― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
THAUD ZAIA :One of us is in love. Only he knows with what or with whom, only he knows how...
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 10 April 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 10 April 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Of course there's Magma and Heldon (we just had a Heldon thread too)
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 10 April 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 10 April 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 10 April 2003 03:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 10 April 2003 05:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
[Apparently, it's from their '95 album "Plug", that got this great review on AMG:AMG REVIEW: This gigantic album is the band's masterpiece. For their first real LP, they collaborated with Albini, and it was a success. Along the way, you will find samples from Blue Sunshine by the Glove. The sleeve of the disc is orange and is bleaching in the sun. The version of "You Cry" is not as good as the one on Fuse, even if it does have a better sound. The picture printed on the CD is a vinyl. On the vinyl, there is no CD printed. "Many Things" and "Exactly" are the two only songs by the band you can find live, on the EP Pop, and they are both in this album. It is quite impossible to understand what Armand sings because he does not really sing a an existing language, but in a mix of English and phonetics. You should get this disc ASAP. — Romain Guillou]
― willem (willem), Thursday, 10 April 2003 05:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
"The picture printed on the CD is a vinyl. On the vinyl, there is no CD printed."
― willem (willem), Thursday, 10 April 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rex jr., Thursday, 10 April 2003 06:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rex jr, Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually the whole punk/new-wave was quite interesting, Elli & Jacno were a rather risqué thing to do in France.
Today Heliogabale are really good. So were Prohibition, Bastard and Sister Iodine too. I was told that this band named Chevreuil would soon be produced by Albini.
But to precisely answer your question, Athlete, Noir Desir is the shit.
― Etienne Menu (Etienne), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
There's heaps of progrock too, but I guess that's not what you want.
Time to go off to check the dictionary, as I have no idea if I used the word "posterity" correctly.
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 April 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 10 April 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
The whole of their discography (excepting a fantastic early single "Sangria") I would not characterize as rock
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 10 April 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
TangerChelseaEmma Married monkTaxi GirlOlivensteinLuke PurrToupidek limonadeDionysosTue-LoupKat OnomaDiabologumProgrammeLittle rabbitsComplot bronswickCity kidsDazibaoDogsLucrate milkKnicrikKid pharaonVera ClouzotWell spottedJean-Louis Murat (he's not a band but he sings about girls)
― Bruno (Bruno), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bruno (Bruno), Thursday, 10 April 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 10 April 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― 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
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 (three months ago) link