Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name means "new wave" in French. This refers simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of '60s bossa nova-style arrangements.
Members, former members and contributors include many French artists who are now very well known on their own and considered[by whom?] as part of what is now called the "Renouveau de la chanson Française" (the "Renewal of French chanson"): Camille Dalmais, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain, Marina Céleste and Gerald Toto. Mareva Galanter joined the roster of vocalists in 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Vague_%28band%29
Winston Tong (born 1951 in San Francisco, California) is an actor/playwright, visual artist, puppeteer, and singer/songwriter. He is best known for his vocal work in Tuxedomoon, and for winning an Obie award in puppetry for "Bound Feet" in 1978.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Tong
In a Manner of Speaking
In a Manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing
In a manner of speaking
I don't understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that I feel about you
Is beyond words
Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Oh, oh, oh, oh, give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything
In a manner of speaking
Semantics won't do
In this life that we live we only make do
And the way that we feel
Might have to be sacrificed
So in a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That just like you I should find a way
To tell you everything
By saying nothing.
Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Oh, oh, oh, oh, give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything
Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Oh, oh, oh, oh, give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything
--song written by Winston Tong
Whatever happened to Freedom Fries...? They went the way of George Dumbya...
But lets keep politics out of this. Existentialism is another thing. Here it is--existentialist rock-n-roll? A bit of samba here too.
Words are cheap & hollow but sometimes that's all you get! They have meaning by their very meaninglessness. The Absurd is here to stay. Comic irony if you will.
Now go homer or the library & read your Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir.
