Vive le vent

"Vive le vent" is the french title of the world famous "Jingle Bells".

The audio file

vlv.ogg (2,388,823 bytes)

The tools used

I used Songs, version 0.3, to record it. vlv2.sng is the project's file used to create the audio file (useless without the audio raw data, but put here for you to take a look at it if you want), which was later transformed into an ogg vorbis file.

The rhythm was made with Virtual Drum Machine, version 0.2. rc.conf is the configuration file used, rythm.r is the rhythm's file where the rhythm resides. You wil need s16dr550.zip for the audio files and you will have to modify rc.conf to adapt the paths where the data resides on your file system.

I used a linux box, kernel 2.2, glibc 2.1.3 I think, or something like that, gcc 3.0.4.

For the hardware, my guitar is a Jackson Fusion Std, I have a shure sm58 as a microphone for my voice, a Digitech RP3 effect processor for the distortion of the guitar, a Behringer MX802A audio mixer.

My computer was a pentium mmx 200MHz, 64Mb of RAM, a tiny soundblaster 32 as audio card, an Asus TX97-E motherboard, a standard harddisk (don't remember what). A 17 inch' screen.

Lyrics

Original lyrics in french

Vive le vent, vive le vent, vive le vent d'hiver
Sur les bancs, noirs ou blancs, on crève de la misère
Vive le vent, vive le vent, vive le vent d'hiver
Mais toi tu t'en branles, t'as ton Internet de merde

C'est l'hiver, c'est la fête, c'est bientôt noël
T'achètes des cadeaux pour tes amis
La dernière compil' de Céline Dion
Mais quelle merde

Vous allez bouffer de la dinde aux marrons
Vous allez vous bourrer la gueule comme des bouffons
Vous allez vous marrer devant la télé
C'est vraiment de la merde

Acheter, consommer, baiser, quelle vie de merde (x2)

Vous me faites gerber
Vous me dégoûtez
Totalement
Complètement
Et le pire
C'est que je suis comme vous

Mais quelle merde, quelle merde, quel monde de merde

Vive le vent, vive le vent, vive le vent d'hiver
Sur les bancs, noirs ou blancs, on crève de la misère
Vive le vent, vive le vent, vive le vent d'hiver
Mais toi tu t'en branles, t'as ton Internet de merde

C'est ça que vous appelez faire la fête ?
À heure fixe, à date fixe ?
C'est ça que vous appelez la joie et le plaisir ?
Mais elle est où ta vie, gars ?

Tu vis quoi ? tu fais quoi ? tu crées quoi ?
Tu consommes, et t'es heureux ?
Tu fais ce qu'on te dit, t'es conforme
Et t'es heureux comme ça ?

Acheter, consommer, baiser, quelle vie de merde (x2)

Tu me fais gerber
Gerber
Dégueuler
Tu me fais dégueuler

Translation in english

Glory to the wind, glory to the wind, glory to the winter's wind
In the streets, black or white, one dies in misery
Glory to the wind, glory to the wind, glory to the winter's wind
But you don't care, because you have your shitty Internet

It's winter time, it's holy time, it's soon christmas
You buy presents for your friends
The latest greatest hits of Celine Dion
What a shit

You are going to eat a turkey with chestnuts
You are going to drink to death like assholes
You are going to laugh in front of the TV
It's really a big shit

To buy, to consume, to fuck, what a shit life (x2)

You push me to vomit
You disgust me
Totally
Completely
And the worst
It's that I am like you

But what a shit, what a shit, what a shit world

Glory to the wind, glory to the wind, glory to the winter's wind
In the streets, black or white, one dies in misery
Glory to the wind, glory to the wind, glory to the winter's wind
But you don't care, because you have your shitty Internet

That's what you call a party?
At fixed hour? at fixed date?
That's what you call happiness and pleasure?
But where is your life, buddy?

What do you live? What do you do? What do you create?
You consume, and you are happy?
You do what you're told, your are conform
And you're happy like that?

To buy, to consume, to fuck, what a shit life (x2)

You push me to vomit
Vomit
Into sheaves
You bind me into sheaves