Bonjour, tout le monde. You'll be pleased to know it's time to retire my franglais, which is only slightly better than Mark E Smith's German. Merci... sorry, I'm doing it again.
Thanks for all your multilingual offerings last week. A note on how I compiled the list. I chose to have only one song per language, with the exception of French, hence the absence of very good stuff from the Pixies, Bowie, etc. Also, I wanted more than a single line in another language, so that ruled out Stereolab, Beck, Labelle and the wonderful Plastic Bertrand. Not convinced by Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes either. He uses Youssou N'dour as not so much a singing partner as a sound effect.
The B-list looks something like this: The Arcade Fire (Une Annee Sans Lumiere), David Bowie (Heroes/Helden), Regina Spektor (Apres Moi), Pixies (Vamos), Antonio Carlos Jobim, etc (Corcovado), Calexico (The Ballad of Cable Hogue), Simon Dupree & the Big Sound, (Kites), Ladytron (Discotraxxx), Franz Ferdinand (Darts of Pleasure) and Talking Heads (Psycho Killer).
This week is all about location location location: songs named after roads and streets. The locations can be real or fictional and I'm using "roads and streets" as a catch-all - I'll accept freeways, interstates, avenues, mews, boulevards, terraces, crescents and so on. We've already had A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, Across 110th Street, Dirty Blvd and Between Clark & Hilldale. Inevitably, someone will suggest Thunder Road. Equally inevitably, I will not playlist it. So it goes.
Inspect the A-Z and the Readers recommend archive at your leisure. All suggestions by midday on Monday please.
