Noir Desir - French Rock Band.

[craka)(craka]

I just found out about them a few days ago. I was searching for good French music and found their name on some random forum. Anyway, I really like their music and I think they are really good at what they do/did.

Also, I did some little 'research' and found out that the lead singer, Bertrand Cantat, killed his girlfriend in 2003 and now he's in jail for 8 years. So the band is pretty much dead, I think.

Some of my favorites are:
L'Homme Presse
Le Vent Nous Portera
Lost
Aux Sombres Heroes de L'amer
Toskaky

- Wikipedia Article

- Youtube Videos

[Yossarian]

This is unsweetened Earl Gray

Not my cup of tea.

[El Chupacabra]

Le vent nous portera is a great song. Another good (tho very melancholic) one is À ton étoile - a coproduction between Cantat and Yann Tiersen on Tiersen's Black Session album. The original Noir Désir album version is nothing big tho.

[Braun]

Well one of my favorite "home" bands is this: http://myspace.com/lescowboysfringants

Pretty much any Quebecer knows at least one of this groups songs. Although the songs on their myspace aren't the good ones.

Another group that I like from Quebecis Grimskunk, they rock!

A LA MANIFESTATION !!!!!!!!!!!
Sont arrivés en Westfalia
En criant sos Gaia
Accoutrés comme des hippies
Avec les yeux rougis
Chveux longs et surplus d'armée
En bedaine et jouant du tam-tam
On se s'rait cru 30 ans passés
Pendant guerre du Vietnam
Il y avait tous les clichés
De l'époque des granolas
Des chemises en macramé
Aux filles poilues en d'ssous des bras
V'nant en grande majorité
Du Cégep du vieux Montréal
Tous là pour manifester
Contre les multinationales

[Nostradamouse]

I like Bérrurier noir. French band and you can listen all of their song on their website.

[ras2]

Originally Posted by craka)(craka

I just found out about them a few days ago. I was searching for good French music and found their name on some random forum. Anyway, I really like their music and I think they are really good at what they do/did.

I pretty much only know the album Tostaky (which I quite like), but I was to
a great concert with them in 1993. Very good live band (or they were back then, at least).