@samkfj
Ahah yeah Plastic Bertrand is awesome! I don,t know him a LOT but I really like his kind of out there, carefree style.
I listened to a few Ludwig Von 88 songs but I can't say I'm much of a fan, unfortunately. I find it a bit goofy and musically uninteresting, there's not much relief. From my experience (and this is not an absolute rule), french (as in overseas, european french) artists are very good with words but are less so at interpretation. I don't know, the energy just isn't there as much, it just doesn't click for me.
So since I'm a pirate, here's a band from where I'm from that you might like, I don't know if you've ever heard of it:
(it's actually a song originally from Soldat Louis, a breton band, but the original is less punk)
But yeah I'm kind of all over the place musically, I like stuff that's varied and has relief. And I really like brass sections. Love Cat Empire, for instance, also am a huge early jazz/swing fan (Louis Armstrong, Sydney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, Dukes of Dixieland or more modern swing like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Brian Setzer or Bryan Ferry). In a more rock register, aside from Streetlight I've mentionned already, that's more the kinda stuff I dig:
Unfortunately my wife can't stand that stuff, she's more traditional than I am
