| Monsieur Gainsbourg: Revisited |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Verve Fontana
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 760783
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 12.2 x 0.3
UPC: 602498409763
EAN: 0602498409763
ASIN: B000G1R3E4
Release Date: August 1, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | A Song for Sorry Angel (Sorry Angel) | | • | I Love You (Me Either) (Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus) | | • | I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going | | • | Requiem for Anna (Un Jour Comme un Autre - Anna) | | • | Requiem for a Jerk (Requiem Pour un Con) | | • | L' Hotel (L'Hotel Particulier) | | • | Au Revior Emmanuelle (Goodbye Emmanuelle) | | • | Lola R. For Ever (Lola Rastaquouere) | | • | Boomerang 2005 (Comme un Boomerang) | | • | Boy Toy (I'm the Boy) | | • | The Ballad of Melody Nelson (Ballade de Melody Nelson) | | • | Just a Man with a Job (Le Poinconneur des Lilas) | | • | I Call It Art (Le Chanson de Slogan) | | • | Those Little Things (Ces Petits Riens) |
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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
Album Description
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.
Album Description
Limited French pressing packaged in a Digi-pack. The bet was serious, to bring together artists from the international scene to interpret English adaptations of the songs of Serge Gainsbourg. 15 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. Universal. 2006.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 LP instead of cd June 26, 2008
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.
Best seven bucks spent in a while May 7, 2008
Just picked this up in a used CD store, mostly for the awesome tackiness of the cover photo. Amazingly, the music inside is not only NOT tacky, it's just plain awesome. And totally worth quite a bit more than the seven bucks I spent. I feel lucky today...
 When covering becomes rediscovering February 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Serge Gainsbourg is a force of originality that was forged by the same fires that all the best art from Post World War 2 Eras, I say this because of how hard it is for me a 20 year old, kid from Port Angeles, Washington, United States, North America, living in 2008.
The music Serge wrote, was simply different, and I won't bother to look up the details on his story, and the story, and the people and things that surrounded him. I wish I had the time, patience or a solid brain to really explain to you, not to buy this album of tributes, or any album of serge's. Cause I don't know what exactly would persuade you. The things that persuade me are much different in my lonely room, at 4:30 AM, feeling underconfident about the recent days memories of what people are like and what they truly meant, and quick fears will jump in about my heart and a potential cardiac arrest, drug addiction, so much that unsettles, my experience of the moment of now, which could be anything that anyone besides me,
and then when I turn it on, and let my body move, I am filled with a purity of the body, the loins, a pleasure which I don't want to have to justify with philosophy, or look over future consequences of being without satisfactions longer than a song, because
I feel the moment of true shared bliss in a superficial wink of the eye,
The Genius of Serge Gainsbourg revisited. January 28, 2008
Since it was released in 2005, this tribute CD has been on regular rotation on my iPod. Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) was a controversial, brilliant, and eccentric French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. "He was our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire . . . He elevated the song to the level of art," French President Francois Mitterrand said of Gainsbourg. As shown by this compilation disc of English-language updated covers (drawn mostly from the late 1950s and early 1960s), Gainsbourg's music is difficult to categorize. Usually erotic, it is a progressive fusion of jazz, ballads, mambo, lounge, reggae, pop (in all varieties), disco, calypso, Africana, bossa nova, and rock and roll. Gainsbourg's former wife, Jane Birkin, lends her vocals to the first track, and Franz Ferdinand, Cat Power, Portishead, Michael Stipe, Marianne Faithful, and Carla Burni add their talents. The complete album setlist includes:
1. A Song For Sorry Angel (Sorry Angel) - Franz Ferdinand & Jane Birkin
2. I Love You (Me Either) - Cat Power & Karen Elson
3. I Just Came To Tell You That I'm Going - Jarvis Cocker & Kid Loco
4. Requiem For Anna - Portishead
5. Requiem For A Jerk - Faultline, Brian Molko & Francoise Hardy
6. L'Hotel - Michael Stipe
7. Au Revour Emmanuelle - Tricky
8. Lola R. For Ever - Marianne Faithful & Sly & Robbie
9. Boomerang 2005 - Gonzales, Feist & Dani
10. Boy Toy - Mar Almond & Trash Palace
11. The Ballad Of Melody Nelson - Placebo
12. Just A Man With A Job - The Rakes
13. I Call It Art - The Kills
14. Those Little Things - Carla Burni
15. The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde - James Iha
16. Angel's Fall - Nathan Larson
G. Merritt
Delicious January 30, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a treat to have yet another set of Gainsbourg material translated and performed by le potage du jour. Gainsbourg still challenges and transforms anyone who touches his work, as he did with his audience. You've never heard Cat Power, Michael Stipe and Marianne Faithfull like this. Everything becomes magnified: the song, the artist, monsieur Gainsbourg lui-meme. Wow - c'est si bon.. Also check out the Gainsbourg installment of the Tzadik series 'Great Jewish Music' (1997). You will enjoy both tributes if you're familiar enough with the originals.
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