(SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG FRENCH-POP EPISODE!) First up, France's incredible-yet-under-heard Holden did "Sur le pavé" from their most recent album Chevrotine (Amazon Import). Next, from Paris, Domotic did "Tonsil" from his 2005 debut album Ask for Tiger (iTunes, Amazon). Then a staple-of-French-pop Francoise Hardy did "Il Est Tout Pour Moi" ("He's All for Me") from her 1965 album The "Yeh-Yeh" Girl from Paris (Amazon) but the track can also be found on the 2-disc set Selection (Amazon). Then quintessential French band of our time Air, did "Jeanne" featuring the vocals of Francoise Hardy from a 1999 collection of French classics covered by great bands such as Luna, The Magnetic Fields, Apples in Stereo, and so on, called Pop Romantique: French Pop Classics (Amazon). Next the off-spring of French musical icons Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin best known by me as the chick Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, Charlotte Gainsbourg, has a brand new album that just came out. On it, she sings and the music is performed by Air. If that sounds like a recipe for success, there's a reason: the album is top-shelf French pop goodness. We heard the single "The Songs That We Sing" from the new album 5:55 (iTunes, Amazon). Next we heard from the classic "Douce France" from Charles Trenet, available on among other things, his Greatest Hits (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon) album. Then the Parisian Stereo Total, aka the Prototypes did "06 60 92 92" from their 2006 self-titled debut (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon). Next french model-turned-singer-turned-actor-turned-Johnny-Depp's-wife Vanessa Paradis did her/Lenny Kravitz's song "Be My Baby" from her 1992 self-titled album (Amazon Import, Amazon Used). Next was another classic track, this one from Francoise Hardy's husband Jacques Dutronc, it was "Et moi, et moi, et moi" which can be found on the collection En Vogue: Le Best of Jacques Dutronc (Amazon) or in iTunes on this soundrack. Then one last 60's French classic, it was singer and actress Chantal Goya with "Il Court Les Filles" which I pulled from the wonderful Canadian collection Ultra Chicks: Filles in the Garage (Vol I) (more) but seems to be unavailable now. You can get it from Amazon on the album Si Tu Gagnes au Flipper. And finally we finish up with a song by the criminally underplayed Holden, "Aujourd'hui Même" from their 2002 record Pedrolira (Amazon).This episode featured clips involving one of my favorite people in the world Bill Moyers (subscribe). First a clip from his interview on Real Time with Bill Maher (podcast), next a clip of his interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air (subscribe), and finally a clip from him interviewing Tim Russert on his documentary Buying the Way (watch it online) wherein he hands Timmy his hat.