...s and majors !
Françoise Dorleac
These days, I listen to "Freedom wind" by Explorer's Club, "The Smilers" by Aimee Mann, "Circular sounds" by Kelley Stoltz, "Neanderthal" by Spleen United, Here's The Rhonda Harris, Hercules and Love Affair, and many more. I'll feel very French tomorrow when Sebastien Tellier will represent France during the Eurovision Song Contest.. Allez Seb !
I am into Nordic music since Abba (yep) and my constant favourites are Minor Majority, Thomas Dybdahl, Ane Brun, Magnet, The Lionheart Brothers, Sondre Lerche, Rhonda Harris, Claus Hempler, The Raveonettes, Mew, Powersolo, The Kissaway Trail, Who Made Who, The Broken Beats, Eggstone, Radio LXMBRG, Nicolai Dunger, The Mopeds, Jens Lekman, Stina Nordenstam, Loney, Dear, Doris, The Hives, Peter Von Poehl, Anna Ternheim, EST, The Cardigans, Melpo Mene, Sister Flo, 22 Pistepirkko, Lodger, Nicole Willis, Mugison, etc.
ALL TIME FAVOURITES : Nits, Air, Love, Sparks, Pulp, Squeeze, Bread, Jam, Bush (Kate...), The Kinks, The Sound, The Associates, The Zombies, The Monochrome Set, The Cars, The Undertones, The Aloof, The Lotus Eaters, The Feeling, The Pale Fountains, The Fleshtones, The Dears, The Lilac Time, The Left Banke, The Beach Boys / Brian Wilson, Oui Oui / Etienne Charry, Japan / David Sylvian, The The, 20/20, Talk Talk, Taxi Taxi!, Taxi Girl, ABC, XTC, Ten CC, New Musik, New Order, New Pornographers, Sharko, dEUS, A Brand, Ozark Henry, Jacques Brel, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Fryderyk Chopin, Henryk Gorecki, Arvo Pärt, Jan Johansson, Miles Davis, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Ennio Morricone, Georges Delerue, Michel Magne, John Barry, Michel Legrand, François de Roubaix, Everly Brothers, Finn Brothers, Righteous Brothers, Dusty Springfield, Scott Walker, Astrud Gilberto, Lee Hazlewood, Tages, Tim Buckley, Johnny Cash, Joe Meek, Curtis Mayfield, Shuggie Otis, Dick Annegarn, Kraftwerk, Todd Rundgren, T-Rex, Depeche Mode, Prefab Sprout, Elvis Costello, Pet Shop Boys, Cocteau Twins, Terry Hall, Aimee Mann, Underworld, Saint Etienne, Cardinal, Portishead, Alain Chamfort, PJ Harvey, Rachid Taha, Perry Blake, 16 Horsepower, Cousteau, Goldfrapp, Fugu, Josh Rouse, Duke Special, Rufus Wainwright, Phoenix, Tahiti 80...
Mainly old movies : Five easy pieces, Blow up, All about Eve, La Peau douce, The Shop around the corner, Avanti, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, The Passenger, Kes, Playtime, La Femme infidèle, Time Machine, Some like it hot, Gaslight, Rebecca, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Easy rider, Midnight Cowboy, This is Spinal Tap, Juha, Le Feu follet, The King of Marvin Gardens, Stromboli, Edward Scissorhands, His girl friday, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Tucker, Village of the damned, Scener ur ett äktenskap, C'era una volta il west, Le Mépris, The Purple rose of Cairo, The Misfits, North by Northwest, La Fiancée du pirate...
+ Aki Kaurismäki, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Krysztof Kieslowski and so on...
Mostly DVD's and especially the great American TV series Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Dexter, The Shield, OZ, Twin Peaks... older British ones, The Persuaders, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes... Les Saintes Chéries, a French one, for the sixties decade in Paris context, and the splendid main actress, Micheline Presle + Old Grey Wistle Test, Later with Jools Holland, TOTP of the 70's and 80's. French TV sucks at this time, except the franco-german channel Arte, which provides a "European" vision of the events. The Belgian RTBF is also very fresh and funny.
Y. Kawabata, G. de Maupassant, A. Paasilinna, D. Du Maurier, H. Mankell, J. Kerouac, H. Hesse, N. Hornby, D. Lodge, J. Steinbeck, A. Moravia, A. Conan Doyle, E. Holder, E. White, J. Harrison, PD James, PG Wodehouse, R. Rendell, C. Dickens, H. Selby JR, HC Andersen's fairy tales, P. Modiano, etc. and lots of mags as good as Abus Dangereux in different languages, even the ones I don't speak.
Here they are...