French Music
 

Does anyone have recommendation for French music? I only know Aisha(spelling?) but I do not know others. I prefer dance-techno-trance musics, but not Daft Punk.

Any french music is good though, I rarely hear of any..

I very strongly recommend an artist called "Emilie Simon". She makes electronic music with an ambient feel on her latest album, Vegetal. Her music is really beautiful.

She's popular in France at least.

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie_Simon

If you're trying LimeWire, your best bet is Johnny Depp's wifey. Vanessa Paradis. She's pretty famous.

That girl... what was her name, the one who does the Night Elf dance from World of Warcraft ... isn't she french?

Alizée? Yeah, that was it, a quick search for "night elf dance" on YouTube helped me. She's not a recommended listen, although I couldn't refrain from noticing her as 19 guys out of 32 persons in my class plays that game and talked _a lot_ about her, err.

It's pretty funny to watch the video though, if you know the dance.

Uhm, I really shouldn't be posting this link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ddttvmImk8

I'm uploading an Emilie Simon track anyway, just in case you can't find it anywhere. It's the first single from the new album and it's called 'Fleur De Saison'.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/x9wg83

Alizée rocks!! Recommended songs: Moi.. Lolita, J'en ai marre

The song is that video that immel posted is "J'en ai marre"

I also think Marie-Élaine Thibert is really good too.. she's from Canada.. she has an awesome voice.. I recommend the song "Fille de Ville" or any of the lives, (they're all in limewire) from Star Académie.. the TV show like American Idol, which she won ;)

I also recommend Corneille.. he's not really techno-trance-anything but his lyrics are so awesome and he's really talented.. recommended songs: Seul au Monde, Parce qu'on vient de loin, Ce Soir

Here's the charts from Montréal:
http://www.ckoi.com/top_franco.php

Oh yeah, and if you live in Canada (or have the channel MuchMusic) you can watch French music videos at 10:00AM every weekday.. on Much

I'd like to recommend you Najoua Belyzel and especially her song "Je ferme les yeux" you can her video clip here http://youtube.com/watch?v=GdYnXbEdP_c

and Emilie Simon is a great artist too ^^

^ Yeah she is! :yes
Oh, I like one of her songs too. I think the title is "In each of my silences" when translated. Know what song it is?

By general agreement of the people in my class who actually enjoyed looking at this video it was her looks that rocked, not her music.



:D

'Dans chacun de mes silences' :D That's a really beautiful song.. but Le Ciel est à Moi (The sky is mine) is much better imo.. the lyrics are just GORGEOUS.. I saw her perform it on Star Académie and I was like O_O.. It's so much more powerful..


Oh yeah, and she's not obscure here.. her album went 3x platinum in Canada!! I don't know how much it sold in France though..
It won the prize for Francophone Album of the Year at the 2005 Juno Awards (Canada's most famous music awards)

Vanessa Paradis <3.

You could also try (I haven't heard a lot of her stuff but a friend showed me her live tour) Mylene Farmer. She's supposed to be the french madonna/ayu. She is more pop. She still makes music, but a new more tranced up verison of her old hit "desenchanté" was made a hit here by Kate Ryan (actually I think it was a paneuropean hit, I've got that single. The original is also very good.

A singer who's more Hip-Popish that I found by chanse on the old WinMx (R.I.P.) Is Nadya. I could upload my favourite song of hers if you'd like. It's called "et c'est partir". I think she's canadian though.

MANAU!!!!! I just LOOOVEE manau!!! :D
Tout le monde (a besoin de tout les monde)
La Tribu de Dana

those are 2 awesome songs :D

French Music ? O.o

Humm... Don't REALLY like it, but it depends on what kind of Music are you looking for ?

I mean... If you want Variety, I would recomand Najoua Belyzel [Je ferme les yeux]
More R'nB, I think Leslie [L'envers de la terre] is the best!
Rock~R'nB music ? Then you should definitly listen to Nadiya [Roc]
And if you want classical~Ballads~ Music, humm... Amel Bent [Ne retiens pas tes larmes] or Lara Fabian [Immortelle]

Hope this helps ^^

Calogero! I really enjoy his music. It's all basically rock at the core, but he dabbles in hip-hop and dance. Beautiful voice, beautiful lyrics, beautiful and haunting melodies.

Of the songs I know (from various albums), I reccomend (in this order):

Si Seulement Je Pouvais Lui Manquer If Only He Could Miss Me
Face à la Mer (avec Passi) Facing the Sea (with Passi)
Tien An Men Tien An Men
Yalla Yalla
Devant Toi Before You
En Apesanteur In Zero-Gravity
Safe Sex Safe Sex

I love Mylene Farmer! :) Though she has this really creepy music video that involves... a lot of blood? I can't remember the title.

I love Kyo, but they may not be what you're looking for.

^ me too!!! I can upload one of their albums for you if you want :)...they're kinda rock-ish though

Try Élodie Frégé. La ceinture is absolutely lovely. :luv2

If you like Björk, you'll probably love Camille. She's the French Björk, and she's so awesome. :thumbsup

Although she doesn't sing fully in French (in fact, only a small amount of her songs are sung in French), Madeleine Peyroux sings some great light jazz music. :yes

I liked Slaï's La Dernière Danse. Very charming. :)

I'd recommend Louise Attaque! LOL
He's not popular among my friends (they say it's music for old people), but I love his stuff.

She apparantly has many quite creepy music videos. And to correct my former post; I ment Nadiya. =P Same as Love~ayu mentioned.

If you take a peak to the left on this page it will give you a pretty good hint,
http://www.last.fm/music/Najoua+Belyzel
http://www.last.fm/music/Emilie+Simon
in the 'similar artists' column.

I don't know if you already know about last.fm, that page is great, in general, when you're looking for music to like :).

Aww, glad you liked emilie. = )
If you want the album, I can upload on YSI or SendSpace.

Mylene Farmer is a great vocalist.

you know the song Kate Ryan - Desenchantee? it is in fact a cover of Mylene Farmer's song.

Does anybody know the name of the two singers who sung 'Ce rêve blu' the song of Aladdin?

Awesome! I havent even listened to stuff other than vegetal. Can't find them on torrents or Limewire. Is verycd a site?

Ce rêve bleu, by Karine Costa & Daniel Lévi =)

I found some really cool French rock music. The lead singer is a woman and boy does she rock! They're called EMKLEM and you can here some of their songs here.: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=17561355

I also found another French rock band :
http://www.myspace.com/solutionmusic

Well, you can try the link given by pamplemouse. Unfortunately I don't have emule so I can't download it at all. That site is awesome though, it has all of Emilie's albums. I can upload vegetal for you but it'll take some time due to my connection.

oh thanks! I can't download from emule either cause I don't have emule, well I would appreciate if you upload "vegetal" for me, even if it takes longer for you because of your connection. Thanks a lot!

Emilie Simon
Vegetal

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Emilievege.jpg

"Alicia"
"Fleur De Saison"
"Le Vieil Amant"
"Sweet Blossom"
"Opium"
"Dame De Lotus"
"Swimming"
"In The Lake"
"Rose Hybride De Thé"
"Never Fall In Love"
"Annie"
"My Old Friend"
"En Cendres"

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2n8gwg

thank you so much!! WOW you ROCK man! I am listening to the songs now and I really like Emilie's voice a lot. Now I need to go back to my French class cause I'm starting to forget the few French I learned. Muchas Gracias!~

hmm whats with jenifer? and mylene farmer? they are good and has a lot of new stuff comin up.

For those who like rock music, I strongly recommend Kyo.

Tina Arena has recorded an album in French(She has been living there for the past few years) and i also like Vanessa Paradis and Carla Bruni.

JUSTICE! they are awesome, give them a listen. you might like MSTRKRFT too but they are canadian, not french. do you not like daft punk? i think they produce some of the best music out there.

David Guetta does some great French house music.

i love lara fabian.. she is somewhat my motivate to learn french at college ;)

^ isn't she the one that sung for final fantasy: the spirits within?
i love that song~:)

Love is Gone = best dance tune of the year!!

I'm going to pick up a couple of CDs when I'm in France. Thinking of getting Elodie Frege's Le Jeu des 7 Erreurs & Nolwenn Leroy's Histoires Naturelles?

I heard Elodie's La Ceinture so will be buying that album and read a review of Nolwenn's album which I think totally sold me, but am interested to hear what other people think of these albums?

mi|kshake~

I think you'll like Najoua belyzel (Gabriel, Je ferme les yeux, comme toi, Stella ...) !

Jenifer (french singer ^^) new single "Tourner ma page"

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=P4NHwWaG_HY

I got Nolwenn Leroy's Les Histoires Naturelles album which I'm really loving. Anyone else like her?

mi|kshake~

Well French Music....

Lara Fabian (Ballads, my favorite french singer^^ especially "Yeliel My Angel" & "L'homme qui n'avait pas de maison")
Bénabar
Christophe Willem
Jean Jacques Goldman
Leslie
Amel Bent
Cali
Cristophe Maé
Indochine
Tina Arena
Grégory Lemarchal