After the Bordeaux botulism affair, let’s return to the way in which artists appreciate (or not) canned food.
There is sometimes a great distance between the drama of the news and the smile of the songs. While poor sterilization of canned goods, in a wine bar in Bordeaux, leads to tragic consequences that France Info spoke about this week, the only canned food that makes you sick in the song is this can into which he bit, without open it, the singer of the cheerful punk band, Bulldozer. Moreover, if we don’t talk about promiscuity and crowding, canned seafood products even have a rather good reputation.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news, broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Bulldozer, Oh yeah, oh no!, 1977
Alain Souchon, Sardines, 1983
Gilles, Dollar, 1932
Léo Ferré, Visa for America, 1986
Joe Dassin, The Blues Season, 1979
Dario Moreno, The pot, 1961
Lord Esperanza, King without a crown, 2023
Renaud, The Hitchhiker, 1980
Pierre Perret, The Tord-guts, 1963
Georges Jouin, Agricultural Chronicle, RTF, 1954
Ferre Gola, Flood, 2017
Pierre Perret, The Tord-guts, 1963
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