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- Record Label: Verve Forecast
- Release Date: Aug 1, 2006
- Summary: Fourteen tracks by the late French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg are covered (in English) by the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Portishead, Placebo, Tricky, Jarvis Cocker and Cat Power.
- Record Label: Verve Forecast
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 9
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Mixed: 5 out of 9
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Negative: 1 out of 9
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'Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited' is an often fascinating and enchanting compilation as these things go, though I say, somewhat predictably, that there's no substitute for the real thing.
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The translations offer many witty surprises.
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Some tracks, of course, are as sexy as a soggy batch of freedom fries once the words are comprehensible. But the best updates... have a seedy splendor all their own.
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MojoThe new, not-so-great English translations hurt more than help. [Jun 2006, p.102]
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UncutNot quite a match for the smoky blueprints, yet entertaining enough to inspire a trip to their source. [May 2006, p.128]
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With a more imaginative compiler--and fewer Big Names whose fame peaked years ago-- Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited could have turned out so much different.
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Filter[A] failed attempt to straddle nostalgia and reinvention. [#21, p.95]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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ColleenSep 1, 2006
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