491. "1901" Phoenix

"1901"
Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2009

Serious question: why have we never had a great French rock and roll band? France has always been a center of art and culture, they love sex, they drink like the best of them ... I don't get it. Jiminy Christmas, even GERMANY has had more of an impact on rock music than France.
It's almost like the French heard the Beatles, shrugged, and went outside to have a cigarette for 40 years. Phoenix is the closest they've come since.
(Editor's note: That old group Air does not count, because whatever it is that they think they are doing is the opposite of rock music.)


This is a song for people who describe themselves as "continental" but don't know what that means.