Monsieur Gainsbourg: Revisited
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Music Label: Verve Fontana
Soundtracks:
- Song for Sorry Angel (Sorry Angel) - Jane Birkin, Franz Ferdinand
- I Love You (Me Either) (Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus) - Cat Power, Karen Elson
- I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going [Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que ...] - Jarvis Cocker, Kid Loco
- Requiem for Anna (Un Jour Comme un Autre - Anna) - Portishead
- Requiem for a Jerk (Requiem Pour un Con) - Faultline, , Brian Molko
- H?tel (L'H?tel Particulier) - Michael Stipe
- Revior Emmanuelle (Goodbye Emmanuelle)
- Lola R. For Ever (Lola Rastaquouere) - Marianne Faithfull, ,
- Boomerang 2005 (Comme un Boomerang) - Gonzales
- Boy Toy (I'm the Boy) - Marc Almond, Trash Palace
- Ballad of Melody Nelson (Ballade de Melody Nelson) - Placebo
- Just a Man with a Job (Le Poin?onneur des Lilas) - The Rakes
- I Call It Art (Le Chanson de Slogan) - The Kills
- Those Little Things (Ces Petits Riens) - Carla Bruni
Music reviews of Monsieur Gainsbourg: Revisited
Music Review: LP instead of cd
Rating: 4 Stars
I just received this today and actually got the double LP instead of the cd. When typing in the upc code it comes up as a cd but is actually the double lp. Anyway enough of that. This is such wonderful music all of the tributes are spot on. Always nice to hear other people do their own version of something so beautiful. Check it out. If you like gainsbourg you will appreciate this.
Description of Monsieur Gainsbourg: Revisited
This album brings together artists from the international scene to interpret English adaptations of various songs by Serge Gainsbourg. Features 15 total tracks from the likes of Franz Ferdinand with Jane Birkin, Portishead, Cat Power and Karen Elson, Michael Stipe, Jarvis Cocker & Kid Loco, The Kills, Cat Power with Karen Elson, Tricky, Marc Almond with Trash Palace and more.To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Serge Gainsbourg's death, hip artists (mostly British) have covered a superb selection from his songbook. English speakers shouldn't fret: The songs have been translated/adapted from the French. But fans of the original versions won't be disappointed either: most of the tracks here are appropriately reverential, but they also put contemporary twists on songs that sometimes date back to the late 1950s and early 1960s. The CD opens and closes with very different covers of "Sorry Angel": Franz Ferdinand and Gainsbourg's muse, Jane Birkin, collaborate on the rocking "A Song for Sorry Angel," while Nathan Larsson and the Cardigans' Nina Persson's "Angel's Fall" is much moodier. Other highlights include Portishead's spooky "Requiem for Anna"; Marianne Faithfull's raspy interpretation of "Lola R. For Ever," backed by Sly & Robbie; Gonzales, Feist and Dani's quirkily funky "Boomerang 2005"; and the Rakes' taut "Just a Man with a Job." Gainsbourg was known for his unabashed taste for eroticism, and in that regard, the album's most faithful tribute to his spirit is Cat Power and Karen Elson's whispery, Sapphic take on "I Love You (Me Either)." Monsieur Gainsbourg would have approved. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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