French bands

[Frederic Goudal]

Hello,

I would like to know what are the french rock bands known outside
France, so if you know one or more, could you e-mail me,
with the name of the band and your country ???

I'll sumarise the answers (if there's some :-) ).

Thanks in advance.

a ciao.
babbs.

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[Gary L Dare]

In article <16...@geocub.greco-prog.fr> babbs wrote:
>
>I would like to know what are the french rock bands known outside
>France, so if you know one or more, could you e-mail me,
>with the name of the band and your country ???

I'm Canadian, though I live in the US at the moment, so what I know
may be a bit distorted due to border crossings. But here are the
French bands that I've heard of, and in which country:

Band Canada USA

Les Portes Manteaux X France's Clash
Les Rita Mitsouko X X Trash pop
J.J. Goldman X Pop crooner
Pierre Bensusan X New Age guitarist
Suzanne Koch (?) X X Saw video in Canada at Christmas;
interviewed on NPR news in US.
Renaud X France's Springsteen (old Bruce)
Indochine X
Serge Gainesbourg X X
Barbara X
Jacques Brel X X Of course! (Bien sur!)

My main complaint is that a lot of stuff I hear from France is
electro-disco of a bad kind. I don't know how well Quebec rock
is going over on the continent, although hard-rocker Marjo was
set to do a tour over there.

gld
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[dapet...@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu]

I don't really follow many French groups, myself, but I DO know that Jacques
Brel IS NOT French. He's actually Belgian! I assume you were referring to
French as in the language...

Jacques Brel is AWESOME! I have a double length tape that I bought when I was
over in Luxembourg. I was really surprised when I got back home and my mom
actually knew who he was!

Debbie Petersen (aka Toothpick!)

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In article <1128.2...@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> dapet...@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:

>Jacques Brel is AWESOME! I have a double length tape that I bought when I was
>over in Luxembourg. I was really surprised when I got back home and my mom
>actually knew who he was!

Is this the singer whom Albert Brooks was singing along with in Broadcast
News?

-dh
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[Gary L Dare]

In article <1128.2...@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>,

Debbie Petersen (aka Toothpick!) writes:
> I don't really follow many French groups, myself, but I DO know that
> Jacques Brel IS NOT French. He's actually Belgian! I assume you were
> referring to French as in the language...

*Gulp!* I know! A "merde!!" went through my head, and I imagine that
a lot of Belgians out there will be pissed off at me; after all, I'm
the one who flames people when they say that fellow Manitoban Daniel
Lavoie is from "someplace in France" (yeah, like NEW France!). (-;

gld
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