Longtime François Pérusse's fans like me known that he has done everything -- from TV animated shows to commercials to live-action movies and now, a theatre play for the upcoming year! He is an humorist, author-composer-writer, have won tons of Gémeaux for his past albums and also own a very succesful time with Europe, by be able to clash his ludicrous and predictable puns to their own ropes without betraying anyone who have helped him to make a bright career in first place.
Now at his age of retirement, the "retirement" word sounds too much at a risk nowadays, which it's not guarantee that you'll lived happily after quit the working world. François is now age 65, but his peak days is for long behind him, enough to still attract a nostalgic audience who have supported him until his label, Zéro Musique, does its part for the Earth by make its 2021s final album in Digital download only. Not the greatest album I ever hear from him, but still...
Released in 2017, Best Ove! is theorically, a compilation of classic lines with several newer contents slipped to the radar. Unless the Pirate album that were old skits that becoming all-new to album, the remaining album retraced the evolution of his work by be complimented like an adequate "Frank's Least Worst Reels". Originally, it having to be a remake of the most-selled album by the 1990s, the second volume or "Tome 2".
The supposed album that never made the day having to include a song that would replaced the Montreal Expos that has vanished forever in 2004 for the Toronto Blue Jays. To seen the only Canadian major baseball team to figured this year in the finals series after years to waiting (But lost it by a bad approval) their place in the finals.
We never known what a Tome 2 reboot would be look because that were never been materialized... and if Best Ove! is the outcome of an album project that has never came to life, well, this is as good that there is.
His past albums in my knowledge are generally best to mild to simply disappointing. For have listening lots of his original stuffs on radio or online in the early internet days, I known that lots of needling re-recordings are necessary to make his albums as good, and where the budgets to make it legit staying smaller. Zéro Musique is a division of Universal Music, but consumers at that time weren't that thrilling to seen an "Alien from Outer Space" being who improvised himself at humorist and make wise-cracking puns in the dialogues as he never left the early TV animation age.
And that's a good thing that he learned to developped his writing skills by his contracts with France's Europe 2. (And Rire et Chansons later, though these prime days are definitely gone for a good fifteen years.) He beginning his working journey on a music store, then, on a community radio (Louis-Paul Fafaralard is the key inspiration for this) until he gotten a chance with CKOI which he staying with them for five years. Later, in 2002, Énergie approached him to getting back in Québec's radios, which it was an urging need in this period. This is there that the slice-of-life issues are been replaced by topical news by even be able to "write" his skits without just be concerned to how-much-lame-wordplays-you-will-got.
With fifteen albums at his disposition, the Tome 11, released through the Post-2020s pandemic, was likely a tribute to the Progressive Rock, a genre of music that has displaying an impact to his teenager life over a mid-century ago, that they didn't played much at radio and that most of the tunes lasted of ten minutes or more. They were real works of art until the Hit Radio Tunes beginning to make everything in Auto-Pilot by the 1980s.
Back to Best Ove!, this is among very clever for an anthology album, but not an essential purchase. It's shame when this and the final Tome 11 were there that the quality of his own albums wavering from track to track. If the Tomes 8, 9 or 10 did worked out perfectly by giving to these albums some needed-prestige, why this constant drop as we had forget the horrific Tome 6 and 7 days?
Another problem that face Frank's work and that I had noticed by the times he went to Énergie is predictability and formula. Especially for long-running series of skits, it's very difficult to be more original or novel for such work that were destined to be forgotten after it was running on radio the first time. When his old skits were played at an animated TV show in 2000, I was a little disappointed of the execution when instantly, I have to realize quickly that the animation have to respected what the dialogues says. It didn't lasting long for a reason and a quarter-century later, this is probably for the best. Especially when we know that animation can't be just a string of random eye-takes and crass jokes!
Best Ove! offered also a cute tribute to François' father in the finale, whom he has passed away in years like 2005 and was the central focus of the Tome 7's album debut. A nice touch to a cheering person, but hardly necessary for collectors who still demanded more from him, as that was that simple...
The budgets cuts in the cultural industry, physical media dying to consumers for the Digital one, the murky royalties to artists from Spotify and others -- To say nothing of the way most radios still act as they can playing anything without to follow the CRTC's obligations like many music radios do in several public stores.
My passion to him date of adolescence, when a old friend of my older brother make us listening Frank's albums at home. This is something new and thrilling that happened and that make me a revelation! -- To make use of his works to "created" by myself such compilations based of what was ran on the ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show's final years, when it was still playing in saturday mornings only.
But when ABC definitely ended its run in September 2000, I was saddened, but not surprised if the final year taking too long to be seen, or that ABC, that is owned by Disney, shown no longer interest to ran these adequately. Those were the days where a shift of Post-48s shorts deemed necessary to ran more shorts featuring Marvin the Martian (That was 1998, REMEMBER!), the return of Devil May Hare that introducing the Tasmanian Devil to the world, by be a hot consuming-property at that time, some show's premieres like a handful of Road Runners, two from the Honey-Mousers trilogy or even so, the very "artsy" I Was a Teenage Thumb, that made its first and rare exposure to National American Television since leaving ABC for Nickelodeon (Which it was somehow a graveyard for such obscure things like those computer-colorized versions of black-and-white Porkys or the cut-rate Depatie-Freleng/Seven-Arts era.) in 1990.
What can I says more? I don't longer follow him or his works for several years, to have made use enough of him and that my real needs may change overtime. The best way to support his work and keep him working have to be the basic: Buy his albums! Don't steal his works in the internet just because it didn't featured on albums! It's amazing that he was one of the most "pirated" Franco artists in the world in 2001-02 (Seriously!) and this is why his first Best Ove! compilation, L'album Pirate, was originally made.
It's also only a shame that even his spoof show of TV news, Le Journul, never would be redone the same way with all the fake news, social media pundits, algorithms and AI-fakery that contradict the works of journalists, and what says more about Wikipedia to make wrong issues from random morons as fixed facts?
I think that's all, folks, for the day for paraphrase another famous cartoon character from another animated series of shorts.
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