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Sachet, chantez!

Three days of rain outside and anxiety at work is doing nothing for my bad mood. Let's try a poll!

What are your favourite songs with lyrics either partially or entirely in French?

Entirement en français:

"Pas assez de toi" (Mano Negra)
"L'aventurier" (Indochine)
"Les nuits d'été, Op. 7: I. Villanelle" (Hector Berlioz)

Partiellement en français:

"Games Without Frontiers" (Peter Gabriel)
"Brigadier Sabary" (Alpha Blondy)

Update: I almost said "favourite pop songs" but then decided to leave out the qualifier. And I'm glad I did, because I'm really enjoying everyone's classy choices. But don't be intimidated; as

bunj's answer shows, even execrable American hipster "French" qualifies!

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Entirely:

La Mer - Charles Trenet
And then several selections from Carmen: La Habanera, the Children's Chorus, and Toreador.

Partially:

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

Guess I don't know too many songs a la francais (though I had forgotten the Mano Negra song before you mentioned it). Just curious, what would your list for German be?

"Tu es foutu" by In-grid, simply because it's the only French song on my playlist.

I have a big cheesy soft spot for "Ne Me Quitte Pas" by Jacques Brel, and "Quelqu'un M'a Dit" by Carla Bruni is running through my head this week.

"Quan Vey La Lauzeta" (Mediaeval Baebes) is one of my favorite songs of all time. (The lyrics are from a 16th-century French poem; lyric sites pair each line with its translation, making it seem like it alternates between French and English lines, but it's all French.)

"Le Déserteur" runs a close second.

"Charlotte" (Young Gods)

Half the oevre of Louis Philippe, but especially "Martine".

Piaf:
je ne regrette rien
la vie en rose

Brel
ne me qujittez pas

"Allons Dansez, Colinda" by various Cajun Artists, notably Les Aimees des Louisianaises
"La Belle Dame Sans Regrets" by Sting
"La Grace du Ciel" by Les Aimees des Louisianaises
"Il Est Nee, Le Divin Enfant" - christmas carol

"Thank Heaven for Little Girls" -- Maurice Chevalier

My two favorites:

Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, The Show
The Gentle People, [just about anything they ever sang, really]

Lady Marmalade--LaBelle

I, too, have a weak spot for Jacques Brel's "Ne me quitte pas". In the guilty pleasures department, I have a bit of a thing for two former Eurovision Song Contest winners, Corinne Hermès' "Si la vie" and Amina's "C'est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison".

Parisien du Nord - Cheb Mami
Les Tsars - Indochine
Laissez-moi Tranquille - Serge Gainesbourg

God, there's millions. Ayesha by Khaled is pretty awesome – anything by him really. I love Ce Petit Cœur by Françoise Hardy. Er...Piaf obviously. Ta Douleur by Camille. Blur's To The End was a great choice, whoever said that. I wanna say something by Air, but now I think about it they're virtually all instrumentals

"Iko, Iko," in a walk.

I like "Games Without Frontiers" because I always thought he was saying "She's so funky-ay."

Je ris que rien ne m'epouvante - Bizet
Fleur jetée - Fauré
La maladie - Malajube

"Gabriel" - Najoua Belyzel (I know, SHOCK!)
"Il faut du temps (Je me battrai pour ça)" - Sandrine François
"Tu te reconnaîtras" - Anne-Marie David
"Comme dans un train" - Natasha St.-Pier

http://www.amazon.de/Legend-Chanson-Juliette-Greco/dp/B000096H1M/sr=8-1/qid=1158253569/ref=pd_ka_1/028-9041321-0735746?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

Juliette Greco ist eine wirliche Legende für französisches Liedgut. Die Piaf macht mich eher krank. Aber die Greco ist superb.

Die frühe Francoise Hardy war auch wunderbar. *tous les garcons et les filles*

Es gibt gute Sachen von France Gall, die von Gainsbourg geschrieben wurden.

Apropos Gainsbourg. Seine Tochter hat in diesen Tagen ein Album aufgenommen. Die Musik ist von Air, die Texte werden typisch französisch gehaucht, aber in englischer Sprache. Ganz nett!

Früher mochte ich auch Julien Clerc. Aber ich glaube, es lag daran, dass ich den Typ geil fand.

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