Here’s a French pop cover of a Bob Dylan song. What have you been listening to lately?
Marie Laforet, “D’etre a vous” (1969)
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Here’s a French pop cover of a Bob Dylan song. What have you been listening to lately?
Marie Laforet, “D’etre a vous” (1969)
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Don
Darts- System of a Down
burnspbesq
The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Jukebox the Ghost, Shawn Colvin, Bela Fleck with the Marcus Roberts Trio, Jerry Douglas.
gbear
How about a French version of a Bob Dylan song played by an English band with the great Sandy Denny singing? It even has a drum break consisting of a pile of chairs falling over and breaking some bottles.
Actually I’ve been listening to Joni Mitchell and Simon & Garfunkle this morning. Some folkie friends volunteered to help me weed my garden this morning so I was playing music for them. I’ll probably be listening to the new dB’s record this afternoon and I’m going to the record store to pick up a new 3-disc reissue of Small Faces’ Ogdens Nut Gone Flake. Love that record.
lamh35
This weekend is the Essence Festival in NOLA. Since I’m stuck working here in DFW, I’ve been listening to some of the artist who are scheduled to perform, in the privacy of my own home, while trying not to be PO’d about all my friends and fam in NOLA posting their festival pics…bastards!
RSA
I kinda like Nouvelle Vague’s cross-genre cover of Guns of Brixton.
Hypatia's Momma
I’ve had Patrick Moore plays the xylophone stuck in my head for three days. Which is fine, I guess. I just don’t know why.
piratedan
lazy Saturday stuff…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5mltgsGEas
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq9x-ff0fXs&feature=related
Comrade Mary
@gbear: Ha! I used to have Unhalfbricking on vinyl and that was one of my faves.
burnspbesq
@gbear:
It’s fabulous.
tybee
do you know who else speaks french?
hilzoy
Ach, Mutti, kann das das Ende sein: Wieder in Mobilen mit die Memphis-Blauen angefangt zu sein …
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
faster pussycat(no kill) you’re so vain
General Stuck
She got the Mer cedes Be nz and a lot of pretty pretty boys she calls friends.
Stone Ponies
or
We’ll Sing In the Sunshine (first free love tune of the sixties, according to me)
General Stuck
dang moderation
Raven
@lamh35: Flying through there on the way to Maui Monday.
aimai
I love Marie LaForet, we had her albums when we lived in Paris in the 60’s. It is the soundtrack of my childhood although I’d lost them for about thirty years. Thanks to the internet I rediscovered her a few years ago and ordered one of her albums from Amazon France. This is not one of her better songs. She had an amazing voice. Its a scream to listen to something in French and then realize its an American classic like “Go, Tell It on the Mountain.”
aimai
protected static
The Bad Things & Nu Klezmer Army.
Duff Clarity
Jay Reatard’s “Blood Visions”. Daft Punk’s “Discovery”. The 1969 Texas live show by the Velvets. The Gories. Gene Ammons.
Raven
Como una Pietra Scalciata (Like a Rolling Stone) Articolo 31
MattF
@hilzoy: Idle googling led me to this:
http://www.sociolinguistics.uottawa.ca/palea/lin2381/Jim_JSL.pdf
JPK
@gbear: @burnspbesq: That’s so great to hear it’s good, I’ve been a little cautious about approaching.
Bill Murray
Veronica Falls, Dot Dash, Time to Go: The Southern psychedelic Moment 1981-86 — a compilation on Flying Nun Records with bands from New Zealand’s South Island
Haydnseek
Coltranes A Love Supreme, Johnny Winter And-Live, Sibelius 2nd Symphony, Leo Kottke-Mudlark…Oh, and Josef Haydn, of course. All on glorious vinyl…
hildebrand
Hard-Fi, Modest Mouse, Regina Spektor.
smintheus
Another fun French cover, Francoise Hardy, That’ll Be The Day.
Met her once when I was young, before I’d ever heard of her. Have since become a fan of her great (French) pop music.
smintheus
@smintheus: I like this Kinks cover as well: Who’ll Be The Next In Line.
MikeJ
The heat has me logy. Listening to Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Cat Power. Eagerly awaiting the new album by Cat Power too.
Suffern ACE
After 15 hours on planes trying to find something to listen to, I decided the Superfly was my best option. Cause how can you turn down Japanese country music. Roll over that rainbow! Or whatever anthem keeps you goin’ I suppose.
burnspbesq
@Haydnseek:
Dig this: the new Vienna Philharmonic/Dudamel recording of the Mendelssohn Third on DG is vinyl only. The yellow label is back, bitchez!
J. Michael Neal
Peter Gabriel, Yes and Sylvan
Davis X. Machina
I’m not listening to my governor. I know your governor is probably a douche, but is he this big a douche, huh? Huh?
J. Michael Neal
@Davis X. Machina: Hey, Yutsano, do you get to kick in doors?
Davis X. Machina
@J. Michael Neal: Does Birkenstock even make anything that’s up to the task?
Suffern ACE
@Davis X. Machina: Jebus. I wonder what we’ll do when there is an actual Gestapo/Stasi/KGB remix? When it appears, will the people subject to it cry that it’s worse than the National Forest Service and their vile land management techniques.
Davis X. Machina
@Suffern ACE: Heh. You can casually dismiss stuff like this only because you’ve never been compelled to complete the long-form census’ replacement, the American Community Survey.. Then you’d know the meaning of fear.
burnspbesq
@J. Michael Neal:
Naw, he just gets to levy on bank accounts and garnish wages. He needs more seniority before they let him kick in doors.
True story: when I was a litigator for the IRS, I had a case involving a guy who threatened an IRS collections person with a gun. When he got out of prison, he went to the District Court clerk’s office to try and get his gun back. They said he could have it, but then he’d be a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and the nice FBI agent standing in the corner would have to arrest him. So he claimed a theft loss deduction for the value of his gun on his 1040 for that year. We, having no sense of humor, disallowed the deduction.
gbear
@JPK: Kind of late with my reply here but that new dB’s record really is great. I bought the vinyl version of it last week and it came with a CD version too. I’ve been listening to it every day.
Alphonse de la Guerre Victoriouse Pour La Liberte et La France
@aimai: Can’t imagine how powerful this post of Ms. LaForet’s cut must be for you. For me (lived in Walloon Belgique in early ’60s, a bunch more in France and Belgium in late ’60s), this is a major time machine to hitch-hiking and living on the streets right in the era LaForet released this. It’s like all those roadside and sidewalk guitars and singers are right in my ear again. I’ll probably have one more hit of hash, then roll over and go to sleep while the last guy up, that Norwegian, picks out some quieter tunes…
Amir Khalid
I hope the thread is not so dead that some front-pager won’t notice this and plan an appropriate post. We are a week away from a significant centenary: Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, whose songs’ continuing relevance to our times I need not explain, was born on July 14, 1912.
double nickel
@Amir Khalid:
They are celebrating Woodie at the Winnipeg Folk Festival this weekend. Wish I was there.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Hey! I get to do liens too!
(Actually they opened up an RO position just one above my GS level. I elected to pass for now.)
PGE
@MattF:
Intersting read! Thanks for the link.
wasabi gasp
the bad plus flim
eugene
@tybee:
It’s frustrating because I know all the words individually, but “Of to be to you” doesn’t make any sense :(
Alex
She looks like Don Draper’s new wife…zoo bee zoo bee zoo!
Haydnseek
@burnspbesq Ah, it’s tomorrow, and you probably won’t see this, but thanks! Thrift store DG’s, among others, were (and still are) a big part of my classical education.