Re: Charlotte Gainsbourg - Charlotte For Ever (1986)

by Nightjar Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:01 pm

Tony Blairing sax.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:01 pm

It is over.

That was like listening to candy floss with all the flavour removed.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:01 pm

I shall give it 2 stars.

by Guest Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:02 pm

It is over.

Strange combination of Boring and creepy. Like Kenny G in an SS uniform. I like that Elastique one. Ghastly 1986's production.

★★

by Nightjar Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:06 pm

Crikey Moses.

Iron Maiden then this.

A kind of jellied eels-meets-intentionally-fake-bouillabaisse Spice melange.

As a cultural event: superb.

As an actual record worth listening to: virtually no.

Still, The Serge abides.

You lot might not get it, but I'm still trying to (despite my French/French speaking friends telling me I'll never) get it.

by Guest Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:10 pm

I dunno about this one, but I've always assumed that the average Serge song was so full in double and triple innuendo, language jokes and a reliance on knowledge of French Culture in the last half of the 20th Century, mon français C'est Mal.

by Nightjar Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:18 pm

They were.

Hence my lengthy - but completely ignored - attempt to translate L'Homme a Tete D'Chou so everyone could enjoy and participate in the narrative.

By this point mid-to-late-'80s however he'd just resorted to a kind of lazy (albeit effective and louche) shock value.

That his missus was English was mad enough for the French to get their culottes in a twist in any event...

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Sournois, provocation subversive ou détritus français effrayants?