Parlez-vous français?

To answer my own question, no, I do not speak French, but I love listening to French music. I have used music by the French artist Yelle in past workouts and this week a spin class regular (Megan) posted a great remix of one Yelle's songs, "Que veux-tu", on Facebook. What better time to listen to it than the final week of Le Tour de France! Originally I wanted every song on the new playlist to be by a French artist, but that didn't quite work out. I did keep it more electronic so it still has somewhat of a European feel.

As an added bonus today, I threw in my favorite cycling parody videos. I downloaded the songs from iTunes, but decided not to use them in the workout. You really need to have watched the video first to appreciate the lyrics (I especially love when he smokes a cigarette, chomps on a baguette and chugs a bottle of red wine on his bike in "Le Velo"). It also helps if your're somewhat familiar with road cycling or maybe you know some cyclists. Anyway, let's get on with it.

"Le Velo"- MC Spandx

"Performance" - MC Spandx

Playlist #9- Sample and purchase songs on my iTunes Ping Playlist. 

*Not all songs were available on SoundCloud so I linked those to YouTube instead. 

*Octopus - Bloc Party

*Jai Ho - Bond







*Queen of a Sad Land - A Silent Film



*Keep it for Your Own - POP ETC






The cool down song, "Le Tour de France" by Haik Naltchayan, came from the documentary film Chasing Legends. Official movie trailer below:

VIVE LE TOUR! 

A shout out to my beloved, Ryan Finnegan :)

Enjoy!!

Trouble in Playlist Paradise...

Hey friends. Today is a sad day. The iMac (computer containing my entire iTunes library) is down. For how long, I'm not sure. We'll be taking it in to get worked on soon...hoping for an easy fix! It will be difficult, if not impossible, to put together a new playlist until the iMac is up and running. I know I promised some of you something new for next week. I do have a small library of songs on my iPad and my iPod so I will see what I can do with that. - Linds