Saturday, October 31, 2009

Au Clair de La Lune...




There's a French nursery rhyme called Au Clair de La Lune, but I can't remember the second line, it's right there on the tip of my tongue, anybody know it?
I realise there are a lot of songs here, feel free to use the ▶▏ button.

There's A Moon Out Tonight - The Capris
The Killing Moon (Up All Night Mix) - Echo & The Bunnymen
Trip II The Moon (Kaleidoscopiklimax) - Acen

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18 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 31, 2009 at 7:46 AM

    Mon ami Pierrot

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  2. ejaydeeOctober 31, 2009 at 11:07 AM

    Yes! Thank you Anon
    Prete-moi ta plumeeuh, pour ecrire un mot

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  3. gremlinfcOctober 31, 2009 at 11:26 AM

    Ma chandelle est morte
    Je n'ai plus de feu

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  4. treefrogdemonOctober 31, 2009 at 11:58 AM

    Ouvre-moi ta porte
    Pour l'amour de Dieu!

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  5. treefrogdemonOctober 31, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    ...Trick or treat!

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  6. cauliflowerOctober 31, 2009 at 1:06 PM

    Je suis désolé

    Je n'ai pas de plume,
    Je suis dans mon lit...

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  7. gremlinfcOctober 31, 2009 at 1:07 PM

    The one thing I hate about this whole day is the way that "Trick or treat" has become part of it over here...we can't even have our own semi-pagan festival without americanism creeping in...boo indeed. That's no slight on you TFD in the slightest(pardon the non-pun)but as a 'lapsed pagan' it is most irritating. Bit like Xmas / Winter Solstice s'pose.

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  8. treefrogdemonOctober 31, 2009 at 1:19 PM

    Sorry, gremlin - just a joke. In fact the 'guising' tradition in Scotland and Ireland long predates the US itself, let alone trick-or-treating.

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  9. steenbeckOctober 31, 2009 at 7:15 PM

    What an amazing list! Particularly love Betty Carter (what a voice!!) Arthur Russell (keep forgetting to dond that one) Tachiko Hatouyama (beautiful!) CHuck Berry (nicely understated) Walking on the Moon and Os Mutantes.

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  10. goneforeignOctober 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM

    There's something I've missed out on living out here, speaking of 'Walking on the Moon', why does everybody hate Sting?

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  11. ejaydeeNovember 1, 2009 at 10:39 AM

    GF: I think it culminated with his use of the luth. It's rare for me to hate an artist, I tend to just turn it off before it gets to that point. He's just part of that group with Bono from U2, Chris Martin from Coldplay, Johnny Borrell from Razorlight, Jay Kay from Jamiroquai, etc. They tend to be frontmen who have been very succesful at some point and therefore gained a lot of exposure, a backlash is bound to follow.

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  12. nilpferdNovember 1, 2009 at 1:17 PM

    Liked Lunar Funk the best here.
    Clair de Lune reminded me I have a version by Elbtonal Percussion, but it isn't very memorable.

    I think with Sting and Bono they've just reached the point where their public utterances strike most people as insufferably pompous and self-righteous, it's not really about the music. Somehow neither has the trick of being in the public eye, while retaining popularity.

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  13. saneshaneNovember 1, 2009 at 11:45 PM

    Has this list changed?

    thought there was another My moon... mix yesterday.

    got to be a Pininfarina concept car in the picture.

    enjoying the listen.. but not going to get everyones songs finished before bed!

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  14. ejaydeeNovember 1, 2009 at 11:48 PM

    There was the Boys Noize Mix, but it sounded a lot liuke your Arabesque mix, and my list was already too long so I took a few out. Hope you enjoy.

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  15. saneshaneNovember 2, 2009 at 9:14 PM

    back having a listen.. when was Acen? (sounds like early Prodigy)

    Love Cat Powers voice but never listen to whole albums for some reason.

    liked the backing on sam cookes version best.

    eclectic central selection,
    Labelle caught me by suprise.. hammond wig out and all.

    Funkyness near the end is cool..

    thoughally enjoyable.. ta very much.

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  16. BloodyParadoxNovember 3, 2009 at 9:34 PM

    re sting
    pop and popularity and the popular press - all achieve an exhaustion factor. But that mainly takes place in us. The music that Sting makes [particularly with the jazz combos he put together] are neither poor lyrically nor musically.
    We'll need to step back from the publicity and the pontifications and find some space for a good writer and a great musical mixer.

    I 'fall back' on his CDs from time to time when we are hard pressed in the kitchen, and the clientele are from all over. He never fails to impress: here some rich arrangements, there some barbed personal jabs, elsewhere just good danceable vibes.
    'If you haven't got the swing - it don't mean a thing.' He got it.

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  17. ejaydeeNovember 3, 2009 at 11:03 PM

    Shane, No idea about Acen, I got it in a samples collection, though discogs tells me it's from 1992.

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  18. Z j A kAugust 7, 2010 at 12:02 AM

    *******2*******

    Au clair de la lune
    Pierrot répondit
    je n'ai pas de plume
    je suis dans mon lit
    va chez la voisine
    je crois qu'elle y est
    car dans sa cuisine
    on bat le briquet

    ***additional***

    Au clair de la lune
    trois petits lapins
    qui mangeaient des prunes
    comme trois p'tits coquins
    la pipe à la bouche
    le verre à la main
    en disant mesdames
    versez-nous du vin

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