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JE T’AIME Brigitte Bardot et Serge Gainsbourg

January 23, 2024 – 8:34 am

The Americans love to dismiss French music and that’s because they don’t know ‘merde’.

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HISTOIRE DE MELODIE NELSON by Serge Gainsbourg

January 23, 2024 – 4:50 am

Music sucked in Pattaya. Old farangs sing HOTEL CALIFORNIA and bar girls dance to boy band love ballads, while Thai bands play dinosaur rock for drunken tourists. Nothing was wrong with a bad reprise of SMOKE ON THE WATER, except I once hung out in nightclubs and bars in which music meant more than a […]

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Quote of the Day Feb 9 2009

January 23, 2024 – 4:37 am

“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.” Serge Gainsbourg (04/02/1928 – 03/02/1991) French singer

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Free the Weed – Serge Gainsbourg

January 23, 2024 – 4:32 am

French chanteur Serge Gainsbourg appeared in the 1969 film CANNABIS with his English muse, Jane Birkin. In 1973 America responded to this Gallic challenge by adopting the Rockefeller drug laws, which set the penalty for possession of more than 2 ounces of heroin, morphine, opium, cocaine, or cannabis on the same level as 2nd degree […]

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Hate/Love Le Ballade de Melody Nelson

July 17, 2023 – 2:38 pm

Music sucks in Pattaya. Old farangs sing to HOTEL CALIFORNIA and bar girls dance to boy band love ballads, while Thai bands play dinosaur rock for drunken tourists. Nothing wrong with a bad reprise of SMOKE ON THE WATER, except I once lived in nightclubs and bars in which music meant more than a tune […]

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