Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Please stop
Overly romantic sop. I can barely take Gainsbourg. This, not at all.
This album is pretty bad before you consider the fact that it's French, making it even worse. 0/10
Oui oui 🇫🇷🥖📯
Non merci
Crooning in french to the accordion. Not for me.
I won't do it
I found absolutely nothing to like about this record. How anyone could enjoy it is beyond me. But, vive la difference.
nah.
Oof. That was a difficult listen. Just couldn't get into this one.
What in the French hell
The French Frank Sinatra I guess? I few too many selections from the HMV “World Music” section for my liking
Did I really just spend 30 minutes listening to some French dude singing to an accordion? A little more entertaining than the previous album, but I did start thinking about Margaret on the Guillotine pretty early into this album. Maybe if I understood French, but then again, I understand English and it didn't help with Viva Hate. Sounded like the audience had a great time. I did not. Will not revisit. 1
This will be a tough one for non-French speaking people. I will say Brel sings with passion but the culturally this one is just too difficult to get into. Considering this was released in 1964, it seems culture and music has already past it by then 3.4/10
I didn’t like his voice, or the music. Live albums shouldn’t be on this list. At least it was short.
Måske bedre hvis man kan fransk
Serviu para me lembrar do meu desgosto carregado de preconceito do francês.
Nope. I think the rulebreaker is English unless I feel a lot of emotion.
Wasn't my thing.
I think the combo of French, big band and live audience is too much to process. Not something I would ever pick
I wasn't able to listen to all of it. I just don't like it. It's not because I don't understand the language (don't think I would have liked it more in English). I just don't like this type of music
Nope, not for me.
Not my tempo
Listened Before? N No. I'm good. I did not need to hear a guy sing in French with accordion backing from the 60s. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Amsterdam
Yet another troll addition to the list. This is not good.
Don't listen to foreign songs. Started and skipped the rest.
for those over the pond this is what the eurovision song contest used to sound like in the 60s.
Nah
Could have very happily dropped dead without hearing this Kronenberg advert dross.
Not my cup of tea. Just didn't connect with this one. 1/5
I wanted some more diversity on the list, so it looks like I should be happy, but this is not what I had in mind. Can't enjoy it since my French is limited to voulez vous coucher avec moi
The constant and droning applause does you no favors when you're high
The 60s brought us so many great sounding records and this is not one of them. I do not speak French so all I can really appreciate is the instrumentation and his vocal performance and both are weird in a bad way at parts and lackluster in other parts. Like what the hell is he doing on "Tango funebre". That does not sound good and the same goes with "Le plat pays". I read that this genre, Chanson, is lyric-driven so I might just not be getting the full picture but he is singing so harshly and not in a good way. It sounds like an American doing an offensively bad French accent with all the classic tropes played up to the maximum. It kinda sounds like it is the source of French stereotypes, like if you told me that people started believing French people were snooty/rude solely because of this record I would believe you 100%. It feels manufactured and sort of feels like it lacks any soul or passion that an artists typically has when making art. He sounds like he is constantly straining to sing these notes like he is forcing it. I did like "Amsterdam" and thought "Les jardins du casino" and "Les Toros Avec Final" were a fine songs but I would never come back to anything else on the album. 3.5/10 but I definitely am not getting the full picture as a non French speaker.
It's French. Need I say more?
eww,i hate this
I’m pretty tolerant of most albums and will endeavour to listen to the whole album, regardless of what I think. This was so torturous that I only got half way before deciding it wasn’t going to improve and it did hurt my ears ! What is it doing on this list ??? 1*
Again, maybe I’m jaded that there is no Rammstein, but why must listen to this. Why is this album on the list!? I have no idea.
Lolz no thank you
So… evidently this guy is very influential and people love him. It feels like Tom Waits on a bender in France. Not for me.
I just don't have the context I would need to enjoy this. The accordion bits were nice, but this guy's voice doesn't do it for me and I don't know French. To me, very bad unfun not good times.
You can sing in french, but it won't make it any better.
It's a joke right? Come on. I HAVE to listen to THIS before I die? Tedious. I kept waiting for a punchline that never arrived.
no.
This isn't it
Thanks but no thanks. 1/5
No.
Definitely not for me
Æj ég veit ekki, alltilagi ad láta þetta renna í gegn. Ekki mjög eftirminnilegt.
Get ekki
2 1/2
The man can sing but yeah not my thing.
im sorry dude it sounds like french mickey mouse
I could have died without listening to this.
Not really heavy metal like I asked...
Nooit wat mee gekund, vandaag ook niet.
This just didn't do it for me.
Not going to lie skipped right through this - just totally not for me on many many levels - I don’t need a french crooner, nevermind a live album of one
Not really sure why this album is on the list, as I don't feel I particularly needed to hear it before I die. I found the songs quite uninteresting and unoriginal. Simple songs, with simple and predictable melodies. My French is mediocre at best, so can't really comment on the lyrics. I won't be coming back to Jacques.
Struggled through not knowing what they said. It's over atleast.
All french but kinda lit
Hell of a voice. Simply not my thing.
Call that singing!? I can’t understand a word he’s saying. Lol jk! (Gotta love Spanish) also listen out for the horse half way through les Bon Bons
Well I gave it a go but its just not for me I'm afraid!
Maybe I was listening in the wrong context, but I found his singing voice grating. It could have been groundbreaking at the time, but for me it blurred into the background a bit until he started shouting occasionally
French tings
whatever lol
This wound me up big time
It's just not for me.
Utter drivel.
Not u