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Le Bruit Et L'odeur (album)
''Le bruit et l'odeur'' () is the second studio album by the French rock group Zebda, released in 1995. With this album, the group confirmed its social focus by adding engaging samples to its guitar-driven music. The album title is a reference to a controversial statement made during a speech given in 1991 by the mayor of Paris and later French president Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac (, , ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as Ma ... (known as Le bruit et l'odeur) which was not easily forgotten by many. This album explores how far life in France at the end of the 20th century has come, especially in the south.When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial ... Professor Jon Stratton - 2014 "On their 1996 album, Le Bruit et L'odeur, the title track includes a sample of the notorious spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zebda
Zebda is a French music group from Toulouse, France, known for its political activism and its wide variety of musical styles. The group, which was formed in 1985, consisted of seven musicians of diverse nationalities, and the themes of much of their music involved political and social justice, the status of immigrants and minorities in France, and the inhabitants of the French ''banlieues'', or suburbs.English: "Zebda continues to talk about exclusion, racism, tolerance and its opposite." Zebda earned widespread recognition, as well as several awards, for its 1998 single " Tomber la chemise" ("Take Off Your Shirt"). In 2001, the band spearheaded an independent political party that won over 12% of the first-round vote in Toulouse's municipal elections. The group disbanded in 2003 but reformed in 2011. History Zebda was first formed in 1985 when Magyd Cherfi, a community organizer at the time, organized a small group of his musician friends to shoot a video for a community organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'arène Des Rumeurs
''L'Arène des rumeurs'' is the first album of the French rock group Zebda, released in 1992.''Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture'' Alex Hughes, Keith Reader - 1998 0415131863 p67 "In their albums L'Arène des rumeurs (Arena of Rumours) and Le Bruit et l'odeur (The Noise and the Smell), they denounce the shortcomings of French society but still offer a message of hope." Liste des titres # ''Arabadub'' # ''Baudis'' # ''Mala diural'' # ''Minot des minorités'' # ''CNN'' # ''Singing'' # ''Le Masque au rade'' # ''La Bague à Danièle'' # ''Le Miroir'' # ''La France'' # ''Mala diural (À la Skabyle)'' # ''Baïonettes'' # ''D'Ève à Lise'' References Zebda albums 1992 debut albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essence Ordinaire
''Essence ordinaire'' is the third studio album from French rock group Zebda, released in 1998. It was their landmark album, containing some of their most popular songs, in particular "Tomber la chemise", which catapulted them to fame and earned them a Victoire de la musique award.''Past Forward: French Cinema and the Post-Colonial Heritage'' 0809385880 Dayna Oscherwitz - 2010 - "Zebda was one of the most popular rock groups of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and they were honored with numerous awards at France's Victoires de la musique, most notably for their 1998 album Essence ordinaire." Track listing #"Y'a pas d'arrangement" #"Tomber la chemise" #"Double peine" #"Tombés des nues" #"Quinze ans" #"Je crois que ça va pas être possible" #"Je suis" #"Tout semble si..." #"On est chez nous" #"Oualalaradime" #"Le manouche" #"Né dans la rue" #"Le Petit Robert" References External linksAlbum reviewby Don Snow of Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Paris
The Mayor of Paris (french: Maire de Paris) is the chief executive of Paris, the capital and largest city in France. The officeholder is responsible for the administration and management of the city, submits proposals and recommendations to the Council of Paris, is active in the enforcement of the city's ordinances, submits the city's annual budget and appoints city officers, department commissioners or directors, as well as members of city boards and commissions. During meetings of the Council of Paris, the mayor serves as the presiding officer, as it is the case in any other commune in France. Since Paris doubles as a department as well, the mayor also has the rank of a departmental council president. History When the French Revolution began after the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, the city insurgents murdered the last Provost of Paris (Provost of the Merchants), Jacques de Flesselles. Because the Provost's office was abolished as one of the first moves with the dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac (, , ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. After attending the , Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, entering politics shortly thereafter. Chirac occupied various senior positions, including Minister of Agriculture and Minister of the Interior. In 1981 and 1988, he unsuccessfully ran for president as the standard-bearer for the conservative Gaullist party Rally for the Republic. Chirac's internal policies initially included lower tax rates, the removal of price controls, strong punishment for crime and terrorism, and business privatisation. After pursuing these policies in his second term as prime minister, he changed his views. He argued for different economic policies and was elected president in 1995, with 52.6% of the vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Bruit Et L'odeur
"''Le bruit et l'odeur''" () refers to a speech given in 1991 by Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Paris who later became French president; it translates as "the noise and the smell." The speech This is an excerpt from the speech: :English translation: How do you want a French worker who works with his wife, who earn together about 15,000 FF [] and who sees next to his council house, a piled-up family with a father, three or four spouses and twenty kids earning 50,000 FF [] via social security, benefits, naturally without working... If you add to that the noise and the smell, well the French worker, he goes crazy. And it is not being racist to say this. We no longer have the means of honouring the family regrouping olicy and we need to finally start the essential debate in this country, as to whether it is moral and normal that foreigners should profit to the same extent as French people, from a national solidarity to which they don't participate, as they pay no taxes. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Albums
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