Sure, I can make you a CDR!
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Rosemary, are you talking to me? Or Walter? Or both of us? :)
I like "gated drum Gainsbourg" ... the "Love on the Beat" album is a favourite of mine!
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
How is the rest of Alain Chamfort's Poses album? Serge wrote three songs, of which I know only the gorgeous "Manureva". Worth getting?
― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Sunday, 9 July 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Any thoughts on the Adjani album? Saw it cheap the other day and didn't know whether or not to take a punt on it.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
oh I love that Adjani Album. Especially "Ohio". and of course "Pull Marine". Gainsbourg wrote some lyrics for 3 of Chamfort's albums. My favourite might be "Amour année zéro" (especially the song "chasseur d'ivoire"). "Manureva" is fantastic.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
btw Gainsbourg NEVER wrote of had anything to do with Jordy's "dur dur d'être un bébé" !!
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
regarding Adjani's album, of course of you have to :- like her- like singers who can't sing- like Gainsbourg's 80s touchif you check all these, you're good to go !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
ha, i'll bear that in mind. thanks!
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:17 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7MwHGHWgLk
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:20 (nine years ago) link
i think there's a compilation out there with some of his stuff for other people (incl Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Hardy and obviously Bardot)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
Pull Marine always brings back a heavy load of childhood sadness
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
ah ouai ? this song in particular ?for me it's just a (great) reminder, among many others, of the Top 50 days.Madeleine de Proust.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
yeah i find the chord progression very sad and probably did even more as a child so now it's just a mix of rememberance and sadness. I have to say that I'm less tolerant now to Adjani's vocal "limitations"
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Quite like this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqnkj-c8lPM
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's definitely a sad song. with a very cold/depressing production. I love her voice (more than many of his other actresses/singers). In the highs it's borderline insane !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
songs he made for others... BOOM !
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_chansons_de_Serge_Gainsbourg
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
pretty coolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OefMhv71MP8
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
sorry not related to Gainsbourg but I just discovered this Dutronc/Adjani tv moment and it's pretty fun.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgZ0xSuw5g4
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
this one is Gainsbourg and Dutronc singing about old women !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaRUUx7oe74
These two were legendary. So many stories about them hanging around in Paris at night (even asking police vans to take them home cos they were too drunk... and then drinking some more with the police on the way !).
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
I was looking everywhere last trip to Paris for a copy of Dutronc's "Guerre et pets" ( written by Gainsbourg). No luck.
Am currently reading Verlan's fantastic bio of Gainsbourg and the amount of writing he did for others (i'm still in the early 60s) is pretty jawdropping.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah the Chamfort "Poses" album is fun. Sort of middle-aged-New Wave haha
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Jay Vee, are you reading it in French or the translation?
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
It's pretty great being a Gainsbourg fan, you'll never run out of stuff to listen to/records to look for.
I like this Luxembourg Eurovision entry with some ingenue giving it GUSTO and what sounds like Serge himself counting down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8EKhUwVgQk
― Leonard Pine, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
(Xpost) In French. I don't think it's been translated yet but could be mistaken.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
It's in English! http://www.amazon.com/Gainsbourg-The-Biography-Gilles-Verlant/dp/0966234677
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
I have two editions in French but as my French skills are sooo not good enough, I bought the English translation last year.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd5tZMXUq4
I love this so much. Gainsbourg's "performances" are amazing, and I have never seen Dutronc resemble his son Thomas so much.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 03:23 (nine years ago) link
Ahan the tourism salesmen trying to sell their speech to Dutronc... Love the laid back and non professional showbiz attitude. Good times!
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 07:18 (nine years ago) link
ha, thank you, that was great: two drunk misbehaving schoolboys/ rogues; lol the "singing"; my french just good enough to catch some of the hostile-polite digs from the blonde woman host and back; classic.
― drash, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 07:43 (nine years ago) link
Ah it's Danielle Gilbert : not hostile at all. She was always super nice (and a bit stupid) ! But it was certainly difficult to handle these guys on live Tv !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 07:49 (nine years ago) link
very polite and not outwardly hostile, but she delivered some subtle digs (and got some back), e.g.
"you’ve got your cigarette & your cigar..."
"it’s his birthday"
"and he’s celebrating it, joyously"
"anyway we’re so happy that jacques is here—"
"oh that can be seen"
"you’ve got your glass, everything you need"
― drash, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 08:18 (nine years ago) link
wow such a shame Dutronc turned into such a boring loser after the 60s
Back on topic - I would recommend Alain Bashung's bleak 1982 album co-written with Gainsbourg - 'Play Blessures'
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 09:58 (nine years ago) link
well, alcohol got the best of the best...and apparently, Dutronc was always very shy/autist (which Françoise couldn't stand anymore... after 20+ years !).
regarding Eurovision, it still baffles me that Boomerang was rejected as a contender for France (especially when you see what we select nowadays...) ! the Gainsbourg version :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWWt9C0_rSo
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:16 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah ? I don't know, I don't see these remarks as hostile at all.I think everybody just knew and loved them.But clearly it was very difficult for tv hosts to deal with them sometimes. especially gainsbourg (the whitney houston "I want to fuck you" moment, the burning of a 500 francs bill, etc).
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:22 (nine years ago) link
because of this thread I've been listening (and watching !) to a lot of old stuffs from the guys and I discovered the full take for "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais" (it's on the integral. available on spotify). It only has a bit more instrumental and Jane B's sobbing but the gem is at the end of the take when you hear Jane saying "ah je peux pas faire plus que ça, hein!" (well I can't do much more than this !"). so cute !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:27 (nine years ago) link
Love Boomerang, love what I've heard from Play Blessures.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link
I had no idea Boomerang was a Eurovision reject, it's one of my favourite songs. And that clip with Gainsbourg and Dutronc being drunk and half-asleep on television is gold.
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link