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03-28-2007, 01:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Bay Area, CA | | | Need French Music!!!
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alright, I'm a freshman in highschool and am in french 2 right now. We're doing this project type thing where we pic to do different kinds of activities that are french, like cooking a french meal and bringing in the recipe to class. anyways, on of the options is "learning a french song on the instrument of your choice". Does anyone know of any french music that I can learn on bass? |
03-28-2007, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lawrence, MA | | MC Solarr. Or something like that. It's french rap from the early 90s. We listened to it in my French class, funniest french class I can remember. It's the most ridiculous sounding music you'll ever hear.
On a more serious note, I don't know if I can help you much, as far as playing the bass and singing it. Just get up there and do some raps 
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03-28-2007, 03:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London, Ontario | | Depending on what genre you like...
you should check any songs from Les Cowboys Fringant or Kain,
There was also this song called Le Rap a Billy with a cool slap bass line
Or Venus3 ( http://www.venus3.com/multimedia.html) elle marche, paranoia and dans les airs have pretty cool bass lines too |
03-28-2007, 07:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Bay Area, CA | | | thanks for replies. is there any modern...ish song with pretty easy lyrics that anyone knows of, cuz I don't know if i'll have to sing this too. anyways, I'm just looking for as much music as I can get. |
03-28-2007, 07:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London, Ontario | | Those bands I mentioned are modern (except for Le Rap a Billy)
another modern band would be Les Vulgaire Machines,
check out this song : http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_s2AREknDM
sounds / looks pretty easy to play..
as for singing I can't really tell.. I'm french =S
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03-28-2007, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Montreal, Rive-Sud | | | My favorite french artist is Daniel Bélanger, you should check out any of his stuff. The basslines are always great.
Another one is Jean Leloup, pretty easy stuff to sing and the bass is most of the time very cool. Try to get the song Alger from him, it has an awesome bass line.
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03-28-2007, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London, Ontario | | Quote: |
Another one is Jean Leloup, pretty easy stuff to sing and the bass is most of the times very cool. Try to get the song Alger from him, it has an awesome bass line.
| Ahh I hate that Jean Leloup guy soo much.. that guy and Stefie Shock ? and that David Bowie wannabe.. arg.. I'd go drop-kick them anyday! |
03-28-2007, 07:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Bay Area, CA | | | I don't care how hard the bass is, I'm just a little sketchy at singing and playing at the same time.
whatever music you guys can give me, I'm open for... |
03-28-2007, 08:07 PM
| | | | Try Telephone, an early 80s rock band very famous in France. |
03-28-2007, 08:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Montreal, Rive-Sud | | Quote:
Originally Posted by crispygoat  Ahh I hate that Jean Leloup guy soo much.. that guy and Stefie Shock ? and that David Bowie wannabe.. arg.. I'd go drop-kick them anyday! | What's wrong with Jean Leloup?!
Harmonium is another good one, 70s prog/folk music at its best. |
03-28-2007, 08:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London, Ontario | | | well.. back then I thought it sucked.. and there was a song that sounded like Polly to me.. but that was 2 years ago.. maybe i'd like him today.. i'll go and check some out...
But I sure can't stand the two others !
Edit : Actually it's not bad at all.. I like it, but as a matter of fact I'd still kick him for burning his Jazzmaster !
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03-28-2007, 08:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Montreal, Rive-Sud | | Here's a link to the Jean Leloup's song i was talking about : http://www.myspace.com/sylvainbolduc
It's the second song (Alger) |
03-28-2007, 09:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London, Ontario | | | That song is just soo cool... thanks for sharing... nice basses too |
03-28-2007, 09:21 PM
|  | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | | Check allmusic.com. It was a good resource for French artists when I had to give a cultural presentation in French 4 a few years ago in college. Some of the info on foriegn artists is a bit dated, but still holds value for such a presentation.
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03-28-2007, 09:52 PM
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03-29-2007, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by relayer66 What would be great is if you could learn some Magma (Jannick Top rules). That would f up your fellow students for life. | ?????
on a side note, that song, alger, was pretty cool. Any other songs like that with slap? |
03-29-2007, 12:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | I was going to recommand Alger, byt it's been done.
I didn't know it was Sylvain on that song. He is a very good bassist.
Another song I like the bass line is the live version of Fu Man Chu / Charlebois. |
03-29-2007, 02:13 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | So - nobody has mentioned "Je t'aime" by Serge Gainsbourg....
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03-29-2007, 02:36 AM
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03-29-2007, 07:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New York City | | | Been freaking out on French lounge and electronica lately:
Camille, Emilie Simon, Katerine, Helena, also the Brazilian Girls,
Nolween Leroy, Jane Birkin, Serge baby,
some great stuff from time to time....
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