Although she withdrew that after his (brilliant) hi-nrg version of Jackie. I'm very sad about this - I was a colossal Marc fan in the early '90s, and without him I'd never have discovers Walker, Azhnavour, Brel et al.
I love his version of Jackie. Marc Almond is in no small way responsible for my marriage - my now wife came by my place on our first "date" and found that I had a copy of "The Stars We Are", and decided I was worth her time, I guess.
Azhnavour? I am unfamiliar. However, have you heard Jack Lukeman's "Wax" album? That young man has a voice that was MADE for Brel. Too bad most of the stuff he's written himself is shite.
OMG Marc Almond did a Jacques Brel tribute album?
Well, really, two of them, kind of. Tenement Symphony has a few Brel tunes, most notably Jacky. Jacques is (I believe) Brel in it's entirety.
WANT.
TAKE. HAVE.
An intro to a top-5-love-songs list, shamelessly stolen from the University of Chicago Student newspaper and reposted because it amuses me:
Some procedural notes before we open the floor: The abstract requirements for love song status are as follows: The song must be addressed to an unnamed subject, addressed only by the second-person singular pronoun or by honorifics like “baby,” “sweet cheeks,” “sugar,” or “lady.” The subject must not have agency. Further, the thematic content song must fall into one of the following broad categories, allowing for poetic inversions and whatnot:
1. I Done You Wrong, Please Forgive Me
2. You Done Me Wrong, Watch Me Forgive You
3. I Enjoy Freaking With You, Let Us Begin/Continue Freaking Together
4. Everything (Including Freaking) Is Going Great
Criteria specific to this list: No live versions, no ironic covers, no songs containing the word “fuck” and no Brill Building shit, by which I mean the song must in some way express sentiments native to the singer, or the singer must have socioeconomic fraternité with the songwriter, if they are not the same person. Anyway, the list, in 5-4-3-2-1 order.
Is
that
what "Le Freak" was about.
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Is that what "Le Freak" was about.
The origin of that particular song is that Niles Rodgers and Bernard Edwards couldn't get into Studio 54 one night. So they started a chant of "Awwwww, Fuck Off!" And got the whole crowd going. So they made it into a song, after a retitling.
See also: "Super Freak" and "No Freakin' on the Dance Floor" and a berjillion other 80s funk hits.
"Le fuck, c'est Chuck?" Hard to make that'n rhyme.
"Le Fuck, c'est duck", perhaps?
Actually I think it'd have been something more like..."Fuck off! Lucky Toff!"
Or "Fuck Off, Veal Orloff!"
Okay, maybe not. It only there was a Duck Orloff.
