How I Discovered the Silmarils

For those who know me well, finding out that I like French Rapcore isn't going to be that big of a shock. I mean I tend to like all sorts of strange music and most of the bands I like are dead or were huge before I was born. I haven't outgrown alternative rock or punk, and I have a secret love affair with pop (Justin Timberlake), rap (Flo Rida), and on the rare occasion, country (Kane).

What it all boils down to is that my taste in music is TERRIBLE, and I'm perfectly okay with it.

So with that being said, lets start at the beginning. Being that I have terrible taste in music, and an unnatural interest in actors, I watched a little French zombie film called The Horde the other day on Netflix, and it rocked my socks off. I'd attach a link but Rotten Tomatoes didn't like it as much as I did (which should tell you something about my taste in movies too).  As I'm prone to do, I checked out all the actors on IMDB, particularly Jean-Pierre Martins, aka my new second husband, and low and behold he had a band.

And that, kids, is how I discovered the Silmarils, France's version of the Beastie Boys. Huge in the mid-90s-2007. Toured with AC/DC & Sugar Ray. The band name appears to be a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien. It's like it was meant to be.

In my experience actors who have bands are 99.9% terrible, but apparently the band has been around since the early 80s and it turned out to be pretty good. For the record, I have no idea what they are saying, occasionally I catch an English word or a French swear word and that's about it.


Here are a couple of my favorites. Enjoy!

Guerilla

Va y Avoir du Sport (the video for this is totally ridiculous)