CAN'T STOP THE ROCK

[poikilia]

So, J, what's been making you absurdly over-excited this evening?

Well, J, I'm glad you asked. This evening I have been getting absurdly over-excited about La Révolution Française, a French rock opera by the people who brought you Les Miserables. HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE. I mean, dear God, it has *singing Robespierre* in FLARES. Could this be any more perfect? As so often, it's entirely bluwacky's fault, both for knowing this existed at all and finding a copy. All complaints are to be directed at him. ahaha.

Here. Have a sample track. It's the convening of the Estates General. Wherein the Nobles sound a bit like 'The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society' and the Third Estate BRINGS THE ROCK. This is quite possibly the most epic thing I have ever heard. (Lyrics here.)

I AM ENTIRELY PREPARED TO SHARE DANTON ROCKING OUT TO 'LA PATRIE EST EN DANGER' IF GIVEN THE SLIGHTEST ENCOURAGEMENT.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I heard a song from this years ago on a documentary about Les Mis. It was a gentle one sung by the royal children; I think it's been exhumed a couple of times on the radio since, probably because it's all the BBC have...

...but, now having listened, the nobility have gone all Ray Davies in this (well, Ray Davies as sung by Rupert Everett or Hugh Laurie in Prince Regent drag...), and the third estate are very rock in an early 70s way... I am tempted to ask for more.

ETA again: No, surely that's not Robespierre, but the lead in a mildly eighteenth-century themed Godspell?

[seaskystone.livejournal.com]

I refuse to listen to that track on the grounds that the last time I followed you into musicals-in-foreign-languages-town it ATE MY BRAIN. :D