You may not know this about me, but beneath this tuff exterior lies a sappy, mushy interior. Ah yes, I am a secret romantic. I hide it well, I try to anyway. Nothing makes me swoon more than a chanteuse/chanson bluurbling about whatever it is they are singing about (sadly I don't speak French -- Quelle tragédie!) It goes without saying that I loved the movie "Midnight in Paris" & "Amelie." Mon Dieu, I am a cliche. Here French songs that I am particularly enjoying right now: Pink Martini -- Je N'est Veux pas [...]
Gimme a board, messieurs. Pour les grandes vagues et les surfer garcons (et filles), here's a twangy big-ninth-version of Charles Trenet's „La Mer" by Psycho Tiki entrepreneurs The Aquamarines , and the probably most liquid version of Serge's & Jane's „Je t'aime (moi non plus)" ever heard, performed by Berlin's number one surf guitarist and lounge expert Kahuna Kawentzmann – the German „Kawentzmann" translates as a rogue wave you shouldn't even try on a Big Wednesday, got my drift, kids? Wet name choice, and even your girlfriend may get instantly ... okay, forget about that. Both tracks [...]
Let's take a trip to Rio on this late Monday night. Luiz Bonfá isn't exactly a household name, but in the 50s and 60s, he played guitar for and with Joao Gilberto, Sergio Mendes, Stan Getz, George Benson, and Frank Sinatra, and wrote Almost in Love for Elvis. In 1956, he collaborated with pianiste extraordinaire Ed(uardo) Lincoln on Noite e Dia, which contains a most easygoing and highly artistic instrumental version of Charles Trénet's 1942 classic Que reste-t'il de nos amours. My friend Matthias knows the lyrics by heart. A perfect way to attract them filles. [...]
Even the good old Deutsche Grammophon label – once home of Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim, or Claudio Abbado – doesn't offer the same quality choice anymore. Meanwhile, they have broadened their product range a bit: Recently they signed Ulrich Tukur , German tv cop for Europe's probably worst crime show Tatort and a grandmaster of the overacting art, and produced his song album Mezzanotte, which contains a lovely duet with 90-years-old German movie legend Margot Hielscher , an unscrupulous raping of Friedrich Hollaender's wonderful and immortal Illusions , and even two French numbers, one [...]
LOST: The Final Season is finally here and to pay tribute to my all-time favorite show I've made what I consider to be the definitive mix of music featured on LOST. You can download the entire mix in a zip here , and read how each song is used in the show (plus which episode it appeared first) below. Feel free to use this to soundtrack your LOST premiere party tonight. I'll most likely be posting some thoughts on here as the season progresses. See you in another life, brutha. Download LOST Mix [...]
There remain less than 48 hours until the season six premiere of LOST . This evening my little crew reached the end of our series re-watch. That is, we've spent the last three months working our way back through the entire show from the first episode until the season five finale. Two people, Sebastian and Quiggs, had never seen any of the show before. Now they are in the exact same spot as us. I've had three months to closely inspect the series, and feel comfortable answering the same ten questions posed in this most recent issue of [...]
charles aznavour // emmenez-moi gilbert bécaud // je reviens te chercher juliette gréco // si tu t'imagines charles trenet // que reste-t'il de nos amours serge gainsbourg // la javanaise _
Ah les joies d'une bonne vieille rupture. Tout cela est très banal mais on y trouve toujours de grands moments de rock'n'roll. Laissons-nous donc accompagner, dans chacune des étapes de ces moments de notre existence, par des petites perles de pop music . " It builds character " comme disait le père de Calvin. PS : ce texte n'est lié à aucune actualité précise :-) Etape 1 : Les gros doutes Où l'on sent que la personne en face n'est plus tellement à fond. La [...]
Ah les joies d'une bonne vieille rupture. Tout cela est très banal mais on y trouve toujours de grands moments de rock'n'roll. Et justement, laissons-nous accompagner, dans chacune des étapes de ces grand moments de notre existence, par des petites perles de pop music . " It builds character " comme disait le père de Calvin. PS : ce texte n'est lié à aucune actualité précise :-) Etape 1 : Les gros doutes Où l'on sent que la personne en face n'est plus tellement à [...]
. The Wrens - Come Back My Love.mp3 Darts - Come Back My Love.mp3 The Rays - Daddy Cool.mp3 Darts - Daddy Cool/The Girl Can't Help It.mp3 Every decade seems to enjoy a revival at roughly a 20-year cycle. We are slowly emerging from the 1970s revival, are full-on in the 1980s revival (which was officially launched with The Wedding Singer) and the 1990s revival has already begun – though I cannot
So, JC over at The Vinyl Villain is making a bit of a playlist for his mate Comrade Colin from And Before The First Kiss , who is shortly heading over to Paris for a weekend. What a nice fella! Why does this concern me, you ask? Well, JC is looking for French-themed tracks to chuck on an iPod for Colin to take with him on his trip and I happened to have a few to add to what is becoming a jolly handsome looking list. So here are the tracks I've managed [...]
Charles Trenet Que Reste T-Il De Nos Amours
Charles Trenet - La Mer The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Hollywood Records, 2007) + download via zshare The soundtrack for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has a very short, but oh-so-very-sweet, tracklist. You might have some of these songs in your collection already, but I strongly recommend seeking out the ones that you're missing. My personal favourites are Charles Trenet's "La Mer" and the Dirtbombs covering J.J. Barnes' much-overlooked jam, "Chains of Love" . If you haven't [...]
After last year's jaw-dropping finale and months of anticipation, Lost finally returns tonight to start its fourth season. To celebrate and help get you ready for tonight's premiere episode, Hypeful has put together a musical playlist for 10 of the mysterious island's key players based on songs important to them ...
A Century in Jumps (Slight Return) 1937 Boots and His Buddies, The Goo. W. Lee O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys, There'll Be Some Changes Made. Charles Trenet, J'ai Ta Main. Maxine Sullivan, Nice Work If You Can Get It. Fred Astaire, (I've Got) Beginner's Luck. St. Louis Jimmy Oden, The Road to Ruin. The Dixon Brothers, The School House Fire. Carmen Miranda, Eu Dei. Original Yellow Jackets,
Sounds like: A haystack on fire. As it pours down. That's how Matt (Mitchell) and Marianne (Dissard) describe their music. If you know that Matt plays jazzguitar, that Marianne lets out her inner femme fatale (look at those legs on the picture!) and that they do covers of songs by Jobim, Trenet, Drake, Piaf and Reinhardt, smoke gets in your eyes. For yes, this is tender boudoir music to the max. Marianne wrote me: "I recorded in my closet but the cicadas, les cigales, still kick in through the guitar. A faint chorus of hundreds cutting through the 45 degrees [...]
7 Means of Movement: Riding The Byrds, Chestnut Mare. Al Duffy and Tony Mottola, Light Cavalry Overture. R.E.M, Bandwagon. When the Man and the Dog came back from hunting the Man said, "What is Wild Horse doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Horse any more, but the First Servant, because he will always carry us from place to place to place for always and always and always.
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Filles Sourires
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Marivaudage
Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
It All Started With Carbon Monoxide
The Lion
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Music Alliance Pact. MAP. February 2012.
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
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Imperial Teen – Runaway (2012)
