For older fans Palais Des Congres 79 will put a massive smile accross your face. It’s a brave and brilliant refocusing of Michel Sardou energies, virtually a rebirth. Nowhere is this more so than on their re-working of Michel Sardou on ‘Jai 2000 ans’. Cool, but I like their other actual stuff better like Palais Des Congres 79.
Jy crois is a amazing sing-along. This track is possibly the biggest guilty pleasure on Palais Des Congres 79. Comme habitude (4:37) - awsome. A des annees dici is a great song to contemplate the modern music and what it really is all about. Les vieux maribs is such a cool and optimistic song that things can get just better. Aujourdhui peut-etre is pretty funky and mellow. 6 milliards, 900 millions, 980 mille is a fine track on any terms. La maladie damour is just a great song and one well worth taking the time to give it a good listen. Although I prefer the faster paced music, I think Mon fils is my favorite song on Palais Des Congres 79. In La marche en avant it becomes nowhere more obvious that Michel Sardou has yet to define own style. Other tracks are good but your best bet is to stick with Je vais taimer. I love the melodic melody of Je vole and to this day it makes me feel good. Les villes de solitude is nothing but pure genius. I can’t stop playing e vous ai bien eus. Rien is a bit of a show-tune. This is the kind of song I think of when I think of Michel Sardou. Michel Sardou sings his heart out in Un roi barbare. Le prix dun homme is a strong cut, one of many. This song is dynamic and dramatic. Dix ans plus tot very upbeat. En chantant hits the heart. La java de Broadway is the first taste of the new album. Palais Des Congres 79 couldn’t start better than with the up up-beat title track Dans la meme annee. I can’t stop humming along Deborah. In Je ne suis pas mort, je dors full palet of sound is used by Michel Sardou to accentuate the presentation. I believe Mefions-nous des fourmis is one of the most gorgeous, heartfelt songs ever written. This song has very few things relative to that of it’s predecessor. This track is just fantastic from start to finish. Carcassonne can be hardly overrated by any means; this is what Michel Sardou is all about. X-ray has a fun tempo. Ils ont le petrole, mais cest tout is one of the coolest songs Michel Sardou has ever recorded. Quand je serai vieux as well as many of songs is a short story in miniature. This track, in particular, has the kind of undeniably catchy flavor. La main aux fesses presents the marvelous mix of instruments on Palais Des Congres 79. Its not too late to start again (Les vieux maries) is new, fresh, and hypnotizing. Last flight (Je vole) is one of these floating songs.
Palais Des Congres 79 CD


