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The first year I was in Paris, my friends and I listened a lot to Oui FM, mostly because they seemed to play the most American music of all of the French radio stations.

When Kurt Cobain killed himself, Oui FM played a 24-hour-solid Nirvana mourning tribute and dozens of distraught young French people called in to compare Cobain to Rimbaud. We laughed, but we also loved the way the French youngsters were unashamed to be pretentious.

I remember that in the later part of the night on Oui FM they had a really bizarre radio show co-hosted by a British woman who spoke French and a French guy speaking English, pretending to be American, parodying a brash American DJ style. All shouting and laughter that was too loud. They took calls from teenagers who wanted to talk about their romantic problems or school problems. It was one of the weirder radio shows I've ever listened to.">

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♪ These are the Songs of my Life

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rock , growing up , paris , rock and roll , learning , nirvana , radio , noir desir , weird djs , learning about the french , culture shock lite , assimilating