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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
Touch Me Im Sick:
Françoise Hardy - "Tous les garçons et les filles" (1962) (a.k.a. The Yeh-Yeh Girl from Paris)
--- Quote ---From the Bardot-like cover shot of a windswept and gorgeous Françoise Hardy to the oddly chipper title, this 1965 U.S. debut (originally released on the proto-world music label Four Corners) is clearly pitched at the adventurous edge of the U.S. pop market, pitching Hardy as the Gallic Petula Clark. (Clark was, unbeknownst to the U.S. market at the time, making terrific French-language pop records herself at the time.) Complicating this, of course, is the fact that Hardy's music, for all its catchiness, is stripped down to its barest essentials — acoustic and electric guitar, bass, minimalist drums, very little else — and Hardy herself sings her (mostly self-penned) lyrics in an attractive but chilly drop-dead monotone that's far removed from the perkiness of almost every other female singer (minus Nico and Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las) of the '60s. Even the perkier tunes, like the enormous French hit single "Tous les Garcons et les Filles," have a measured, restrained quality. The Yeh-Yeh Girl From Paris is an outstanding record, but it's the '60s pop equivalent of Shaker furniture: free of ornamentation and exquisitely simple. -AMG
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E. Spaceman:
This is Japanese Music Appreciation Week* and today is OOIOO monday
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* if you were not aware of this week, it is because i invented it last night
pat101:
OOIOO is certainly better than Led Zeppelin. Probably The Who as well.
SWOON! at My Gravitas:
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Dovey, don't ever stop being an intrepid bastard.
Also,
Krallice- Dimensional Bleedthrough
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Crazy psychedelic black metal.
smack that isaiah:
(I guess you guys replace a letter in the website's names so that if ppl search for the file sharing site your forums won't show up, right? I'll do that.)
Do the links here have to be mediaf!re? Because I've got an interesting album I'd like to share, and I previously uploaded it to Meg@upload to send to a friend, so I've still got that link. I would reup it to mediaf!re but I'm at school and on their internet and I worry that doing that would call attention to me.
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