Audio CD review:
Serge Gainsbourg - Comic Strip

Serge Gainsbourg - Comic Strip

Band: Serge Gainsbourg Title: Comic Strip Rating: Release Date: 25 February, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Requiem Pour Un Con... (Requiem For A Jerk) 2: Bonnie And Clyde 3: Initials B.B. 4: Comic Strip 5: Chatterton 6: Bloody Jack 7: Docteur Jekyll Et Monsieur Hyde 8: Torrey Canyon 9: Shu Ba Du Loo Ba 10: Ford Mustang 11: Black & White 12: Qui Est In Qui Est Out (Who's In Who's Out) 13: Hold Up 14: Marilu 15: Un Poison Violent, C'est Ca L'amour (A Violent...) 16: Sous Le Soleil Exactement (Precisely Under The...) 17: Soixante Neuf Annee Erotique (69 Erotic Year) 18: Les Sucettes (The Lollipops) 19: L'anamour (The Nonlove) 20: Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus (I Love You...Neither..)

Customer Reviews Fresh Funky French Fun This is a good mix. Here is a nice mix of Serge at his loosest and wackiest moments. I very much enjoy it. What am I saying, these songs are fantastic. The piano, the crazy back up vocals and Shu Ba Du's. The horns, bizarre pre-rap off style duets, crazy strings. Songs about cars, songs about jerks, songs about bank robbers, songs about suicide, and, of course, songs about love. basically everything that's needed to give you a good time in music listening. If you are one of those people who fell in love with Melody Nelson but lack exposure to anything else of old S. G. , and are willing to try a more fun loving out of your mind side, then here take this put it in your music listening device and have a good time. Go ahead, all the kids are doing it. Judge the album by its cover If that's a good thing or no, depends on what you're into. You know how you supposedly shouldn't do that? Well, take a good look at the cover of this record - it sounds EXACTLY like that. ...and It STILL Sounds Sexy!!! Comic Strip focuses on pop material that he recorded between 1966 and 1969. For those who are unfamiliar, Serge Gainsbourg is (was) a French songwriter and performer who sang almost exclusively in his native language. If the age of the material or language puts you off, then I appreciate this opportunity to convince you otherwise. First of all, the French lyrics only add to the strange mystery of the music, while these songs sound remarkably contemporary. Imagine a pop song that consists of percussion loops and rhythm samples, recorded in 1967! The leadoff track "Requiem pour un Con" (translated as "Requiem for a Jerk") is just that, with a rhythm that sounds as if it were constructed by the most contemporary urban producer. Since he sings entirely in French, dweebs like me can't understand a thing except for the occasional American phrase that pops up - "Bonnie and Clyde", "Ford Mustang", etc. Comic Strip can best be described as droll camp. Gainsbourg sings as though he were mocking the musical forms that he is embracing, giving each track a coy sexiness that permeates the entire project. In its time, "Je T'aime. . . Moi Non Plus" (translated as "I Love You. . . Neither Do I") was considered so sexy that it was banned in numerous countries, while Brigitte Bardot (!) provides guest vocals on "Bonnie and Clyde". Imagine Ray Davies as an ugly, sensuous Frenchman with a taste for the theatricality of lounge music super-hero Esquivel, and you'll get a pretty good idea of what this collections sounds like. Throughout, Gainsbourg's songs sound like a product of the ambitious sixties (which they are), even though he ignores what everybody else was doing. Simply put, he was an iconoclast who hammered out a niche that is his alone. Pardon my French, but Comic Strip has a certain `gene se qoi'. A- Tom Ryan. . You can see a complete list of all Serge Gainsbourg discography, or go back to the Serge Gainsbourg tabs