What Are You Listening to Right Now?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

And this is another of his best-known songs, about the road to the holidays, Nationale 7.

Love that, love Trenet. I've been listening to Trenet all morning as I write and now he's infiltrated the fiction and the jukebox in the Mermaid Cafe.n So much so that the end of the book will focus on the Trenet song, La Mer (thankfully the Mermaid Cafe is located at the end of a pier looking out upon an unnamed sea)

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Propaganda - Dream within a Dream

[Javed]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Propaganda - Dream within a Dream

The first time I listened to this, I wasn't sure what I thought. After reading the lyrics, it seems rather poetic and creates intriguing imagery. This helped me to appreciate it better and then I rather enjoyed listening to it again a few times. Thanks Am, for an unusual and interesting song.

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
Take this kiss upon the brow
And in parting from you now
This much let me avow
You are not wrong who deemed
That my days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, in a day, in a vision, or a memory
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
I stand amid the roar
Of the surf tormented shore
And I hold within my hands
Grains of golden sand
How few yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
While I weep, while I weep
Oh god can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp
Oh god can I not save one from the pitiless wave
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by Javed

The first time I listened to this, I wasn't sure what I thought. After reading the lyrics, it seems rather poetic and creates intriguing imagery. This helped me to appreciate it better and then I rather enjoyed listening to it again a few times. Thanks Am, for an unusual and interesting song.

Glad you liked

The lyrics are from a poem by Poe

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Glad you liked

The lyrics are from a poem by Poe

Even sweeter! I just gave you some K for that one, and now I wish I could do it again!

[Javed]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

The lyrics are from a poem by Poe

Ah! Of course, it is so apparent now. Makes the song even so much better now I have woken up that it is Poe!

[happy_terd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D7Ae...rom=PL&index=1

[Moejoe]

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

[zelda_pinwheel]

florence, i'm so glad to see you posting some mano negra, i just can't even tell you how that does me good after my recent experience. je le savais que t'étais une fille bien.

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

You know, everyone in France must know about this song, it's so famous, but you don't hear it that often - I never had, I'm sure

This one is even better known:

and also this slightly controversial cover by a singer of North African descent

i love trenet ! and the cover by rachid taha also. my favourite songs by trenet are :

boum


and my favourite favourite, "de la fenêtre d'en haut" which sadly is unfindable on youtube. so here you go with a link to it on deezer :

http://www.deezer.com/listen-4624142

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

nice.

another classic : i love the percussions on this one.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

florence, i'm so glad to see you posting some mano negra, i just can't even tell you how that does me good after my recent experience. je le savais que t'étais une fille bien.


i love trenet ! and the cover by rachid taha also. my favourite songs by trenet are :

boum


and my favourite favourite, "de la fenêtre d'en haut" which sadly is unfindable on youtube. so here you go with a link to it on deezer :

http://www.deezer.com/listen-4624142



nice.

another classic : i love the percussions on this one.

I have a collection of Trenet's songs called 'Le Jardin Extraordinaire', Boum! is the first song on it and whenever I hear it I want to buy a bicycle and spend the summer on the coast visiting Art Deco cafes and sipping espresso (I'm weird that way). Also it reminds me of Tati (I always see Monsieur Hulot in my head when I'm listening)

Thanks for the Deezer link, more Trenet for me today!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

I have a collection of Trenet's songs called 'Le Jardin Extraordinaire', Boum! is the first song on it and whenever I hear it I want to buy a bicycle and spend the summer on the coast visiting Art Deco cafes and sipping espresso (I'm weird that way). Also it reminds me of Tati (I always see Monsieur Hulot in my head when I'm listening)

nah, i get that. and i can see the tati association too, although i didn't have that myself (i might now).

Thanks for the Deezer link, more Trenet for me today!

i think i'm going to be playing "la fenêtre d'en haut" over and over today. (i can't believe it's not on youtube ! it's SCANDALOUS !)

here's another funny one :

http://www.deezer.com/listen-5113668

[Moejoe]

Now I'm onto Cibo Matto (featuring the awesome Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda, also Sean Lennon)

Cibo Matto - Birthday Cake

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

nah, i get that. and i can see the tati association too, although i didn't have that myself (i might now).


i think i'm going to be playing "la fenêtre d'en haut" over and over today. (i can't believe it's not on youtube ! it's SCANDALOUS !)

here's another funny one :

http://www.deezer.com/listen-5113668

What a voice Trenet had I heard that he would only sing songs he actually wrote, but I'm not sure if that's true. I think the Hulot association comes from mixing all things French in my head. When I was studying film I spent a considerable time on the Nouvelle Vague and watched ridiculous amounts of French cinema - Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol etc - but I only came to Tati later on, so it's a lot more vivid in my head

[zelda_pinwheel]

my favourite cibo matto is sugarwater, because the genius michel gondry did the video :

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

my favourite cibo matto is sugarwater, because the genius michel gondry did the video :

I've seen that video a bazillion times and I didn't know Gondry did the video Well I learned something new today