― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've also bought a French sampler a few weeks back and it featured a song called Aujourd'hui, Maintenant by Experience. They are more like Muse or Placebo.
― zilverberg.tk (zilverberg.tk), Thursday, 10 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
French heavy metal! Covered by Anthrax!
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 10 April 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Miranda (Miranda), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 11 April 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 11 April 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes, they did - but the best part of Shakin' Street was American: Ross the Boss!!!
Plastic Bertrand was sort of interesting...
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 12 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65B09020100612
"Thanks to the Internet, our generation has grown up listening to much more music than previous ones -- especially English-language music," says vocalist Jil Bensenior of folk-rock act Jil Is Lucky. The band's label, Roy Music, says its March 2009 self-titled debut album has sold 17,000 copies domestically...
EMI says Revolver's June 2009 debut album, "Music for a While," has sold 75,000 units. French label Wagram reports similar sales for Pony Pony Run Run's "You Need Pony Pony Run Run" and says "A Mouthful" by pop-rock band the Do and "Artificial Animals Riding on Neverland" by AaRON have sold 150,000 and 300,000, respectively.
Singing in English helped French rock band Phoenix breakthrough in the United States, where it has sold 428,000 copies of its album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" (Glassnote), according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Several newer English-language acts also have overseas aspirations, with Cocoon joining Phoenix on the bill at this year's Coachella Festival. Revolver played five U.K. shows around the May 17 release of "Music for a While," and Jil Is Lucky played three London dates in May and June.
Wagram CEO Stephan Bourdoiseau says negotiations over a U.S. release for Pony Pony Run Run are well advanced. Band singer Gaetan Rechin Le Ky-Huong is confident of building an overseas fan base, as "most of our early listeners on MySpace were not from France," but from the United States and Germany.
― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Saturday, 12 June 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I heart Edith Nylon so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8RDSoqVFCw
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 June 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAEEaaGG4a4
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 June 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Dogs rule.
― I DRIVE A PORSCHE! WHAT DO YOU DRIVE?! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 June 2010 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this Tim album is righteous
http://tim-theteam.bandcamp.com/album/the-meadow-under-a-golden-sun-2013
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Saturday, 7 March 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
the last track threatens to become a total rip-off of Neurosis' Stones From The Sky but then goes somewhere else
v cool album
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Saturday, 7 March 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
From a longer cratedigger piece I wrote for the Voice in '04 (might do it differently now, but conveys the listening experience)
Consider this: "The rain won't let my tits grow. Napalm you're so good in bed. How many flies ate you today? Let's get hungry tonight." That's China whinin', like a siren, on "Suspenders in the Dark." She sings for Metal Boys (recombinant shards of Parisian punk pioneers Metal Urbain) on 1980's Tokio Airport. Now unearthed, and still flying together/apart on every track, Metal Boys' sexelectric dragon's teeth gnaw and gnash at China's objets d'amour-hate,especially on the title track. "Technofasceest," she hisses, and drives desperate, new unforgivable-synth stinky toys through "the anti-climax of X-mas Day," leaving them stuck inside a harmonically ravenous mobile in "Carbone 14." Later, in penance and/or celebration, China dances barefoot for a "Paranoia Carnival," on tone-nails of gilded Pong.
― dow, Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
There was another Metal Urbain-related reissue around the same time, an album by Dr. Mix and the Remix. Pretty good, I think, though I don't remember it as well as Metal Boys and China's CD.
― dow, Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
I really liked Deity Guns at least live. They had an lp produced by Lee Ranaldo. I think several members became a band called Batarde.
I also like the NYL lp from the mid 70s.
Catherine Ribeiro et les Alpes have some rock in their sound
Are Magma thought of as French or what? Kobaian Hitler loving gypsies?
Chico Magnetic Band
Rotomagus's cd is pretty great covering their progress from being a harmony band to protopunk dunt
― Stevolende, Saturday, 7 March 2015 08:58 (nine years ago) link
RIEN is pretty good krautrocky post rock. Also all their stuff is available for free (Pau what u want) on their website
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 7 March 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
yeah Il ne peut y avoir de prédiction sans avenir by them is pretty good
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 7 March 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1S3R3miEBoU
― tayto fan (Michael B), Saturday, 7 March 2015 13:18 (nine years ago) link
Taï Phong was a pretty cool Franco-Vietnamese prog band ca. 1975, maybe not r'n'r enough for this thread
― Sharkie, Saturday, 7 March 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
La Femme are my favourite rock band atm. Here they are weirding out the establishment (and winning awards) at the French Grammys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3VqAtiX3hs
― Leonard Pine, Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Yeah the La Femme album is a keeper (esp for fans of early B52s)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
GUILTY RAZORS
― peanutbuttereverysingleday, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 07:07 (seven years ago) link
of course METAIL URBAIN but also
DR MIX AND REMIX
― peanutbuttereverysingleday, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link
sortilege - cracking '80s french metal
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
There were quite a few good French prog bands in various styles. Ange, Semool, Moving Gelatine Plates (who have their story told in the most recent Record collector BTW), Couer magique , Horrific Child, Chico magnetic band, Sandrose
There's also the folk into rock stuff like Malicorne and Alain Stivell though that's more electrified folk.
& I did enjoy Deity Guns in the early 90s. At least live where they looked pretty symmetrical on the stage cos about half of them were left handed players.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 12:53 (seven years ago) link
Airwave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9-zDzA5wZg
― djh, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah meant say The dragons who apparently weren't a chinese punk rock group whose music was smuggled out of Red china by a french journalist but a hoax put together by the journalist and some fop his friends.Anyway great Crampsy rumbles with one string viol asa lead instrument.Really wish I hadn't lost their Parfums De la revolution when I left Dublin. Had been looking for a copy for years before i found it in a shop there.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Is there a French-language PJ Harvey?
A French-language Breeders?
Help, j'ai besoin de ecouter de musique francaise mais so much est n'est pas to my liking.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 13 May 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
They sound neither like PJ Harvey nor like the Breeders, but have you tried Feu! Chatterton?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 May 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Will try now. Had no idea where to start but I am on to and enjoying La Femme!Thread delivers.
My mistake was listening to "learn French through French Music" playlists on Spotifying and thinking oh fuck no I don't even want to know French anymore :(
PS I really want to learn French.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 13 May 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link
OK Feu! Cahtterton is right up my alley. Plus, s'il vous plait!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 13 May 2017 01:31 (seven years ago) link
Not a 'group' per se, but I can't believe no one in this thread mentioned Alain Bashung.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 May 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
Play Blessures is a total classic
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 13 May 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Thanks to this thread I am in a 100% better place wrt French music, thanking u. Keep 'em coming, merci.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 13 May 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
quincie have you heard Lescop? he's got a new album out. not as keen on it as the one he did before but he does a great post-punk sound
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Got a CD by a band called Soggy, who put out one single in 1980/81 - everything else on the disc is previously unreleased stuff. It's basic Stooges/MC5 garage punk, shirtless and shouty (they even covered "I Wanna Be Your Dog" fairly capably), recommended if you like that sort of thing.
Here's a video for their best known song, "Waiting for the War":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58XPsyWDEkw
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 13 May 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
Appropriately enough it looks like someone stuck Rob Tyner's head on Iggy's body.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 May 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
That Soggy video is great! Fantastic guitar sound.
I really like the 2000s French punk band La Fraction. Female-fronted and super catchy without being pop-punk, exactly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YexH60U0Rw
― JRN, Saturday, 13 May 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqAmPFA7-eg
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Saturday, 13 May 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Not a band neither but Brigitte Fontaine is probably the closest French singer to PJ Harvey.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 13 May 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Couldn't resist:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfD8Dnh2xho
― Grantman, Saturday, 13 May 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link
That Trust cover art is good fodder for the "one band member refuses to play along" thread.
― JRN, Saturday, 13 May 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Not en francias, and not even particularly representative of the band, but song has always felt like a precursor to PJ Harvey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBNEJX6GC20
― pavane to the darryl of strawberry (bendy), Sunday, 14 May 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Has anybody mentioned Deity Guns BatardeRotomagusChico's Magnetic Band
the early 70s prog sceneAngeAliceetc etc
or the new volume of Souljazz's Punk 45 which is why I assumed this thread had been revived
― Stevolende, Sunday, 14 May 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
The Arachnoïd s/t is imperative for all fans of unusual rock music. Opening track is a stunner
― imago, Sunday, 14 May 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
I seem to recall seeing something on an Orange Goblin tour feed where the lead singer for Soggy might have joined them or met them at a gig last year. It was the first time I had heard of Soggy.
― earlnash, Sunday, 14 May 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
xp You're not wrong! Somehow I've never heard this before
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 14 May 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
They do, they do, and Arthur Teboul is an especially fine lyricist.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
Hauts, hauts garcons
― imago, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
I do miss the more overt rawk stylings of their debut, though. They struck just the right balance on that one.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
I'm appreciating what could be perceived as a risk taken with taste level, although that said, more an indicator of different transcanal attitudes to kitsch
― imago, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
I just heard yerman yell 'UNI-ROYAUME', wonder what he could have been saying lol
― imago, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
That's a very diplomatic way of putting it – perhaps the Rejoin campaign will win out in the end.
Besides, as their name indicates, these five lads are very fond of your side of the Manche.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 March 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
oh I didn't know there was a new one, thanks for the heads-up!
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 14 March 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link
The final four songs are refreshingly strong for a 1h10m album. 'Laissons filer' may be the highlight.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
Granted, the closer is a reprise of the opener. His delivery of 'attraper le bluetooth' makes me chuckle every time.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link
A new Lescop album is out today. First in 8 years! Anyone heard?
Some details here: https://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/lescop-enfin-de-retour-avec-reve-parti-album-incisif-autant-quelegant-605290-31-01-2024/
― cajunsunday, Friday, 2 February 2024 10:54 (three months ago) link