Last week I heard a song by Frida Boccara for the first time. Very good. (It could be that the rest of her oeuvre is awful and that this was just the single good song, but based on this, I want to hear more.)
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ravings
If Bertand is a Waloon, it counts as French. I worked there for two years, and it was the appalling lack of decent music that made me not renew my contract, & scuttle back to London, and the joys of XFM . Fine, enjoy French public access music
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greenstardreamer
I guess it's a good thing we're not driving and therefore dependent on french radio... Thanks for all the suggestions (the serious and the not-so-much). Mom knows no french (she might just nail 'Je ne parle pas francais' by the time we get there), but she likes music, so while I'm cramming to remember a language from over a decade ago, she can just listen and try to sing along by mimicry. Hmm, I think she might be getting the better deal, here...
Anyway, thanks again!
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jehane
I think it's actually an Australian release, but there are some sets of cds titled So Frenchy So Chic: the unofficial soundtrack to the French Film Festival. I like most of them, with my favourite being disc 1 of the 2006 version, featuring Camille 'Ta Doleur', Albin De La Simone - J'ai Change and Renan Luce - Les Voisines.
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evening
I will be there next month and cannot wait to hear the song I still have in my head from a party in Paris when I was 16 - they kept playing the song over and over again... I couldnt sing it, but I'll know it when I hear it - and it was horrible! very pop.
my ipod is loaded with 30 dead shows and 8 new stringcheeses to compensate for the Club Med-esque music I'm so used to hearing in France/St Barth
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