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Sont des langues qui vont très bien ensemble
The Guardian Arts Blog asks readers for their favorite multi-lingual songs. We did a quick poll around the office, and came up with a list of our own (mostly French-English) favorites:
"Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads (YouTube link)
anything by Manu Chao
"Une Année Sans Lumière" by Arcade Fire
"Mele Kalikimake"
"Fade to Grey" by Visage (YouTube link)
"Michelle" by The Beatles
We even had an over-the-phone vote for "Lady Marmalade," someone who now can't get "Livin' la Vida Loca" out of her head, and at least one of us admitted to only recently discovering that in Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers," Kate Bush is actually singing "jeux sans frontières" in the background, not "she's so popular." (SUZANNE)
May 10, 2007
