For this Saturday's "An Edit To Remember" we choose a great bootleg re-edit from our favorite Italian producer Bottin . And we have many reasons to do it. Here are two: When this edit of "Sage Comme Une Image" by Lio (originally released in 1980) came out almost two years ago, it became the soundtrack of our summer holidays. The other reason is that it finally gets a proper "clean" release, and we're so excited. The new version, which is actually a cover, features Jupiter on vocals, and it will be released on March 5th [...]
Si belle et inutile - Lio This is one of the songs that was not re-recorded for Suite Sixteen , even though it is one her best. I don't really mind though. The further in i sink, the more Suite Sixteen seems like a dispensable novelty. It was the first stuff of Lio's i (and i imagine a lot of other people) ever heard, and will always hold place in my heart because of that, but what is it: The [...]
Sage comme une image - Lio The video. 5 scenes, 5 outfits, 5 hairstyles. One for each part of the song. Three boys, three disposals of boys. Mirror effects, shoulder-shuffle dancing, nothing more. It's my favourite video hers. It's my favourite video of all time.
Best Lio-ripoff I heard in months, is Anti-Moi by Hanna . Her EP was released via MyMajorCompany, the crowdfunded label and home of Joyce Jonathan and Gregoire. Anti-moi isn't the single, that's Et si ( clip ). The EP has some promising moments, but is way to fluffy to really make a lasting impression. Hanna - Anti-moi
Je casse tout ce que je touche - Lio Gah! Repeating days! I feel i should have posted just the song alone yesterday instead of the video and have that as its first impression. It is not the greatest performance, and something is lost putting it up stage like that - something sweet, something cyphering hopes and hearts, something pop. I understand why most people who go to top 40 acts' concerts don't mind if they lip sync to their own records. A dream [...]
Je casse tout ce que je touche - Lio I just found out this song has a video last night. Yes, it's not from Lio's best era (this is all big hair, riding underwear and saxophones) but it is the only in concert live footage of her i have ever seen, and it's for one of her best songs. What a lively show she puts on, singing near-out of breath half the time. This is a concession - [...]
Still from the Live Music Show TV used to be great but rarely is anymore these days. The people from Network Awesome run a (Youtube based) tv channel that puts up 6 different shows each day, varying from vintage films, documentaries, series to talk shows and the Live Music Show. I curated today's Live Music Show and chose some of my favourite live videos, some of which are well-known, while others are more obscure Youtube finds - all are great! Below is a track by Lio that didn't make the final cut, though her [...]
Still from the Live Music Show TV used to be great but rarely is anymore these days. The people from Network Awesome run a (Youtube based) tv channel that puts up 6 different shows each day, varying from vintage films, documentaries, series, to talk shows and the Live Music Show. I curated today's Live Music Show and chose some of my favourite live videos, some of which are well-known, while others are more obscure Youtube finds - all are great! Below is a track by Lio that didn't make the final cut, though [...]
Emmett Presents: The End Is Not In Sight Side A Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be The Night Twin Engine - Mistress Of The Morning Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Me Lio - You Go To My Head Step Lang - Airborn George Martin & His Orchestra - Theme One Side B Bachdenkel [...]
I suppose if you're going to cover a jazz standard, it helps to be from another planet. Or the future. Or France circa 1980. This one reminds me of another weird work of re-imagination . Lio - You Go To My Head
Parisian dance-rockers Justice once unveiled for me the glitzy Musique, a floorfiller by France Gall, for this mix . Remixer Bottin does the same with Lio's 1980 Sage comme une image (written by Marc Moulin !), a remix he did last year - but nobody told me (well, FS-reader Johan did recently), so that's why I'm posting it now. He took the long version of the song from Lio's Suite Sixteen album, and stretched the intro. So now you can enjoy that Chic-like bass-and-guitar-groove even more! Lio - Sage comme [...]
Julien Pradeyrol aka Teki Latex is a Paris based artist. He is operating either solo or with one of the most famous French band TTC . In 2007 he had a collaboration with the mythical Lio , the girl wonder of the '80's. This is the video for his track with the surreal title Dinosaurs with Guns ! Posted by Vamparela
La Femme is a Parisian quintet who play lo-fi surfrock with new wave touches - think Liminanas fronted by Lio. Had a hard time to find answers to some questions about this band. Like: what are the names of the bandmembers? Why are there mostly four people in band pictures ? Is the hot blonde in these pictures (scroll down) an official bandmember? Why isn't she in this picture ? Are these La Femme-bandmembers having sex on video (VERY nsfw)? Some answers can be found in this interview - it seems the [...]
Les sucettes, written in 1966 by Serge Gainsbourg for France Gall, is without a doubt the best song ever about a girl sucking on a anis-filled lollipop. You don't need a dirty mind to get the sexual innuendo - though the underage France Gall had no clue. Nor did her minders. Or maybe they were in on the joke Gainsbourg pulled. France did not take it lightly, as this interview-clip shows (in short; she distrusted men ever since). Yesterday somebody asked me about Les sucettes covers. Were there any good ones? To be blunt; no. [...]
Sage comme une image - Lio Because i don't live in France or Belgium, the search for Lio records in my country has proven fruitless. And because i don't have any of her records (YET!), everything i have of her's is messily piled on this computer of mine. Also Lio has a lot of videos, as any successful pop star should, no matter how provincial. So imagine my panic finding this wonderful song's video and not having a corresponding illegally housed mp3. [...]
Fallait pas commencer - Lio Later Lio. From her third album, Pop Model , with its saucy cover and still quite fantastic songs, despite saxophone being everywhere. I think this might be the first non- Premier Album song i've had on here, and it is in all honesty an accurate representation of how much i listen to songs beyond that first album. I guess i do like it more - the synthesisers, the youth, the dorkiness - but everything i've heard i've [...]
Bye bye 2010. It's time to boogie. For the last hours of the year we share with you 10 of our favorite edits of 2010 that made us jump in the air and...stay there! Jump with us... Stevie Wonder: 'Do I Do' [U-Tern Disco Edit] [ mp3 ] Bottin: 'Sage Oil' [ mp3 ] Prince Language: 'I Washed You' [ mp3 ] Doc Severinsen: 'Be With You' [...]
Lio - Banana Split. (It's French Synthpop from 1979.)
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