some 60's French Garage Rock for your afternoon.

Michel Polnareff - "Time Will Tell"

Francoise Hardy

One of my favorite music videos ever:

Excerpt about Francoise in the good old days from Telegraph UK

She had boyfriends by now, too. But it wasn't until Mick Jagger described her as his ideal woman that she thought of herself as attractive. Bob Dylan had shown interest, too, and honoured her in a poem scribbled on a record sleeve. He needn't have bothered.

"I had no interest in him as a man, only as an artist," she says. "He took me to his hotel room after inviting me to a show in Paris, and played me two tracks he hadn't yet released, I Want You and Just Like a Woman, but he wasn't a very attractive man, and didn't seem well in himself. Jagger was different. He is someone I could really have fallen for. Unfortunately, he was with Chrissie Shrimpton at the time."

some French Garage Rock for your ass

this song fucking rules.

"Le Ciel" by Les Boots. totally rad.

Les Idoles! 4 EVER

Les Iodles. rent it. watch it. become it.

freakout.

my crush on Yelle is pretty much out of control

SO IN LOVE

this video makes me feel all funny.

French Electro Punk Mayhem

Ah, Metal Urbain...how I love your simple french punk rock tunes. This song is called "Panik" it was their 1st single back in 1977.


Metal Urbain were among the 1st punk bands to exist in France and were the 1st band ever to release anything on the famous Rough Trade label. They combined their love of the Sex Pistols with German electronic music to become the 1st electropunk band thus inspiring future generations of industrial rockers like Big Black and rock bands who would use drum machines like the Jesus & Mary Chain on Automatic. Metal Urbain released 3 singles and 1 record before breaking up in 79. You can get all their early stuff on a comp called Anarchy In Paris that was released in the US back in 2004. I recommend it for any fans of early punk/post-punk or just musically oddities.