songs that *sound* french

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but aren't necessarily french or in french:

I'll start:

Tom Waits: The Black Rider
Coba: After Dinner (Plaid Mix)

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus, "The Sadness of Things" (he was living in Paris at the time)

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 29 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Mo Wax records

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 November 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Kevin Ayers and the Whole World - "May I", so much so that there is actually a version by him in French entitled "Puis-Je".
Tim Buckley - "Moulin Rouge", which has some really bad attempts at French in it.
Roxy Music - "Song For Europe", which also has some French lyrics, but I'm only pointing it out because the band is English.

― Schwingung (Damian), Sunday, 30 November 2003 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Leonard Cohen to thread, especially "The Partizan", although I don't know if his Canadian-ness disqualifies him.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 30 November 2003 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Slippery Morning" by Erica Pomerance, but then she's from Quebec so it doesn't really count.

I think that guy rapping with Thristin Howl III sometimes "spits" in French in order to add extra flava to his rhymes.

― Etienne (Etienne), Sunday, 30 November 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Most songs which have that ascending/descending chord sequence from, say, Brel's "Jacky" at least aspire to sound French, whether or not they 'get' there - cf Blur's "To The End", Momus "Hairstyle of the Devil", quite a lot of PSB stuff ... loads more.

I also always thought Black's "Sweetest Smile" sounded French.

― darren (darren), Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Sting used to insist on singing in some utterly jackassed lingualized hybrid of Jamaic-o-French circa the first few Police albums?

What a dick he was, eh?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Leonard Cohen to thread, especially "The Partizan", although I don't know if his Canadian-ness disqualifies him.

That's cause it *is* in French. Or at least the second half anyway.

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

partiSan

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

he also sings french canadian songs btw

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, the second part is in french, but that didn't stop Roxy Music from not being slapdowned on this thread. < /huff>

And anyway, most of LC sounds french-like. His voice sounds like a strong cigarette.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 30 November 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

yees and ve all know that zee french all zmoke

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 30 November 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

Girl From Impanema

― how's life, Sunday, 27 October 2013 10:40 (eleven years ago)

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