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	Leo Ferre Ballades & Mots D'amour Genres: International Music, Pop Collection of Ferre's Most Romantic Ballads and Love Songs.
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All Artists: Leo Ferre
Title: Ballades & Mots D'amour
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Msi
Release Date: 3/14/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: International Music, Pop
Styles: Europe, Continental Europe, Vocal Pop, Euro Pop, French Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 731454315326

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Album Details

Collection of Ferre's Most Romantic Ballads and Love Songs.

CD Reviews

Ferre, nihilistic poet of love

09/06/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"When Leo Ferre died in 1994, France lost one of its last great poet/songwriters after Gainsbourg a few years earlier. But Ferre was less known and was often associated in the public's mind to his anarchist political action. Songs were often nihilistic and in a way, misogynist. However, beneath the rough edges, Ferre hid a great sensitivity which often came out in outbursts of despair. Time passes by and love little by little disapears. As he sings in Vingt Ans : "when you're twenty/You've got your parents' experience/When you love, it's for life/ That life which lasts for a cry". Although Ferre is known as "Leo l'anarchiste" everyone in France knows three or four of his songs. These love songs will appeal to whoever knows that love is always tainted with pain."