Beef up your 'mixtapes' with this growing collection of overlooked songs, old and new. One track, up to three times a week. Don’t forget to join in on the conversation, too. And you can always keep up via the Playlist Repair main and Playlist Repair ambient playlists on Spotify.
‘Dans leurs yeux des dollars/Dans leurs sourires des diamants/Moi aussi, un jour/Je serai beau comme un dieu’
We’re headed back to 1998 for a track from Air’s très cool full-length Moon Safari. There’s such a playfulness here from the French duo, which gave up pursuits in architecture and math to mess around with synths and riff retro off the likes of Kraftwerk and Brian Eno. I can’t help but laugh a little each time I hear this song. One day in the mid-nineties, a friend and colleague from Toronto was walking a certain section of Richards Street in downtown Vancouver when a guy driving by opened a window to wave a wad of bills and shout “Hey sexy boy! Sexy boy! Three hundred bucks!’ Mark is safely back in Toronto now.
I am laughing now listening to this. The memory is coming back in waves. Maybe they just wanted to go have coffee? On second thought, 300 bucks was a lot of money back then. Hahahahahahahahahaha