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| 1. Ideal |
| 2. Premier Jour |
| 3. Sur Mon Cou |
| 4. Au Commencement |
| 5. Soudain |
| 6. Jungle Pulse |
| 7. Mon Manege A Moi |
| 8. Comme Un Igloo |
| 9. Les Voyages Immobiles |
| 10. Des Attractions Desastre |
| 11. Saudade |
| 12. Un Homme A La Mer |
| 13. Des Heures Hindoues |
| 14. Bleu Comme Toi |
| 15. Duel Au Soleil |
| 16. Epaule Tattoo |
| 17. Tombe Pour La France |
| 18. Week End A Rome |
| 19. Grand Sommeil |
| 20. Il Ne Dira Pas |
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ignored French chanteur,
By A Customer
This review is from: Singles (Audio CD)
Anybody having grown up in France in the 1980s will probably have danced, kissed and loved all for the first time on some Etienne Daho tune. A versatile musician with a carrer that almost spans 20 years, Daho was in his prime from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and there's something funny about hearing all the softened beats and gimmicks transforming from a Pet Shop Boys influence to the more "jungle" music composed with Saint Etienne. But, here's a secret: Daho is not only worth listening to for catchy tunes and danceability, it is also for lyrics, cryptically gay most of the time, but wonderfully light and romantic, with a consumed art of making plays on words ("oh tabou, son epaule est tatoo, ta-tout amoi"). Delicieux, isn't it?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most-played French CD in my collection,
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This review is from: Singles (Audio CD)
Although I've had this album for five or six years, today I was finally inspired to play it in reverse order, oldest songs to newest. That in turn inspired me to post a review.Etienne Daho is a welcome exception to usual trends of French pop music. French pop songs too often have utterly fractured melodic lines. The phrases start, halt on an upturn, move a bit more, halt again -- like a feather falling through the air. Combine with a predilection for noir-y moods and what I suppose is a French taste for tiny, breathless voices, and the results are often not very singable, even by pros. Most French pop seems to be the opposite of Italian pop, which favors broad, arching Verdi-esque melodic lines -- and more singers with better voices. (Indeed, many of the Francophone singers with stronger voices also seem to be of Italian origin, like Helene Segara, Elsa Lunghini a/k/a Elsa, and even Yves Montand.) Daho's melodies may not be operatic, nor his voice like Andrea Bocelli's, but all these songs are very cheerfully "Euro". It's not easy to write such ultra-pop. For example, the opening song, "Idéal", manages to sound like an ultra-chic anthem -- no mean feat. As other reviewers have mentioned, this album is catchy, melodic, and singable-with (though you'll have to scrounge lyrics from other albums or the Internet). It's also sunny and fun -- and great in any direction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Une certaine renaissance,
This review is from: Singles (Audio CD)
En 1998, Virgin s'est dit que Daho méritait une compilation. Bien sûr on ajoute deux nouveaux titres et un inédit extrait d'un concert, mercantilisme oblige. Les vingt titres ne donnent pas une image exacte du chanteur puisqu'il n'est guère cantonné qu'à ses succès -et Dieu sait que certains sont d'infâmes rengaines ! Néanmoins en choisissant un ordre chronologique inverse (le premier titre est le plus récent et le vingtième le plus ancien), le compilateur a eu la bonne idée de ne pas limiter Daho a la période des années 80 où il a eu le plus de succès. Au contraire, cette période s'estompe à mesure qu'avance l'écoute du disque. En clair, on commence par ce qui à l'époque était le meilleur de Daho, c'est-à-dire les années 1993-1998 : les deux inédits, «Idéal» et «Le premier jour (du reste de ta vie)», sont excellents, même si le deuxième doit son titre à une expression américaine traduite de manière hâtive un peu pitoyable. «Sur mon cou», l'inédit enregistré en public, a le mérite de parler un peu plus clairement de certaines choses. Ensuite on a deux très bons extraits de l'album «Éden» («Au commencement» et «Soudain») qui comme les deux inédits transcendent la philosophie niaiseuse qui les sous-tend. Cette compilation est aussi le premier disque du chanteur à intégrer sa magistrale reprise de «Mon manège à moi», étonnamment touchante dans la veine du «Grand sommeil», veine qu'il avait malheureusement semblé abandonner pendant les dix ans qui séparent les deux titres. Évidemment on a sur la compilation tous les titres révélateurs de cette époque-là, mais ils représenteraient plutôt autant de raisons de ne pas acheter ce disque.
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