Nostalgie Paris

Nostalgie Paris trades in a very specific feeling: the French songs you half-remember from your parents' kitchen radio, plus the Anglo hits that somehow always played right after. Aznavour, Brel, Piaf, Gainsbourg, and a steady drip of 80s French pop from Téléphone and Étienne Daho. The playlist rarely surprises, and it isn't trying to. What it does instead is sequencing, and it's good at it: a slow chanson followed by a Stones track you forgot you liked, then Sardou. That's the trick. Evenings get softer and more sentimental, which suits the station's name better than the daytime block. There'…