Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Musique Belgique

Yo, Plastic Bertrand, I'm-a let you finish, but Les Tueurs de la Lune de Miel were one of the greatest Belgian New Wave acts of all time:



My first exposure to the band was hearing A Deep Space Romance (which is basically a macabre joke centered around a simple bit of English wordplay) on the local local college radio station, where longtime DJ "Your Old Pal" Jim Riecken is a great champion of Francophone rock. The band's biggest single was Route Nationale 7, which makes for a jauntier counterpart to Kraftwerk's more placid Autobahn.

4 comments:

  1. I never heard those guys and gals before. I like it!

    I do remember Ca Plane Pour Moi fondly, from my collage daze.
    ~

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  2. Thunder had collage days? Bastard never sent me anything! I guess I didn't rank at the arts and crafts table.

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  3. Thunder had collage days?

    Thunder and I attended the same prestigious bastion of prestige. Doing the math, his 30-year reunion and my 20-year will coincide...

    Thunder, how's your liver?

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