song of the day from 1984
Monday, February 17, 2014
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
La valse des secretaires
Il s'agit en effet de secretaires... du parti communiste sovietique ! 1984 fut en effet une annee instable pour l'URSS. En 13 mois on est donc passe de Yuri Andropov :
A Konstantin Chernenko :
(on dirait des personnages de mechants sortis d'un vieux Tintin) et enfin, las de choisir des vieux croutons, on en arrive a un de mes heros de tous les temps, Michael Gorbachev :
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Le politburo pensait tenir la un "jeune" ambitieux homme a poigne (ancien directeur du KGB oblige), et on s'est retrouve avec un homme moderne et raisonnable, qui ne s'est pas accroche au pouvoir autoritaire comme ses confreres des autres pays de l'Est et a prefere une transition democratique en douceur (qui a mis fin a sa carriere) a un bain de sang.
A Konstantin Chernenko :
(on dirait des personnages de mechants sortis d'un vieux Tintin) et enfin, las de choisir des vieux croutons, on en arrive a un de mes heros de tous les temps, Michael Gorbachev :
Le politburo pensait tenir la un "jeune" ambitieux homme a poigne (ancien directeur du KGB oblige), et on s'est retrouve avec un homme moderne et raisonnable, qui ne s'est pas accroche au pouvoir autoritaire comme ses confreres des autres pays de l'Est et a prefere une transition democratique en douceur (qui a mis fin a sa carriere) a un bain de sang.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Duel au sommet : Rika vs Linda
1984 (et, on triche un peu, debut 1985 aussi) fut aussi l'annee de l'affrontement de deux monstres. Des monstres de la varietoche qui deciderent de nous infliger deux livres qui furent (bien sur) des succes (monstres) en libraire :
D'un cote on a la "Valise en carton" de Linda de Suza qui probablement fit pleurer la menagere de moins de 50 ans et lui fit renoncer, juste le temps de se secher les larmes rassurez-vous, a voter Le Pen :
De l'autre on a les conseils de sante (scientifiquement verifies, si si !) d'une autre chanteuse permanentee, en l'occurence Rika Zarai :
Je pense que Rika Zarai gagne le duel, euh... d'un cheveu. Je vous laisse, j'ai un bain de siege qui m'attend.
D'un cote on a la "Valise en carton" de Linda de Suza qui probablement fit pleurer la menagere de moins de 50 ans et lui fit renoncer, juste le temps de se secher les larmes rassurez-vous, a voter Le Pen :
De l'autre on a les conseils de sante (scientifiquement verifies, si si !) d'une autre chanteuse permanentee, en l'occurence Rika Zarai :
Je pense que Rika Zarai gagne le duel, euh... d'un cheveu. Je vous laisse, j'ai un bain de siege qui m'attend.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Merde !
The most difficult part when you're trying to catch up musically with everybody else is you're not quite sure if the artists you're discovering are brand new or whether they had a rich past (again, remember: no Google). When I saw in the charts a song named "Merde in France" I thought it was another silly song by some up and coming young artist who would soon go away. How wrong I was! Jacques Dutronc, I was to find out later, was an established and well-respected artist since the 60s. Still, hard to take this song seriously:
Then there was this other one that I really liked (very "planant") but that unfortunately didn't get much airplay or leave much of a trace, and again it turned out it was by a famous muse of the 60s: Francois Hardy.
I embedded the above version first because the recorded version has that "spacey" quality that I wanted you to discover if you didn't know the song. Here's Francois singing it "semi-live":
It's much, much later that I found out that Dutronc and Hardy had been a couple for the longest time. If all you know about these artists are the two songs above it's hard to see how they paired up...
Then there was this other one that I really liked (very "planant") but that unfortunately didn't get much airplay or leave much of a trace, and again it turned out it was by a famous muse of the 60s: Francois Hardy.
I embedded the above version first because the recorded version has that "spacey" quality that I wanted you to discover if you didn't know the song. Here's Francois singing it "semi-live":
It's much, much later that I found out that Dutronc and Hardy had been a couple for the longest time. If all you know about these artists are the two songs above it's hard to see how they paired up...
Friday, February 7, 2014
Memories-part 14
do you remember this show Top 50
TOP 50 Année 1984 - Emission 1 by hitsdesclipsvideos
there was also another music show called 'Jack Spot' that I could not find any footage of
TOP 50 Année 1984 - Emission 1 by hitsdesclipsvideos
there was also another music show called 'Jack Spot' that I could not find any footage of
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Le Youki !
Et hop ! Un p'tit clip de Richard Gotainer ! Elles sont mimis les caniches !
Richard Gotainer - Le Youki by clubmusic80s
Richard Gotainer - Le Youki by clubmusic80s
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Billy Ocean!
Sorry for the recent slowdown due to work... Let's get back to this gently with a guy who had a lot of success in 1984: Billy Ocean. He was already at the top of the charts by the time I arrived in France, with this song:
Apprently he had a version of the above song also called "European Queen", but I don't think I ever heard that version back then, even though I suppose it was targeted at precisely the European market:
Kinda weird, huh? I think "Carribean Queen" just rolls off the tongue better and makes more sense in the context of the song. A "European Queen" makes me think of Elizabeth II, not exactly someone I'd lust after...
Anyway... "Carribean Queen" is an example of a song that I first found out about by reading the charts, not by hearing it on the radio. I made it a mission to pay special attention to any mention of him or this song if it ever got played on the radio. But what happened is that Billy Ocean came up with a new single from his album, and so I heard the following song before I heard Carribean Queen:
I bet you that you'd forgotten all about "Loverboy", huh? I think the whole point of this blog is give you these Blast from the Past moments, things that are still in the remotest recesses of your memory, but not entirely gone... For whatever reason I remember being quite impressed by the production quality of the song AND the video (which reminds me a bit of Dune, a big movie flop from 1984, but that's for another post...). I think they were trying to outdo the success of Carribean Queen, but it wasn't to be...
Apprently he had a version of the above song also called "European Queen", but I don't think I ever heard that version back then, even though I suppose it was targeted at precisely the European market:
Kinda weird, huh? I think "Carribean Queen" just rolls off the tongue better and makes more sense in the context of the song. A "European Queen" makes me think of Elizabeth II, not exactly someone I'd lust after...
Anyway... "Carribean Queen" is an example of a song that I first found out about by reading the charts, not by hearing it on the radio. I made it a mission to pay special attention to any mention of him or this song if it ever got played on the radio. But what happened is that Billy Ocean came up with a new single from his album, and so I heard the following song before I heard Carribean Queen:
I bet you that you'd forgotten all about "Loverboy", huh? I think the whole point of this blog is give you these Blast from the Past moments, things that are still in the remotest recesses of your memory, but not entirely gone... For whatever reason I remember being quite impressed by the production quality of the song AND the video (which reminds me a bit of Dune, a big movie flop from 1984, but that's for another post...). I think they were trying to outdo the success of Carribean Queen, but it wasn't to be...
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