idun Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 They keep showing clips from a new film, 'Moonrise Kingdom' and I kept hearing a little bit of this song 'Le Temps de l'Amour' singer, I think, Françoise Hardy. Love it. And old song from the 60's. Could it be a hit again now? Who knows, that would be nice if it were played a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Gosh yes, idun. I remember that song from the 1960s. I had (?have) a Françoise Hardy LP, and that was one of my favorites on it.It also had "Tous les garçons et les filles", and "Ça a raté". They don't make them like that any more...Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snys9LGMAmo&feature=relatedMeretricious crap in my opinion, but if it give pleasure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 20, 2012 Author Share Posted May 20, 2012 Music, how we could all argue about it for the rest of our days. My husband loves folk music, I do not, well not as a general rule. I like popular classics and heavy metal and Nat King Cole etc. And yet, some things just get me and this song has haunted me since I heard it the other day, as I haven't heard it for years, probably more about the lyrics than the music. And I do remember and that is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 I always liked this one V.I.P. Hope it's not too meretricious Norman (will have to look that one up). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 I've got a couple of Francoise Hardy C.D.s, songs from the 60s and still love them just as much now as I did then.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 [quote user="Loiseau"]Gosh yes, idun. I remember that song from the 1960s. I had (?have) a Françoise Hardy LP, and that was one of my favorites on it.It also had "Tous les garçons et les filles", and "Ça a raté". They don't make them like that any more...Angela[/quote]Yes, I also like "Tous les garçons et les filles"; goodness knows why! [;-)]Must have been in my early days in France when I had this idea of learning the language by playing (and singing) songs. Indeed, I have a music book called "35 Rondes et chansons pour les enfants". Great fun to play on the piano and there were even some that my then French teacher hadn't heard of and she was always humming and singing, simple songs even in class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Since this thread started I have had "Ton meilleur ami" on the brain! Remember that one, girls?Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 For me it's been "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - positively one of the most miserable dirges ever written or performed. But some b*gg*r played it on a TV programme sound track and the awful tune just won't dislodge itself from my brain. Grrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 Lol Coops, the first bit on that gets to me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Blimey, Coops, I've never heard of that Beatles number! I just went to listen on YouTube, and it still didn't ring any bells, but I'm mightily glad not to have that on the brain!Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 This song haunted me night and day for several weeks, and I don't even like the singer at all!!! I never understood why it just would not go away. (so I am posting the link without listening to it, just in case!)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOP8hUwMAc&feature=relatedI have often been haunted by a song, or a piece of music, to the point that it would stop me sleeping at night. I have to be very careful about what I listen to because of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 Good old Eddie Mitchell, who used to have a late night program showing old VO films, usually american which we watched on our black and white tv with a coat hanger for an ariel. He and F Mitterand gave us such treats quite regularly. I know that song, but it has never haunted me. When I first got to France it was 'Radio' by Polnareff that got me and haunted me, only I thought he was saying 'hi di ho', as I have never had the 'ear'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 As Amanda in Private Lives said"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is"I am not intending to be snobbish, even if one of the few serious rows I have had with someone very close to me was when my taste in Music was called 'élitist', but it does seem true that 'catchy' or 'haunting' songs are often those which have only that one merit.At the same time to be able to create a memorable tune a real gift, and the last thing I would want to do is to spoil anyone's pleasure in any type of Music, as I tried rather awkwardly to explain when I gave the YouTube Link.The one thing that turns me off is the predictable thudding drums, and as soon as I hear that (as at the beginning of the Françoise Hardy tune) I can't listen any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 Yes, potent, that is what music is and you are quite right..............it can turn us on and turn us off. Sadly there is too much that turns me off too. And yet, I admire musicians and singers who can sing and play although I may not admire their choice in music and do not listen to it. Music snobbery, well I do know about that. I royally ignore it, because music snobbery of any sort at close quarters could be oppressive and 'I' have my own ideas and know what I like and do not like and will not be influenced or even put down because of my particular taste in music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 [quote user="5-element"]This song haunted me night and day for several weeks, and I don't even like the singer at all!!! I never understood why it just would not go away. (so I am posting the link without listening to it, just in case!)I have often been haunted by a song, or a piece of music, to the point that it would stop me sleeping at night. I have to be very careful about what I listen to because of it.[/quote]I remember a few years ago there was a successful racehorse called Rhinestone Cowboy. John "greatest jockey" Francome moaned once on the Morning Line that he got angry every time the horse ran because the tune kept coming back to him and wouldn't stop haunting him for days.Angela, not being a Beatles fan and being married to Mr C who will rant for hours on the subject of their "killing popular music forever" I hear lots of similar remarks about their music all the time. But that one is one of the worst. NOT the best thing to have buzzing in your head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Coops, do you have to mention the B word?Talk about haunted, I am........by every single number of the Sergeant Pepper's album. Had no choice but to listen to it day and night for a whole week camping in the Scilly Isles, with nothing else in the way of "entertainment".This was when the album first came out, was it late 60s or early 70s?Haven't been back to the Scilly Isles or had another camping trip in my life and have anyway divorced the person whom I was with.Be that as it may, to this day, I still remember ALL the tunes and ALL the lyrics![:-))]Still, it was my one claim to any sort of street cred, not that I knew, in my usual, wrapped-up-in-my-own-world way, that the abum was "iconic" or in any way special![:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I think it's very tough when you live constantly with the same music when you have no control over it. My siser (who was older than me so was the one with the record player and the tranny) loved the Beatles, whilst my father loved Joan Sutherland. I grew up hating both. Much as Mr C hates the TV because it was always on at his parents' house, regardless of the subject matter, and only ever the BBC as the commercialism of ITV was despised. His father would not believe him when he explained that he had seen Nadia Narina on Sunday Night at the London Paladium at a friend's house.[:D]Now I get Miles Davis. At least it's musical even if not my thing. Oh, and my little den is nearly finished so I've got Tickled Pink at full vol' on the stereo and only I can hear it.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 That's it, you lot have done it now! "Eleanor Rigby" it is, and it won't go away!![:'(]I always found it such a depressing song too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Eleanor Rigby, oh no!Give me Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds instead![:P]Well, you can blame Coops for bringing up the B word, can't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 I felt liberated as a girl by two things, Mary Quant and The Beatles. Gone were the high heels and Elvis, well not quite, but no longer at the forefront of pop culture. I was in cuban heels and mini skirts and tunes I that I could hear every word, even if I didn't understand them. And I do believe that The Beatles were great. I cannot work out how they have killed anything, felt to me like they had quite the contrary effect. There was a program on a few weeks ago about ballad singers/songs and their success in spite of rock culture. Very interesting it was. We can get tunes stuck in our heads for no good reason. Some please us, some don't. My brother's first record was Bridge over Troubled Water, after hearing it about 5 times and eventually, X number of times, I cannot stand it. It never sticks in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Idun, you should never have started this thread! I am now onto this one (I specialise in teajerkers)[:)]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ik1pxav-CM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Well if must speak of Lady someone or other and of the Bs...here is a musical version of one of their 'songs' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTxKQkvl3Fo&feature=fvwrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG MAC Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 ColdPlay 'Fix You' and With Rhianna 'Princess of China'....awesome....end of message Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I'm not a great fan of french music. I think it must be my the accordian that puts me off, although Elton John's Sorry Seems to be the hardest word is Ok, even with an accordian. There was a tune, or rather a bass riff, I couldn't get out of my head. everytime I watched european footy matches, the crowd would enevitably link up and start bouncing up and down whilst "singing". It took me a few years to finally get to the bottom of it (helped in the detail by my kids)...seven nation army..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7huh5Egew this is the one that I can't get out of my head at the moment 264,000,000 hits on utube..and countinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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