From 1963, please enjoy the airplane scene from director Marcel Ophuls' charming New Wave comedy Banana Peel, featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of the absolute icons of 60s cool.
And the great Jeanne Moreau. Also pretty cool.
In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
French, Kissing
ReplyDeleteSongs with French in them.
Planes
Flying
Vaction?
Nope.
ReplyDelete:-)
People reading the newspapers or seeking out the news?
ReplyDeletePeople making out or having sex on airplanes?
ReplyDeleteFinally, a long-overdue tribute to Lowell Levinger!
ReplyDeleteDoes it have to do with banana peel? Perhaps songs whose lyrics have been assumed to refer to illcit actions. E.g. Donovan's Mellow Yellow?
ReplyDeletePeter said...
ReplyDeleteFinally, a long-overdue tribute to Lowell Levinger!
I love him. That adorable electric piano jazz instrumental on...is it the third Younbloods album?
Anyway, great guitar player, great pianist, funny stage presence.
I think he's still active; doing bluegrass, if memory serves.
Simels, your hints are thick and mixed as gruel.
ReplyDeleteBest post Beatles rock song with French lyrics or a French singer.
Trey
Nope!!!
ReplyDeletechapeaus in love?
ReplyDeleteNope.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I think a hint is in order.
It has something to do with the director.
Well, the director is named Marcel and went from making a comedy like Banana Peel to stuff like The Sorrow and the Pity and other movies about Nazis.
ReplyDeleteSo... let's say best group who became (more) famous or better after changing their musical genre.
Which would almost be as interesting as a Listomania about musicians who changed their gendre
ReplyDeleteApart from Wendy Carlos (formerly Walter) and a guitarist named April Lawton (who rumor always had it had been a guy) there aren't that many that I can think of.
ReplyDeleteDavid Palmer, Jethro Tull's keyboard player in the late '70s, became Dee Palmer, surgery and all.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the clue goes, musicians who were more famous in a country other than the one they were born in? (Yeah, I got nothin')
Yeah, there are other musicians who are transgender, but it would make for slim pickings in a Listomania.
ReplyDeleteSee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_musicians
something to do with umlauts...
ReplyDeleteMusicians who are the offspring of musicians.
Songs by the Banana Splits (who I once saw "live")?
ReplyDeleteSongs about sorrow and pity?
ReplyDeleteCould it be you're going to refer to The Modern Lover's song I'm A Little Airplane, which many people think is awful, an adjective rhyming with Banana Peel's director's last name? - AP
ReplyDeleteAwful songs?
ReplyDeleteMarcel is the first name of a famous mime. So...
ReplyDeleteMusicians who would have been better off becoming mimes. What a long list that would be!
New Wave songs?
ReplyDeletedave™© said...
ReplyDeleteSongs about sorrow and pity?
DING DING DING!!!
We have a winner folks!
And as always, your coveted PowerPop No-Prize is wending its way to you by stoat caravan as we speak!!!
Woo hoo!
ReplyDeleteAnd you do know you've got a No-Prize of your own: mention in Salon's "10 Worst Reviewed Films of All Time"?
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/05/27/worst_reviewed_movies_slide_show/07.jpg
So you ARE going to include Bowie's version of "Sorrow," right???
ReplyDeleteStupid Salon... look for "Glitter":
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