I was asked to translate this song in a comment from a previous Vulgaires Machins translation.
In the run-up to the UK election I had wanted to keep things reasonably topical, and luckily this fits well (excuse the pun), the title summing up the attitude of some of our politicians’ spending plans for the future, and the song being about the quality of information we demand, and receive, from the media.
Puits Sans Fond, “Bottomless pit” is from the excellent album Compter Les Corps.
Verbs
| Combler | To fill |
Je collectionne les cahier qui me parlent de ménage, je me gave sans fin de fait divers jusqu’à l’indigestion | |
I fill myself with endless random facts until I'm stuffed, I'm misinformed, the media are so right | |
| Abonner | To subscribe (magazine) |
Je suis abonné au journal de Montréal | |
I subscribe to the Montreal newspaper | |
Vocabulary
| Le ménage | Household, housework |
| Un cahier | Notebook, workbook |
Je collectionne les cahier qui me parlent de ménage, je me gave sans fin de fait divers jusqu’à l’indigestion | |
I fill myself with endless random facts until I'm stuffed, I'm misinformed, the media are so right | |
| Puits | Well, shaft |
Je suis comme un puits sans fond | |
I'm like a bottomless pit | |
| La vision globale | World view |
Pour combler le vide de ma vision globale, j’ai tous les arguments débiles sur le système médicale | |
To fill the void in my world view, I have stupid arguments about the medical system | |
Phrases / Idioms
| Puits sans fond | Bottomless pit |
Je suis comme un puits sans fond | |
I'm like a bottomless pit | |
| à deux balles | Worthless |
20 chanteuses à deux balles lancent 20 albums pareils, un homme se coud le cul et chie par les oreilles | |
Twenty worthless singers launch twenty similar albums, a man sews up his ass and craps through his ears | |
Puits Sans Fonds - Vulgaires Machins | Bottomless Pit (translation of Puits Sans Fonds by Vulgaires Machins) |
| Je veux rien savoir de la qualité | I don't want to know anything about quality | |
| Je veux qu’y’ait beaucoup de pages | I want there to be loads of pages | |
| Je collectionne les cahier qui me parlent de ménage | I collect books which tell me about about housekeeping | |
| Je me gave sans fin de fait divers jusqu’à l’indigestion | I fill myself with endless random facts until I'm stuffed | |
| Je suis mal informé, les médias ont bien raison | I'm misinformed, the media are so right | |
| Je suis comme un puits sans fond | I'm like a bottomless pit | |
| Je suis comme un puits sans fond | I'm like a bottomless pit | |
| C’est devenu dramatique | It's become dramatic | |
| Je sais plus ce qu'il faut que je fasse | I no longer know what to do | |
| Je sais tout sur Céline et sa vie à Vegas | I know all about Celine and her life in Vegas | |
| Pour combler le vide de ma vision globale | To fill the void in my world view | |
| J’ai tous les arguments débiles sur le système médicale | I have stupid arguments about the medical system | |
| Je suis abonné au Journal de Montréal | I subscribe to the Journal de Montréal | |
| Je suis abonné au Journal… | I subscribe to the Journal ... | |
| 20 chanteuses à deux balles lancent 20 albums pareils | Twenty worthless singers launch twenty similar albums | |
| Un homme se coud le cul et chie par les oreilles | A man sews up his ass and craps through his ears | |
| Une lesbienne se fait poser une bite en métal | A lesbian wears a metal dick | |
| Nous enregistrons une baisse dans le Q.I. général | We record a drop in overall IQ | |
| Je suis abonné au journal de Montréal | I subscribe to the Journal de Montréal | |
| Je suis abonné au journal de Montréal | I subscribe to the Journal de Montréal | |
| Je suis comme un puits sans fond | I'm like a bottomless pit | |
| Je suis comme un puits sans fond | I'm like a bottomless pit |
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
I stumbled across your translation, and wanted to say that you’ve done an excellent job. There is only one small thing that I noticed and wanted to point out…
“journal de Montréal” should actually translate to “Journal de Montréal”. It is the name of a Montreal publication that is more of a tabloid than a legitimate newspaper. That is essentially the point of the song. They are exposing the ‘Journal’ for what it really is: sensationalized media with no real content, just gossip and useless information.