POP MADE IN FRANCE

Today's post is of archeological value as well as an enjoyable curiosity. On four volumes, you have some of the best pop/rock singles recorded in France in the late 60s and seventies. Some have not aged well, some are as fresh as they were on their release date. Very few of these bands have reached a popular status outside of France, notable exceptions are Greece's Aphrodite's Child, French progressive rock leaders' Ange, Michel Jonasz, Daniel Balavoine or Jean-Jacques Goldman. Of course, this collection is a mixed bag with its hits and misses but even the misses have something gratifying for the musical archeologist.
In addition, I give you two compilations from two of the finest indie labels of the late 90s, early 00s including names that should ring a bell in some of you's memories.
Enjoy.

POP MADE IN FRANCE VOL. 1 (2008)
1. Les Brumes De Chatou - Triangle
2. Turn Back Time - Time Machine
3. Je Suis Justte Un Rock'N'Roller - Les Variations
4. Faust 72 - Dynastie Crisis
5. Monte-Carlo - Jupiter Sunset
6. Le Vieux De La Montagne - Ange
7. Shame On You - Alan Jack Civilization
8. City Break Down - Zoo
9. Got Me - Costa-Yared-Costa
10. Le Pensionnaire - Jean Schultheis & Trust
11. Goin' Away - Jean-Jacques Goldman & Tai Phong
12. La Lumière Et La Folie - Daniel Balavoine & Presence
13. Sad Harold - Doc Dail & Ticky Holgado
14. Le Matind Es Magiciens - Martin Circus
15. Le Roseau - Alice
16. Aime Toi Toi-Même - Decuyper & Ilous
17. Il Faut Croire A L'Amour - Labyrinthe
18. A Little Peace Of Mind - Trianglophone
19. Méfies-Toi Des Avions - Starshooter
20. Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Loose - Pop Tops
21. Les Marins - Total Issue
22. Flop - Le Système Crapoutchik
23. Maraveda - Pachyderm

POP MADE IN FRANCE VOL. 2 (2008)
1. Le Rock Plus L'Electricité - Papillon
2. Back To The City Again - Jean-Jacques Goldman
3. Maries Toi Pour Qu'Il Ait Un Père - Jacques Mercier
4. Heureux Les Innocents - Ilous
5. Attention Aux Fleurs - Georges Costa & Michel Costa
6. Adieu La Terre - Michel Jonasz
7. Baby Sitter - Jean-Louis Mahjun
8. Time To Get Better - Marc Tobaly
9. Châteaufort Blues - Claude Angel
10. Mamy Blue - Joel Daydé
11. Keep On Running - Experience
12. Tri Martlod - Alan Stivell
13. Baby I Feel So Fine - Gilbert Montagné
14. Un Jour De Chance - Albatros
15. Anna (D'Une Seule Nuit) - Epoque
16. Elmouth Le Mammouth - Le Quartet De Lyon
17. Come See Me - Little Bob Story
18. Le Tueur - Bijou
19. Elle - Santamaria
20. Slag Solutionpart 1 - Jo Buffalo'S Band
21. Snoopy Travel - Experience
22. Time To Get Better Part2 - Marc Tobaly

EUROPEAN 60s AND 70s POP GROUPS
MADE IN FRANCE VOL. 1 (2008)
1. Blow Your Cool - Triangle
2. Rain 2000 - Titanic
3. Baxter Williams - Les Irrésistibles
4. Eleonor Rigby - Ilous And Decuyper
5. Troubled Lizzy - Costa-Yared-Costa
6. Seven Horses In The Sky - Pebbles
7. Sympathy - Los Bravos
8. Down The Road - Les Variations
9. Two Castles - Jupiter Sunset
10. What Am I To Be - Zoo
11. I'm Alive - Experience
12. Stone Me - Doc Dail
13. I Want To Live - Aphrodite'S Child
14. Ella Ella - Axis
15. Love And Care - Pop Tops
16. Cherie Sha La La - Anarchic System
17. Live Your Life - The Kinetic
18. Never At All - Micky And Tommy
19. Sad Soul - Micky And Tommy & Ronnie Bird
20. Woudiwoudi - Century
21. Love, Love Is There - Classical M
22. Sister Jane - Tai Phong
23. Daytime - 5 Gentlemen
24. Hocus Pocus - Wallace Collection

EUROPEAN 60s AND 70s POP GROUPS
MADE IN FRANCE VOL. 2 (2009)
1. Over The Shadow - Total Issue
2. Bird In Hte Wind - Time Machine
3. Come Along - Les Variations
4. Serenade - Wallace Collection
5. Shadows In The Moonlight - Jupiter Sunset
6. Macumba - Titanic
7. Baby Don'T You Come Back Home - Alan Jack Civilization
8. Hard Times Good Times - Zoo
9. Why (Did You Take So Long) - Century
10. Such A Lovely Voice - Classical M
11. A Lot To Do - Trianglophone
12. Pop Corn - Anarchic System
13. No Time To Lose - Georges Costa & Michel Costa
14. Crazy Week - Holly Guns
15. Sea Side Shuffle - Jo Sony Arvern System
16. Suzanne - Pop Tops
17. Do It Now - Joel Daydé
18. What Are You Doing Now ? - Peter Haller
19. Mary Blind Mary - Laurent
20. I'Ve Got Myself A Little Girl - Charles Brutus McClay
21. The Brain (Du Film 'Le Cerveau') - The American Breed
22. Ronnie - Welch Farrar & Marvin

LE VILLAGE VERT PRESENTE
PANORAMA (1997)
1. Les Carton - Superflu
2. Princesse de Cire - Czerkinsky
3. Tira mi su - Pierre Bondu
4. Something About G.A. - Télépopmusik
5. Le Dernier Mot - Autour de Lucie
6. Pour un Mouvement - Orly
7. On Baisse les Bras - Matthieu Malon
8. Eu Sei Que Vou te Amar - Mercedes Audras
9. Indians - Parades

ICI D'AILLEURS (2001)
1. 1/79 - Dominique Petitgrand
2. This Is Just to Say (Live) - Bed
3. It Ain't No Funny At All - Bästard
4. Magre - Madrid
5. Avant la Chute - Yann Tiersen
6. Roma Amor (Live) - The Married Monk
7. F.31 Bis: Zimbalon - Fugu
8. L'Amorce des Consignes - Dominique Petitgrand
9. Elevator Baby - Amor Belhom Duo
10. Foxhole - Bed
11. Locate Radiation - Bästard
12. Stuck (Demo) - The Married Monk
13. La Dispute (remix by Third Eye Foundation) - Yann Tiersen
14. 700 Millions de Grelots - Madrid
15. Shiver the Timber - David Grubbs
16. F.37: Pianolyre - Fugu