For those willing to step outside of american/England Pop and rock musics....

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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,346
    Musical adventures with yodeling and livestock ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8OZ_5RsK8
  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 4,892
    edited October 2019
    More contemporary... (also, no girls!): Un Autre Monde by Téléphone.

    https://youtu.be/xqnZPHo6qx4
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    Alea jacta est!
  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,627
    msg wrote: »
    It's strange. I never had many thoughts about France, nor much interest in visiting the place for that matter, but this music's having an effect on me. I'm convinced that life occurs in slow motion in France on only sunny days with cute friendly women everywhere, and that these soundtracks play out loud over the warm scenes and landscapes in realtime. Seems like a neat place to visit.

    Have you seen the movie Amelie?
  • displayname
    displayname Posts: 1,126
    Are we just tossing out any bands from other areas? Because one of my all time favorites is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard from Australia. They would primarily fall under psyc rock, but every album has a different theme. They venture from jazz, to acoustic, to prog rock, to thrash and doom metal... and lots of things in between. What more impressive to me is they manage to maintain a fairly identifiable and distinct sound from album to album. Their recordings get progressively better each year, but most of their catalog would not be considered audiophile by any means.

    But if you're looking for a band with a lot of variety and a really unique sound, they have a fairly large catalog to explore. Fair warning, they do tend to be fairly polarizing, people seem to instant love them, or simply not care for them at all.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,308
    K_M wrote: »
    Have you seen the movie Amelie?
    Yes, great little film.
    There's another one I like with Audrey Tautou in it called Priceless. Also has Gad Elmaleh. Pretty funny. Subtitled.
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  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,627
    yeah I think originally I was hoping for my Ye ye music suggestions, based on my original posts, but I see we are getting music from several areas!
  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,034
    edited October 2019
    The legendary Seiko Matsuda...
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  • gyosa
    gyosa Posts: 675
    Check out anything by Dead Can Dance .....
    “World music” at its finest .....

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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 4,892
    edited October 2019
    K_M wrote: »
    yeah I think originally I was hoping for my Ye ye music suggestions, ...
    Yé Yé is fairly limited... especially if you want non-English European. One that hasn't been mentioned is Claude François (died accidentally by electrocution at 39. He's not something I listen to, but he had several big hits, and I've heard him on the radio a few times. I think this one qualifies as Yé Yé!

    If I Had a Hammer "Si J'avais Un Marteau" 1963:

    https://youtu.be/ErewTTq9KrQ?t=9
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 4,892
    edited October 2019
    You may not recognize the words of this song by Claude François, but 99.99% of English speakers will recognize one of the most iconic tunes of all time, which was written by him when he was 28 (he died accidentally by electrocution at 39).

    Comme d'Habitude (As Usual) 1967:

    https://youtu.be/vsjVCtDG_44
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 4,892
    Another famous tune written by Claude François (turns out he was really prolific!)...

    https://youtu.be/HOLH63c7SG0
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 4,892
    P.S.

    The lyrics for My Boy were translated from the original French version.
    The lyrics for My Way were not (only the music was used).
    Alea jacta est!
  • audioluvr
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    Emlyn wrote: »
    Musical adventures with yodeling and livestock ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8OZ_5RsK8

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  • audioluvr
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    Kex wrote: »
    More contemporary... (also, no girls!): Un Autre Monde by Téléphone.

    https://youtu.be/xqnZPHo6qx4

    Really enjoyed this! thanks!
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 4,892
    👍

    Un Autre Monde is from 1984 (the group disbanded in 1986). It's worth listening to with better quality at higher volumes (available on Spotify and Apple Music).
    Alea jacta est!
  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,627
    audioluvr wrote: »
    Kex wrote: »
    More contemporary... (also, no girls!): Un Autre Monde by Téléphone.

    https://youtu.be/xqnZPHo6qx4

    Really enjoyed this! thanks!

    That has a bit of a Dire Straits guitar vibe! Like it!
  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 4,892
    Here’s another that was playing at the local Starbucks a few years ago. It’s a remake of Heart of Glass by Blondie (Debbie Harry) from the 70’s. It’s not a video, so the image is static.

    Group: Nouvelle Vague
    Album: Bande à Part
    Year: 2006

    https://youtu.be/nNFxYT-znng
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  • She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan
  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 6,646
    K_M wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan
    meledis wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan

    Ummmmmmm
  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Viking64 wrote: »
    K_M wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan
    meledis wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan

    Ummmmmmm

    Yeah, it's Xcapri alright.
  • F1nut
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    It's a spammer that's so stupid they leave the spam link out of their copied post.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    meledis wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan

    I am no handwriting expert but that sure looks like K_M.
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 32,926
    edited November 2019
    hmm... maybe it's... Sylvie Vartan.

    Too obvious?

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  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,627
    Viking64 wrote: »
    K_M wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan
    meledis wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan

    Ummmmmmm

    Uhm, Quite odd.
    I looked up this persons previous posts, not sure what to think......
  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,627
    afterburnt wrote: »
    meledis wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan

    I am no handwriting expert but that sure looks like K_M.

    Is that before or after that bottle of booze you chugged?
  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    K_M wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    meledis wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan

    I am no handwriting expert but that sure looks like K_M.

    Is that before or after that bottle of booze you chugged?

    If I stayed drunk I think we could be friends
  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    K_M wrote: »
    Viking64 wrote: »
    K_M wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan
    meledis wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan

    Ummmmmmm

    Uhm, Quite odd.
    I looked up this persons previous posts, not sure what to think......

    Did Jesse LOL all of them?
  • afterburnt wrote: »
    K_M wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    meledis wrote: »
    She is one of my faves, along with Sylvie Vartan

    I am no handwriting expert but that sure looks like K_M.

    Is that before or after that bottle of booze you chugged?

    If I stayed drunk I think we could be friends

    For that to work, K_M would have to stay drunker than you!

    Mark swished it for the WIN!!! 😀
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