Sorry to take you like that abruptly; we spend the day at the Salon de l’Agriculture and we inevitably have a bit of nostalgia for the ritual visits of Jacques Chirac – Minister of Agriculture, then Prime Minister, then Mayor of Paris, then President of the Republic – many reasons to come every year for decades, to the Porte de Versailles.
And in the image of this fifth president, installed at the Elysée for 11 years, 11 months and 29 days, the agricultural show counts a lot for its popularity, but also in the way some French people may have hated it.
In 2005, the Svinkels thus howl this text of which you perhaps did not perceive everything: “Here all occult business is drowning / In a crowd bath among the cultos / France is a great agricultural show / Which stinks of money, food, tax and alcohol / Anarchy In Chiraquie / Who in France is the biggest mobster”.
Today we continue our preparatory series for the presidential election, meeting all the presidents of the Fifth Republic, I hope you like the electric guitar…
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Svinkels, Anarchy in Chiraquia2005
Ludwig of 88, Jacques Chirac (with humanity and heart), 1996
Misery Brothers, Debacle1996
Sinsemilia, Welcome to Chiraquia2004
wampas, Chirac in prison2006
Zebda, noise and smell1995
Denis Lefdup, Ecoloscopy2014
Beautiful Countryside, Chirac (To all French people), 2002
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a crossing of the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered as the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.
All summer 2016, in the company of Vincent Delerm, we wandered around in La Playlist Amoureuse de la Chanson, truant exploration of popular heritage. You can also extend the delicacies of this summer chronicle with the French song lovers dictionary, co-published by Plon and franceinfo.