shiram wrote:Well I did not intend to just post stuff from France, I just thought to post music with french lyrics, maybe the Quebec accent would better suit you? Besides the point was to showcase stuff that some people may have never heard of because of langage, so that non-english idea seems pretty cool to me.
I guess the bulk of what came from France to Quebec was the most popular stuff from France. I'm still fond of the old Indochine, and ilke some of the newer stuff, though I have not really followed up on them after Dancetaria.
I was thinking of posting Noir Désir or maybe Manu Chao next, but here's something different.
Oh yep', sorry about that, the thought crossed my mind then I forgot to type it down. There's probably some good music from Quebec (from Swiss and Belgian artists maybe too, but maybe more in English then). A french-swiss radio did a cooperation with a radio from quebec last year, it was nice. As long as it's not Celine Dion and those kind of singers that you throw at us across the atlantic
I have to say, more than the difficulty to have a good flow with French, the thing is that we don't have (and sort of never had) a "band" culture. When Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Beatles ruled the earth, in France we had the "yeye" era. Kinda sad. And it's still that way, you have some dudes writing music, others writing lyrics, then someone that sing it. Musicians are non-existent in the medias though they're head over heels when a singer can strum about 4 chords.
So not many complete artists, not many bands (maybe more recently). It doesn't mean it's always bad, but it's more difficult to carry a personal, authentic feeling or vision, as well as evolution throughout several albums, with so diverse people inputs, IMO.
Noir Desir have some great tunes, I can't stand Manu Chao ("ok I have a sentence now let's repeat it 32 times by changing the last word each time, yoohoon I'm a millionaire !") but La Mano Negra had some good songs, Negresses Vertes, Rita Mitsouko, IAM, NTM, Gainsbourg of course.
But it seems like it's pretty hard to rock in French, and the french medias surely don't help
Thoughts inspired by devil, posture inspired by angle :/
