Analog Impressions

I have been tagged by my good friend Loris as part of a fun musical chain called Radiobloggers 2012. The idea is to post a music video of a song that reminds us of summer. This is the original post that started the chain (in French).

I have picked up Pink Floyd’s Hey You. When I was 8 years old, my parents purchased an old derelict farm in the French countryside as a holiday home. In the early years, there was no room inside the house for the children, so we spent our summer months sleeping under tents in the adjacent field. This was 1981, and my brothers were heavily into Pink Floyd’s The Wall. I loved it too, probably simply because I kept hearing it so often.

We all three of us spoke a limited amount of English (we’d been exposed to it as kids but hadn’t had a chance to use it in ages) so we didn’t really understand what the album was about. Until the summer of 1982 when some hippy-ish English friends of my parents came over for a few weeks. They had four kids, ranging from below to above us in age, and of course they pitched their tents next to ours. 

On one of those evenings, I remember we had started a campfire and the eldest of the English family extracted a primitive boombox from the car. He asked what tapes we had and The Wall naturally came on. I clearly remember listening to Hey You with this 16 year old kid explaining ‘The Wall’ to us: the father lost at war, the school-bullying, the alienation, all the dark creepy story. Made quite an impression on me so I think Hey You is probably as close to a song that makes me think of summer…

And since I need to move this chain along, I want to name Thierry Michel, Thomas Paris and Emmanual Gharbi.