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! :)

Lady marmalade

A voice like melted butter over asparagus:

You've definitely tempted me to have a listen to Serge Reggiani with your comparison Gauche! :) I've heard a couple of songs (L'Italien and Le vieux couple) so far, but should look into more of his songs. What do you recommend?

Try Madame Nostalgie, La Maumariée and Il suffirait de presque rien

Haven't RTFT so I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but I love 'La Complainte de la Butte' though it's a bit melancholy

Sur la point d'Avignon and Frere Jacques.
To be fair, they are the only French songs I know.

Anything by:
Zaz
Cœur de pirate

Happy memories of driving through France.

NE me quitte pas again
And complainte pour ste Catherine one makes me cry and the other never fails to cheer me up.

C'est la ouate by caroline loeb. This baffled me as a kid and still does now.

Ahh yes baffled - Cœur de Pirate's fab. I also really like Vincent Delerm and Bénabar.

Quelqu'un M'a dit
Carla Bruni
From the soundtrack to 500 days of summer

Ça se sent que c'est toi (telephone).

Que tu m'aime encore (Celine Dion).

If you're working on the 26th, it's European Languages Day. Great opportunity to play some different languages.

I've spent a lot of today rediscovering lots of French songs I'd forgotten about. So, many thanks for this threafd, OP - I had a lovely time.

Nobody has mentioned Sardou yet -

Oooh Signora can't believe I forgot about that one!! I spent a couple of years teaching English in schools in France, and it was played at every party I went to. Brings back so many great memories :)

Doucement by Liane Foly

Ne pleure pas chausette (because a French exchange student song this to me in the 1970s and I despaired of ever hearing it again!)

Yes, I have lovely memories of when my children were little and they used to dance round the kitchen table to that song - it was one of their favourites.

It would be SO GREAT if someone with time on their hands could turn this into a playlist!

There's a few songs from the rock-opera Mephisto-le-spectacle which are lovely. The ones I like most are:
Parfois
Mephisto (it's an instrumental track, so not sure if it counts)

This is more "current" but avant qu'elle parte has a very catchy beat imo.

Mistral gagnant by Renaud is beautiful and makes me cry and Emmene moi by Boulevard des Airs for something a bit more cheerful

Thinking I should check out a few of these. The only ones I've heard are the ones that have made it into the UK charts, and the soundtrack from 8 Femmes. From that 'Papa T'es Plus Dans Le Coup' is very catchy. :) (Just had to look up the title as I think of it as being called 'non papa'. )

Fou du fafa is my favouritest ever French song.

Les Amants d'un Jour. Depressing, but so, so good.

Je me veux pas travailler by pink martini. Listen to it after Les Amants d'un Jour to cheer yourself up