Popular French songs

03-07-2006, 01:52 AM

Hey everyone, i need a few really great examples of songs in French, preferably from France because I want to do a presentation on french music. I would REALLY appreciate it if you could give me a Pop song, a rock song, a hip-hop song, and any other popular music genre in france. I dont need the translation, just the song name and artist. Any extra information would be amazing. Thanks SOOO much

mamama · 03-08-2006, 05:03 AM

Hello.

For rock song you can talk about Noir Désir, that is a very good rock band in France, even if its singer, Bertrand Cantat, is today in jail. To me, Noir Desir's best songs are"Un jour en France" and "Fin de siècle".
There's another wonderful rock band called Dionysos! They even sing with the kills in their last album. Talk about "La petite fille aux seins écrasés" or "Déguisé en pas moi".

For hip-hop songs, let's talk about TTC, a crazy hip-hop band. They aren't very popular, but soo good! "En soulevant le couvercle" is a good song.
But the one of the most popular hip hop band in france is NTM, for exemple.

If you really want to talk about POPULAR french music, talk about something called "chansons à texte". In this type of music, lyrics are really important and the instruments are often minimalist. Most of the time, there's just a guitar or a piano. I think of Vincent Delerm and his song called "Tes parents" or Carla Bruni with "Tout le monde" .

And the "old" singers, like Alain Souchon with "Le zebre", Renaud and "Mistral Gagnant", Bashung and "Ma petite entreprise"....

There's a lot of different musics in France but I just gave you the name of the most popular bands.

I hope it will help you, and ask me if you want more informations.

lux · 03-08-2006, 05:44 AM

Carla Bruni sings in French but she's Italian!
Anyway I really really like "le vent nous portera" by Noir Desire

03-22-2006, 08:25 AM

Hey all!! I would like to know if any of you guys on here know where I can download FRENCH songs, like artists that you guys have already listed here. I have limewire but it didnt find any french songs there......and I tried bit torrents but they only have french movies/dvds for download.

Ou est-ce que je peux trouver!? Aide-moi si vous plait!!! :-P

From: Big V

mamama · 03-22-2006, 09:03 AM

Hi
Well, if you wanna download french songs you can get them on any p2p software

03-22-2006, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by mamama

Hi
Well, if you wanna download french songs you can get them on any p2p software

I tried LIMEWIRE, but it gave me nothing. What do you use to get your french songs??

From: Big V

mamama · 03-22-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by vingo

I tried LIMEWIRE, but it gave me nothing. What do you use to get your french songs??

From: Big V

Oh sorry I didn't know this software.
I think you can find these songs on e-mule.
But the songs I talked about are popular, but it's not the best music French people can do. Try to find MIG's songs, or gainsbourg (ok, he's really popular too) for exemple. THIS is good french music

03-22-2006, 07:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mamama

Oh sorry I didn't know this software.
I think you can find these songs on e-mule.
But the songs I talked about are popular, but it's not the best music French people can do. Try to find MIG's songs, or gainsbourg (ok, he's really popular too) for exemple. THIS is good french music

Is E-Mule the same like Limewire or Kazaa??

But thanks for your input, greatly appreciated :-D

From: Big V

mamama · 03-23-2006, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vingo

Is E-Mule the same like Limewire or Kazaa??

But thanks for your input, greatly appreciated :-D

From: Big V

Mmmh good question^^
I think it's the same, I don't know Limewire but E-mule is close to Kazaa. But don't you know e-mule? I thought it was an american software (well, maybe aren't you from the USA).
You can try on kazaa, too. I used kazaa before, and I don't know if it's because it was a french version, but there was a lot of french songs.
And I'm happy to see foreigner interested by french music, cause even if "we" are not exported a lot, "we" make good music

llama0609 · 10-21-2006, 11:36 AM

Kyo is A Great French Band. I Love There Song "Je Cours"And "Juste Une Derniere Dance"

maxsimn · 10-22-2006, 12:46 PM

Hmmm.. you said you wanted to make a presentation for the french music I think that you should mansion the "chansons".I could give you some texts just write me.If you`d like to write for a modern & normal group the posts before mine are giving enough info

Magmim007 · 10-30-2006, 01:37 PM

Regarding French music:
I would like to say that Enrico Macias has very good "older music" beautiful spanish guitar, gypsy kind of sounds, and a bit of middle east as well as some classic french café type of music.
I have enjoyed Michel Sardou and Enrico Macias for over 25 years now.

Turin77 · 11-12-2006, 08:36 PM

IAM -> good rap

marsop · 11-15-2006, 06:39 AM

there's something there, called Gypsophile (6 albums on elefant records, radio khartoum, clover, and...): www.myspace.com/gypsophile

aksios · 12-21-2006, 12:37 PM

what about KYO?isnt it good one along the other bands?

RoCk-StAr · 12-21-2006, 04:03 PM

What about Micky 3D?!!

I want some hardcore french songs, all I got is La Grande Sophie, and definitely that's not what I'm looking for.... ِà l'aide S.V.P.

jeanettecowell · 12-21-2006, 07:39 PM

La VIE en Rose!!!!!!

YankeleBolot · 01-12-2007, 11:23 AM

Hi everyone, I am new on your forum www.allthelyrics.com, I've been reading it for a while, and decided to try my luck asking a few questions
Who can tell me more in detail about the this. Please Mail Me..!!
Best Regards..!!

rayaneiwane · 01-13-2007, 04:26 AM

renaud bennabar jeremy amiel helene segara it's what I listen now and all french LOL

rayaneiwane · 01-13-2007, 02:24 PM

u can try olivia ruiz I like her album femme au chocolat

Mpoumpou · 01-14-2007, 05:02 AM

Hi everybody, if u need a French translation dont hesitate to make your question ! I could help you

A bientot

jtaimepariss · 02-23-2007, 12:27 AM

I studied in Paris last summer and I got to listen to a lot of really great music at cafes, etc. I really like Francoise Hardy. She's older but her songs are great and your classic 1960s Parisian. One of my favorite songs is "Tous les garcons.." and she has many others. She was a very popular french artist to the the french and int'l community so she would probably a great example for your presentation.

iceman · 02-23-2007, 07:30 AM

hello all
I'm old french and I can help you !
If you want to talk about french popular songs you should think to :
old songs that are popular in the World as : la vie en rose (edith Piaf) and Comme d'habitude ( claude François - covererd by Sinatra as "My way" !!!) Charles Aznavour (la bohème, je me voyais déjà)
french singer as : Johnny Halliday (old as Elvis Presley but still alive !!!)
Serge Gainsbourg (pop in the 70's reggae in the 80's)
Rock band : Noir Desir of course but also TELEPHONE, TRUST(covered by Anthrax : Antisocial)
Rap : I AM and Nique Ta Mère (that mean MOTHER****ER) are the 2 most popular band
after there is the "chansons à texte" you can talk about :
Renaud : manhattan /Kaboul, Miss Maggie...
Brel : les Bourgeois, Jeff, le port d'amsterdam...,
You just have to know that in French music, lyrics are more important than music !

After you also can say that french guys create some musical style. for exemple, Henri Salvador create the BOSSA NOVA, Disco was create in France by Cerrone and 2 producers who create a boys band named VILLAGE PEOPLE, and also Patrick Hernandez with is "born to be alive"

Actually there is a feedback to the "Chanson a texte " with some artist as Vincent DELERME, olivia RUIZ, La grande Sophie...

The only style that is not really present in the TV/Radio show is the Heavy Metal
but each time a Band come in France, the Show is sold out.
I can' t explain why Tv/radio Show don't give us more

I hope I have help you

Patycan · 02-23-2007, 08:15 AM

Hi!

I know you asked for artist from France but maybe you could considere singers from Québec too...

Like Isabelle Boulay (Depuis le premier jour), Céline Dion (Je lui dirai), Garou (Sous le vent), Ariane Moffat (fracture du crâne), Jean Leloup (Isabelle).

Have a nice day!

Patricia

Patycan · 02-23-2007, 08:25 AM

Rock Star, have you ever heard about Daniel Boucher, Martin Deschamps, Éric Lapointe, Offenbach, PLume Latraverse?

I don't know if you would considere it as ''hard'' but I like them!

))

RoCk-StAr · 02-24-2007, 02:30 PM

Merci beaucoup Paty, ce sont génials, notamment Éric Lapointe...
Oh, et Kyo aussi sont superbs.

Patycan · 02-25-2007, 10:53 AM

Éric Lapointe last CD "1994-2006" n'importe qui, album compilation'' is the best to me because you can find a bit of everything for every mood...

Try to find it if you can. Veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy goooddddddddddd!

Ever heard of Anik Jean ''Junkie de toi'' ?

I am not to good with ''style'' since music to me depends of how I feel... but hope I can help others find nice stuff too.

Patycan · 03-01-2007, 10:31 AM

vingo : I think that a good way to find french song is Mirc-undernet. You can do a searche by what you are looking for. I don't know If I hace the right to name chanels here but id you need help, I am here for you. I have many songs myself...

Raminta · 05-25-2007, 11:12 AM

Hey,

how about french reggae? Could you recomend me something? or ska..but i would prefer soft and musical reggae band.. mmm.. or something like french bob marley

vaio · 05-25-2007, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patycan

Hi!

I know you asked for artist from France but maybe you could considere singers from Québec too...

Like Isabelle Boulay (Depuis le premier jour), Céline Dion (Je lui dirai), Garou (Sous le vent), Ariane Moffat (fracture du crâne), Jean Leloup (Isabelle).

Have a nice day!

Patricia

Ah, Isabelle Boulay did a duet singing a song I'm quite familiar with, namely, Travailler C'est Trop Dur. For those not acquainted with it, here's the video:

http://megali.linare.free.fr/iletait...esttropdur.wmv