French pop recommendations

From any era. Doesn't necessarily have to be in French.

There's no such thing as good French pop

The French like Anglo and American "pop" meaning the usual r&b, house type genres.

Of their own recent francophone music try the following tracks and go from there on last.fm or deezer:

La lumière, Camille

Que n'ai-je, Keren Ann (Lady and Bird album)

and try these duets:

Confettis, Benjamin Biolay avec Julia Stone

Profite , Biolay and Vanessa Paradis

Try the raspberry soda

Patricia Kaas, love her.

Any of those Francoise Hardy albums, particularly from the 60s, when she was THE Ye-Ye Girl. Her later work is good too, and Malcolm McLaren did a good album on Paris, with help from Catherine Deneuve, Hardy, Juliette Greco etc. My CD has an extra disk of chillout mixes.

LESCOP. You'll like it, OP. It's total mellow pop.

SoKo is cute

Go for some of the Ye Ye Girls. It was a period in French pop music after the war, economic deprivation, and rebuilding. The French just wanted some fun. So there was a time when it was all about the Ye Ye girls. Pretty young things who did pop.

Here's Jocelyne she was one of the more long lasting Ye Ye Girls. They didn't have a long shelf life.

Jacqueline Taieb 7 Heure du Matin. The French version of My Generation. A HUGE hit. She was also a popular Ye Ye Girl.

And you have to have Liz Brady doing Le Palladium

Thomas Dutronc's music( son of Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc)

Tel Que Tu Es , Charlotte Gainsbourg

Francoise Hardy is still going strong now, r9, even if silver haired.

French rap or French ballad is better, but if you're going to listen to pop, listen to kpop. It's really popular here where I am and gays are addicted to it here. At first it will be wierd but you'll get use to it. I recommend 2ne1's song I am missing you or Sexy, free, and single by Super Junior.

Yéyé is horrible but here is one funny track from that era:

7 heures du matin, Jacqueline Taïeb

And Pink Martini is an American group who does A LOT in French. This is my favorite they do. Their French is nearly perfect. They're from Oregon and have actually won awards in France. Sympathique is their best.

Ha ha R10, good choice

Yelle

It's not the French version of "My Generation", it references one line.

what fucking ever.....that's how most people describe it. Here's my own what fucking ever.

Jacques Dutronc

Comme d'habitude, Claude "Cloclo" Francois. The original "My Way". Paul Anka id the first anglo version, I think.

I love the Ye Ye girls the French just wanted to have some fun again. Another really fun Jacqueline Taieb. Nice MTV like video LOL

R5) I was listening to "Piano Bar" yesterday. I love her version of this song. OP, if you want a fun song, try Plastic Bertrand doing "Ca Plan Pour Moi."

Here you go OP. Marvin will have some recommendations for you.

Phoenix - "If I Ever Feel Better"

I LOVE Francoise Hardy and one of my all time fave French bands, Les Rita Mitsouko. "Marcia Baila" is one of their best songs. Unfortunately, IIRC, the husband in this duo died of cancer a few years ago.

"Marcia Baila", reminds me of my club 'daze' going to Danceteria and all the other great clubs during that era. Good Times!

Anything by Mylene Farmer.

{quote]Comme d'habitude, Claude "Cloclo" Francois. The original "My Way". Paul Anka id the first anglo version, I think.

The song's lyrics are by Paul Anka, the music was by Claude François.

Sebastien Tellier - "Divine"

Francoise gives a lesson on how to age.

Air - "All I Need"

Etienne Daho - 30 years later still going strong.

This has an "80's pop" feel to it.

Popular in the apres-ski clubs of Grenoble

Saudade - 1991

Michel Jonasz La Fableuse Histoire De Mr Swing. a great double CD performed by a Franco- American backing band led by singer who loves American music.Jonasz is really one of France's great musical treasures.

I really like that R33

Summer is made for French pop! Here is the some of the poppiest from France Gall's album called 1968 made with Serge Gainsbourg.

This is hardcore pop. Be forewarned.

I just looked up Thomas Dutronc and listened to his music. Bought a couple of tracks. He's pretty good. Looks like a carbon copy of his dad.

Jacques Dutronc! Here is one of the greatest videos from the sixties!

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Benjamin Biolay at his most suave:

Florent Marchet's Rio Baril. Even the video is summery.

Missed the link for Florent Marchet:

Most of it is painfully bad.

Emilie Simon - Fleur De Saison

Corbeau

Les Ogres de Barback, "Rue du Temps", on my top 10 all time favourite song list.

"Marcia Baila" by Les Rita Mitsouko.

Vanessa Paradis, "Joe le Taxi".

Anything by Stereolab

Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir

[quote]Anything by Stereolab

I just listened to some of their stuff on YouTube...sounds like shit.

Voila l'ete

Les Negresses Vertes

Valérie Leulliot from the band Autor de Lucie - Mon homme blessé

Orangina

A big thank you to all who contributed to this thread!

France Gall...any of her 60s albums or a best of her 60s titles

Vanessa Paradis

It's Brel to an Algerian Rai beat. Still a toe-tapping, excellent rendition.

Christine and the Queens

Véronique Sanson 'Amoureuse'

France Gall, "Laisse tomber les filles" (redone in English by April March as "Chick Habit")

Zobi la mouche

I was raised in France. French pop is awful. Really bad. Except Françoise Hardy maybe. I liked France Gall, who died recently. Depp's babies mamma Vanessa Paradise can be surpisingly charming. The rest is really trash as in Eurotrash. Avoid at all cost le cheese. Le fromage. Stink

April March - Laisse Tomber Les Filles

"Somewhere Up Above" by April March is on the January 2004 babyGap In-Store Playlist!

Amanda lear

"Nothing New" by April March is on the July 1999 Gap In-Store Playlist!

"Heartbeat (Todd Terry TNT Remix)" by Tahiti 80 is on the April 2001 Gap In-Store Playlist!

"Too Young" by Phoenix is on the June 2002 Gap In-Store Playlist!

"Blips, Drips And Strips" by Stereolab is on the July 2000 Gap In-Store Playlist!

I love Sebastien Tellier - especially La Ritournelle.

"Simon" by Autour De Lucie is on the March 1997 Gap In-Store Playlist!

Streets and Stories was the perfect pop song to me a year or two ago.

Hete are a few that are pretty popilar right now: Boulevard des airs & Vianney : Allez reste

Gims La meme

Trois cafés gourmands

Julien Doré

This one is pretty summery

Fréro Delavega. Sugar sweet and summery.

I loved this song from the score/soundtrack to All Together ("Et si on vivait tous ensemble?" in France)

R80, I can’t see that video in the US, but I looked up the duo and came across this.

They sound great and are quite easy on the eyes.

Here’s some fun 60s stuff: “Biche, ma Biche“ - cover of “Sweets for My Sweet”

Look up Mylene Farmer on youtube. You'll end up hooked.

Julien Doré from about a decade ago.

I love Paradis! Unfortunately they only put out one EP and one album before they broke up.

The album version of France Gall's "Laisser tomber les filles" (see R63) is slowed down a little and has kind of a bossa nova feel.

I think Vendredi sur Mer have a very summery, nostalgic sort of sound, and well worth listening to. Could fit the kind of thing OP is looking for.

Bertrand Burgalat "Les choses qu'on ne peut dire à personne."

Julia Faure et Bertrand Burgalat "Gare du Nord dix heures du matin"

Requin Chagrin is not bad.

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine. I really enjoy this one.

R91 OUI

Requin Chagrin "Sémaphore"

This is current and I like it.

I just discovered this one, and am enjoying it greatly:

Seeing as R1 mentioned that it doesn't have to be in French, just summery pop, I thought I'd post this one. It's in Spanish, but is pretty much in the same vein as what is happening in French pop at the moment, and definitely feels like a song of summer to me.

Claude François

Sasha Distel

Charles Aznavour

This thread is incomplete without the inclusion of that yesteryear French pop sensation, Princess Stephanie of Monaco!

Dalida

R96 - son argentinos! Probablemente por eso su música es tan buena! 😄🇦🇷

Bye-bye Mon Cowboy!

René Simard!

L'Amour du Risque

Jonathan et Jennifer

Les justiciers milliardaires

L'Amour du Risque

C'est vraiment leur grande affaire

De faire la vie dure aux gangsters...

This one is about as summery as it gets. American Indie band with a French lead singer. Spent all my youthful summers in Ocean City.

This song is beautiful from a French artist.

Dalia was a huge star in France for many years. I used to stay up very late to see her on an obscure show. She made an impression on this little homosexual boy.

R108- Sorry, Dalida. She had a very tragic life that DL might find interesting.

Fred Gamboa & Rosé Sunset.

C'est bizarre.

R106

R107

C'est bien gentil tout ça mais ce n'est pas EN français.

R111 Lubiana is French.

Before BB turned into a crazy racist hag. She looks fun and kooky here.

R113

She is not singing IN French.

I do not care IF she is French.

Ce n’est pas vraiment de la Pop française et si ce n’est pas EN Français.

R1

Not in French?

The OP clarifies at R1:

[quote]From any era. Doesn't necessarily have to be in French.

Just discovered this one tonight and am really enjoying it.

R115 Fuck off, she’s French.

Actually, r119, she's Belgian.