ARTIST: VA
TITLE: Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
LABEL: Verve Forecast
GENRE: Pop
BITRATE: 201kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 57m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-08-01
RIP DATE: 2006-07-11
Track List
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1. Franz Ferdinand & Jane Birkin - 3:14
A Song For Sorry Angel
2. Cat Power & Karen Elson - I 5:16
Love You (Me Either)
3. Jarvis Cocker & Kid Loco - I 3:38
Just Came To Tell You That I'm
Going
4. Portishead - Requiem For Anna 2:39
5. Faultline, Brian Molko & 2:59
Francoise Hardy - Requiem For A
Jerk
6. Michael Stipe - L'hotel 4:27
7. Tricky - Au Revoir Emmanuelle 3:30
8. Marianne Faithfull & Sly And 3:05
Robbie - Lola R. For Ever
9. Gonzales, Feist & Dani - 3:24
Boomerang 2005
10. Marc Almond & Trash Palace - 4:02
Boy Toy
11. Placebo - The Ballad Of Melody 3:58
Nelson
12. The Rakes - Just A Man With A 2:50
Job
13. The Kills - I Call It Art 3:10
14. Carla Bruni - Those Little 2:08
Things
15. James Iha & Kazu Makino - The 4:24
Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde
16. Nina Persson (Of The Cardigans) 4:36
& Nathan Larson - Angel's Fall
Release Notes:
http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/
This is a reissue with 2 bonus tracks.
When a cover album was planned by Jean-Daniel Beauvallet, Christian Fevret and
TimothΘe Verrecchia for the fifteenth anniversary of his last lungful of Gitane
smoke, it quickly became obvious that only foreign groups and artists could give
new life to a repertoire so ingrained in French culture. Invitations were sent
out and the overwhelmingly positive responses returned like boomerangs. Everyone
rushes for Gainsbourg, and the cast list speaks for itself û some of the most
prominent British and American artists of the last ten years are featured. From
Tricky to Franz Ferdinand, from Cat Power to The Rakes, from Placebo to Michael
Stipe (REM), from Portishead to Marianne Faithfull, from Jarvis Cocker to The
Killsà ôPas dΘgueu !ö (not too rotten), as Gainsbourg would have said.
Maintaining the links with the past, some of the best known original singers
also agreed to appear: Franτoise Hardy, Dani, and above all Jane Birkin!
One last hurdle remained û the language barrier, a risky business with
Gainsbourg. An exercise in high precision, poetically and semantically,
entrusted to two word-jugglers with a worldwide reputation, Boris Bergman and
Paul Ives. Just reading their adaptation of Poinτonneur des Lilas set in a
depressing working-class London shows how well the challenge was met. Despite
the prestige of the cast and the difficulty of carrying it out, Monsieur
Gainsbourg Revisited was above all a project undertaken with humility, lightness
and a certain degree of impertinence. This would, no doubt, have pleased the man
who, over the thirty glorious years of his career, inspired this very cocktail
more than anyone else.