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September 2009

Translation of Je réalise by Sinik featuring James Blunt

September 30, 2009

The last translation was one of my favourites – it’s rare to find mainstream pop music with lyrics as interesting to translate as those found in Bénabar’s songs. This next translation is just as interesting and is a result of my growing enjoyment of French hip hop. Sinik is one of the heavy weights (poids [...]

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Translation of L’effet Papillon by Bénabar

September 28, 2009

Ok, this isn’t exactly an introduction to a great new band, but this pop song has somehow managed to get wedged in my head. It fully deserves a translation here because the vocabulary in the lyrics is interesting and hopefully useful. Looks like this writer (quoted below) feels pretty much the same way as me [...]

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Translation of Dynamite by BB Brunes

September 26, 2009

The second BB Brunes album is due to be released on November 16th. Dynamite is the first single from the album and is available to listen to free on their website in exchange for giving them your email address. I really like this single although currently it’s not available in the British iTunes store or [...]

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A little bit of lazy loveliness

September 26, 2009

The little Amazon MP3 widget and the preview in the iTunes store contain the final 30 seconds of this 49 second song. It’s really quite pleasant and is the opening track to the punk album Compter Les Corps by the Canadian band Vulgaires Machins. I realise that three of the last four posts have been [...]

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Ten French songs for the treadmill

September 25, 2009

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Those that know me know that I recently turned thirty. Those that know me slightly better know that I even more recently turned thirty-six. Although I’m well aware that I am fighting a losing battle, I do spend a lot of time in the gym and the only reason I am able to [...]

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Translation of Mer de Fumistes by Vulgaires Machins

September 24, 2009

I thought it was time I did another translation. I have really been enjoying the album Compter Les Corps which I mentioned yesterday and so I’ve chosen one of the songs from that album to translate. It’s just a short song, under two and a half minutes in fact. It’s quite a jolly little number, [...]

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Compter Les Corps (Body Count)

September 23, 2009

I had hoped to post another School of Rock French lesson witter today but unfortunately the real world got in the way like the enormous ball of rock that it is. As mentioned in the previous entry, I felt a bit of pain earlier after buying a whole album when I could have paid half [...]

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French songs that are stuck in my head

September 23, 2009

After finishing writing yesterday’s post, which, indidentally, took quite a bit out of poor old Chrismo, I spent a couple of hours in front of the tele catching up last with all my recorded episodes of the show Paroles de Clip on TV5 Monde. Some of the tracks I was aware of already and some, [...]

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English songwriters use the subjunctive too!

September 22, 2009

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Amazon.co.uk Widgets The widgets above contain 30 second snippets of Je t’emmène au vent by both Feet Peals (2008) and Louise Attaque (1997). This rampant song was translated back in April. I am going to use some of the lyrics for my first attempt at explaining something about the French language that bothers [...]

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Translation of Chaque Seconde by KYO

September 21, 2009

KYO was the first band I ever translated on GreatFrenchSongs. At the time I was all over the album Le Chemin and for good reason, it’s a fine album. It hasn’t remained one of my most played but it’s always welcome when a track fires up when my iTunes is shuffling. Yesterday I mentioned that [...]

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