Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums
1I just got turned on to these and I wonder what the board thinks, if you know them.
"And the light, it burns your skin...in a language you don't understand."
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2I'll have to check it out. I'll be curious to see if the lyrics creep me out when I can understand them.
He didn't have a daughter to sing "Lemon Incest" with him?
He didn't have a daughter to sing "Lemon Incest" with him?
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3mick harvey is one of my favorite musicians of all time. I have not, however, followed his recording career as closely as I should have.
thanks for this.
thanks for this.
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4Love Serge, love Mick…..nothing special at all. Don’t remember thinking understanding the lyrics did much to elucidate the songs, either. I also own the Tzadik tribute record, with some extreme interpretations. Also, not bad, but you’re better off with just listening to the originals.
Don’t expect anything on the level of Scott Walker Jacques Brel interpretations.
Don’t expect anything on the level of Scott Walker Jacques Brel interpretations.
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5Alex Harvey's interpretation of "Next" is the best.zorg wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:07 pm Love Serge, love Mick…..nothing special at all. Don’t remember thinking understanding the lyrics did much to elucidate the songs, either. I also own the Tzadik tribute record, with some extreme interpretations. Also, not bad, but you’re better off with just listening to the originals.
Don’t expect anything on the level of Scott Walker Jacques Brel interpretations.
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
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6I'm really only familiar with the first two, which I both really like. I also think Harvey deserves some credit for igniting people's interest in Gainsbourg in the English-speaking world. That stuff was really hard to find, at least in the US, before the first Harvey record came out. Around a year after Intoxicated Man came out Mercury put out three compilations and the floodgates opened from there.
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7Valid point, I didn't realize that Intoxicated Man was that old.Clyde wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:42 am I'm really only familiar with the first two, which I both really like. I also think Harvey deserves some credit for igniting people's interest in Gainsbourg in the English-speaking world. That stuff was really hard to find, at least in the US, before the first Harvey record came out. Around a year after Intoxicated Man came out Mercury put out three compilations and the floodgates opened from there.