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| aspiringplyglot Triglot Groupie United Kingdom aspiringpolyglot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4364 days ago 40 posts - 62 votes  Speaks: English*, GermanB2, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Esperanto, Polish, Scottish Gaelic, French | Message 1 of 23 09 November 2013 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm currently studying French as part of the 6WC and I was wondering if any of you lovely people have some recommendations for some French music?
I'm not looking specifically for songs that I'll understand completely but I've listened to music in both German and Spanish from the beginning and I think it helped me a lot. Thanks in advance :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jhaberstro Senior Member United States Joined 4180 days ago 112 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 2 of 23 09 November 2013 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a collection of French music that I've found to more comprehensible than not. It contains a variation of pop
and rap mostly. http://open.spotify.com/user/jhaberstro/playlist/5xJkpUEdmtW y7PKKKSthmu (in case you don't have spotify, the artist in no particular order are Yelle, Zaho, Archimède, Ben L'Oncle Soul, Stromae, Maitre Gims, MC Solaar, La Fouine, Joyce Jonathan, Carla Bruni, and Zaz). Edited by jhaberstro on 10 November 2013 at 6:47pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| aspiringplyglot Triglot Groupie United Kingdom aspiringpolyglot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4364 days ago 40 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB2, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Esperanto, Polish, Scottish Gaelic, French | Message 3 of 23 09 November 2013 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks! I do indeed have Spotify so I'll look into it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4494 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 23 09 November 2013 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Add Manau to that list.
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| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 3960 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 5 of 23 09 November 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Madeleine Peyroux is American, but she sings some songs in French too. She's more of a jazz singer though.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4696 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 6 of 23 10 November 2013 at 2:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been exploring French music since I started studying French 2 1/2 years ago, and have found a lot of music I like a lot and listen to all the time. I'll list my favourite artists, with a brief description, along with the albums I know listed after -. A * or ** means that I really love this album and listen to it a lot.
BB Brunes * (range from punk to pop rock, the singing is clear): -Blonde Comme Moi * -Nico Teen Love -Long Courier ** Françoise Hardy (classic soft pop from the 60s... but she's still active I think): -Comment Te Dire Adieu Guillaume Grand (guitar oriented pop rock, along the lines of Jack Johnson or something): -L'Amour est Laid (There's a new one coming out soon... the single already out is Je Sais) Jean-Louis Aubert * (was the co-founder of the rock group Téléphone, but I haven't heard them yet. Nice rock music, his voice sounds a bit like Bono). -Premières Prises * (accoustic/piano versions of his songs) -Stockholm * (solid rock) Raphaël ** (or Raphaël Haroche) (varied and talented singer... varies from folk to rock to pop. I've liked him enough to buy all of his albums I could find) -Caravane * -Hotel de L'univers ** (more rock oriented than most of his albums) -Je Sais Que La Terre Est Plate -La Réalité *** (very interesting songs, interesting music... maybe my favourite French album?) -Pacific 231 * -Super-Welter (his most recent album... I haven't liked it as much as his other albums) Tanger ** (a very interesting rock band which uses classical, jazz and African music in their mix... but it all feels very natural, not contrived. It is hard to find out much about them, and I think they don't exist anymore) -Tanger -La Memoire Insoluble * -Le Detroit ** -Il Est Toujours 20 Heures Dans Le Monde Moderne ** I also listen to "Cafe De Paris- 50 Grands Succes Francais" a lot. It is a collection of all those old songs sung by Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Yves Montand, etc, etc. I'd probably heard at least half of them in films before I ever began to study French. (There are dozens of collections of this sort... they all probably overlap 90%). One more comment, since you are in the UK. I got all of these albums from Amazon (mostly on mp3). Now that they have "Autorip", you can buy the cd (for the lyrics) and get the mp3's for free (to listen to right away). Edited by Jeffers on 10 November 2013 at 2:11am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3931 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 7 of 23 10 November 2013 at 3:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I *loved* Lili Fatale as a teenager - Canadian pop from the early 90s. There are lots of Lili Fatale songs available
on youtube - and I still love all of them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 5827 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 8 of 23 10 November 2013 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I loved Desireless since I was a kid after her music got into the British Charts with Voyage, Voyage. Can't understand the words but the songs are catchy
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