What Are You Listening to Right Now?

[Madam Broshkina]

Tommy Emmanuel / J.Shimabukuro: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

[Madam Broshkina]

Sometimes I am not in the mood for music but instead want to listen to a little girl from Dublin calling a demolition company to knock down her school.




Fill your boots man!

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina

...
Fill your boots man!

Tears...in my eyes...streaming down my face (and I didn't even slam my bollocks in the door or nothin'!).

Cheers,
Marc

[Madam Broshkina]

Little Becky wants to be a footballers wife.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina

Little Becky wants to be a footballers wife....

OH.....NO....PLEASE....STOP! I think I just busted a gut....maybe even prolapsed my colon...

[Madam Broshkina]

Since I posted earlier a cover of a Beatles tune, I thought I should post another.

[rachaelandrews]

The "See the Light" album by Jeff Healey. I never ever tire of it.

And my big lovely old GSD dog lying by my feet, breathing.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by rachaelandrews

The "See the Light" album by Jeff Healey. I never ever tire of it.

And my big lovely old GSD dog lying by my feet, breathing.

Ahhh. My lovely, young-at-heart ADT is lying at my feet at the moment, though he's not breathing loud enough for me to hear over the telly. Maggie's asleep on the bed nearby, and she's prone to night-talking, so we might get some "speaking-in-tongues" later, but at the moment she too is quiet.

However, what Oscar did just do might allow me to drop over into the What are you smelling right now? thread in a moment, or just as soon as the room stops spinning.

Cheers,
Marc

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina

Sometimes I am not in the mood for music but instead want to listen to a little girl from Dublin calling a demolition company to knock down her school.

Fill your boots man!

just give me a ballpark finger !!!


hahahahah !!!!!!


(oooh, now my stomach hurts AGAIN from laughing...)

[zelda_pinwheel]

I call it art (la chanson du slogan) by The Kills, on the Serge Gainsbourg tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Boris Vian, true genius. even more pertinent here as he was also a brilliant writer and translated Raymond Chandler and Jabberwocky (among others) into french.

particular favorites :
La Complainte du progrès (les Arts Ménagers)
On n'est pas là pour se faire engueuler
and of course that timeless classic Je suis snob :

J'suis snob... J'suis snob
C'est vraiment l'seul défaut que j'gobe
Ça demande des mois d'turbin
C'est une vie de galérien
Mais lorsque je sors à son bras
Je suis fier du résultat
J'suis snob... Foutrement snob
Tous mes amis le sont
On est snobs et c'est bon

Chemises d'organdi, chaussures de zébu
Cravate d'Italie et méchant complet vermoulu
Un rubis au doigt... de pied, pas çui-là
Les ongles tout noirs et un tres joli p'tit mouchoir
J'vais au cinéma voir des films suédois
Et j'entre au bistrot pour boire du whisky à gogo
J'ai pas mal au foie, personne fait plus ça
J'ai un ulcère, c'est moins banal et plus cher

J'suis snob... J'suis snob
J'm'appelle Patrick, mais on dit Bob
Je fais du ch'val tous les matins
Car j'ador' l'odeur du crottin
Je ne fréquente que des baronnes
Aux noms comme des trombones
J'suis snob... Excessivement snob
Et quand j'parle d'amour
C'est tout nu dans la cour

On se réunit avec les amis
Tous les vendredis, pour faire des snobisme-parties
Il y a du coca, on deteste ça
Et du camembert qu'on mange à la petite cuillère
Mon appartement est vraiment charmant
J'me chauffe au diamant, on n'peut rien rêver d'plus fumant
J'avais la télé, mais ça m'ennuyait
Je l'ai r'tournée... d'l'aut' côté c'est passionnant

J'suis snob... J'suis snob
J'suis ravagé par ce microbe
J'ai des accidents en Jaguar
Je passe le mois d'août au plumard
C'est dans les p'tits détails comme ça
Que l'on est snob ou pas
J'suis snob... Encore plus snob que tout à l'heure
Et quand je serai mort
J'veux un suaire de chez Dior!

[zelda_pinwheel]

and now, the gripping tale of a woman who discovers an elephant in her shower, and when she asks him "how did you get in there ? the door was closed !!" the elephant says "never you mind about that, give me some nougat." and that's just the beginning.

Brigitte Fontaine (featuring Zebda), Le nougat.

[zelda_pinwheel]

more brigitte fontaine :

"if one day an individual crosses your path
wearing a soft cheese on his head
and carrying in his hand a fish in a cage :
it's a zazou, it's a zazou !
if your grocer tells you, 'i have swiss cheese,
but unfortunately, all that is left is the holes'
don't imagine his coffeepot is leaking :
he's zazou, he's zazou !"

y'a des zazous

Jusqu'ici sur terre un homme pouvait être
Blanc ou noir, ou rouge, ou jaune et puis c'est tout
Mais une autre race est en train d'apparaître
C'est les Zazous, c'est les Zazous
Un faux col qui monte jusqu'aux amygdales
Avec un veston qui descend jusqu'aux genoux
Les cheveux coupés jusqu'a l'épine dorsale
Voila l'Zazou, voila l'Zazou

Y a des Zazous dans mon quartier
Moi je l'suis déjà à moitié
Un de ces jours à votre tour
Vous serez tous Zazous comme eux
Car le Zazou c'est contagieux
Ça commence par un tremblement
Qui vous prend soudain brusquement
Et puis on pousse des hurlements Ah !
Wa da la di dou da di dou la wa wa !

Si vous rencontrez un jour sur votre passage
Un particulier coiffé d'un fromage mou
Tenant dans ses doigts un poisson dans une cage
C'est un Zazou, c'est un Zazou !
Si votre épicier vous dit :
J'ai du gruyère
Mais malheureusement il ne reste que les trous,
Ne supposez pas qu'il fuit de la cafetière :
Il est Zazou, il est Zazou !

au refrain

A son futur gendre avant-hier ma concierge
Disait : Voyez vous, ma fille est un bijou
Elle est encore mieux que si elle était vierge
Elle est Zazou, elle est Zazou !
En prenant l'train j'ai vu le chef de gare
Qui m'a dit : "Mon cher, j'suis plus cocu, du tout
Je suis quelque chose de beaucoup plus rare :
Je suis Zazou, je suis Zazou !

au refrain

A la société devant payer sa dette
Devant la guillotine Gégène a dit : J'm'en fous
Y a déjà longtemps que j'ai perdu la tête
Je suis Zazou, je suis Zazou !
Avec une mondaine de la place Pigalle
Mon ami Léon a fait les quatre cents coups
Ça lui réussi car pour ses vingt-cinq balles
Il est Zazou, il est Zazou !

Y a des zazous dans mon quartier
Moi je l'suis déjà à moitié
Et à mon tour un de ces jours
On finira par m'emmener
Dans un asile d'aliénés
Entre zazous, on s'retrouvera
Et c'est fou ce qu'on rigolera
Quand sous la douche on chantera
Wa da la di dou da di dou la wa wa !

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

and now, the gripping tale of a woman who discovers an elephant in her shower, and when she asks him "how did you get in there ? the door was closed !!" the elephant says "never you mind about that, give me some nougat." and that's just the beginning.

Brigitte Fontaine (featuring Zebda), Le nougat.

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

more brigitte fontaine :

"if one day an individual crosses your path
wearing a soft cheese on his head
and carrying in his hand a fish in a cage :
it's a zazou, it's a zazou !
if your grocer tells you, 'i have swiss cheese,
but unfortunately, all that is left is the holes'
don't imagine his coffeepot is leaking :
he's zazou, he's zazou !"

y'a des zazous

...

Me like Brigitte Fontaine very much! (at least on the basis of these two songs). Album recommendations (that are like the above)?

[zelda_pinwheel]

brigitte fontaine : completely insane, but brilliant. may i commend you on your taste. the two albums i know best are Les Palaces and Kékéland (with the song Y'a des Zazous) but since she's done some wildly different stuff i recommend you explore and you'll surely find plenty of things you'll like. you can also check out her early albums to get some context (recommended, in her case...). go here and you can listen to quite a lot. if you click on the album name, it will show you the tracks you can listen to from that album. sometimes only one is available, sometimes you can listen to the whole thing. she's very eclectic.

allmusic.com bio :

French singer Brigitte Fontaine made a series of increasingly strange and eclectic art-pop in the 1970s that gathered a lot of acclaim in France, although she remains obscure to an international audience. Initially she was an eccentric but accessible pop singer, presenting melodic and orchestrated material a la a more daring version of late-'60s/early-'70s Francoise Hardy. On her first album, she worked with arranger Jean Claude Vannier, who had also done arrangements for Serge Gainsbourg. On subsequent records she got jazzier, and then into more difficult directions of avant-gardism and art song. Her albums were commendably wide-ranging, and undeniably erratic. She could employ African tribal rhythms, discordant progressive jazz, pretty folky melodies, throat-stretching a cappella vocals, spoken poetry, and pious classical arrangements, sometimes with a stoned recklessness. On some albums she collaborated with the less impressive male writer and singer Areski, whose rough vocals contrasted incongruously with Fontaine's sweet and mature tone. Fontaine returned to recording in the 1990s, around the time her vintage work slowly began to accumulate a cult following among English-speaking listeners.