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After enduring mostly uncomfortable and campy covers on Canadian Idol earlier this summer, particularly one painful female fronted cover of 'Space Oddity' I was weary of another female fronted cover of the same song. Emilie Simon of Paris, France really impressed me, especially in the wake of hearing some excellent covers off of the "Life Beyond Mars " Bowie Tribute album. This is probably my favorite cover of the Bowie classic to date. When the glitchy African rhythms ... MORE
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I'm getting ready to fake sick at work so my best friend/roommate and I can ditch down to her beach house in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico for a long weekend, and while I was packing up my million cds (because I refuse to own an iPod), I uncovered my long lost Emilie Simon mix cd I made ages ago then lost when I moved to LA. Ironically enough, I first heard Emilie Simon when I saw her video play on Mexican MTV while in Ensenada many moons ago. It all comes full circl... MORE
I saw Emilie Simon's new video yesterday and was glad to say I loved it! Interesting song with a great video to match. That's one thing that'll get my attention musicwise. I did coughdownloadcough her first album and totally loved I Wanna Be Your Dog and Chanson De Toile from it, but didn't like the other songs as much. But because of her interesting songs and her amazing videos (if you make a cool video, you've got my respect!), I really wanted to like her. I think t... MORE
I really like it. I think it's powerful in a different way to Nirvana's. It's more gothy and haunting. Listening to it, there's menace in the air. I think it would be great for the soundtrack of a vampire movie.
Well, I was going to upload a song in this post, but despite it being within the size limit and being an mp3, it didn't work and I lost all my text. Boo! So back to my post. I downloaded one of Emilie Simon's albums a while back and fell in love with two of the songs I Wanna Be Your Dog and Chanson De Toile. (I Wanna Be Your Dog is a bit on the short side though! :( ) I love Chanson De Toile, it just sounds so haunting and I would love to hear more songs like that. I... MORE






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