August 30, 2015

Histoire Sans Paroles 1975




10 comments:

rodin said...

The most honest person is the one aware that he's been lying to himself...zap

Never a truer word spoken

Negentropic said...

@zapoper

This is a great prog-rock band man! Thanks for turning me on to them. When you first posted links to this band last year, I was so impressed I bought two of their albums from Amazon, this one which is called "Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison" and "L'Heptade." The sales rank for both these albums and also the first album is around 40,000, which means they're outselling the second most popular Italian prog band, PFM, which back in the 1970s released its (unsuccessful) English language album on the Manticore records label owned by Emerson, Lake & Palmer:

http://www.amazon.com/Per-Un-Amico-PFM/dp/B0000072VM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1440924149&sr=1-1&keywords=pfm

They're only being outsold by the most popular Italian prog-rock album of the 1970s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B714Gi8s6zo&list=PLqytJAFwh-2XmaRisfnbOjHIXM0X6TLk6

http://www.amazon.com/Darwin-BANCO-DEL-MUTUO-SOCCORSO/dp/B000006Z8E/ref=pd_sim_15_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1WX56NR5T7XREG0N6WMS

By the way, most of the lyrics to these more prominent and popular French & Italian prog albums are online and can be copied & pasted into a translator.

foon1e said...

Ahhh...you pair of Euro-Faeries should eat *MORE* Meat and go get the latest MOTORHEAD Album "Bad magic" that was released 2 days ago. It'll put hairs on the hairs of your chest :P

http://www.imotorhead.com/news.html

Noor al Haqiqa said...

Saw this band twice back in the day at some theatre in Toronto. They were very very lovely listening. This particular album we wore out. Thanks for the memory lane stroll.

I remember one thing about their show though that was their rudeness to the English audience once or twice. A song would be given a long introduction in French then the singer would say in a rather sarcastic aside, "And for those of you who don't speak French, it is just a love song." Laugh, Zap, but I remember that quite clearly!

zapoper said...

I don't doubt you for one second Noor. They were "séparatiste" and René Lévesque even showed up at there concert in California. Serge Fiori seemed in awe while talking with him.

zapoper said...

BTW Foon. I probably have more hair on my chest than you do. ROFL

Negentropic said...

@foon1

"Lemmy saw The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club when he was 16, and then played guitar along to their first album Please Please Me. He also admired the sarcastic attitude of the group, particularly that of John Lennon."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy

LOL

"Please Please Me"?

What kind of faggy shit is that, foon?

Just for that he not only had to go out and punch a tree ten times with both fists to feel like a man again but he also Johnny Appleseeded three different sons from three different women and put two of them up for adoption by the time he was 20!

All this shit happened before his roadie gig for "Jimi Hendrix Experience" and before recording the "Escalator" album with Sam Gopal in 1968:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecd16hG53es&list=PLRQKT-Cu2_2SR7XxZ84a5Bq3SxM5R0uov

Lemmy also used to roadie for Keith Emerson's old band "The Nice" back in the late 1960s. According to Keef's autobiography, Lemmy gave him 3 knives from his "Hitlerjugend" collection and these were supposedly the knives he would use to jam the keys on his Hammond organ while throwing it around on stage during live shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xggFzkyd288

foon1e said...

Not to mention his "Hawkwind" days Neg...

"Lemmy A Fiver" Kilminster has been responsible for the soundtrack to *my* Life ever since i stuck my head in a speaker-stack at a Motorhead Concert in 1982 and blew out my left ear drum ;)

Christopher Marlowe said...

Halfway through listening I tripped over a stalk of lavender and bumped my head on a daisy petal. I awoke on the shore of giant sea of ginger tea. Fairies were carrying drops of nectar, which they brewed into formula for baby butterflies.

Negentropic said...

@foon

Yeah, the song "Motorhead" itself was done first with Hawkwind using spaced-out violins and horns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4vQ-eYgIy0

"Space Ritual" is one hell of a classic live album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYAd0-ifNlM

In this same area of post-hippie early 1970s "space rock," there are many obscure bands worth exploring. One of them is the "Cosmic Jokers" band from Germany whose entire output was recorded on acid trips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyAoZcVuzcY


"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." ~ Victor Hugo