Rating: 4/5
Review:
Very enjoyable stuff
This is a lot of fun.
I was only dimly aware of French Rock & Roll at the time and I'm
glad to have this as a sample now.
I didn't know any of these tracks before hearing the album;
they turned out to be largely at the rockabilly/punky end of the spectrum –
with s few notable exceptions like 39 de Fevre, which is a rather inferior
remake of Peggy Lee's Classic, Fever.
Most, though, are high-energy and a bit crudely done which gives them an
impact which I like a lot. The two closing
tracks are Johnny Hallyday hammering his guitar and singing Heartbreak Hotel
and Tutti Frutti frenetically into a cheap tape recorder in his bedroom, well
before he got a recording contract. The
quality is terrible, but they're actually rather enjoyable in their way.
The sound quality is pretty good – although it's a bit woolly
on some tracks which, combined with French pronunciation and slight
inattention, led me to mishear "Mon mari c'est Frankenstein" and
think that Nicole Paquin's husband was called Stan and that she had applied a
most indelicate adjective to his name.
Amusing mistranslations aside, this is a really enjoyable
album of very decent quality Rock & Roll which I can recommend warmly.
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