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Title: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Cyberus on April 08, 2005, 10:39:47 PM
At roundabout 15:00 local time on 28/3/05 I was driving, listening to the radio in France, at 585 AM, I was kinda near Orleans as I recall...
There was a woman singing acapella, it was beautiful. I couldn't make out the name after the song, I think they might have said 'Camille', but it could be anything...

Any ideas on how to track down the artist? If I could find out the radio station, it would probably help loads...

Thanks in advance...
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Cyberus on April 08, 2005, 10:54:42 PM
I found it!
She is called Camille, and I even found the track, thanks Amazon for your ram files! :-D
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: T_Bone on April 08, 2005, 11:20:34 PM
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Cyberus wrote:
At roundabout 15:00 local time on 28/3/05 I was driving, listening to the radio in France, at 585 AM, I was kinda near Orleans as I recall...
There was a woman singing acapella, it was beautiful. I couldn't make out the name after the song, I think they might have said 'Camille', but it could be anything...

Any ideas on how to track down the artist? If I could find out the radio station, it would probably help loads...

Thanks in advance...


AM radio here sucks. The only time anyone would be driving around with "585 AM" displayed on their radio is if their clock was broken.
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Doobrey on April 09, 2005, 03:12:08 PM
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T_Bone wrote:
 The only time anyone would be driving around with "585 AM" displayed on their radio is if their clock was broken.


What if the clock was set to Metric time ? :-D
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Cyberus on April 09, 2005, 07:50:47 PM
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T_Bone wrote:
AM radio here sucks. The only time anyone would be driving around with "585 AM" displayed on their radio is if their clock was broken.


:lol:
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: cecilia on April 10, 2005, 01:57:15 AM
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Cyberus wrote:
I found it!
She is called Camille, and I even found the track, thanks Amazon for your ram files! :-D
how dare you get us all excited and THEN not even give us a link!!!!

you meanie! :pissed:  :admonish:

as for Am radio: terrestial radio is dead. get Sirius!
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Dan on April 10, 2005, 09:39:43 AM
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cecilia wrote:
as for Am radio: terrestial radio is dead. get Sirius!

What about DAB and DRM, or is it yet another case of not following the standards of the rest of the world?
Satellite for radio seems a little overkill :-D
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Cyberus on April 10, 2005, 12:17:05 PM
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cecilia wrote:
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Cyberus wrote:
I found it!
She is called Camille, and I even found the track, thanks Amazon for your ram files! :-D
how dare you get us all excited and THEN not even give us a link!!!!

you meanie! :pissed:  :admonish:

Oh alright, HERE (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007DAYBA/qid=1113064351/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_0/171-6013916-8443415)
It was track 5 that I heard on the radio.

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as for Am radio: terrestial radio is dead. get Sirius!

Eh? Can I use that in my car?
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Dan on April 10, 2005, 01:36:14 PM
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Cyberus wrote:
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cecilia wrote:
as for Am radio: terrestial radio is dead. get Sirius!

Eh? Can I use that in my car?

Not in France or rest of Europe, its an american thing(maybe mexico and canada?)
Do they have DAB-radio in France yet?
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Doobrey on April 10, 2005, 10:42:06 PM
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cecilia wrote:
as for Am radio: terrestial radio is dead. get Sirius!


 Not ruddy likely. DAB radios are too expensive, and reception is pretty patchy.

 If you live in the UK, it`ll be cheaper to just by the latest  "Now Vol 666" select 6 songs and put it on auto-repeat, with the added bonus that you don`t get to hear any braindead DJs babbling on about bugger all.

I think it was PMC that said UK radio is like diahorrea without the exciting bits..
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: Vincent on April 10, 2005, 11:15:39 PM
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Doobrey wrote:
I think it was PMC that said UK radio is like diahorrea without the exciting bits..

:laughing:
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: cecilia on April 10, 2005, 11:22:47 PM
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Cyberus wrote:

Oh alright, HERE (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007DAYBA/qid=1113064351/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_0/171-6013916-8443415)
It was track 5 that I heard on the radio.
thanks! at least I've got some idea what the heck you were talking about. it sure is weird to hear stuff like that in French. I'm not sure why but it reminds of Deep Forest (which i like alot!)

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Eh? Can I use that in my car?
yes, it's american and you can get it in a car in america.
the reason why terriestial radio is dead is because it's being killed by corporations (like Clear Channel) who are in bed with the government. Not only do they only have crap on but they are such pussies that they are allowing themselves to be intimidated into letting the Gov censure them. Forget free Speech, it ain't Free no more!

There's loonies in congress who want to put braoadcasters in JAIL for TALKING. TALKING!!!! SAYING WORDS!!!! Imagine that!!

terrorists get treated better.
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: whabang on April 13, 2005, 02:33:14 PM
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There's loonies in congress who want to put braoadcasters in JAIL for TALKING. TALKING!!!! SAYING WORDS!!!! Imagine that!!

Eh? WTF is that aboot? :inquisitive:
Title: Re: Francophones, fans of obscure music, people who know stuff about AM radio...
Post by: cecilia on April 13, 2005, 05:06:16 PM
you aren't the only one scratching one's head.

firstly: there's various congressmen who are trying to get a bill passed that would fine Indiviual Broadcasters half a million dollars for things that the gove decides are bad to say. and, needless to say, the gov is never very exact about what these "bad" things are. it's arbitrary.

these are just a few links to get you started:

An Indecent Attack on the First Amendment (http://www.counterpunch.org/paul03182004.html)

TV stations scold FCC
Nets: Indecency crusade out of control (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117904363?categoryid=1237&cs=1&s=h&p=0)

Sam Brownback just keeps milking the media. (http://www.pitch.com/issues/2004-04-29/janovy.html)

Children's Activist Challenges the FCC (http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=25293)

PBS watches its mouth rather than pay big fines. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/12/DDGHK7JE0V1.DTL)

Indecency Provision To Make Post-Election Return? (http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=43346)

Senate votes 99-1 to increase FCC's indecency fines (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000543135)

Increased indecency fines pass Senate (http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2004-06-22-senate-indecency-fines_x.htm)

A threat to democracy (http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1274831,00.html)

Blog-mob mentality punishes freedom of speech (http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=14873)

Read the stories that TV news networks forget to report! (http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/iraq_lies.html)

NAB's Lombardo Cites 'Indecency Disconnect' In D.C. (http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=65651)