What are you listening to? The world really needs to know.
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Black Swan
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Johannes, you had me singing along at 6:55 am. Beautiful song! Thanks.
mjp
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Serge Gainsbourg is kind of a French version of the great Bobby Goldsboro.
Both of them make me want to shoot, with a big gun, the machine the sound is coming from when they are singing. That's a violent reaction, I understand, but you could see it as positive, since shooting things is fun. On the other hand, they both suck decaying beaver balls, so I'm not really sure which way to go on this one.
I can see William S. Burg and his crew digging some Gainsbourg (on vinyl only) while they mince about in their skinny jeans sucking down cheap swill beer and American Spirit cigarettes and pretending they have vaginas.
Both of them make me want to shoot, with a big gun, the machine the sound is coming from when they are singing. That's a violent reaction, I understand, but you could see it as positive, since shooting things is fun. On the other hand, they both suck decaying beaver balls, so I'm not really sure which way to go on this one.
I can see William S. Burg and his crew digging some Gainsbourg (on vinyl only) while they mince about in their skinny jeans sucking down cheap swill beer and American Spirit cigarettes and pretending they have vaginas.
Johannes
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I am not a Gainsbourg fan at all. I mean, I know almost nothing from him, except the one with the lot of panting everybody knows. And I've seen the clip of the talkshow where he tells Whitney Houston that he'd like to fuck her. Both are not necessarily signs of genius, imho.
But I like "Chanson de Prevert". It's somewhat kitschy, of course. But still I like it.
But I like "Chanson de Prevert". It's somewhat kitschy, of course. But still I like it.
Gerard K H Love
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Bobby Goldsboro music is too square for elevator music. It is, however an excellent medium for bringing people down from bad LSD trips.
Black Swan
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mjp
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I have no opinion of Jacques Brel, never having heard any of his (I assume) music. Is he another lifeless French singer that a lot of people pretend to like but never listen really to, like Serge Gainsbourg? ;)
I don't care for campy, cabaret, Sinatra-via-Broadway type shit in general. Or French singers or bands in general. I find them ridiculous. Like snotty little puppets pretending to be musicians between naps. They need a good slap, most of them.
Black Swan
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mjp, I am going out to get some 'Drum'.
Here is Leo Ferre. Take your best shot! ;)
In fact, I think that he has a little something of Bukowski, in the eyes.
Here is Leo Ferre. Take your best shot! ;)
In fact, I think that he has a little something of Bukowski, in the eyes.
Gerard K H Love
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Starting with Skeeter Davis: Someone should slap her parents for calling her that. Skeeter is a name commonly reserved for a local yokel who can fish an whittle and spends most his his spare time masturbating. It was into her song I thought, "why am I listening to that any longer?"
And for all of those French guys singing: I really think you need to know what those funny little words they're chattering on about mean because I don't get it. He's just a funny looking little french guy.
And for all of those French guys singing: I really think you need to know what those funny little words they're chattering on about mean because I don't get it. He's just a funny looking little french guy.
mjp
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Oh come on! You're setting me up! What am I supposed to say about that? I'm sure it makes all the old queens weepy. It makes me feel nothing (since I'm still a young queen).
But then I don't know what the hell he's singing, so it's just a lot of boring blah blah. Maybe the lyrics are incredible. Maybe the French really have given the world something besides the Eiffel tower, Audrey Tautou's face and hot air balloons.
I doubt it, but it's possible.
Black Swan
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The thing, for me, is that Leo Ferré turned me on to poetry when I was 15.
He had put in music the poetry of Rimbaud, Beaudelaire, Verlaine et Aragon, who then were considered as damned poets. The result was more of a spoken poem on music.
Of course, Ferre's music now sounds like pure shite, but the words sunk in. I still remember them as short stories.
I actually hate much french bands, only a few folkies.
Excuse my French! This is not Bukowski.fr!
He had put in music the poetry of Rimbaud, Beaudelaire, Verlaine et Aragon, who then were considered as damned poets. The result was more of a spoken poem on music.
Of course, Ferre's music now sounds like pure shite, but the words sunk in. I still remember them as short stories.
I actually hate much french bands, only a few folkies.
Excuse my French! This is not Bukowski.fr!
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I personally like Serge Gainsbourg. I like how Johannes posts a Serge clip and Swan kindly responds to it but mjp has to put in his negative input and subsequent posts are like - well, I personally don't care for Serge... Jesus Fuck waving a whip. Love me some French cinema, literature and French music done up right - the French trying their hand at Rock - I'll gladly slide down the Mare of Steel on disposing of that but I hate to inform the restless there is more to music than rock "n" roll - however that pains me to say it. And I personally dislike breaking up the daisy chain of Floyd - listened to my 2nd favorite album of Floyd yesterday - Meddle.
Black Swan
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I still like Ferre , Gainsbourg sometimes, mjp's humour, Johannes' choice and I like you too!
I like Bukowski, although he is a b.... and Ponder too!
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mjp
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Just a bunch of followers. No opinions of their own. They couldn't possibly dislike the same things I dislike. They are just repeating my sentiments like lemmings, in order to win my glorious approval, is that what you're suggesting?
You flatter me! But worse, you insult them, you humorless bastard, you. Come here and give me a kiss!
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Here listen to some David Sanborn. BANG BANG!
Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
And Eiffel? :(
Unluckily never has been my old man's style...
This compilation is for you:
Do you know Taxi Girl?
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I believe mjp has a clear oppinion about this kind of art.