French and German music

[Seneca]

an illustration of the dangers of recommending music you only know from Kazaa, and of passing off superficial googling as actual knowledge

April March is a solo French singer, but from the 90's/now not the 60's. There is a Canadian band called An April March who are the first thing who come up when you google, but are otherwise irrelevant.

slinks off, reputation as french music expert in tatters

[Seneca]

Ignore me, just use this:

http://ctomag.com/may16cto/french.html

[molly bloom]

German:

Neu, La Dusseldorf, Cluster

French:

Air, Daft Punk, Little Bob Story, Juliette Greco, Charles Trenet, Les Negresses Vertes

Dutch:

Mathilde Santing, Boulevard of Broken Dreams Orchestra

Icelandic:

Sigur Ros, Bjork, Sugarcubes

Swedish:

The Cardigans

Slovenian:

Laibach

[Kyle]

Erm, Kreator? Germany's answer to Slayer with a lead guitarist that doesn't suck.

[Zylka]

Paul Van Dyk is king pixi trance, and started his hobby doing underground radioshows in the East of Germany! Acquire one of his artist albums to hear what late 90's dance was lead by

Or not

[Combat Ingrid]

HAGGARD!
"And thou shalt trust... the seer" is a very addictive CD

[Stefu]

VIIKATE! TIMO RAUTIAINEN!

Erm, they're Finnish. But try them anyway!

[Crousto]

Noir Désir is probably the most popular French rock band currently active. I'd recommend 'Tostaky' as their best LP.

[sabrewolf]

german:
marius müller westernhagen (maybe without the 'n')
blümchen (party sounds)
die toten hosen (hard punk)
rammstein (heavy metal)
scorpions (soft metal)
nina hagen (wierdish, à la björk (=icelandic))
oli p (softy stuff)
vier gewinnt (male hip hop)
tic tac toe (female hip hop, now called tic tac two, because 'toe' left )
sarah connor (german, but she sings in english)
nena ("99 red balloons" is origionally be her)

and a lot of others

[Bereta_Eder]

Re: French and German music

Originally posted by Felch X
Does anybody know of any good French or German bands? It seems like mostly Europe produces club music and stuff, but I was wondering if anybody knew of any good indie rock or anything similar that comes out of Europe. Anything would be good, just so long as it doesn't suck, I'm just requesting French and German because I've studied those a bit and might have slightly more of a clue as to what is being sung.

For French rock try SAEZ and Noir Desir. Both excellent.

[Spiffor]

French Rock :
- Matmatah
- Sinsemilia
- Noir Désir
- Mano Negra

There are also good French bands who are not playing rock, like :
- Paris Combo
- Saint Germain (electro jazz, no words)

If you're more into the 80's, I'd recommand :
- Téléphone
- Indochine

I know nearly nil. in German music, but I enjoy listending to Freundeskreis (Hip-hop), or Seeed (ragga, yes there are 3 "e"). I also enjoy Rammstein very much

[Al'Kimiya]

Austria:
Der Blutharsch
Summoning

Germany:
Blind Guardian
Deine Lakaien
Diary of Dreams
Fortification 55
Garden of Delight
Hagalaz' Runedance
Helloween
Lacrimosa
Project Pitchfork
Sopor Aeternus
Wolfsheim

[Chemical Ollie]

When you listen to Rammstein, you wonder: why doesn't all heavy metal bands sing in German? Heave metal in German really makes sense...

[Spiffor]

I wouldn't advise Lacrimosa to anyone... Listen only when you're sure not to want to make suicide

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I wouldn't advise Lacrimosa to anyone... Listen only when you're sure not to want to make suicide

Poor guys... Rammstein rules...