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Serge Gainsbourg- a Fistful of Gitanes, page 30
Poupée De Cire Poupée De Son (Fumie Hosokawa) / En Melody (Kahimi Karie)/ La Chanson De Prévert (Kaho Minami)/ Mambo Miam Miam (Michelle Flyn)/ Sea Sex & Sun (Mari Natsuki/) L’eau A La Bouche (Sublime) /Requiem Pour Un Con (Epo)/ Harley Davidson (Naho)/ La Noyée (Natsuo Ishido)/ Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas (Kenzo Saeki)
2002 JANE BIRKIN: ARABESQUE
Live recording from the tour in which Birkin’s reinterpreted her mentor and long-time love’s songs with exotic band Djam and Fam, whose Algerian violinist Djamel Benyelles wrote the arrangements. Élisa/ Et quand bien même/ L’Amour de Moi/ Couleur Café/ Anno ‘Close To The River’/ Dépression Au-Dessus du Jardin/ Valse de Melody/ Haine Pour Aime/ Amour des Feintes/ She Left Home (instrumental)/ Les Dessous Chics/ Les Clés du Paradis/ Fuir Le Bonheur de Peur Qu’il Ne Se Sauve/ Comment Te Dire Adieu/ Baby Alone In Babylone/ La Javanaise
2006 MONSIEUR GAINSBOURG REVISITED (CD and vinyl Barclay, France, Universal Australia, Verve Forecast US and Virgin UK )
English language tribute. A Song for Sorry Angel (Franz Ferdinand and Jane Birkin)/ I Love You Me Either [Je T’aime Moi Non Plus] (Cat Power and Karen Elson)/ I Just Came to Tell You That I’m Going [Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M’en Vais] Jarvis Cocker and Kid Loco)/ Requiem For Anna (Portishead)/ Requiem For A Jerk [“Requiem Pour Un Con”] (Faultline, Brian Molko and Françoise Hardy, L’hotel (Michael Stipe)/ Au Revoir Emmanuelle (Tricky)/ Lola R For Ever (Marianne Faithfull and Sly & Robbie)/ Boomerang 2005 (Gonzales Feist and Dani)/ Boy Toy (Marc Almond and Trash Palace)/ The Ballad Of Melody Nelson (Placebo)/ Just A Man With A Job (The Rakes)/ I Call It Art (The Kills)/ Those Little Things (Carla Bruni).
US edition bonus tracks: The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (James Iha and Kazu Makino)/ Angel’s Fall (Nina Persson & Nathan Larson).
Footnote: In 2006 there was a live performance in its entirety of HISTOIRE DE MELODY NELSON at the Barbican in London, by the album’s arranger Jean-Claude Vannier with guest musicians/singers Jarvis Cocker, Mick Harvey, Badly Drawn Boy, Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Unfortunately no official album or even bootleg is available. Vannier also performed the concert in 2008 in France with guests including Daniel Darc, Brian Molko/Placebo, Brigitte Fontaine, Mathieu Amalric, Martina Topley Bird, Clotilde Hesme and the original bassist on the album, Herbie Flowers.
2008 GAINSBOURG GAINBEGIRATUZ (CD Gaztelopeko Hotsak) Fifteen Gainsbourg covers translated and recorded by Basque musicians: Gari; Mikel Agirre; Urko Menaia; Estanis & Saioa; Diego Vasallo; Jone Gabarain; Giorgio Bassmatti; Txuma Murugarren; Enrike Mingo; Rafa Berrio; Juankar Landa; Santi Gasca; Luisa Etxenike & Jorge Carrero; Amaia Intxausti; Rafa Berrio.
2009 GAINSNORD: A TRIBUTE TO SERGE GAINSBOURG (CD Sonic Scenery)
As the subtitle says, “Serge’s Songs Revisited By Bands From The Lowlands” - 18 of them, from Belgium and the Netherlands. The booklet has some cool original artwork and the notes come in three languages. The artists are: Suarez; Eddy de Clercq Quartet; Tom Barman & Guy Van Neuten; Yaso; Leine; Liquid Spirits; Zeker Weten; Monsieur DuBois; Saule; Sioen; Spinshots; Benjamin Herman; Lilli Mono; Janne Schra; Flux; West Hell.
2010 FROM GAINSBOURG TO LULU (CD Mercury/Universal Music)
On his debut release Lulu Gainsbourg’ - Gainsbourg’s son by his partner Bambou - has covers of his father’s songs with celebrated guests on vocals. L’Eau A La Bouche (Lulu)/ La Javanaise (Richard Bona)/ Couleur Café (Ayo)/ Sous Le Soleil Exactement (Shame McGowan)/ Intoxicated Man (Lulu) / Le Poinçonneur des Lilas (Lulu)/ Black Trombone (Lulu)/ Fresh News From The Stars (Lulu)/ Requiem Pour Un Con (Matthieu Chedid)/ Bonnie and Clyde (Lulu and Scarlett Johansson duet)/ Ballade De Melody Nelson (Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis duet)/Initials BB (Iggy Pop)/ Ne Dis Rien (Lulu and Melanie Thierry duet)/ Manon (Marianne Faithfull)/ Je Suis Venue Te Dire Que Je M’en Vais (Rufus Wainwright)/ La Noyée (Lulu).
2010 Vie Heroique/A Heroic Life (CD 101 Distribution)
Soundtrack album: 20 Gainsbourg songs, mostly covers commissioned for the biopic by Joann Sfar. Taxi 69 (Albin De La Simone)/ Nazi Rock (Eric Elmosnino)/ Je Bois Versus Intoxicated Man (Eric Elmosnino)/ La Javanaise Chez Greco (Anna Mouglalis) Elaeudanla Teiteia (Eric Elmosnino)/ Je T’aime Moi Non Plus (Serge Gainsbourg)/ Chez Dali (Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra)/ Parce Que- Pour Elisabeth (Eric Elmosnino) / Qui Est In Qui Est Out (Emily Loizeau)/ Baby Pop (Sara Forestier)/ Le Poinconneur Des Lilas (Jean-Yves Lacombe)/ Le Canari Est Sur Le Balcon (Eric Elmosnino)/ L’Hotel Particulier (Eric Elmosnino)/ Le Salon De Coiffure (Olivier Daviaud)/ Initials BB (Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra)/ Bonnie And Clyde (Laetitia Casta)/ Comic Strip (Laetitia Casta)/ Gainsbourg Cherche Je T’Aime, Moi Non Plus (Gonzales)/ Aux Armes Et Caetera - (Eric Elmosnino)/ Love On The Beat (Eric Elmosnino)/ La Valse de Von Paulus (Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra)
2011 ALAIN BASHUNG: L’HOMME A TETE DE CHOU (CD Barclay/Universal Music CD) Released two years after Bashung’s death in 2009, this cover of Gainsbourg’s 1976 concept album originated as a stage project of music and ballet choreographed by Jean-Claude Gallottain in 2008.
Footnote: Also in 2011, a tribute concert to Gainsbourg by his son, Lulu Gainsbourg, at the Hollywood Bowl in L.A. Musicians included Beck, Sean Lennon, Mike Patton, Zola Jesus, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Victor Legrand, Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jean-Claude Vannier.
2014 INTOXICATED MAN and PINK ELEPHANTS (Mute CD and vinyl) Reissues of Mick Harvey’s 1995 and 1997 English-language covers of Gainsbourg songs. The double CD collection includes two previously-unreleased bonus tracks, Dr Jeckyll and Run From Happiness. Guests include Anita Lane and Nick Cave.
Intoxicated Man: 69 Erotic Year/ Harley Davidson/ Intoxicated Man/ The Sun Directly Overhead (Sous Le Soleil Exactement)/ Sex Shop/ The Barrel of My 45 (Quand Mon 6,35 Me Fait les Yeux Doux)/ Ford Mustang/ Overseas Telegram/ New York, U.S.A/ Bonnie and Clyde/ Chatterton/ The Song of Slurs (Chanson de Slogan)/ Jazz in the Ravine/ I Have Come to Tell You I’m Going (Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M’en Vais)/ Lemon Incest/ Initials B.B.
Pink Elephants: Pink Elephants (written by Mick Harvey and Bertrand Burgalat)/ Requiem/ The Javanaise/ Black Seaweed (Les Goémons)/ Comic Strip/ The Ticket Puncher (Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas)/ Non Affair (L’Anamour)/ Scenic Railway/ To All the Lucky Kids (Aux Enfants De La Chance)/ Anthracite/ Manon/ I Love You…Nor Do I (Je T’aime Moi Non Plus)/ The Ballad of Melody Nelson/ Torrey Canyon/ Who Is In Who Is Out/Hotel Specific (L’Hôtel Particulier)
SERGE GAINSBOURG BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chanson Cruelles (Tchou) 1968
Melody Nelson (Ed. Eric Losfeld) 1971
Bambou Et Les Poupées (Filipacchi) 1981
Black-Out (graphic novel, with Jacques Armand) (Les Humanoîdes Associés) 1983
Où Es-Tu Melody? (graphic novel with Iusse) (Vents D’Ouest) 1987
Evguénie Sokolov (Gallimard) 1980
Mon Propre Rôle 1 – Textes 1958-75 (Denoël) 1987
Mon Propre Rôle 2 – Textes 1976-87 (Denoël) 1987
Movies (textes) (Ed. Franck Lhomeau) 1994
Dernières Nouvelles Des Étoiles (complete lyrics) (Plon) 1994
Dédié à un ami très cher. Gilles Verlant, June 1957-September 2013.
About the Author
Sylvie Simmons is a renowned British rock writer who misspent her youth and several subsequent decades hanging with bands and taking notes. Her writing has appeared in countless publications and collections including the legendary US magazine Creem and UK's MOJO, for whom she still writes today.
Along the way, living variously in London, Los Angeles, France and San Francisco, she acquired an award or two, became the subject of a BBC documentary (The Rock Chick) and wrote a number of highly-acclaimed books.
Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes was originally published in 2001. She followed with books on Neil Young, Reflections in Broken Glass; the cult short story collection Too Weird for Ziggy; and, most recently, the international bestseller I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, which she promoted by going on the road for a year with her book and ukulele; like all rock writers, she has an inner rockstar. Her debut album Sylvie was released on Light In The Attic Records in 2014.
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