- Audio CD (Nov 5 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Best of
- Label: EMI/Virgin
- ASIN: B00000IHED
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #43,740 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Enfant naturel du Velvet Underground et de Françoise Hardy, sous le parrainage de Dutronc et Gainsbourg, Etienne Daho a su faire de ses limitations un vrai style. Chanteur attachant mais au registre étroit, il s'impose en douceur depuis le début des années 80 comme le meilleur crooner rock et pop que la France puisse rêver, grâce à une curiosité insatiable et à un goût très sûr. Cette compilation, qui remonte sa carrière à rebours, rappelle que le Rennais a toujours su se faire le chroniqueur sobre et discret de l'air du temps, empruntant leurs couleurs à la new wave, au funk, à la techno ou au drum & bass sans fondamentalement changer sa manière. L'un des secrets de ce timide est aussi de s'entourer de collaborateurs en phase, notamment Arnold Turboust et Edith Fambueana des Valentin. Et c'est ainsi que ce dandy réussit à transformer chacune de ses pop songs de trois minutes en perle fine. Un don rare. --Thierry Chatain
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5.0 out of 5 stars
he's a big old cheeseball, but i can't get enough of him,
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This review is from: Singles Best Of (W/1 Live Track) (Audio CD)
Really great pop music. This is a well-chosen selection of tracks from quite a varied career. He's gone from technopop to poppy rock to jazzy pop, and has done all exceedingly well. The only track I ever skip is the kind of silly St. Etienne collaboration. Avoid like the plague if you are averse to POP music, because he's about as pop as they come, as you can probably tell by the number of times the word "pop" has appeared in this review (6). There's a sprawling 3 cd package coming out someday soon that will surely better this, but this is a great single disc comp.
4.0 out of 5 stars
interesting,
By A Customer
This review is from: Singles Best Of (W/1 Live Track) (Audio CD)
I was initially only familiar with Daho's more recent work - specifically, his wonderful album "Eden" - so it's interesting to get the opportunity to hear his music spanning two decades. As you'd expect, his 80s work sounds a little dated, so the compilation as a whole is not compulsive listening. If you enjoy Etienne's music, though, there's plenty here to delight.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ignored French chanteur,
By A Customer
This review is from: Singles Best Of (W/1 Live Track) (Audio CD)
Anybody having grown up in France in the 1980s will probably have danced, kissed and loved all for the first time on some Etienne Daho tune. A versatile musician with a carrer that almost spans 20 years, Daho was in his prime from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and there's something funny about hearing all the softened beats and gimmicks transforming from a Pet Shop Boys influence to the more "jungle" music composed with Saint Etienne. But, here's a secret: Daho is not only worth listening to for catchy tunes and danceability, it is also for lyrics, cryptically gay most of the time, but wonderfully light and romantic, with a consumed art of making plays on words ("oh tabou, son epaule est tatoo, ta-tout amoi"). Delicieux, isn't it?
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