SERGE GAINSBOURG

SERGE GAINSBOURG
EARLY WORKS
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Three early Serge Gainsbourg albums from 1958, 1959 & 1961.
An ultimate proof that genius was already at work in the ugly man's head!

DU CHANT A LA UNE! (1958)

This is an amazing debut album from an artist who would become one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century. It's mostly melodic jazzy pop with excellent lyrics. All songs are great but my favorites are "Les femmes des uns sous le corps des autres" and "Douze belles dans la peau". An amazing album which may be a bit of an acquired taste for those who don't speak French to get his brilliant, sardonic lyrics. Personally, I think his early songs are among his best stuff, and I would recommend starting here, on this remastered first album issued on the tenth anniversary of his death. Tracks 10 to 14 are bonus tracks of this later edition.

1. Le Poinçonneur des Lilas 2:44
2. La Recette de l'Amour Fou 1:57
3. Douze Belles Dans la Peau 1:55
4. Ce Mortel Ennui 2:55
5. Ronsard 58 1:53
6. La Femme des Uns Sous le Corps des Autres 3:01
7. Alcool 3:59
8. Du Jazz Dans le Ravin 2:11
9. Charleston des Déménageurs de Piano 2:22
10. La Jambe De Bois "Friedland" 2:34
11. Douze Belles Dans la Peau (en public) 2:17
12. La Recette de l'Amour Fou (en public)(en public) 1:33
13. La Femme des Uns Sous le Corps des Autres (en public) 2:07
14. Le Poinçonneur des Lilas (en public) 2:49

N°2 (1959)

The late Serge Gainsbourg made a name for himself fairly early in his recording career with his combination of French cabaret music, bordello jazz, and drunken musique exotica. His second effort features Gainsbourg with a cigarette, appropriately seated at a worn desk littered with roses, a long-nosed 38 caliber placed squarely in front of him, and a quizzical, daring look on his puss that seems to say, "Can't figure it out? Of course!" Gainsbourg actually attempted singing in the early days, before his voice began to go and all he could do was whisper or rant his crazy poetry. Here he fronts the Alain Goraguer Orchestra on eight selections that are as typical of his oeuvre as Love on the Beat was nearly 30 years later. His topics are the seduction site of the jukebox on "Le Claquer de Doights" and a theme based on d'Alfred de Musset's "Night Doctor." There are also a couple of Latin-styled numbers in "Mambo Miam Miam" and "Indifferente," with a serious Stan Getz-aped sax solo in the middle eight (not to mention a crazy TV western theme as a cabaret song in "Jeunes Femmes et Vieux Messieurs"). This is truly the beginning of Gainsbourg's hepcat legend, and musically, for all the kitsch and gimmick, it comes across as totally sincere in its campy chariot. This is why we dig French pop, and this is why Gainsbourg holds sway with everyone from Nick Cave to Angie Stone.

1. Le Claqueur de Doigts 3:07
2. La Nuit d'Octobre 3:05
3. Adieu Créature 2:11
4. L' Anthracite 2:32
5. Mambo Miam Miam 2:35
6. Indifférente 2:17
7. Jeunes Femmes et Vieux Messieurs 2:04
8. L' Amour À la Papa 2:48

L'ETONNANT SERGE GAINSBOURG (1961)

As early as 1961, Serge Gainsbourg was one of the most extraordinary artists of the French pop scene, and during the first part of the '60s the crooner produced a series of outrageously brilliant albums with producer/arranger Alain Goraguer. One of his most intoxicating amalgams of jazz and pop styles, L'Etonnant Serge Gainsbourg comes highly recommended to fans of '60s French pop. An utterly essential early document of Serge Gainsbourg while he was still a mildly respectable man — but that's not say there aren't hints of his notorious decadence in this early work.

1. La Chanson de Prévert 3:01
2. En Relisant Ta Lettre 2:01
3. Le Rock de Nerval 1:51
4. Les Oubliettes 2:28
5. Chanson de Maglia 2:05
6. Viva Villa 3:23
7. Les Amours Perdues 2:57
8. Les Femmes C'est du Chinois 2:32
9. Personne 2:44
10. Le Sonnet d'Arvers 1:53

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