Les Trois Accords is a rock/pop band from Drummondville, Quebec. The band launched its first album Gros Mammouth Album in 2003. Some of the notable songs, taken from that album, include "Hawaïenne", "Saskatchewan" and "Lucille". Along with their videos, these songs received heavy exposure in Quebec. In 2004, Gros Mammouth Album Turbo was released with two extra tracks, "Loin d'ici" and "Turbo sympathique". In 2006, they released their second album, entitled Grand Champion International de Course. Image File history File links LesTroisAccords1. ... Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal, on the Saint-François River. ... Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Official languages French Government - Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Duchesne - Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 75 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area  Ranked 2nd - Total 1,542,056 km² (595... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal, on the Saint-François River. ... Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Official languages French Government - Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Duchesne - Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 75 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area  Ranked 2nd - Total 1,542,056 km² (595... Gros Mammouth Album is the first album by Québécois rock/pop band Les Trois Accords released in 2003 and rereleased in 2004 as Gros Mammouth Album Turbo featuring two new tracks, Loin dici and Turbo sympathique. Gros Mammouth Chanson Lucille Hawaiienne Manon Laisse-Moi Saskatchewan Leusses... Grand Champion International de Course is the second album by Québécois rock/pop band Les Trois Accords released in 2006 featuring the single, Grand Champion. ...

The band's most prominent show to date was in September 2005, when they were an opening act for The Rolling Stones in Moncton, New Brunswick. The concert drew an estimated 85,000 spectators. “Rolling Stones” redirects here. ... Moncton (46°6′ N 64°46′ W) is the second largest city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and is at the heart of the fastest growing urban area in the province. ...

Originally formed in 1997 by Olivier Benoit and Simon Proulx, the band's current membership is:

• Olivier Benoit (composer, vocalist)
• Pierre-Luc Boisvert (bass; joined in 2001)
• Charles Dubreuil (drums and percussion; joined in 2001)
• Alexandre Parr (guitars, vocals; joined in 1999)
• Simon Proulx (vocalist, guitars)

Musical style of Les Trois Accords and Grand champion

The second album from Les Trois Accords was released September 5, 2006. This album did not break with the rock-pop style of Gros Mammouth and was more outragous in its lyrics. The music video for Grand Champion can be viewed at Bande à part. The second music video is "Tout nu sur la plage". The album rose to the top of the charts after its first week. September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Many of their newer songs can be classified as "surréaliste" because of the frequent presence of puns, wordplay, and unusual images. In concert, Les Trois Accords are known for doing burlesque covers of songs by Bryan Adams and Weezer. A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech, or word play which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ... Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. ... Photograph of Sally Rand, 1934. ... Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. ... Weezer are an American Grammy-nominated rock band from Los Angeles, California. ...

They also like to embellish their concerts with little pieces of humour. The sense of humour is also evident in their music videos where the images being shown have nothing do to with the song. We see, for example, in the music video for "Saskatchewan", the band members practising karate moves for the whole video. The same goes for the music video for "Turbo sympathique" where the group becomes firemen and puts out a barn fire.

Genre classification

Free from logic, rationality, and politics, the lyrics of Les Trois Accords are a throwback to the punk québécois genre of the nineties (like Banlieue Rouge, BARF, Les Krostons, Les Unknownes). This article needs to be wikified. ...

Les Trois Accords can be classified along the same lines as punk français bands like Bérurier Noir, Parabellum, Les Cadavres or Wampas (all well known in Québec), but with a more California-pop sound. We can compare them more to Ludwig von 88 because of their obnoxious interviews—most notably, their interviews for "Tout le monde en parle", "Bon baisers de France", and Musique Plus. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... French (français, spelled françois until 1835, both pronounced in standard French, but often heard pronounced ), or French language (langue française, formerly langue françoise, both pronounced ), is the third of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese. ... Bérurier noir is a French punk band formed in 1983 by Loran (guitar), François(vocals) and Dédé (drum machine). ... for the French rock group see Parabellum (band) The term parabellum comes from the Latin for prepare for war. The term is often heard in relation to ammunition – for example, nine millimeter parabellum. Parabellum ammunition is designed to be legal under international law; usually this means that rounds are full... Wampas are a fictional species of the Star Wars universe that resemble Yetis or a white version of a giant ground sloth, which is now extinct. ... Ludwig von 88 is a french punk rock and alternative rock band who was active in the 1980’s and the 1990’s and which gained an important success in the underground scene of its country. ... MusiquePlus is a Quebec French language, 24-hour cable television music video channel launched in 1986, owned by media conglomerate CHUM Limited. ...

Success in France?

This new album will allow the band to attempt to break into the difficult French music market that, up until now, did not seem to have a room for this wacky group of guys from Drummondville. It is true that punk français bands are traditionally much more politically outspoken. A famous example of this was when members of the French band, Bérurier Noir, condemned the actions of the Front national while performing at the Festival d'été in Québec City. We will find lots of political sarcasm in Les Trois Accords' lyrics, but they opt not to take a definitive political stance, which sets them apart from most other punk rock bands in Québec. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... French (français, spelled françois until 1835, both pronounced in standard French, but often heard pronounced ), or French language (langue française, formerly langue françoise, both pronounced ), is the third of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese. ... Bérurier noir is a French punk band formed in 1983 by Loran (guitar), François(vocals) and Dédé (drum machine). ... Front National can mean: Front National, a right-wing French political party. ... The Festival dété, or Summer Festival has been taking place annually since 1968. ...

Les Trois Accords' lyrics show off their Québécois and Canadian roots and they also use many colloquialisms, which poses a problem for their markability internationally. Regardless of their domestic allusions, Les Trois Accords offers the foreign listener an exotic sound comparable to that of NOFX, Descendents, Weezer or Bad Religion. Look up Québécois in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... NOFX is a punk rock band from California, formed in 1983. ... The Descendents are a punk rock band from southern California, formed in 1978 by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson. ... Weezer are an American Grammy-nominated rock band from Los Angeles, California. ... Bad Religion is an American punk rock band that was originally formed in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley (bass), Greg Graffin (vocals), Brett Gurewitz (guitars), and Jay Ziskrout (drums). ...

Discography and music videos

Demos and albums

Demos:

• Demo de la Commune (1999)
• Demo Live at Drummondville (2001)
• Demo Jaune-Brun (2002)

Official Discography:

• Gros Mammouth Album (2003)
• Gros Mammouth Album Turbo (2004) (updated version)
• Grand Champion International de Course (2006)

Gros Mammouth Album is the first album by Québécois rock/pop band Les Trois Accords released in 2003 and rereleased in 2004 as Gros Mammouth Album Turbo featuring two new tracks, Loin dici and Turbo sympathique. Gros Mammouth Chanson Lucille Hawaiienne Manon Laisse-Moi Saskatchewan Leusses... Gros Mammouth Album is the first album by Québécois rock/pop band Les Trois Accords released in 2003 and rereleased in 2004 as Gros Mammouth Album Turbo featuring two new tracks, Loin dici and Turbo sympathique. Gros Mammouth Chanson Lucille Hawaiienne Manon Laisse-Moi Saskatchewan Leusses... Grand Champion International de Course is the second album by Québécois rock/pop band Les Trois Accords released in 2006 featuring the single, Grand Champion. ...

Music videos

• "Hawaiienne"
• "Loin d'ici"
• "Saskatchewan"
• "Turbo Sympathique"
• "Vraiment beau"
• "Grand champion"
• "Tout nu sur la plage"
• "Ton avion" (In the video the song is a symphonic cover of the original)

See also

• List of Quebec musicians

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External links

• Official site
• Un site Vraiment Beau – Les Trois Accords