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Serge Gainsbourg - Various Artist - Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, 2006

To be out : 27/02/06

Franz Ferdinand, Jane Birkin, Marianne Faithfull, Placebo, Carla Bruni, Portishead, Jarvis Cocker, Kid Loco, Françoise Hardy, Keith Flint, Cat Power, Michaël Stipe, Tricky, The Kills, Gonzales, Feist, Dani, The Rakes….All take part in the singular album of which it is a question here.

The bet was serious: to bring together artists resulting from the international scene to interpret English adaptations of the songs of Serge Gainsbourg. The casting and the various finally joined together versions exceed the hopes.

The unit reaches an energy and a sensitivity seldom of setting on the difficult exercise which a tribute represents, even with adaptations of texts signed Boris Bergmann...

One will be thus inevitably happy to note that not an only many traditional of Gainsbourg are put always as well stop some but one will be as surprised as the young pop guard/rock'n'roll and some of its godfathers adapts them with as much relevance or impertinence.

Welcome thus at Mr Gainsbourg, where the black, ultimate color of a rock'n'roll glamour and subversive, remains of setting.

Track listing :

1. FRANZ FERDINAND – JANE BIRKIN / A SONG FOR SORRY ANGEL
   Original Title SORRY ANGEL
2. CAT POWER & KAREN ELSON / I LOVE YOU (ME EITHER)
   Original Title JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS
3. JARVIS COCKER & KID LOCO / I JUST CAME TO TELL YOU THAT I’M GOING
   Original Title : JE SUIS VENU TE DIRE QUE JE M’EN VAIS
4. PORTISHEAD / REQUIEM FOR ANNA
   Original Title : UN JOUR COMME UN AUTRE (sous titre de « ANNA »)
5. FAULTLINE, BRIAN MOLKO & FRANCOISE HARDY / REQUIEM FOR A JERK
   Original Title : REQUIEM POUR UN CON
6. MICHAEL STIPE / L’HÔTEL
   Original Title : L’HÔTEL PARTICULIER
7. TRICKY / AU REVOIR EMMANUELLE
   Original Title GOOD BYE EMMANUELLE
8. MARIANNE FAITHFULL / LOLA R. FOR EVER
   Original Title : LOLA RASTAQUOUERE
9. GONZALES, FEIST & DANI / BOOMERANG
   Original Title : COMME UN BOOMERANG
10. MARC ALMOND & TRASH PALACE / BOY TOY
    Original Title I’M THE BOY
11. PLACEBO / THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSON
    Original Title : LA BALLADE DE MELODY NELSON
12. THE RAKES / JUST A MAN WITH A JOB
    Original Title LE POINCONNEUR DES LILAS
13. THE KILLS / I CALL IT ART
    Original Title : LA CHANSON DE SLOGAN
14. CARLA BRUNI / THOSE LITTLE THINGS
    Original Title : CES PETITS RIENS

See Also :

• Serge Gainsbourg's discography
• Mister Melody

French Version