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#21
Avec Le Temps
Average Score: 7.832
Highest Score: 11 x 1 (Le Berserky)
(@Ironheade if he had voted I am guessing, and @londonrain if anything was gonna snatch his 11 from REDACTED)
10 x 3 (@pop3blow2 @Disco Blister @Sprockrooster)
Lowest Score: 3 x 1 (@Empty Shoebox)
The delivery, WOW!
The text, translated in English
#21
Avec Le Temps
Average Score: 7.832
Highest Score: 11 x 1 (Le Berserky)
(@Ironheade if he had voted I am guessing, and @londonrain if anything was gonna snatch his 11 from REDACTED)
10 x 3 (@pop3blow2 @Disco Blister @Sprockrooster)
Lowest Score: 3 x 1 (@Empty Shoebox)
And we are up to the most cruel cut yet, just shy of the Top 20 for my 11 - Avec Le Temps! I’ll begin by saying things are incredibly tight at this point in the race. With just an extra 1 point or so – there is a chance we would be looking at a #18 finish for Avec Le Temps. The 5 songs from here on out provide the tightest race if my memory of the scoreboard is not failing me, so prepare to potentially regret how you’ve voted as we go through your favourites #bientôt!
Avec Le Temps is a track we are rating here completely by accident. I had no real recollections of actively seeking it out either as a child or an adult (despite being very familiar with this French standard); instead it came into my consciousness a few months ago when I was listening to Mourir Sur Scène on repeat after it did really well on PJOPS. Avec Le Temps happened to be a track that was to AutoPlay afterwards, and I missed changing that setting one time while it was loading the next track.
From that initial listen I was taken aback by the atmosphere created by the combination of those heart wrenching lyrics (Avec Le Temps Va, Tout S’En Va / With Time Goes, Everything Goes is one impactful way to start your song - the lyric video linked below is highly recommended if you want the full experience with the whole text!) and Dalida’s emotive yet ‘matter of fact’ delivery. I thought this would be a great inclusion here, so the playlist it made! What I found fascinating after some research was the fact that Dalida’s version of Avec Le Temps predates her take on Je Suis Malade! I had always assumed the latter was where Dalida’s inclination towards self-reflective ballads started, yet Avec Le Temps is its true beginning if looking at timelines!
Avec Le Temps is a French classic with an amazing story behind it too. Written by Léo Ferré in 1970, the tragic lyrics speak of a deep depression he experienced around the breakup of his second marriage following the death of an adored pet monkey (a substitute of sorts for a child), which tore the couple apart. Once written, Léo presented the song to his record label, but at that point they dismissed it as the track did not fit the mood of his Amour Anarchie album. Believing in the song too much to be discarded however, Léo fights to see an eventual release on 45 for Avec Le Temps. This release flops reaching a high of #68 and staying on the French chart only for 3 weeks. Still not deterred then either, Léo proposes the song to Dalida, to record her own version when they run into each other backstage of an Italian TV show in which they were due to perform.
The timeframe worked perfectly for Dalida as she wanted to explore songs with more meaning behind them, becoming more reflective in her song choices following the tragedy of Luigi’s death a few years earlier. Giving it her all, Dalida’s take on Avec Le Temps is incredibly haunting, and I would go as far as to say it is as chilling as Johnny Cash’s take on Hurt. The lyrics in both songs cut deep as both artists deliver their respective text with poignant resignation of their fate, causing the listener to face a very dark side of the human psyche when dealing with depression.
What finally led me to give Avec Le Temps my 11 (I started with a potential 15 songs that could receive it after all) was the palpable and engrossing visual this immense yet intimate lyric depicts. Léo Ferré’s bravery in telling his personal story so candidly and truthfully with no artifice makes Avec Le Temps impossibly affecting, and I dare say every version out there has something to offer due to the strength of that text. Avec Le Temps is also one of the most covered songs ever in the French language, with 269 versions existing as of 2012 according to Wikipedia!
Dalida’s take has a special place in my heart above the other versions I know due to our star’s ability to emote subtly but expertly without once hitting a huge note - the restrain of a soul telling you their despair so poignantly without artifice is jaw dropping. To think this masterful turn was only the start of what she'd go on to deliver! Add to that Avec Le Temps being the starting point for Dalida giving us more heartfelt and deep songs for much of the rest of her career – the absolute need for this crown jewel of French music to receive at least one 11 became a no brainer!
I could go on for quite a while singing the praises of Avec Le Temps, instead let’s go to PopJustice and what the song meant to them:
@Sprockrooster (10) would be joining me in a few months too it would seem from the feedback here! Dalida, providing people with favourite discoveries of the year 47 years after her take on a song, that’s a legacy! - This was a complete discovery to me. I rarely hand out 10's for songs I just discovered, but this moved me deeply instantly. Chills on my spine and tears in my eyes for the third time listening to this thanks to this rate and I still have chills and tears in my eyes. Dalida is selling the vocals, like I never heard her do before. But a fantastic haunting production to go alongside with it matching the dramatic mood Dalida is setting vocally. I am calling it now, but this will be my favourite rate discovery of 2019. I mean who is a song going to match this bar, let alone exceed it. I am pretty sure if it wasn't a discovery it would have been my 11 cause time will make this grow more.
@Disco Blister (10) is also on our ‘Queen of Perfect Emoting’ corner here - For me Dalida is the queen of sad ballads, and this is clearly one of the very best. Love the lyrics, you can actually feel them when she sings. Just flawless in every way. She’s got a lot of fluff in her catalogue, and no wonder as she was probably living in the studio churning those albums out from late 50’s til the 80’s. But whenever she got it right, she REALLY got it right. @WowWowWowWow (7) isn’t quite there yet, though I can’t say I wish for him to ever get in a state where he wants to listen to this on a loop as that despair is too palpable for anyone – very emotional, very well performed. I guess it’s just not the kind of song that I would seek out to listen to on a regular basis. Well to be fair, depending on what kind of emotional state I was in, this would probably be the only song I listened to on a loop.
@pop3blow2 (10) has this as one of his favourite discoveries here, I believe (more French classics in your future, I am hoping? :-) ) - This is very pretty. I don’t know much about Dalida, but am seeing her discog is pretty diverse. I’d probably prefer more like this. @Maki (9.65) isn’t quite up to a 10 yet, though I suspect this might change sooner rather than later - Really dark, sad and devastating song, beautifully sung. Melancholy is something that very often appeals to me, and this song has the perfect amount of it. It isn't a 10, simply because there are slightly better songs in the rate. I later found out that this is a cover, but that doesn't make it less special. I'm afraid it will get underrated, due to it being a very slow ballad, so hopefully the voters saw the beauty in it.
Avec Le Temps is a track we are rating here completely by accident. I had no real recollections of actively seeking it out either as a child or an adult (despite being very familiar with this French standard); instead it came into my consciousness a few months ago when I was listening to Mourir Sur Scène on repeat after it did really well on PJOPS. Avec Le Temps happened to be a track that was to AutoPlay afterwards, and I missed changing that setting one time while it was loading the next track.
From that initial listen I was taken aback by the atmosphere created by the combination of those heart wrenching lyrics (Avec Le Temps Va, Tout S’En Va / With Time Goes, Everything Goes is one impactful way to start your song - the lyric video linked below is highly recommended if you want the full experience with the whole text!) and Dalida’s emotive yet ‘matter of fact’ delivery. I thought this would be a great inclusion here, so the playlist it made! What I found fascinating after some research was the fact that Dalida’s version of Avec Le Temps predates her take on Je Suis Malade! I had always assumed the latter was where Dalida’s inclination towards self-reflective ballads started, yet Avec Le Temps is its true beginning if looking at timelines!
Avec Le Temps is a French classic with an amazing story behind it too. Written by Léo Ferré in 1970, the tragic lyrics speak of a deep depression he experienced around the breakup of his second marriage following the death of an adored pet monkey (a substitute of sorts for a child), which tore the couple apart. Once written, Léo presented the song to his record label, but at that point they dismissed it as the track did not fit the mood of his Amour Anarchie album. Believing in the song too much to be discarded however, Léo fights to see an eventual release on 45 for Avec Le Temps. This release flops reaching a high of #68 and staying on the French chart only for 3 weeks. Still not deterred then either, Léo proposes the song to Dalida, to record her own version when they run into each other backstage of an Italian TV show in which they were due to perform.
The timeframe worked perfectly for Dalida as she wanted to explore songs with more meaning behind them, becoming more reflective in her song choices following the tragedy of Luigi’s death a few years earlier. Giving it her all, Dalida’s take on Avec Le Temps is incredibly haunting, and I would go as far as to say it is as chilling as Johnny Cash’s take on Hurt. The lyrics in both songs cut deep as both artists deliver their respective text with poignant resignation of their fate, causing the listener to face a very dark side of the human psyche when dealing with depression.
What finally led me to give Avec Le Temps my 11 (I started with a potential 15 songs that could receive it after all) was the palpable and engrossing visual this immense yet intimate lyric depicts. Léo Ferré’s bravery in telling his personal story so candidly and truthfully with no artifice makes Avec Le Temps impossibly affecting, and I dare say every version out there has something to offer due to the strength of that text. Avec Le Temps is also one of the most covered songs ever in the French language, with 269 versions existing as of 2012 according to Wikipedia!
Dalida’s take has a special place in my heart above the other versions I know due to our star’s ability to emote subtly but expertly without once hitting a huge note - the restrain of a soul telling you their despair so poignantly without artifice is jaw dropping. To think this masterful turn was only the start of what she'd go on to deliver! Add to that Avec Le Temps being the starting point for Dalida giving us more heartfelt and deep songs for much of the rest of her career – the absolute need for this crown jewel of French music to receive at least one 11 became a no brainer!
I could go on for quite a while singing the praises of Avec Le Temps, instead let’s go to PopJustice and what the song meant to them:
@Sprockrooster (10) would be joining me in a few months too it would seem from the feedback here! Dalida, providing people with favourite discoveries of the year 47 years after her take on a song, that’s a legacy! - This was a complete discovery to me. I rarely hand out 10's for songs I just discovered, but this moved me deeply instantly. Chills on my spine and tears in my eyes for the third time listening to this thanks to this rate and I still have chills and tears in my eyes. Dalida is selling the vocals, like I never heard her do before. But a fantastic haunting production to go alongside with it matching the dramatic mood Dalida is setting vocally. I am calling it now, but this will be my favourite rate discovery of 2019. I mean who is a song going to match this bar, let alone exceed it. I am pretty sure if it wasn't a discovery it would have been my 11 cause time will make this grow more.
@Disco Blister (10) is also on our ‘Queen of Perfect Emoting’ corner here - For me Dalida is the queen of sad ballads, and this is clearly one of the very best. Love the lyrics, you can actually feel them when she sings. Just flawless in every way. She’s got a lot of fluff in her catalogue, and no wonder as she was probably living in the studio churning those albums out from late 50’s til the 80’s. But whenever she got it right, she REALLY got it right. @WowWowWowWow (7) isn’t quite there yet, though I can’t say I wish for him to ever get in a state where he wants to listen to this on a loop as that despair is too palpable for anyone – very emotional, very well performed. I guess it’s just not the kind of song that I would seek out to listen to on a regular basis. Well to be fair, depending on what kind of emotional state I was in, this would probably be the only song I listened to on a loop.
@pop3blow2 (10) has this as one of his favourite discoveries here, I believe (more French classics in your future, I am hoping? :-) ) - This is very pretty. I don’t know much about Dalida, but am seeing her discog is pretty diverse. I’d probably prefer more like this. @Maki (9.65) isn’t quite up to a 10 yet, though I suspect this might change sooner rather than later - Really dark, sad and devastating song, beautifully sung. Melancholy is something that very often appeals to me, and this song has the perfect amount of it. It isn't a 10, simply because there are slightly better songs in the rate. I later found out that this is a cover, but that doesn't make it less special. I'm afraid it will get underrated, due to it being a very slow ballad, so hopefully the voters saw the beauty in it.
The delivery, WOW!
The text, translated in English
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