1001 Other Albums<p><strong>SpaceAce Sunday | Jacques Dutronc – Jacques Dutronc (1966, France)</strong></p><p>The next album our dearly missed friend submitted to the project is number 1047 on <a href="https://1001otheralbums.com/the-list/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The List</a>.</p><p>As mentioned in our spotlight last week on Mission of Burma, I recently started a new listening project of going through entire discographies (well, studio albums) of artists, particularly those other Mastodonians have recommended. After Mission of Burma I went through Roxy Music’s discography, and then, as I was craving a different vibe from either of those two bands and wanted to listen to someone I wasn’t familiar with at all, I decided to start in on Françoise Hardy’s studio albums. All 32 of them. Wowzers. After listening to about 10 albums (and falling in love with Hardy), I started reading the Wikipedia entries on Hardy and each album, and realized that she had been married to Jacques Dutronc, whose self-titled 1966 album just happened to be our next SpaceAce pick. Funny how things go.</p><p>So, Jacques Dutronc, husband of Françoise Hardy. I would so have loved if SpaceAce had written this spotlight, I’d have loved to hear what he had to say about this dynamic duo. Like, the two met the year after this album, Dutronc’s first of many, came out, and Hardy was already 8 or 9 albums in. Can you imagine the amount of music flowing through that house?</p><p>Anyway, we’ll revisit Hardy in another spotlight as we have her <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/153061-Fran%C3%A7oise-Hardy-Fran%C3%A7oise-Hardy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">self-titled 1971 album</a> on The List. For now, I hope you’ll give this album a spin because it is fucking fantastic. Like Hardy, Dutronc was an important figure in the yé-yé movement, with this album being in the beat/garage rock genres (I think?), with maybe a touch of mod (think Bob Dylan meets the Beatles, but, you know, in French), plus whatever wonderful nonsense is going on in the second-last track “La compapade”. So nice, I listened to it twice.</p><p>Thanks, dear SpaceAce, for leading us towards such a great rabbit hole. I may even figure out what exactly yé-yé is soon.</p><ul><li><a href="https://album.link/ca/i/270985013" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Songlink: Jacques Dutronc – </a><em><a href="https://album.link/ca/i/270985013" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Jacques Dutronc</a> </em><ul><li><em>Note on the album title</em>: Similar to Hardy’s albums, the majority of Dutronc’s albums were released being self-titled, and then came to be known under the title of one of the singles or most popular songs on the album. This one might be titled <em>Et moi, et moi, et moi</em> (as the Songlink has it), <em>Les play boys</em>, or <em>Les Cactus</em>, depending on where you get your albums from.</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/87807-Jacques-Dutronc-Jacques-Dutronc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Discogs: Jacques Dutronc – <em>Jacques Dutronc</em></a></li></ul><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/1001otheralbums/" target="_blank">#1001OtherAlbums</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/1960s/" target="_blank">#1960s</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/francoise-hardy/" target="_blank">#FrançoiseHardy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/france/" target="_blank">#France</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/french-rock/" target="_blank">#FrenchRock</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/garage-rock/" target="_blank">#garageRock</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/jacques-dutronc/" target="_blank">#JacquesDutronc</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/listen-to-this/" target="_blank">#ListenToThis</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/music/" target="_blank">#music</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/music-discovery/" target="_blank">#musicDiscovery</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/musodon-2/" target="_blank">#Musodon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/spaceace-sunday/" target="_blank">#SpaceAceSunday</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/yeye/" target="_blank">#YéYé</a></p>