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Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:36 pm
by iembalm
I just got turned on to these and I wonder what the board thinks, if you know them.
Re: Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:29 pm
by losthighway
I'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?
Re: Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:40 pm
by motorbike guy
mick 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.
Re: Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:07 pm
by zorg
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.
Re: Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:31 pm
by Krev
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.
Alex Harvey's interpretation of "Next" is the best.
Re: Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:42 am
by Clyde
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.
Re: Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:59 am
by zorg
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.
Valid point, I didn't realize that Intoxicated Man was that old.