Nostalgie 500 Tubes

The title says it all: 500 songs, the ones France never quite got over. Nostalgie 500 Tubes runs them on rotation, and the range is wider than you'd expect. One minute it's France Gall chirping through the '60s, the next it's Téléphone and the guitar roar of late-'70s French rock, then Jean-Jacques Goldman doing that thing he does. Nothing here is obscure. That's the point. This is a jukebox, not a museum: Michel Sardou, Daniel Balavoine, Mylène Farmer, plus the Anglo hits that crossed the Channel and stuck. You'll know the first four bars of nearly everything. Some will find it predictable. F…