The Bide et Musique website is one of the best station sites around. The playlists all have scans of the recording artwork (usually 7" records) and info about each song. French speakers, you will enjoy their forums, association info, quizzes and encyclopedic database. The user comments about the dreck are hiliarious! If you are in France, you will enjoy their periodic parties!
Bide&Musique, radio of the improbable gives you:
» priceless, forgotten or new bides*
» musical programming almost entirely containing discs vinyls, centered on the forgotten French variety tunes and French-speaking person of the Seventies and Eighties;
» themed programming (generic TV, eighties, italo-dance, pop, etc);
» programs devoted to the new productions of the artists of the database of B&M
» interactive communities, request shows with listener favorites, requests;
» regular evening events;
Bide&Musique, the living encyclopaedia
» An incomparable discography database, true gold mine of the French-speaking variety tune;
» interactive resources on the artists and the titles of the base;
» forums to divide, question, answer and discuss;
» many functions for fishing out info on the artists and songs, the subjects tackled in forums or the users and DJs;
» "Pochettoscope" to view images of the discs which we share;
» Quizzes to perfect bidesque culture and to have fun while learning;
» A diary to keep up to date with upcoming interesting events and shows.
*What is a bide?
Bide is piece of variety music (often sung, sometimes instrumental, sometimes one wonders) for which one has tenderness particular, to which one wishes to give an importance that it necessarily did not have in the history of the music and, of course, that one have pleasure to hear... and hear again... and...
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In french "bide" qualifies something that didn't work at all : no success at all, for a joke, a song, a product, etc, especially when you've big expectations/pretentions. It's familiar and pejorative, the word is used to make fun of the author. I guess here they make fun of themselves, say what it's about, and also, as you said, share their tenderness for these songs.
ReplyDeleteIn french "bide" qualifies something that didn't work at all : no success at all, for a joke, a song, a product, etc, especially when you've big expectations/pretentions. It's familiar and pejorative, the word is used to make fun of the author. I guess here they make fun of themselves, say what it's about, and also, as you said, share their tenderness for these songs.
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