Search and Destroy: French Ye Ye/Pop

Fuck you, Dutronc is great!

If you can, seek out the double CD comp. of some 60's / 70's stuff; 'Completement Dutronc'.

As for Keren Ann, I have her debut CD and find it quite ordinary.
For contemporary French female singers, I'd recommend Fabienne Delsol and Camille.

Jacqueline Taeib is superb, I am listening to her 'Complete Masterworks' right now.

do you have this on cd, melody? i went looking all over paris for a taeib collection, to no avail. i would love a copy. (i would type "hint, hint" here but that doesn't really qualify as a "hint.")

Amatuer(ist)... no I don't have it on CD yet unfortunately. I downloaded it from someone on soulseek, and, as with anything I download I have full intention to purchase it... if only I could find it! amazon.fr is out of stock.
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007B5VR/baragogo-21/402-6444607-3636956 I found one copy on gemm.com, but it says that lately the seller has not been filling his orders, so I wouldn't risk it.

I'm happy to pass on copied files to people who are keen to sample ... just let me know if this discussion board is friendly to filesharing talk before I say anymore.

Oh, and BTW the emusic.com link someone gave above has a lot of Brigitte Fontaine mp3s available. When you join for a free trial they give you 50 free mp3s... you could get 2 or 3 entire albums of hers that way.

AND there's a seller on ebay who sells the Femmes de Paris compilation (new) which has many of the ye-ye girls mentioned above. I bought the Gentlemen De Paris comp. and was very happy with it - has Gainsbourg, Dutronc, Antoine, Edouard (who parodies Antoine), and the very expressive and highly entertaining Jacques Filh.

Another very cool ye-ye girl is Stella, whose songs made fun of the ye-ye scene and its adoption of American culture. Here's a recent interview with her: http://chachacharming.com/article.php?id=23

I should sell mine then!

Here is the rather extraordinary Tienou song:
http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3VVOEV57452182IRF1AUTAQ3UA

Anyone heard much Gillian Hills? I like her vocal style.

Also good are the Pop-a-Paris compilations.

Drugburn

soulseex is the best.

ANYWAY, I know she's not French - but Belgian - but I love Jo Lemaire. Very moody.

oddly i heard this on the radio about 30 minutes ago and googled her.

like the covers on those femme de paris comps.

anyone familiar with Sylvie Vartan? I know she had a long career, and even went disco in the end. (as we're all prone to, granted)

I bought this compilation a few years ago http://www.discogs.com/release/744500 - et c'est poptastique!

anyone who loves this stuff needs to make their way over to http://spikedcandy.blog-city.com/ NOW, where you can find the excellent Swinging Mademoiselle comps.

and to start it off:
search: 60's michel polnareff, all of france gall, emperor norton's pop romantique compilation

destroy: the ones we always hear, jacques dutronc, 70's polnareff, ultra chicks comps (contain more misses than hits)

― marianna maclean

Jacques Dutronc song Le Responsable is amazing, definitely search. do not destroy.

Is this the Allez tapez dans les mains mentioned above?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYsW5wtqB6k

she is from catalunya, I overheard this one at a bar in barcelona summers ago and fell in love with it.

RFI Ye-ye/Garage cover of “My Generation.”

This seems to provide the answer: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/intothemusic/the-girls-of-y%C3%A9-y%C3%A9-and-french-pop/5440214

Jacqueline Taieb, “7 Heures Du Matin”

that one really has the lumbering throb Liminanas go for!