Brassens, Gainsbourg, Trenet ....
The other day, doing research on Georges Brassens for another of my editorial activities, which I will talk soon, I realized that this year it's 30 year s that we had left 20 years for Serge Gainsbourg and 10 years for Charles Trenet. At first sight, apart from being dead 10 years apart, those three did not have much in common.
But when looking around, we still found a few.
course, which for me, brings these three great artists, is poetry. In styles different, they were all three great poets. Georges Brassens was a popular poet in the sense that it has raised poetry to the rank of a popular art, with a note of subversion, like Serge Gainsbourg. The latter gave more in the style poet maudit image he had himself forged. As for Charles Trenet, I prefer to offer you a song I love and is worth every speech:
Soul poets Trenet was written in 1951 for the film Bouquet joy . His words adorn the walls of a house in Narbonne his hometown.
And yes, The Singing Fool is a child of the Languedoc region, my darling. It is a common point with him Brassens, was Sete Island singular.
Being somewhat chauvinistic, I could not ignore the regional affiliation. But this was absolutely not the case with Gainsbourg, Parisian, if any.
In fact, I found something else in common with those three, a detail of course, but that made me smile. This common point is summarized in one word: "idiot". They all three have sung the idiots.
Regarding Brassens, his song about the idiots, you all know. The Time does not matter in 1961 and appears on the album of the same name. Its chorus is an absolute truth:
" Time does not matter
When you're stupid, it is designed
That is twenty years, whether we grandfather
When one is stupid, it is designed "
Regarding Gainsbourg is a film by Georges Lautner, released in 1968, he wrote his Requiem . The Pasha is an excellent film with a screenplay and dialogues Audiard. Serge Gainsbourg sang Requiem playing his own role in a recording studio.
This song is considered by some as the first French rap:
As Trenet, his homage to the idiots is a little more discreet but very nice. He just concluded a very beautiful song, Cor, adapted to the famous Alfred de Vigny ( I love her body at night in the woods ). This is one of his last works date since 1991. It is at the very end of the song and as cons-kneaded that Trenet addresses cons:
" Like the sound of the horn
Like the body of his
Like the fate of the evening con in my heart ... "
I offer a live for his 80 years at the Opera Bastille in 1993:
The other day, doing research on Georges Brassens for another of my editorial activities, which I will talk soon, I realized that this year it's 30 year s that we had left 20 years for Serge Gainsbourg and 10 years for Charles Trenet. At first sight, apart from being dead 10 years apart, those three did not have much in common.
But when looking around, we still found a few.
course, which for me, brings these three great artists, is poetry. In styles different, they were all three great poets. Georges Brassens was a popular poet in the sense that it has raised poetry to the rank of a popular art, with a note of subversion, like Serge Gainsbourg. The latter gave more in the style poet maudit image he had himself forged. As for Charles Trenet, I prefer to offer you a song I love and is worth every speech:
Soul poets Trenet was written in 1951 for the film Bouquet joy . His words adorn the walls of a house in Narbonne his hometown.
And yes, The Singing Fool is a child of the Languedoc region, my darling. It is a common point with him Brassens, was Sete Island singular.
Being somewhat chauvinistic, I could not ignore the regional affiliation. But this was absolutely not the case with Gainsbourg, Parisian, if any.
In fact, I found something else in common with those three, a detail of course, but that made me smile. This common point is summarized in one word: "idiot". They all three have sung the idiots.
Regarding Brassens, his song about the idiots, you all know. The Time does not matter in 1961 and appears on the album of the same name. Its chorus is an absolute truth:
" Time does not matter
When you're stupid, it is designed
That is twenty years, whether we grandfather
When one is stupid, it is designed "
Regarding Gainsbourg is a film by Georges Lautner, released in 1968, he wrote his Requiem . The Pasha is an excellent film with a screenplay and dialogues Audiard. Serge Gainsbourg sang Requiem playing his own role in a recording studio.
This song is considered by some as the first French rap:
As Trenet, his homage to the idiots is a little more discreet but very nice. He just concluded a very beautiful song, Cor, adapted to the famous Alfred de Vigny ( I love her body at night in the woods ). This is one of his last works date since 1991. It is at the very end of the song and as cons-kneaded that Trenet addresses cons:
" Like the sound of the horn
Like the body of his
Like the fate of the evening con in my heart ... "
I offer a live for his 80 years at the Opera Bastille in 1993:
Right now, I'm a little tired by the Bullshit that rages around me. And every day that passes, the words of Frederic Dard seem more pertinent: " There are many ways to be stupid, but always chooses the worst con ." As those of A. udiard: "The cons, it dares all and that's why we even recognize " ...