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Post by maarts on Dec 28, 2007 3:50:38 GMT -5
Francophonically speaking I quite liked Emilie Simon- Flower Book.
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Post by phil on Dec 28, 2007 8:58:18 GMT -5
There are a few more francophone albums which I fancied this year but I don't think that, apart from you, anybody here cares for the genre ... Other nice entries for 2007 ...    Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer ... Okkervil River - Stage Names ... Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight and Dark    ... Coral Egan - Magnify ... ... ... ... ... Lyle Lovett ... ... ... Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love |
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Post by phil on Dec 28, 2007 9:12:24 GMT -5
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Post by phil on Dec 28, 2007 9:27:08 GMT -5
A few more ...    ... Laura Love - Negrass ... Marie Knight - Let Us Get Together ... Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down... |
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Post by samplestiltskin on Dec 28, 2007 11:35:53 GMT -5
hm... not that this would be your thing a-tall, phil (or maarts), but my roommate is desperately obsessed with a french band called Yelle (i think?) and can't find ANYWHERE to buy their album. any tips? i would like to not have to hear the same two songs everyday..  i think they are pretty new, but it's odd that there is nowhere online to buy the album. maybe i could send someone some money and they could pick up a copy for me? |
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Post by phil on Dec 28, 2007 11:53:41 GMT -5
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Post by phil on Dec 28, 2007 11:57:12 GMT -5
Band official website ... yelle.fr/It sells for about 18.00 $ tax included in Québec ... PM me if you can't find it any other way ... |
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Post by samplestiltskin on Dec 28, 2007 12:13:42 GMT -5
Nice! Just ordered it. Thanks.
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 28, 2007 13:40:11 GMT -5
well, I got my list of Top 10 Of 2007 done. Plus, I added 10 "Honorable Mentions", so I guess it's a Top 20, of sorts.
only thing, my notepad w/the info on it, got deleted w/out being saved. It took me a half hour to compile that list. I'm pissed
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Post by samplestiltskin on Dec 28, 2007 13:50:51 GMT -5
You look pissed, Mr. Cagney.
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Post by maarts on Dec 28, 2007 18:00:52 GMT -5
Yelle- yeah, I heard that album. It's quite nice!
I liked the Low-album too- I probably should make a top 25 because I'm really starting to get into the new Radiohead-album which I didn't list. Completely forgot about Caribou too- love that album.
Phil- ever since the release of three compilations called So Frenchy So Chic down under, 'la musique francophone' has really been on the rise here in Australia. One of my best sellers was Camille- Le Fil and also a cheapie compilation of Edith Piaf flew off the shelves because of the La Vie En Rose-movie.
Bands like Nouvelle Vague who give this nondescriipt 'French' atmospheric lounge versions of pop songs are now 'de rigeur', just like smoking Gauloises back in the 60s. So France is hip now here. Let's see if i can flog them some Bottine Souriante too.
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Post by phil on Dec 28, 2007 19:05:46 GMT -5
One Québec artist who's popular on both sides of the Atlantic right now is Pierre Lapointe ... Not my bag really but he's worth listening to ...   ... Pierre Lapointe ... ... ... Dans la forêt des mal-aimés |
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 31, 2007 11:17:56 GMT -5
1.DAX RIGGS "We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love"
2.RUSH "Snakes & Arrows"
3.KORN "Untitled"
4.PORCUPINE TREE "Fear Of A Blank Planet"
5.COHEED & CAMBRIA "No World For Tomorrow"
6.PUSCIFER "V is for Vagina"
7.SKINNY PUPPY "Mythmaker"
8.BAD BRAINS "Build A Nation"
9.NICK DRAKE "Family Tree"
10.MONO "Gone"
Honorable Mentions:
11.BLONDE REDHEAD 23
12.ELLIOTT SMITH New Moon
13.GRINDERMAN
14.MTV UNPLUGGED: KORN
15.SERJ TANKIAN Elect The Dead
16.NINE INCH NAILS Year Zero
17.RADIOHEAD In Rainbows
18.OPETH The Roundhouse Tapes
19.PELICAN City Of Echoes
20.DOWN "III"
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 2, 2008 12:39:27 GMT -5
Although the Shin's "Wincing The Night Away" should be included on my honorable mentions list.
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Post by skovrecky on Jan 2, 2008 13:36:29 GMT -5
That's a nice list! Changing it up a bit, which is what the King Thorn is good at.
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