What are you listening to now?

Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

I like this one, amateur video for the Daniel Balavoine's hit Quand on arrive en ville,
made by a group of youngs from the city of Rouen, France.

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Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

Wow! This one is a real "oldies goldies", isn't it...?

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Replied by Sqdn. Ldr. Ted Striker on topic What are you listening to now?

some tracks from a really nice album

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Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

Nice, Ted Striker. D'you understand the French lyrics ?


Well, don't know why, i'm in the Starmania mood tonight so, after the Quand on arrive en ville by Daniel Balavoine, here comes Nanette Workman performing Ce soir on danse à Naziland (Tonight, we dance at Naziland), followed by Claude Dubois and his Blues du businessman.

I provide the English translation of The blues of the businessman, because i have to say that it's one of my very favourite French song (or maybe i should say poetry...)

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About the Naziland, and in order to clear any doubt, here's the full translation of what Wikipedia says about it. It's only on the French Wikipedia so i provide English translation :

The Naziland, in the fictional world of the musical Starmania by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon, is a gigantic rotating night club overlooking Monopolis, the top of the Golden Tower of January zero. The club is directly inspired by the famous Studio 54.

The name of the club refers to the post-apocalyptic world described as a totalitarian world in which the Nazis won World War II. This idea had already been operating in the work of Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle. The alternate history is a recurring theme of cyberpunk universe.

One can also see a reference to EOLC, the Daft Punk club in Tron: Legacy.

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Claude Dubois - The blues of the businessman


I'm successful in my business
I'm successful in my love affairs
I often change my secretary

I have my office on top of a tower
From where I see the town upside down
From where I control my universe

I spend half of my life in the air
Between New York and Singapore
I always travel in first class

I have my second home
In all the Hiltons on earth
I cannot accept misery

( At least are you happy ? )

I'm not happy but I look as
I lost sense of humor
Since i got sense of business

I succeeded and I'm proud of it
In fact I have only one regret
i don't make what I wanted to make

( What d'you want, buddy ?
In life we ​​do what we can
Not what we want )

I wanted to be an artist
To be able to make my act
When the aircraft land on runway
In Rotterdam or in Rio

I wanted to be a singer
To be able to shout who I am
I wanted to be an author
To be able to invent my life
To be able to invent my life

I wanted to be an actor
For changing skin daily
And to find myself beautiful
On a large color screen
On a large color screen

I wanted to be an artist
To have the world to rebuild
To be able to be an anarchist
And living as a millionaire
And living as a millionaire

I wanted to be an artist
To be able to say why I do exist

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