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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqAmPFA7-eg
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Saturday, 13 May 2017 20:31 (six 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 (six years ago) link
Couldn't resist:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfD8Dnh2xho
― Grantman, Saturday, 13 May 2017 21:24 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
xp You're not wrong! Somehow I've never heard this before
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 14 May 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
stevolende: you did, two years ago! :)
the punk 45 comp was interesting. got me to check out the dogs and guilty razors... as well as a 3 dans les wc, which may have been mentioned here? they're fairly well known. the thing was, i wasn't as much into it as i was into some of the french stuff on the "fake punk" comp "je suis punk". seriously, one listen to pas vraiment mechant by sexe a pile and you can fuck your authenticity narratives.
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Sunday, 14 May 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
Shakin' Street made two pretty kick-ass albums. Though their singer was a woman, so she probably didn't sing about women or maybe she did.― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, April 9, 2003 11:55 PM (fourteen years ago)She did sing about Susie Wong which was the title of a great single from their s/t first album and up to two days ago the only Shakin' Street song I'd ever heard (tho' I may have played the B-side once or twice).
Two days ago was idly flipping through the CDs in Kensington library and finding said first album. Bit of a Wow! moment; never expected to see that again.
― Bloody Snail, Sunday, 14 May 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
I have been listing to French rock for like three days now, why don't I understand French yet?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 18 May 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
You need to turn it up louder, my friend.
BTWxxxp there's a Kas Product comp on Soul Jazz but I think all of the tracks on it were issued relatively recently as bonus tracks on the reissues of their first two albums.
― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 9 July 2017 05:16 (six years ago) link
http://www.progarchives.com/french-progressive-rock-scene.asp
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 9 July 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
ugh that was hard to read. i'm listening to the last album by manu booz right now, though, and it's some pretty nice prog; slightly too much shredding for my taste, but some good writing too. reminds me a little bit of arrigo barnabe.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Sunday, 9 July 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
That article doesn't even mention Arachnoid! I despair
― imago, Sunday, 9 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
also omits art zoyd, moving gelatine plates, eskaton, weidorje, sandrose, pentacle, memoriance...
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Sunday, 9 July 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
Currently loving Jacques Dutronc, La Femme, Lescop, Les Limiñanas.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
Magma's Live is being reissued with bonus tracks.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
that's cool but they're the same bonus tracks that have been on the cds since seventh first issued them in '89 :)
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Thursday, 13 July 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Aquaserge-Laisse-%C3%87a-%C3%8Atre/master/1129921
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 13 July 2017 12:36 (six years ago) link
happy bastille day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XNpsjpOI8A
\m/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 14 July 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
Happy Bastille Day mf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhQkku7jLfo
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 July 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
Here's a great, ear-opening article about the French underground:
https://thequietus.com/articles/26936-french-underground-music-1970s
Any good compilations covering this era? Seems ripe for Soul Jazz to do something similar to their stellar krautrock samplers.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
There was a post recently about a compilatiom based on the NWW list which was all French music from that era. Check the NWW List thread.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
As I said on that thread, I spent some time a few years ago listening to a lot of avant garde French rock from that era and though there's a lot of great stuff, I don't think there's as much of it as there was in Germany at the same time.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
That's an interesting article, but I've tried to get into Magma at least a half dozen times and they suuuuuck. And the Pinhas/Heldon albums I've heard (old stuff as well as recent music, including collaborations with Merzbow and other folks) are just weirdly static and bland.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah Iceland is the only Pinhaus thing I’ve dug
― brimstead, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
It’s pretty “static” though
The new Feu ! Chatterton furthers cements their status as the Radiohead de la nouvelle chanson française.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
Presumably they sing in French!
― imago, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:37 (three 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 (one month ago) link