Paradis - Tandem


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-_V0BF_k8

 

[Sambu]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so

 

[Crankarm]

Johneeeeee 'Ali-day?

 

[Cathryn]

Francis Cabrel...l'encre de tes yeux. Gorgeous song that reminds me of my youth.

 

[Hacienda71]

M C Solaar If you like your dance orientated old skool French hip hop.

 

[jujubi]

M

 

[User169]

What really impressed him was the last night at the proms, he bought the CD and never stopped playing it.

That's bizarre! Last Night of the Proms is routinely awful.

 

[goo_mason]

I have a nostalgia-tinged fondness for Indochine '3' from the 80s

 

[eldudino]

My dad (who lives in France) was over to fit our new bathroom and I put the iPod in the dock and got some music on the go. It comes round to Manu Chao's Clandestino album and he turns round to me and says "Hey, it's that bloke off the French radio, he's always on!". And he's not wrong. I think it alternates between Manu Chao (which I like) and this song...
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o

 

[j66]

Patricia Kaas - Mon Mec a Moi

 

[Twenty Inch]

Dany Brillant is pretty good for old-style swing and crooning, good for swing or jive dancing.

We had the first dance at our wedding to this:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAisMLfmXcw

 

[Globalti]

My French GF and I wore out a cassette of Gold, live, playing it over and over in my Golf 6622 NY92. Not bad for French pop:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfULhc3SoDc

 

[slowmotion]

Plastic Bertrand, Ca plane pour moi.

Wonderful..


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXknE8LOEI

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Plastic Bertrand

He's from Belgium IIRC!!