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Posts Tagged Serge Gainsbourg

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November 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Mike Patton / Jean-Claude Vannier: Corpse Flower

Mike Patton / Jean-Claude Vannier Corpse Flower Ipecac Recordings Here two living legends come together to record something oceans apart. You know Mike Patton from roughly 47 metal-adjacent bands and his own soundtracks and special voice work (a capella guest-starring with Bjork one minute, performing creature sound FX for movies or video game character-voices the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Collaboration, Corpse Flower, Histoire de Melody Nelson, Ipecac, Jean-Claude Vannier, Mike Patton, Mike Patton / Jean-Claude Vannier, Mike Patton / Jean-Claude Vannier: Corpse Flower, Serge Gainsbourg, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 262 

Serge Gainsbourg, La chanson de prevet (2019) It’s not that I was in the market for a Serge Gainsbourg tote bag, but I’m always in the market for some of Serge Gainsbourg’s music and this compilation (of material from 1958-1961) just happened to come with a free tote bag. Which is just fine. I haven’t used it much […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1958-1961, 2019, Compilation, France, French, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Gainsbourg, Les Armours Perdues, LP, Record, Serge Gainsbourg, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 262, Tote Bag, Vinyl ·

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September 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 5 Sylvie Simmons

I started reading about music when I was 10. That’s about when I started really obsessively listening to music too – buying tapes and reading music magazines. Then it was to bios – I read about The Stones and The Beatles and some of it went over my head but that was okay, I would […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged America, Author, Authors I Admire, Authors I Admire # 5, Authors I Admire: #5 Sylvie Simmons, Interview, Journalist, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Music Journalism, Music Writing, Neil Young, On Song, Phantom Billstickers, Serge Gainsbourg, Simon Sweetman, SS, Sylvie Simmons, Vivid Festival ·

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August 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1066

Serge Gainsbourg avec Alain Goraguer Et Son Orchestre, No. 2 (1959) I really don’t have a memory of “discovering” Serge Gainsbourg – nor did I “grow up with” his music. Sylvie Simmons’ bio was formative, but I read that having already experienced some of the music; I think Serge was simply a name that was […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 10", 1959, A Fistful of Gitanes, Alain Goraguer Et Son Orchestre, French, Le Claqueur De Doigts, Lovage, LP, Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By, No. 2, Serge Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg avec Alain Goraguer Et Son Orchestre, Sylvie Simmons, Vinyl ·

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January 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson is an Irish writer. He has recently published the 33 1/3 book on Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson (Bloomsbury). He has forthcoming books, due to be published this year, including the fictional nonfiction book Imaginary Cities (Influx Press) and Jack Kerouac- Critical Lives (Reaktion Books) as well as a chapbook A Hubristic […]
Posted in Blog, Special Guests · Tagged 33 1/3, Author, Darran Anderson, Five Albums I'm Loving Right Now, Histoire de Melody Nelson, Serge Gainsbourg, Special Guest ·

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January 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Darran Anderson: Histoire de Melody Nelson (33 1/3)

Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson (33 1/3) Darran Anderson Bloomsbury Academic It’s not the job of the wee books in the wonderful 33 1/3 series to give you a potted biography – they might also do that, but the chief concern is the album over the artist. We often find the two are inseparable […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 33 1/3, A Fistful of Gitanes, Book Review, Darran Anderson, Histoire de Melody Nelson, Melody, Sege, Serge Gainsbourg, Sylvie Simmons ·

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November 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Sebastien Tellier: Confection

Sebastien Tellier Confection Record Makers If you know Sebastien Tellier’s music you probably know him for his brilliantly layered, butch disco music; a sort of drunk-slick soul-sleaze set of electro-inspired pop tunes, and he’s all Warren Ellis-impersonating-Serge Gainsbourg, or a mountain-man down to tinkle the ivories and sip some brandies while he raises hemlines with […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex Twin, Confection, Ennio Morricone, France, French, Mantovani, Sebastien Tellier, Serge Gainsbourg, Tony Allen ·

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September 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lou Doillon: Places

Lou Doillon Places Barclay Lou Doillon is a French model, actress and singer – her mother is Jane Birkin. Her father is famous director, Jacques Doillon – this makes her, also, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s half-sister, a step-daughter of Serge Gainsbourg. All of this will always cloud the music – it will be mentioned anytime she releases […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beth Orton, Cat Power, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Lou Doillon, Madeleine Peyroux, Places, Serge Gainsbourg ·

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July 31, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1322

Serge Gainsbourg, Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) Those gorgeous, sumptuous strings and that beguiling version of oh-so-white funk music; the Lolita-esque storyline – Serge Gainsbourg bumbles and mumbles and wafts through these half-spoken/half-sung, buoyantly slung story-songs. And all in under half an hour, or, if you’re on Serge time that’s just four pints of cognac. […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Histoire de Melody Nelson, Melody, Serge Gainsbourg, Vinyl ·

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June 25, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Jonathan Bree: The Primrose Path

Jonathan Bree The Primrose Path Lil’ Chief This solo album from Jonathan Bree is the grown-up/mature version of the clever record-collection pop he offered as part of (leader of) The Brunettes. I loved a lot of what The Brunettes had to say – shamelessly borrowing it before saying it, obviously – but Bree’s writing and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bandcamp, Batman, Beck, Jonathan Bree, Jonathan Richman, Lawrence Arabia, Lil' Chief, Lou Reed, Prince, Sea Change, Serge Gainsbourg, The Brunettes, The Primrose Path ·

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