darea
01-12-2010, 08:44 PM
I know there was already a thread about French bands before, but it didn't seem good enough to bump it. It always seems hard to find good rock bands in France (and a lot of them tend to get successful for singing in English!lol).
When we try and think about bands, its hard.
And some bands were more like of my friends' parents' generation like :
La Mano Negra http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/315553/Mano+Negra.jpg
(that I really like), they combined : rock, flamenco, ska, raï, salsa, reggae and african rhythms... which was probably quite rare at the time (1987). There songs were in French, English, Spanish, Arabic... And the origins of the name were : La Mano Negra ("The Black Hand") was an alleged anarchist organization in Spain. The Spanish police accused most of the Spanish anarchists of being part of the organization.
The songs I think about the most are La Mala vida, King Kong Five, Sidi H´Bibi and Rebell Spell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTRkKyYqoA)
My favorite album of theirs is "Putas fever"
Most people don't know Mano Negra and have only heard of Manu Chao, the singer of that band, who went and did a solo career and seems to be very successful in england (and always goes to the glastonbury festival!lol). My favorite of his albums is "Clandestino" most of the songs are in spanish.
People always mention Noir Desir,
http://img.ozap.com/01764168-photo-le-groupe-noir-desir.jpg
which was a good rock band, that I never listened to (but my sister did) and since, there was this bad stuff with the singer killing his wife... so people don't want to talk about them that much.
anyway, I guess my favorite song of theirs is this one :
Un jour en France : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKmYhFk42M
It talks about the bad stuff in france, FN (the extreme right)so racism and other shit... And the music is good.
Lol, its so freaking hard to think about GOOD french rock bands that I only managed to name two (mano negra and noir desir...).
I guess I made this thread so that those who know other good bands (like Harleyquinn, and Sofinch even if you're from belgium and you can always talk about some from french speaking countries), and write something about them, give us a link to a video and stuff.
I'd want to mention Sinsemilia, which is an awesome french band, but they do reggae...
http://www.zicazic.com/zicazine/images/stories/sinsemilia.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIIGD57vJXY
And I guess well Im at it, a cover from A George Brassens song (he's known as one of the best old french singers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhUMQLw1rA
When we try and think about bands, its hard.
And some bands were more like of my friends' parents' generation like :
La Mano Negra http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/315553/Mano+Negra.jpg
(that I really like), they combined : rock, flamenco, ska, raï, salsa, reggae and african rhythms... which was probably quite rare at the time (1987). There songs were in French, English, Spanish, Arabic... And the origins of the name were : La Mano Negra ("The Black Hand") was an alleged anarchist organization in Spain. The Spanish police accused most of the Spanish anarchists of being part of the organization.
The songs I think about the most are La Mala vida, King Kong Five, Sidi H´Bibi and Rebell Spell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTRkKyYqoA)
My favorite album of theirs is "Putas fever"
Most people don't know Mano Negra and have only heard of Manu Chao, the singer of that band, who went and did a solo career and seems to be very successful in england (and always goes to the glastonbury festival!lol). My favorite of his albums is "Clandestino" most of the songs are in spanish.
People always mention Noir Desir,
http://img.ozap.com/01764168-photo-le-groupe-noir-desir.jpg
which was a good rock band, that I never listened to (but my sister did) and since, there was this bad stuff with the singer killing his wife... so people don't want to talk about them that much.
anyway, I guess my favorite song of theirs is this one :
Un jour en France : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKmYhFk42M
It talks about the bad stuff in france, FN (the extreme right)so racism and other shit... And the music is good.
Lol, its so freaking hard to think about GOOD french rock bands that I only managed to name two (mano negra and noir desir...).
I guess I made this thread so that those who know other good bands (like Harleyquinn, and Sofinch even if you're from belgium and you can always talk about some from french speaking countries), and write something about them, give us a link to a video and stuff.
I'd want to mention Sinsemilia, which is an awesome french band, but they do reggae...
http://www.zicazic.com/zicazine/images/stories/sinsemilia.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIIGD57vJXY
And I guess well Im at it, a cover from A George Brassens song (he's known as one of the best old french singers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhUMQLw1rA