classic Belgian pop?

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Help I"m looking for classic Belgian bands / pop artists who managed some success in the US / UK charts at some point in their long or short careers.

Are there any classics?

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

don't know how many of these had chart success, but:

Jacques Brel
dEUS
Evil Superstars
Front 242
K's Choice
Wim Mertens
Soulwax
Technotronic
Vaya Con Dios

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 10 April 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

why is the name Front 242 so industrial sounding

― JP Albin (John Paul Albin), Thursday, 10 April 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

In the dusty vaults of my memory lies a song from (I think) the mid '80s called (I think) "My Suitor" by a band called (I think) Berntholer (sp?) who were (I think) from Belgium.

Yeah, nothing like being specific. But it's the best I could come up with at this late hour. [John Peel used to play it back in the day.]

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 10 April 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything you always wanted to know about Belgian Pop but were afraid to ask at the Belgian Pop & Rock Archives.

― (jg) ((jg)), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah dEUS and soulwax are the most well-known. let's not forget hercule poirot's short-lived musical career, too...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

TC Matic - Oh La La La

― willem (willem), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

does Plastic Bertrand count? the answer is surely Yes

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course! Ça Plane Pour Moi! There's your international chart success!

― willem (willem), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"My suitor" is, of course, one of the greatest records ever made.

Move your ass by the Erotic Dissidents. Number one for weeks in Belgium, I gather. I don't think it achieved major chart success but it should have done.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

T99 had uk chart success,

i cant remember if human resource were belgian or dutch

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Front 242 is a super-mega-industrial band, baby. They also continue a proud tradition of being an industrial band with "Front" in the title, who rock. Like... um... Front Line Assembly. Well, that's just one, but it could still be a traditional.

C'mon, who can beat song titles like "Serial Killers Don't Kill their Girlfriend" or "Serial Killers Don't Kill Their Boyfriend" or "Serial Killers Don't Kill their Dog Either?" C / D? The answer is classic, my friends, unequivocal classic.

― justin s., Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I think KKarie covered My Suitor.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 10 April 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Lords of Acid, of course.

Didn't chart, but Belgian band Thou's Put Us In Tune from 2001, produced by John Parrish (P.J. Harvey) and based on Portishead's discarded backing tracks, is an insanely hooky, overlooked classic.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

I'm from Belgium ;D
So... hum...
DJ Furax (supersaw, mad traxx, big orgus...)
Zippora (what about you)
Drunkenmonkey (calabria remix)

And the most popular Belgian band:
hooverphonic(maybe not writen like that...)

Ho! I forgot!!!
Lio (banana split) (oldie...)

― Sylvain, Friday, 5 August 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Bump.

I said some very thick necked things about them waffle eatin' faux-frenchies down south, so to angloparaphrase a Dutch saying: For something hears something. No really, I insist:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gMB_tNnnWkU/R2h0OePXpDI/AAAAAAAAB3s/OsgW1GWmm8U/s320/2%2BUNLIMITED%2B-%2BHITS%2BUNLIMITED%2B%281995%29.jpg

― Thijs, Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago)

Srsly, best thing to ever come out of the Low Countries apart from Han Bennink:

http://www.djeelo.be/blog/public/metal_molly_.jpg

― Thijs, Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago)

Lio's first album (plus the handful of French-language songs on her follow-up) has been something of an obsession with me lately. lyrical godhead and best chorus ever: "comix comix comix comix comix discomix, whoa, whoa, a yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah"

also worthy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfjsecfA6w

― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIcE39odM8

― willem, Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USa0zUMmqI

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago)

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