Mon Frère

Mon Frère Artist: Maxime Le Forestier
Label: Universal
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 042282351524
EAN: 0042282351524
ASIN: B0000071IV


Release Date: 1996-03-05

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Listmania:

  1. Classic French pop/rock music (Part 1)

Tracks:

  1. Mon Frere
  2. Education Sentimentale
  3. La Rouille
  4. Mourir Pour Une Nuit
  5. Marie, Pierre Et Charlemagne
  6. Comme Un Arbre
  7. Fontenay-Aux-Roses
  8. Parachutiste
  9. Je Ne Sais Rien Faire
  10. San Francisco
  11. Ca Sert A Quoi

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars So Glad it's Still Around.......2002-08-12

I discovered Maxime when I was a student in So. France in 1972. I was recently in Paris and purchased his newest CD. His voice is still terrific. The album Mon Frere is what got me hooked on Maxime...the voice of an angel. This is a fabulous album.

5 out of 5 stars The Best.......2000-09-03

This is the album that has most affected my knowledge of and affection for French popular music. As an American student in Provence in the late 70's, the music hit a responsive chord in me before I ever had a clue about the lyrics. Understanding lyrics just got me more hooked. (more hooked?)

Anyway, this album contains a number of le Forestier classics: the popular "Marie, Pierre et Charlemagne", "Education Sentimentale", and "San Fransisco", the anti-military "Parachutiste", the environmentalist "Comme un Arbre", the wistful "Mon Frere" and "La Rouille" and the angry "Ca Sert a Quoi" - you can't go wrong with this one.

5 out of 5 stars A flawless collection of hauntingly beautiful songs.......2000-07-05

"Daddy, can I listen to your sad French songs in the car?" is a question my daughter has asked me often in the days since I managed to track down this magnificent album on CD. I first heard Mon Frere as an exchange student in France in 1977, immediately bought the record and have kept it close even since. Mon Frere is the title of the devastating first song in which the singer mourns the brother he never had -- just reading the lyrics are enough to bring a lump to my throat. While at least a couple of the songs are light-hearted and enchanting, there is a deep seam of pain and dark nostalgia running right through this work. The album is worth buying for the poetic lyrics alone, although there are no words provided for a bitter little ballad called Parachutiste, which refers to the abominable conduct of the French paratroopers during the Algerian war of the early 1960s. It is no surprise that Maxime Le Forestier's greatest 20 hits album contains no less than seven of the 11 songs on Mon Frere.

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