#Marie laforet paint it black series#

All the major artists of the pastĤ0 years are here: Bardot, Johnny Halliday, Serge Gainsbourg, Claude Francoise, Eric Charden, Frank Alamo, France Gall and Michel Polnareff. versions of Pop à Paris run the gamut from pop theater and feisty garage rock to funk and crazed lounge music.

#Marie laforet paint it black series#

It's the perfect starter kit for those seeking to sample the sassy waters of French pop-and it's a load of fun.Ĭulled from a five-disc series released only in France, the U.S. This lust for all songs French reached a fever pitch last fall, not through the ill-fated presidential candidacy of Francophile politico John Kerry, but with the release of the excellent two-volume Sunnyside Café CD set, Pop à Paris: Rock n' Roll and Mini Skirts and Pop à Paris: More Rock n' Roll and Mini Skirts, both on the Universal-distributed Sunnyside label. (One of my most valued possessions is a Brigitte Bardot vinyl picture disc emblazoned with an image of the blonde cinema goddess, her bedroom eyes heavy with mascara.) Now my guilt is rendered all the more pleasurable with the recent release of actress and singer Julie Delpy's contributions to the Before Sunset soundtrack (shades of Claudine Longet), Pink Martini's Sympathique, the jazzy Paris Combo CD Motifs and a bevy of new compilations.īut who needs an excuse to listen to silver-screen siren Bardot cooing a faux-bossa ballad from one of her many pop albums? This often flirtatious music, especially the twee '60s-era sound known as 'yé-yé,' is one of my guilty pleasures. gone now to the dogs.įrench pop music stalks the fringes of my listening habits like a bratty sex kitten from one of those steamy 1960s Roger Vadim flicks.