Heartland

MadameButterfly wrote:Thank-you for that indeed a very good cover....will see what A'dam has to offer and then let you know! Please say something, anything in french....in the "General chat" PLEASE....love the language.

At least someone loves it

What can I say in french in the general chat

But here is something that was written by the great Paul Verlaine:

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l'automne
Blessent mon coeur
D'une langueur
Monotone
Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l'heure

Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
Et je pleure ; Et je m'en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m 'emporte De-ci, de-là,
Pareil à la
Feuille morte.

Merci beaucoup!

J'aime Verlaine

et Rimbaud

et Baudelaire...

Motz wrote:

RobF wrote:

James Blast wrote:the last 3 posters need a good stabbing!

I wouldn't go quite that far...

But it is genuinely frightening in here sometimes...

s**t, we're agreeing about music

Let's have a row about Throbbing Gristle

Did you know that the founding members of Throbbing Gristle met in Hull?

Erm, Yes...

See "wreckers of civilisation" for the rest of the story.

RobF wrote:

canon docre wrote:.. but his accent is lovely.

That's the only reason I like the Nouvelle Vague cover of Marian, though it loses Brownie points for missing out the German bit... Bottlers. Their versions of Too Drunk To f**k and Making Plans For Nigel make the album worth it all in all.

I still think Nouvelle Vague is awful, can't listen to it

I read somewhere they had to give the singer a more or less phonetical lyrics sheet, because she had never heard of any of the songs before and does not speak a single word English

Anyway, didn't get to listen this song yet, to get the holiday going I'm listening to all sorts of things I know and really like first,

Nouvelle really seem to split people. I can see why, I absolutely loved it when I first heard it, but it's starting to wear. 'Twas supposed to be a novelty I suppose. I have a massive soft spot for Bossa Nova as it is, so I was doomed to buy the album anyway

RobF wrote:

Motz wrote:

RobF wrote: I wouldn't go quite that far...

But it is genuinely frightening in here sometimes...

s**t, we're agreeing about music

Let's have a row about Throbbing Gristle

Did you know that the founding members of Throbbing Gristle met in Hull?

Erm, Yes...

See "wreckers of civilisation" for the rest of the story.

Finest export.

Hmmm... Sounds a bit like Rammstein with a French accent to me

Alice prezzed against zhe ou-all etc.

Funny, but not my style, thanks...

Would Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant by Siouxsie And The Banshees (b-side of Melt! which is rather apt in this heat) count as a French song since it WAS a French carol.

RobF wrote:Nouvelle really seem to split people. I can see why, I absolutely loved it when I first heard it, but it's starting to wear. 'Twas supposed to be a novelty I suppose. I have a massive soft spot for Bossa Nova as it is, so I was doomed to buy the album anyway

The only stuff of theirs I've heard is Marian, A Forest and I Just Can't Get Enough. I rather like them - A Forest is particularly fine - but I think listening in moderation is the key. I can imagine them becoming waring very quickly if I listened too often.

RobF wrote:
Let's have a row about Throbbing Gristle

Discipline! Discipline! Discipline!

I will never forget this live video (have no idea the year or venue)... That crazy fan in the audience

Discipline! Discipline! Discipline!

Best French Alice cover ever was this one

IZ.

Omigod. 16 seconds in and I love it already

Edit: That woman has a horrible monotonous voice in the second verse. Oh well, I still love it

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Best French Alice cover ever was this one

IZ.

Yes, that's far better

But Sisters is still the best

And Sisters will always remain the best. Point.

And I like Paris...maybe I can handle their arrogance...the feeling and atmosphere is poetry......and it is also romantic....with beautiful art ...modern and old...I do not understand too much and can speak only limited greetings but french is the language of love and passion.

Although could whisper sweet nothings all night long.....whilst dancing to both of the above ...

MadameButterfly wrote:the feeling and atmosphere is poetry

I'm scared of the atmosphere which could be called poetry.

In France with wine and short people...the villages and country-side?....it does have poetical ambiance..

Any atmosphere is also poetical....trust me....watch clouds and see forms.

MadameButterfly wrote:In France with wine and short people...the villages and country-side?....it does have poetical ambiance..

Any atmosphere is also poetical....trust me....watch clouds and see forms.

And I thought poetry doesn't need necessarily wine and clouds as rock'n'roll doesn't need necessarily puudle-hair and falsetto.
But what do I know about poetry.

Poetry is words from the soul from experience of the past...look easy..

*Lust for the future in a dreamer's world
That in a moment can be oh so delightful and joy
In an instant so evil and torment and no soul...*

*Soul for Sisters
Sisters and sisters
Brothers and sisters*

MB

pikkrong wrote:rock'n'roll doesn't need necessarily puudle-hair and falsetto.

It bloody DOES!

pikkrong wrote:But what do I know about poetry.

Indeed...

@MB - Everyone's short when you're Dutch... you guys are a race of giants. Come to Scotland - you need a microscope to see us lot!

boudicca wrote:

pikkrong wrote:rock'n'roll doesn't need necessarily puudle-hair and falsetto.

It bloody DOES!

seems so that you were in a wrong place in August

pikkrong wrote:

boudicca wrote:

pikkrong wrote:rock'n'roll doesn't need necessarily puudle-hair and falsetto.

It bloody DOES!

seems so that you were in a wrong place in August

Yep. I was....




The thought of doing a proper wailing falsetto (not like the wispy one he does on Body And Soul and Fix) is a highly entertaining one!

And poodle hair... well, it's a bit too late for him to test that look out...

doctoravalanche wrote:I don't know if all Sisters fan here have heard about the french electro-rock band The Penelopes, they did a great cover in my opinion of "Alice", it was released this year on a vynil called "Steal this", it is maybe hard to get out of France.
Here is a direct link if you want to get it, hope you will like it cause I think it is really interesting ...
http://footnostalgie.free.fr/sons/alice ... elopes.mp3

My mother always tells me "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."

nick the stripper wrote:

doctoravalanche wrote:I don't know if all Sisters fan here have heard about the french electro-rock band The Penelopes, they did a great cover in my opinion of "Alice", it was released this year on a vynil called "Steal this", it is maybe hard to get out of France.
Here is a direct link if you want to get it, hope you will like it cause I think it is really interesting ...
http://footnostalgie.free.fr/sons/alice ... elopes.mp3

My mother always tells me "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."

So you should listen to your mother ...

But my father always said to call a spade a spade.

I always listened to what my father tells me. I slap him around the ears sometimes....but he understands.