30-Minute Music Hour
Les Breastfeeders
Montreal's most ferocious garage band rocks the Badger State while proving Americans haven't cornered the market on guitar distortion. The lyrics are all in French, but you hardly have to understand the lyrics of Les Breastfeeders' songs to appreciate the band's colossal grip on rock's fury. The band's colorful, irreverent videos are among the most popular in Canada.
TRANSCRIPT
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- It's Les Breastfeeders, from Montreal, Canada
on the 30 Minute Music Hour.
I'm Andy Moore.
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(singing in French )
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(singing in French )
- The vocal is gone.
We don't have any vocals.
There's no vocals in the monitors.
Just put it back, please.
(laughs )
Okay.
- No, we have a show tonight. We have to keep our voices.
We're going to use every voice we have, our vocal cords,
if we don't have voice over.
- We have the talk back. The talk back.
Hey, okay! That's fine!
(speaking in French )
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- [Andy]: Holy crap! - Whoa, ho, ho!
- Holy crap.
- So I hope, maybe on the first song,
I hope the people understand some lyrics.
- The monitors weren't up. - It happens sometimes.
- Then it kicked in for you. And then okay.
- We're fine now. - Good.
That last song, "Pas Sans Saveur."
- Pas Sans Saveur. - Which means?
- Not without taste.
- From the record, Les Matins de Grand Soir.
- Les Matins de Grand Soir.
- Nate, get a big ol' picture of that, right next to Luc.
Look at that. Oh, it's like a calendar shot, right there.
Luc, who did you grow up listening to?
- Oh, a lot of bands and a lot of singers.
I grew up with the Beatles, the Beach Boys.
Then after that, I discovered all the mod, The Who,
The Kinks, Yardbirds.
After that, all the French garage bands,
(lists French bands )
All bands that you don't know here.
- But who's the greatest of the Canadian garage bands?
- Oh, in the '80s... - Les Breastfeeders?
- In the '80s, it was The Gruesomes.
But in the '60s, maybe The Sinners or (speaking French).
- Also from Montreal? - Yeah.
- Your home, Montreal. Is everyone from Montreal?
I know Pat. Everybody's in Montreal, now?
- Yeah. - Born there.
- Really? - Born here in Montreal!
- Who did you listen to? The same folks?
- No, I used to listen to heavy metal.
(laughs )
- That's all the time we have for the interview.
(all laugh )
It's a sensational record.
Everybody is going to want to hear more music,
so I'll get out of here.
Vamos, is that French? No, I'll leave.
- No, it's Spanish. - Thank you Johny.
And the next song is? - It's "En Dansant Le Yah!"
It's très intellectuel.
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♪ EN DANSANT LE YAH! ♪
♪ YAH! YAH! ♪
♪ EN DANSANT LE YAH! ♪
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(singing in French )
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(Andy attempting to say French song title )
- "Mini Jupe Et Watusi," our title of that song.
It's called Mini-skirts and Watusi.
(laughter )
- Tell us... - It's a folk song.
- Yeah, a real metal folk song.
Tell us who's in the band.
- The beautiful Suzie, Mademoiselle Suzie McLeLove.
Monsieur Joe, the bass player.
Patrick at drums. Pat Sayers.
He speak good English. Very good.
- But I'm a horrible drummer, right? (all laugh )
- He's good on the drums, too.
Johny Maldoror, L'animal.
- L'animal.
- And Sunny Duval, guitar solo.
That's it.
- The world's greatest tambourine player in Les Breastfeeders.
- Maybe the only one? << No.
- There's two of them.
- Two? - Two animals.
- You played in Chicago this week.
- Two days ago, yes.
- And you've played in Chicago before.
- Yeah, it was a good time.
- The reason why I'm interested in that is
because it's a big American city, a big art scene.
And I'm wondering,
how is Montreal different or the same as, the scene,
as an American city like Chicago.
- What was the question?
- What's the scene in Montreal compared to Chicago?
- There's a huge art scene in Montreal,
arts and craft, music.
- Lots of bands, singers, movie makers.
- Pretty much like Chicago.
A big difference is we have two languages.
- That's true, right.
And so, where we have...
one.
- Yeah, that's it.
- Couple of other languages... Spanish...
- Creole.
- Creole, right? On Bastille weekend.
All right, a couple more, then we'll call it a show.
All right.
- The next song... - Time to go get us some beer.
- Yeah.
(speaking in French )
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- Last song.
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Maestro, s'il vous plaît.
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♪ TU ME DIS QUE TU VOUDRAIS ♪
♪ DU JAMAIS VU TU ME DIS ♪
♪ QUE TU N'AIMES PAS LES M'AS-TU-VU ♪
♪ TU ME DIS QUE TU BAISERAIS ♪
♪ COMME DANS LES VUES JE TE DIS ♪
♪ TU PEUX BIEN TE CHERCHER YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ TU ES L'IDOLE QUE TU TE CHERCHES ♪
♪ YEAH, YEAH! HÉ, ECOUTE-MOI ♪
♪ J'TE FAIS DU CINÉMA ♪
♪ TU ME DIS ♪
♪ QUE TU N'ES PAS MON HOLLYWOOD ♪
♪ TU ME DIS QUE J'SUIS AVEUGLE ET QU'TU ES SOURDE ♪
♪ TU ME DIS TANDIS QUE CHANTE NATALIE WOOD ♪
♪ JE TE DIS ♪
♪ TU PEUX BIEN TE CHERCHER YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ TU ES L'IDOLE QUE TU TE CHERCHES YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ HÉ, ECOUTE-MOI J'TE FAIS DU CINÉMA YEAH, YEAH ♪
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♪ TU PEUX BIEN TE CHERCHER YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ TU ES L'IDOLE QUE TU TE CHERCHES YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ HÉ, ECOUTE-MOI J'TE FAIS DU CINÉMA ♪
♪ TU ME DIS DE TE TENIR SOUS LA LUMIÈRE ♪
♪ TU ME DIS QU'Y'AURA LA LUNE AU DENIER VERRE ♪
♪ TU ME DIS QU'CE S'RA UN VRAI SOIR DE PREMIÈRE ♪
♪ JE TE DIS TU PEUX BIEN TE CHERCHER YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ TU ES L'IDOLE QUE TU TE CHERCHES YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ HÉ, ECOUTE-MOI J'TE FAIS DU CINÉMA ♪
♪ TU PEUX BIEN TE CHERCHER YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ TU ES L'IDOLE QUE TU TE CHERCHES YEAH, YEAH! ♪
♪ HÉ, ECOUTE-MOI J'TE FAIS DU CINÉMA ♪
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