Swinging Mademoiselles: Groovy French Sounds

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 26, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Silva America
• ASIN: B0009VBTSW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,912 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #52 in Music > Pop > Euro Pop > French Pop

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff, but there are better comps out there, November 6, 2005

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Raymond Tucker (Zombie Swamp, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Swinging Mademoiselles: Groovy French Sounds (Audio CD)

I was sorely disappointed with this collection which had bootleg sound quality (vinyl pops etc) and practically no info whatsover regarding these artists. There is even one track credited to Clothilde, which was actually by Cleo. Though they are out of print and much harder to find, I'd recommend that you pass this up and seek out the 2 original vinyl only Swinging Mademoiselle compilations issued on Sasha Monnett records (which also appears to have been the source for at least one of the tracks included here) or any of the 6 CD volumes of Ultra Chicks.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just for the record, January 24, 2006

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Pink Frankenstein (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Swinging Mademoiselles: Groovy French Sounds (Audio CD)

The title of this compilation is a rip off of an earlier and superior compilation by Sasha Monet entiitled Swinging Mademoiselle. Yes the music on this is good, but the unoriginality of this comp is a turn off. On top of that there is wrong information: "Et moi, et toi, et soie" is not a song by Clothilde but by Cleo (a song written by Dutronc and prior to his own hit "Et moi, et moi, et moi." Also, it is Jacqueline Taieb not Tajeb. So as you can see there is something not right here.

But, due to the unavaiability of superior comps, this one will have to do.

This collection is of music that 95% of French people do not know nor have ever heard of though it is superior to non-Franco ears than a lot of the big stars of the day. This stuff was churned out by music industry factory of the 60s that had just found that there was a market for "new music." With the exception of Taieb, Stella, Pilzer and Clothilde the girls no this comp did not write their own songs or had much say in how the material was produced.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great music, lame compilation, July 4, 2007

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Bébé Requin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Swinging Mademoiselles: Groovy French Sounds (Audio CD)

Annoyingly, this brazenly rips off the title of the well-known - and much more lovingly compiled - Swinging Mademoiselle compilations. Everything about it is as unoriginal and careless as the borrowed title, from the songs attributed to the wrong artists to the generic, uninformative liner notes. Not to mention that every track is available on other compilations. A listless attempt to cash in on a trend and others' good taste and hard work.

Yes, the music itself is wonderful, but instead go for the superior Femmes De Paris and Pop A Paris compilations, or try to track down the original Swinging Mademoiselle or Ultra Chicks comps, as a previous reviewer suggested.