It's A New Find (and an otherwise half-baked update)
- 12/28/2006 05:36:00 am
- By Mark X
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Cripes. We've done a YouTube search for different cover versions of Laisse Tomber les Filles (we were hoping there's a version performed by Serge Gainsbourg out there somewhere, but can't find one just yet), and ended up discovering the wonderful band Chick Habit. Presumably named after April March's excellent English translation of LTLF, they very much kick the arse part of our bodies, and luckily their début album is only £7.99 on iTunes. Unluckily, we can only find it on iTunes (stupid DRM), but we've bought it now.
A shouty girl punk band from Sweden, their influences are listed as "Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, ARE Weapons, Death From Above 1979, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Cat Power, The Cure, Holly Golightly, Interpol, The Kills, Mikabomb, RTX, Sister Vanilla, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo [and] Wolf Parade", which is fine by us. But why take our word for it? Here is the proof that they've just knocked Action Biker into the number two position of The BrokenFM Top Ten Of Great Swedish Gands That No-one Has Heard Of.
A shouty girl punk band from Sweden, their influences are listed as "Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, ARE Weapons, Death From Above 1979, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Cat Power, The Cure, Holly Golightly, Interpol, The Kills, Mikabomb, RTX, Sister Vanilla, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo [and] Wolf Parade", which is fine by us. But why take our word for it? Here is the proof that they've just knocked Action Biker into the number two position of The BrokenFM Top Ten Of Great Swedish Gands That No-one Has Heard Of.
"Doris Day"
"Rule the World"
First single "Bullshit Radio"
A resounding "hurrah" for shouty girlband guitar pop! Hurrah! It'd be one of our albums of the year, except it isn't from this year.
You know, despite, well, all of our updates thus far, we don't listen exclusively to female fronted pop bands, it just happens that the only albums we feel compelled to post about fall into that category thus far, given that the Graham Coxon album we've been listening to all week came out too long ago to bother with now, and the Gruff Rhys album we want to write about isn't technically out for another month.
Meanwhile, here's our top three versions of 'Laisse Tomber les Filles':
You know, despite, well, all of our updates thus far, we don't listen exclusively to female fronted pop bands, it just happens that the only albums we feel compelled to post about fall into that category thus far, given that the Graham Coxon album we've been listening to all week came out too long ago to bother with now, and the Gruff Rhys album we want to write about isn't technically out for another month.
Meanwhile, here's our top three versions of 'Laisse Tomber les Filles':
3. The original version, by France Gall.
2. The second best version, performed by Elke Brauweiler, isn't actually on YouTube, so here's another cover version by "Violett ft M$B", which probably clocks in at number four.
1. The April March version (without an actual video, and sung in English, but what can you do).
See, just doing an update on cover versions of Laisse Tomber les Filles would have been rubbish. Hurrah for Chick Habit. Oh, and if anyone could flipping well tell us why Blogger keeps removing the /embed tags from our embedded YouTube links meaning we've got to keep manually re-adding them, that'd be dandy. Thanks.
