Produced By Gainsbourg

Need to find La Horse next.

As far as music: I should've been clearer and mentioned I was curious about his lesser known (outside France) production stuff. I love the France Gall songs and the things he did with Bardot/Anna Karina/Nico/etc., but I'm really curious about things like - Rosemary OTM - the Catherine Deneuve album he produced in the late 80's. What can it possibly sound like?

I thought the same thing after reading it ... in particular, somebody should compile a box set of his soundtrack work.

Sure, I can make you a CDR!

Rosemary, are you talking to me? Or Walter? Or both of us? :)

I like "gated drum Gainsbourg" ... the "Love on the Beat" album is a favourite of mine!

How is the rest of Alain Chamfort's Poses album? Serge wrote three songs, of which I know only the gorgeous "Manureva". Worth getting?

Any thoughts on the Adjani album? Saw it cheap the other day and didn't know whether or not to take a punt on it.

oh I love that Adjani Album. Especially "Ohio". and of course "Pull Marine".
Gainsbourg wrote some lyrics for 3 of Chamfort's albums. My favourite might be "Amour année zéro" (especially the song "chasseur d'ivoire"). "Manureva" is fantastic.

btw Gainsbourg NEVER wrote of had anything to do with Jordy's "dur dur d'être un bébé" !!

regarding Adjani's album, of course of you have to :
- like her
- like singers who can't sing
- like Gainsbourg's 80s touch
if you check all these, you're good to go !

ha, i'll bear that in mind. thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7MwHGHWgLk

i think there's a compilation out there with some of his stuff for other people (incl Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Hardy and obviously Bardot)

Pull Marine always brings back a heavy load of childhood sadness

ah ouai ? this song in particular ?
for me it's just a (great) reminder, among many others, of the Top 50 days.
Madeleine de Proust.

yeah i find the chord progression very sad and probably did even more as a child so now it's just a mix of rememberance and sadness. I have to say that I'm less tolerant now to Adjani's vocal "limitations"

Quite like this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqnkj-c8lPM

yeah, it's definitely a sad song. with a very cold/depressing production. I love her voice (more than many of his other actresses/singers). In the highs it's borderline insane !

songs he made for others... BOOM !

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_chansons_de_Serge_Gainsbourg

pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OefMhv71MP8

sorry not related to Gainsbourg but I just discovered this Dutronc/Adjani tv moment and it's pretty fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgZ0xSuw5g4

this one is Gainsbourg and Dutronc singing about old women !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaRUUx7oe74

These two were legendary. So many stories about them hanging around in Paris at night (even asking police vans to take them home cos they were too drunk... and then drinking some more with the police on the way !).

I was looking everywhere last trip to Paris for a copy of Dutronc's "Guerre et pets" ( written by Gainsbourg). No luck.

Am currently reading Verlan's fantastic bio of Gainsbourg and the amount of writing he did for others (i'm still in the early 60s) is pretty jawdropping.

Oh yeah the Chamfort "Poses" album is fun. Sort of middle-aged-New Wave haha

Jay Vee, are you reading it in French or the translation?

It's pretty great being a Gainsbourg fan, you'll never run out of stuff to listen to/records to look for.

I like this Luxembourg Eurovision entry with some ingenue giving it GUSTO and what sounds like Serge himself counting down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8EKhUwVgQk

(Xpost) In French. I don't think it's been translated yet but could be mistaken.

It's in English! http://www.amazon.com/Gainsbourg-The-Biography-Gilles-Verlant/dp/0966234677

I have two editions in French but as my French skills are sooo not good enough, I bought the English translation last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd5tZMXUq4

I love this so much. Gainsbourg's "performances" are amazing, and I have never seen Dutronc resemble his son Thomas so much.

Ahan the tourism salesmen trying to sell their speech to Dutronc... Love the laid back and non professional showbiz attitude. Good times!

ha, thank you, that was great: two drunk misbehaving schoolboys/ rogues; lol the "singing"; my french just good enough to catch some of the hostile-polite digs from the blonde woman host and back; classic.

Ah it's Danielle Gilbert : not hostile at all. She was always super nice (and a bit stupid) ! But it was certainly difficult to handle these guys on live Tv !

very polite and not outwardly hostile, but she delivered some subtle digs (and got some back), e.g.

"you’ve got your cigarette & your cigar..."

"it’s his birthday"

"and he’s celebrating it, joyously"

"anyway we’re so happy that jacques is here—"

"oh that can be seen"

"you’ve got your glass, everything you need"

wow such a shame Dutronc turned into such a boring loser after the 60s

Back on topic - I would recommend Alain Bashung's bleak 1982 album co-written with Gainsbourg - 'Play Blessures'

well, alcohol got the best of the best...
and apparently, Dutronc was always very shy/autist (which Françoise couldn't stand anymore... after 20+ years !).

regarding Eurovision, it still baffles me that Boomerang was rejected as a contender for France (especially when you see what we select nowadays...) !
the Gainsbourg version :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWWt9C0_rSo

oh yeah ? I don't know, I don't see these remarks as hostile at all.
I think everybody just knew and loved them.
But clearly it was very difficult for tv hosts to deal with them sometimes. especially gainsbourg (the whitney houston "I want to fuck you" moment, the burning of a 500 francs bill, etc).

because of this thread I've been listening (and watching !) to a lot of old stuffs from the guys and I discovered the full take for "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais" (it's on the integral. available on spotify). It only has a bit more instrumental and Jane B's sobbing but the gem is at the end of the take when you hear Jane saying "ah je peux pas faire plus que ça, hein!" (well I can't do much more than this !"). so cute !

Love Boomerang, love what I've heard from Play Blessures.

I had no idea Boomerang was a Eurovision reject, it's one of my favourite songs. And that clip with Gainsbourg and Dutronc being drunk and half-asleep on television is gold.