What are your two favourite French songs? (Shamelessly posting for traffic!)

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Hi everyone.

Sorry this is so boring but just posting for traffic if that's okay!

I had a thread on here a few weeks ago about a weekly hospital radio show I was doing, where I'd planned to do a feature on it about French music each week.

I've been asked to start off this week by bringing in a couple of songs from two different French musicians or groups. Only thing is i don't want to start off with my absolute favourites and am not really sure how to start it all off.

This is where you lovely lot all come in :)

Would you mind letting me know your two favourite French-language groups or musicians please? Or your two favourite French songs?

Thanks! :)

Céline Dion - Pour que tu m'aimes encore

France Gall - Ella, elle l'a

Love this topic !

Il est cinq heures - Paris s'eveille by Jacques Dutronc

Places des Grands Hommes by Patrick Bruel

Bouge de La by MC Solaar. Or anything by him really. La Vie est belle or Sauvez le Monde

La Javanaise by Serge Gainsbourg or
Comment te dire adieu sung by Francoise Hardy

Formidable - stromae

And I like it but perhaps not for a hospital - Lara Fabien - Je suis malade. !

M - tete a tete for me, reminds me of a happy time

Foxyloxy thank you so much! That's the other song that was always on the radio during my time in France and I thought I'd never hear it again.
Such a happy time, takes me right back.

boby Lapointe, Ta Katie t'a quitté g.co/kgs/VudbVV

And Jacques Brel, ne me quitte pas g.co/kgs/cWWdhC

And pretty much anything by Georges Brassens.

Boum and La Mer.
Love them both.

Les Champs-Elyses - Joe Dassin
Alors on Danse - Stromrae

What no Cloclo? We danced our socks off to this at my wedding, while the Brits looked in in bemusement g.co/kgs/cDZQrf

This is excellent

livia my DH used to be one. Of Vanessa Paradis's backing musicians. We know all the dirt

Quelqu'Un M'a Dit -Carla Bruni

La Vie En Rose- Edith Piaf

Agree with Turn (and any other poster who's mentioned him!) a lot of Stromae is worth listening to but particularly the sublime Tous Les Memes, love this video where he plays both man and woman, complaining that men are all the same:

I love Madeleine Peyroux turns out she was born an American and moved to Paris at some point so I guess that doesn't count. sad times

I'm enjoying this thread immensely. There's a lot I like, including many already posted. I'm busy catching up on those I've not come across before, so thank you everyone for your suggestions.

I suppose I'm cheating posting more than 2, but I thought of these this morning.

Someone earlier mentioned Kate & Anna McGarrigle. They did an entire LP of songs in French, albeit Canadian. This one was my fave from that

As for classical, you can't beat

Another Gaibsbourg fan here. I ache with pleasure at his music - he wrote Joe Le Taxi for V Paradis and loads of Francois Hardy

I don't think he did. Joe Let Taxi was written by two comparatively unknown songwriters and Francois Hardy's music was either self composed or translated from other languages, I don't think she ever worked with Serge.

Serge did write for France Gall - Poupée de cire, poupée de son and Les Sucettes. Given her age and the fact she didn't understand what she was singing about, it seemed cruel and mocking.

I am generally a fan of his work though!

Ddid you know My Way was originally a French song?

Soundtrack to a thousand manifs:

Bwhoops, wrong link!

@Agustarella, thank you for bringing Tino Rossi to my attention, the YouTube version I found is divine. I had grown up with the Gigli version of Catari, my father being a big fan of his since he saw him perform live (must have been in the early 1950's). My dad had a good tenor voice & used to sing a lot of Italian ballads to us. He also claimed to have had Edith Piaf sitting on his knee singing Je ne Regrette Rien to him, although he never told me when or where, so that's probably just a fantasy he had!

Gauce, that's so cool! I have a poster from the Divine Idylle tour with backing musicians names on, maybe your DH is one of them!

Gauche, sorry typo!

Le Poinçonneur de Lilas by Serge Gainsbourg

Les Amants d'un Jour by Edith Piaf