Also if anybody knows the name of the song playing on the jute box in Vivre Sa Vie and who sings it…I’d say a nice little prayer for you.
Frankly I don’t know if this is even similar, but I recommend Serge Gainsbourg and Francoise Hardy:
But you’re not allowed use to Hardy’s “Comment te dire adieu” in any movie you plan to make – and that goes for the rest of you on this site. IT’S MINE.
First of all, “musique de francais” doesen’t really make any sense. What you’re looking for though is called the “chanson française”. You might have some luck just typing “la chanson française” or “chanson française” into YouTube or Google. You could also try Edith Piaff, France Gall, Gainsbourg, Charles Trainet, Joe Dassin…. the “chanson francaise” is really a sort of (sub) genre in itself.
Hope this helps.
@Hidden Behind the Screen: Sorry mate, I think that one is lost to history. AIt might have even been written for the movie (there’s a similar scene in Bande a part).
Ahhh thanx for the correction Anonymouse. I feel ever so stupid now. But your suggestions are great.
Thanx for the vid btw. I didn’t really get to see that part because the disc I got from Netflix was scratched and that part wasn’t watchable…Good to see it in it’s entirety.
And at Miasma, that’s such a bummer for me that you claimed that…I’ve already come up with like five different things I could put that over…Oh well…
try this:
Wow Floserber thank you alot for all those (I haven’t even began listening to them yet) I just wanted to thank you in advance for going out of your way like that.
Hahaha! you’re welcome :D
@Floserber: Argh, I forgot about Alain Bashung! He just died last year, too.
Pierre Bachelet: Elle Est d’Ailleurs
Michel Sardou: Les Lacs du Connémara
Charles Aznavour: Emmenez-Moi
Edith Piaf: Non, Je ne Regrette Rien
Charles Trenet: La Mer
Julien Clerc: Femmes, Je Vous Aime
Just on that Francoise Hardy vid: I don’t know French, but “Derriere un Kleenex…” begins one line of this song. I’m officially intrigued.
Michel Sardou: La Maladie d’Amour
Yves Duteil: Prendre un Enfant
Serge Gainsbourg: Melody Nelson
Charles Aznavour: She
Here’s Elton with France Gall
Emilie Jolie et Julien Clerc: La Chanson d’Emilie et du Grand Oiseau
and before i go out i’ll leave you all with that great immortal classic- who in France doesn’t know it and isn’t enraptured?
Claude François: Chanson Populaire
ho ho
Find some Yves Montand!!! He was, at least early on, a protege of Piaf and something of song-and-dance man! and DEFINITELY Charles Aznavour….and Jacques Brel, who was Belgian but a superstar singing in French!
It’s a Jean Ferrat song in “Vivre Sa Vie” and Ferrat himself is the man who puts money in the juke box to play it.
He passed away a few days ago.
so much music! how exciting!!
::nice threads::
it reminds me of a little pop-culture anecdote about an american in paris:
when my mom went to france a couple of years ago some of the older locals would approach her saying “sylvie vartan?” or they would just kind of look at her. i forget where she was staying. probably paris and then some other areas… she travels a lot.
she didn’t know what to make of it because she doesn’t speak french only french culinary. my mom does a lot of french cooking. and at the time she had blonde hair (probably in the style of a bob at that point).
so she asked my stepdad’s buisness partner (who is french) what it could mean. i guess the locals thought she looked like or could be sylvie vartan. the buisness partner bought her a book on sylvie vartan by camillio daccache and isabelle salmon (in french mostly) that had pictures and music from her career and told her about this singer. the resemblance is striking… however, she looks like the sylvie vartan that could have aged without the tragic accident that caused sylvie to go through extensive facial reconstructive surgery in the 1970s. sylvie is still alive and records jazz music.
more about sylvie:
http://www.sylvie-vartan.com/vartanp2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_Vartan
oh and rushmore is a good flick. :)
Why Bonnie Tyler, David?
Yeah, it’s Jean Ferrat’s “Ma Môme”
It’s really as easy as typing “Vivre Sa Vie jukebox” into YouTube, just FYI ;)
Michel Sardou: Je Vais t’Aimer
Yves Montand: Les Feuilles Mortes
Jean Gabin: Maintenant Je Sais
Juliette Greco: Coin de Rue
Juliette Greco: Sous le Ciel de Paris
Hidden Behind the Screen
There’s a part in Rushmore where Max sneaks into the teachers house in the guise of one who’s been a victim of a hit and run using fake blood and a half assed puppy dog face…
My point?
There’s a song playing in the background…I’ve recently found out that it was by Yves Montand! (I didn’t even know he sang!) Anyway recently I’ve been checking out and listeing to alot of Montand and Charles Aznavour music and am really liking it.
Is there any more french music similar (or not?) to this you’d reccomend?
Any fans of french music here on Mubi?