Every week on the show Daily on TMC, the Franco-Swiss comedian Yann Marguet ends his column which mixes absurdity, pathos and a certain ferocity with a phrase that has become famous: “We can’t wait to die.” Sure, but while listening to music.
What was the first record you bought with your own money as a teenager?
Club Techno Dance 4. A kind of Largest Nightclub in the World cheap. What’s more, I discovered after purchase that all the titles were performed not by the official artists, but by the Gilles Pellegrini Orchestra and its singers. I was miserable.
Your favorite way to listen to music, MP3, car radio, CD player, vinyl, etc.?
I use Spotify to offer artists real recognition and respectful salary conditions.
The last disc you bought and in what format?
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthsur PlayStation 5.
Where do you prefer to listen to music?
Generally on foot journeys. My body needs to express itself a lot when I listen to music so I favor moments and places where people just pass me by and don’t have time to realize that a 39 year old man is really miming a guitar with his hands and humming thirds while listening to NOFX.
Do you listen to music while working?
Impossible. My brain has too short an attention span for me to force more information on it than it already receives by writing.
The song you’re ashamed to listen to with pleasure?
Slowly. She makes me feel like I’m flying.
The record that everyone loves and you hate?
Mozart’s Requiem. Real shit.
The disc you’ll need to survive on a desert island?
I admit that your use of the simple future tense in the wording of this question worries me a little. Do you have information that I don’t have? If, by chance, I were to have to survive on a desert island, that said, I think I would need it 36 Chambers you Wu-Tang Clan.
Is there a label or record company that you are particularly attached to and why?
I had that, back when I was digging a lot more than I do now, when I needed Rawkus, Def Jam, Death Row, Ninja Tune. Or Epitaph, for rock. Now, I don’t really care. I even find it a bit snobbish to “discuss labels”. So no.
Which record cover do you want to frame at home as a work of art?
Club Techno Dance 4. And if not available in store, then the coverAnimals by Pink Floyd. This photo has always had a great effect on me. The factory is both sinister and sumptuous, the light is unreal, there is Hopper, Böcklin, Orwell, Stephen King… It gives me chills.
A record you would like to hear at your funeral?
Jacques Brel, the Last Supper. Sure, some of the lyrics are no longer really in tune with modern society, but it depicts our inevitable path towards death so well. The arrangement is perfect and makes the text palpable. The meal, the joy, the worry, the memory, the fear. And the hill.
Do you know what drone metal is?
Of course not.
Do you prefer records or live music?
I lost my appetite for concerts as I got older. Ultimately, on the dose of live performances that I stuck to, I must have seen less than ten truly remarkable performances. I got tired. I remember those Manu Dibango concerts where the guys came back on stage seven times while I prayed for it to stop. Today, I feel better vibrating alone in my little world at my own rhythm rather than that of the shouts of the crowd.
Your best concert memory?
This is totally random because I don’t particularly like the artist in question, but I think it was Michael Franti & Spearhead in 2010 on Governors Island, in New York. It was the end of a six-month student stay and it had everything. The climate, the Manhattan skyline, the sunset, the carefree nature, these ephemeral friends that we loved more than anything and to whom we will say goodbye in the days that follow. More than a concert memory, it is one of the most beautiful memories of my life.
Do you go to clubs to dance, flirt, listen to music on a good sound system or do you never go to clubs?
It happens to me, but I smoke cigarettes outside and make jokes more than I dance.
Who is the band you hate seeing on stage, but whose records you love and vice versa?
Alt-J is one of the groups that reinforced my idea that an album is often better than a live performance. Conversely, I remember being totally captivated by a guy on stage called Jack Garratt – one of those guys who makes loops on his own – and that subsequent listening to his album didn’t change my mind. life.
Your favorite musical film or your favorite film score?
La La Land. Without any hesitation. It might even be my favorite movie, but I have to think, I can’t just throw that out there. I don’t know if it counts, but I’m also really into musicals and the stage version of Billy Elliot is an integral part of my life.
What is the record that you share with the person who accompanies you in life?
A lot, but recently I introduced him to The Decline by NOFX, a punk symphony of 18 minutes and 21 seconds with movements and a lot of variations. There is notably a live version filmed and recorded with an orchestra (but not that of Gilles Pellegrini) and we found ourselves collapsed, in tears, at the end of the video, as the whole thing was so symbiotic, sincere and harmonious.
The song that makes you mad with rage?
It really depends on the type of rage. If it’s “mad with rage” because it sucks, then I’d say that some of the current rappers whose only message is to mumble about the virtues of Xanax and Percocet make me a little desperate. If it’s to get “mad with rage” on purpose, then I’d say more X Gon’ Give It To Ya, of DMX.
The last record you listened to on repeat?
To my great surprise, during the very personal and not at all algorithmic “Spotify recap” of the past year, I discovered that the “record” that I had polished the most in 2023 was the soundtrack of a fabulous video game called Disco Elysium.
The group you would have liked to be part of?
Saïan Supa Crew. I was a teenager, but I don’t think any music group in my life made me want to be friends with them as much. I shook Sly Johnson’s hand a little while ago. A simple gesture for him, a little celebration for my heart.
The song or piece of music that always makes you cry?
There are three, if you’re allowed, and it’s always linked to love or the passing of time. Tell me, when will you come back ? from Barbara, Hello lovers by Joe Dassin and old of Brel.
