So I'm making a mix that is FRENCH themed

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please suggest good tunes that have french lyrics.

my starting song is... Grace Jones - La Vie en Rose

― thugbot (thugbot), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Vive La Fete - Noir Desir

Provided you're not making this for a girl you're trying to get off with, that is...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Michelle"
"Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

also...
that patti labelle tune is pretty ok i guess.
lady marmalade. hehe

― thugbot (thugbot), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dominique A - Le Twenty-two bar
Serge Gainsbourg - pretty much anything, though I tend to like his earlier stuff better (L'eau a la Bouche, par example)
Francoiz Breut - Vingt a Trente Mille Jours

etc

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

any version of 'joe le taxi'

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

La Vie en Rose - Edith Piaf
Autrefois - Pink Martini
On N'a Pas Besoin - Paris Combo

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur - To The End

If that isn't a cheat.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

blond redhead have the french version of in particular and a cover of s. gainsbourg's slogan...which is incredible

― b b, Monday, 7 February 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

brigitte fontaine - "comme un radio"
edith piaf - "l'accordianiste"
mc solaar - "dieu crea l'homme"

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite a number of thread on this already if you search. Here's a good one:
Top 100 Songs in French

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Blondie - "Denis"

― Seb (Seb), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

also Blondie - Sunday Girl

― thugbot (thugbot), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Air - "Le Soleil Est Près Du Moi"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Funnily enough, I just made a mix CD for my friend Robbie that is French themed. Here's the tracklist.

1. Dionysos – ‘Song For Jedi’ [acoustic]
2. Motorbass – ‘Visine’
3. V.L.A.D. – ‘V-nician Pattern’
4. Gaël Robin – ‘Mégapole’
5. Bertrand Burgalat – ‘Arc-en-ciel Rue d’Ulm’
6. Pascale Boret – ‘Le constat’
7. Holden – ‘C’est plus pareil’
8. Astrobal – ‘Magic Lady’ [1040 mix]
9. Rubin Steiner – ‘Lo-Fi Nu Jazz #6’
10. «Rinôçérôse» - ‘Le Rock Summer’
*11. Axel Kryger – ‘Taxi Nocturno’
12. Sébastien Tellier – ‘Universe’
13. Stardust – ‘Music Sounds Better With You’
*14. La Formule Du Baron – ‘La Gigouille’
*15. Recloose – ‘Ghost Stories’
16. TTC – ‘Bâtard sensible’ [instrumental]
17. Phoenix – ‘Alphabetical’

The tracks marked * are NOT French in fact (but sound a bit French or have French connections).

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"La Folie" by the Stranglers

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, only tracks 1, 6 and 7 on my mix have French lyrics. Sorry, only just noticed that criterion.

(xpost)

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Le Salon" (I think) by Autour de Lucie.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Jacques Dutronc is urgent and key!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dutronc is a good idea. How about "On nous cache tout, on nous dit rien"?

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Francoiz Breut - Vingt a Trente Mille Jours

seconded! pretty much anything on that album really, but especially "Si Tu Disais".

Nina Simone - Ne Me Quitte Pas
Alizée - Moi Lolita

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, I love Francoiz Breut's voice on Dominique A's recordings but the reviews for her albums were so meh that I didn't risk it, but if ILM approves, then it clearly must be okay.

― youn, Monday, 7 February 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn! I was going to suggest not only that Francoiz Breut song but that Autour de Lucie song, too!

Zebda - "On Est Chez Nous"
Ginette Garcin - "Cresoxipropanediol en Capsules"
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "Maita"

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised Jacques Brel's Amsterdam hasn't been mentioned yet, it's an absolute classic.

― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonnie and Clyde - Luna
Je N'en Connais Pas Le Fin - Jeff Buckley

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised Jacques Brel's Amsterdam hasn't been mentioned yet, it's an absolute classic.

Well, there are only about a million other songs also with french lyrics...!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

You're absolutely right, Spencer!

― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Disiz La Peste "C'est toujours ça la France"

Yes, a million songs in French, this is a little.. odd. "Let's have an English themed mix!"

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

plastic bertrand- "ca plane pour moi"

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You're absolutely right, Spencer!

Hope my comment didn't come off as jerk-ish!

Anyway:
I highly recommend Alizee's classic singles!

Moi... Lolita
L' Alizé
Gourmandises
J'en ai marre!
J'ai pas vingt ans!
A contre-courant

Also Mylène Farmer:

Maman a tort
Libertine
Sans Contrefaçon
Désenchantée

um,

M - Onde sensuelle

Super Maria - Au sommaire de Tricatel

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Leonard Cohen -- "The Partisan"

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Alot of Stereolab

― any Phil, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, anything by Plastic Bertrand

― Brevity, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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