All summer, we talk about a great love song every day. Tuesday, July 18, a large French pop group leafs through the dictionary of proper names in search of a feeling.
“This place that extends as it is written, between Amos and Amsterdam”this place we talk about every day of the summer in this column: somewhere between Amos and Amsterdam, there is the word love, when you run your finger over the columns of a dictionary of proper names.
It’s 1995 and the Innocents are singing Between Amos and Amsterdamone of the masterpieces of a historical album, Postpartum. At the time, critics exclaimed that this CD was at the level of the great British pop groups – Tears For Fears, XTC, The Boo Radleys -, far above the French pop production of that time, while being of a magnificent poetic quality. Remember this album.
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Innocents, Between Amos and Amsterdam, 1995
Innocents, A perfect world, 1995
Innocents, Long, long, long, 1995
Innocents, Stiff, stiff, stiff, 1995
Innocents, Colored, 1995
Innocents, Jodie, 1987
Innocents, The Other Finistère, 1991
Vava and Michel Fugain, poetry lesson, 1977
Adamo, the word love, 1989
Maxime Le Forestier the word love, 1979
Innocents, Between Amos and Amsterdam, 1995
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