Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.
I have been wanting to upload this song for ages. I did not upload anything since last week, this blog needs music regularly, so let's finish the weekend with the Rolling Stones. I associate this song wiht Apocalypse Now. What about you?
Finally, summer is showing up again: it is warmer and sunnier. It was about time. I thought I would upload some more music here on this blog, something circumstantial. Since I recently have beeen listening again to the Pulp Fiction soundtrack (I already uploaded one song here), I thought Misirlou interpreted by Dick Dale would be perfect. When the movie was released, we could hear it everywhere: in beer adverts, in car adverts, in bars, what have you. For me this is what summer music sound like. So here it is.
Well, I do. And it is Friday and I didn't upload a song on this blog for quite a while. And I got this song in the head. I am a Philistine and I know zilch about famous singers, rockers or not. But I have it in the head, and I love Joan Jett's voice in this (and I love much more her take on it than the original version, is it only me or does her voice have more machismo?). So here it is, my Friday treat.
C'est un jeu de mot particulièrement vaseux, je sais. C'est aussi un calembour "combien pertinent" à en croire un ami de Facebook. Je m'explique: l'ami en question a mis une Suite de Rameau sur sa page de Facebook, faisant un parallèle entre la musique baroque et le heavy metal. J'ai donc sorti ce calembour, qui n'est peut-être même pas le mien. Je vous laisse juger de sa pertinence en vous laissant écouter le morceau en question, que vous trouverez plus bas.
I just thought I would give you a bit more music, something a bit better and more substantial than the previous entry. So here is, in another genre, the official videoclip Deadwood by Dirty Pretty Things (I can't get wrong with that):
My wife says I am conservative when it comes to music, and it's absolutely true. I don't like much of the modern stuff, music production could have stopped after Pink Floyd and I wouldn't have missed much in my collection. That said, according to my wife I enjoy new songs and groups only when the music they play is old-fashioned. I discovered recently (well, almost two years ago) through the BBC short-lived series Sorted (a shame they axed that one, by the way), the tune Bang Bang, You're Dead, by Dirty Pretty Things. Love it to bits. I don't know exactly what I love so much about it: it's sort of good old rock beat, it has a bit of a Ennio Morricone feel, juuuuuust enough to be perceived, there is the British accent, and it all mixes so well.
So here you are, here's the official clip from youtube, so you can judge for yourself:
Québécois originaire du Saguenay expatrié en Angleterre à cause d'un mariage avec une Anglaise.
Quebec expatriate living in England because he married an English woman.
