Jacques Dutronc - La Fille du père Noël -#jacquesdutronc
Jacques Dutronc - Il Est Cinq Heures, Paris s'Eveille, by The Large Men

from the album Only Live Once

The Large Men

SpaceAce Sunday | Jacques Dutronc – Jacques Dutronc (1966, France)

The next album our dearly missed friend submitted to the project is number 1047 on The List.

As mentioned in our spotlight last week on Mission of Burma, I recently started a new listening project of going through entire discographies (well, studio albums) of artists, particularly those other Mastodonians have recommended. After Mission of Burma I went through Roxy Music’s discography, and then, as I was craving a different vibe from either of those two bands and wanted to listen to someone I wasn’t familiar with at all, I decided to start in on Françoise Hardy’s studio albums. All 32 of them. Wowzers. After listening to about 10 albums (and falling in love with Hardy), I started reading the Wikipedia entries on Hardy and each album, and realized that she had been married to Jacques Dutronc, whose self-titled 1966 album just happened to be our next SpaceAce pick. Funny how things go.

So, Jacques Dutronc, husband of Françoise Hardy. I would so have loved if SpaceAce had written this spotlight, I’d have loved to hear what he had to say about this dynamic duo. Like, the two met the year after this album, Dutronc’s first of many, came out, and Hardy was already 8 or 9 albums in. Can you imagine the amount of music flowing through that house?

Anyway, we’ll revisit Hardy in another spotlight as we have her self-titled 1971 album on The List. For now, I hope you’ll give this album a spin because it is fucking fantastic. Like Hardy, Dutronc was an important figure in the yé-yé movement, with this album being in the beat/garage rock genres (I think?), with maybe a touch of mod (think Bob Dylan meets the Beatles, but, you know, in French), plus whatever wonderful nonsense is going on in the second-last track “La compapade”. So nice, I listened to it twice.

Thanks, dear SpaceAce, for leading us towards such a great rabbit hole. I may even figure out what exactly yé-yé is soon.

  • Songlink: Jacques Dutronc – Jacques Dutronc
    • Note on the album title: Similar to Hardy’s albums, the majority of Dutronc’s albums were released being self-titled, and then came to be known under the title of one of the singles or most popular songs on the album. This one might be titled Et moi, et moi, et moi (as the Songlink has it), Les play boys, or Les Cactus, depending on where you get your albums from.
  • Discogs: Jacques Dutronc – Jacques Dutronc

#1001OtherAlbums #1960s #FrançoiseHardy #France #FrenchRock #garageRock #JacquesDutronc #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery #Musodon #SpaceAceSunday #YéYé

The List

This is the alphabetical list (ordered by first letter of [first] artist). For the numbered list, go here. An asterisk (*) beside an album title indicates that it also appears in the 1001 Albums Yo…

1001 Other Albums

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Jacques Dutronc:
🎵 On nous cache tout, on nous dit rien

#JacquesDutronc

https://open.spotify.com/track/3JsDfNuasH0QwCqfYZOVnV

This song by #JacquesDutronc still makes me laugh like the first time I heard it 😆

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6k7RIaMWZA

Jacques Dutronc "Les playboys" (live officiel) | Archive INA

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Spacekezen, let op! Luister vanavond om 20.00 uur naar #SnobRadio bij Pinguin! Het contact met #MajorTom is nooit hersteld. Wel kregen we het voor mekaar om vandaag rechtstreeks vanuit de ruimte uit te zenden. Je hoort onder andere #War (Galaxy) #ELO #KommilFoo (Ruimtevaarder) #JacquesDutronc #BabylonZoo #NicolasJaar #AbsyntheMinded en #Tornados (Telstar).

https://ondergewaardeerdeliedjes.nl/2024/05/10/snob-radio-connects-from-outer-space/

Snob Radio Connects from Outer Space - Ondergewaardeerde Liedjes

Het contact met Major Tom is nooit hersteld. Wel kregen we het voor mekaar om vandaag Snob Radio rechtstreeks vanuit de ruimte (die onze DJ Ronny Borgsteede thuis heeft ingericht

Ondergewaardeerde Liedjes
Oh dear :/ I just saw my 2023 roundup from #spotify and there’s nothing in my top five recorded later than 1978 when I was 16. I have been having a bit of a #glamRock and #psychedelicRock year. Not sure how Stiff n the Tears crept at number one but it is a guilty #aor pleasure. At least #JacquesDutronc is in there so I can retain a shred of coolness :)

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip

Jacques Dutronc:
🎵 On nous cache tout, on nous dit rien

#JacquesDutronc

https://open.spotify.com/track/3JsDfNuasH0QwCqfYZOVnV

On nous cache tout, on nous dit rien

Jacques Dutronc · Song · 1966

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