Continuing down the Femmes Fatale pick path, we're now at volume five. Lots of great mellower songs on this one. But I will talk only about one artist. Claudine Longet. I first heard Longet in college. I had an amazing art professor. Loved his classes. He did a few things that impressed me quite a bit. First, he would lecture us while we were drawing, painting, whatever. He talked about how to form an LLC, get a business started and organized. Gave us resources. Said the biggest shame in the art world was not having artists be able to support themselves. Second, he always had a school record player brought in to class. And ALL he played were albums that he got at flea markets, or thrift stores for under a buck. That usually meant that the albums were in bad shape. Some had cracks or holes in them and only a few tracks were playable. One artist seemed to get played a lot: Claudine Longet. We heard stories about her controversies and listen to the few playable tracks from each album. I ended up really liking her "fey" sixties sound. Eventually I bought all her albums (better versions - even CD's once those came out.)
Femmes Fatale 5
Femmes Fatale 5
01 Emma Bunton - Downtown
02 Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Sweet Thing
03 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime Moi Non Plus
04 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
05 kd Lang - So In Love
06 Claudine Longet - The Look Of Love
07 Donna Summer - The Power Of One
08 Kate Bush - The Handsome Cabin Boy
09 Olivia Newton-John - Hopelessly Devoted To You
10 Everything But The Girl - I Fall To Pieces
11 Concrete Blonde - Joey
12 Ladytron - Playgirl
13 The Edge & Sinead O'Connor - Heroine (Theme from 'Captive')
14 Rose Royce - I Wanna Get Next To You
15 Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man
16 Sheryl Crow - Good Is Good
17 Carrie Underwood - Jesus, Take The Wheel
18 Storm and The Balls - I Want You To Die
19 Pink - Tell Me Something Good
20 Alicia Keys - Fallin'
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