When I was a child... I was a Jedi?

Don't fret, this is not a tribute to Star Wars-inspired music. As such. This is actually a part of one of my favourite ever songs: "Song For a Jedi", by Dionysos. This is just quite simply a brilliant song. Dionysos generally make very good music, but unfortunately I only own the one track, although of course radioblog has it all available on streaming. "So who in God's name are Dionysos?" I hear you ask. Well, according to my bestest friend in France, they are the best live band in France right now. Oh. That good eh? This song is really old, and I never imagined them being anything more than a one hit wonder really. I knew they had other stuff, but the best Live band? Wow. Must fit that into my plans one day! For those who aren't in the know (and I certainly wasn't), Dionysos is actually the Greek god of wine and excess.

So what's this song I keep raving on about then? All you know is that it's about a bleedin' Jedi. Well, let's look at the first couple of lines shall we (in English):

When I was child
I was a Jedi
So nervous
That when it rained
Often I'd electrocute myself
And I met a girl in fairy form
So nervous
That when she scratched (my back)
My skin turned itself
Into a pyrography

Ho-hum. I'm sure an analysis of his brain would yield interesting results, for this is just brilliant. Of course, that's just the first couple of lines, so it goes on a bit more about electrocution when they kiss, for example. Either way, it was a superbly popular tune when it first came out, and what we like to call an earworm. It will not leave, no matter what you do, which whilst at times infuriating is mostly OK, since it keeps the other tosh around out as well. As an example of how popular it was, the single went gold, which means it sold somewhere between 250,000 and 500,000 copies. That's a lot of CDs - as you might know.

Anyway, I shan't keep you waiting much longer for this utter beaut:

Dionysos - Song For A Jedi

I thought long and hard about what track to put up next. Truth is, I'm running out of good songs. But then, I struck gold whilst looking through my collection: a song by Etienne Daho. Ah, good old Etienne Daho. He's been around for too long, he has. 1981 is when he essentially started his music career, but he's still around now! Either way, this song was released in 2003, and although not massively popular it still made the charts and everything. The song, called "If", is not in English, but is actually just as if (no pun intended) someone here called a song "ive" - most words of the song is basically are list of words finishing with "if", all of them loosely related in some way or other, e.g. "too massive/abusive" and so on. I'm impressed with how many he found to be honest. I'm not sure who he sings with, which is irritating because I know I knew this once (UPDATE: Turns out it's Charlotte Gainsbourg, don't know anything else she did).

What I like about this song is that every single line rhymes. Sometimes they use words that don't end with "If" - but only in the middle of a line. Somehow, you almost get hypnotised by the tune and I can't see why no one else seems to have tried to do this. It's really great to relax to, as it doesn't veer too far away from the basic beat, apart from the odd little electronic sound.

Etienne Daho - If

I know there seems to be an overload of French music right now, but as soon as Brazavil gets less busy he wants to introduce you to some superb stuff from further out - Serbia, amongst other places, so watch this space!

I've only put on two songs today because I don't want my bandwidth to be put under too much strain again, I'll see how it works with these two. Maybe if it calms down a bit OR I find a better, cheaper place there'll be more again.