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Anyone heard the Jean-Benoit Dunckel solo album? Thorts?

I was surprised to find they'd put together a Late Night Tales comp. The tracklisting, for the curious, is:

1. The Cure – All Cats Are Grey
2. Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
3. Nino Rota - O’ Venezia Venaga Venusia
4. The Band – I Shall Be Released
5. Georges Delerue Theme De Camille
6. Japan - Ghosts
7. Scott Walker – The Old Man’s Back Again
8. Jeff Alexander – Come Wander With Me
9. Cat Power – Metal Heart
10. Minnie Riperton – Loving You
11. Tan Dun – For The World
12. Sebastien Tellier – Le Long de la Riviere Tendre
13. Lee Hazelwood – My Autumn’s Done Come
14. Robert Wyatt – P.L.A.
15. Elliot Smith – Let’s Get Lost
16. The Troggs – Cousin Jane
17. Air/Alessandro Baricco - Musica
18. The Cleveland Orchestra – Ravel, Pavane Pour Une Enfante Défunte

Perhaps they were on a Cure kick - "All Cats Are Grey" is on the Marie Antoinette soundtrack too.

I know their new album is approaching completion, so this may count as a vague anticipation thread. I liked Talkie Walkie a lot, anyway.

― LC (Damian), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

damn them for putting "loving you" smack dab in the middle of an otherwise fine mix.

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i don't like the darkel (j.b. dunckel solo) album too much. it's the sort of thing that seems alright while you're listening to it, but try remembering the songs once it's over.

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

streaming here

― ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

*zzzzzzz*

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

they just wrote and produced the Charlotte Gainsbourg album.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I was surprised to find they'd put together a Late Night Tales comp. The tracklisting, for the curious, is:

1. The Cure – All Cats Are Grey

That's one dark night of the soul...

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

damn that mix looks like i made it. awesome.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

yeh, i know what you mean. i've only heard a handful of tunes on there but it makes me think i'd be bored of it very quickly as it's catering too closely to my tastes - does that make sense?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:43 (twenty years ago)

That and wondering why you shelled out for something you could have made yourself.

― LC (Damian), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

yeh, that's what i mean i guess. can't fault it, just don't want it. as is often the case with these kind fo mixes.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Never trust an artist who puts his own tracks on a compilation.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

well, you can fault it for being pretty bloody obvious.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Aw, no David Shrigley track on this one?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:21 (twenty years ago)

Ricky Gervais Presents Late Night Tales

1. David Bowie: Jean Genie
2. David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
3. David Bowie: When I'm Cleaning Windows
4. David Bowie: Ally's Tartan Army
5. David Bowie: Tarzan Boy
6. David Bowie: Chewing Gum
7. David Bowie: Sultans Of Swing
8. David Bowie: Up The Hill To Abergavenny
9. David Bowie: This One's For The Children
10. David Bowie: A Little Bit Of Soap
11. David Bowie: Mambo No 5
12. David Bowie: Snooker Loopy
13. David Bowie: Pierrot Lunaire (Jacques Le Cont Remix)
14. David Bowie: Pop Goes The Weasel
15. David Bowie: No Charge

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

this tracklist is no worse/more obvious than any other Late Night Tales or Back To Mine.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Plus it's not like they picked a track off Moon Safari. Then again, the people likely to buy this probably already own City Reading.

― LC (Damian), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I don't own any of these songs. Might have an mp3 of 'Planet Caravan'.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

They shoulda just released their 4 hour Radio 1 Essential Mix from a few years back on CD. Top marks for including that Lee Hazlewood track though.

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Well, I certainly give them mad props for including something from Fellini Casanova !

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

They've done the mix thing before : see Deck Safari, one and two.

― Slumming it on ilx (section241), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Anyone heard the Jean-Benoit Dunckel solo album?

wow 'Be My Friend' is excellent, would've preferred the last Air album to sound more like this

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Sunday, 5 October 2008 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

i wish they'd go back to being all sickly and weird like on 10000hz

― dog latin, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

the Dunckel track above does sound like that

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Monday, 6 October 2008 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

ah good, i'll check it out. i did used to love throwing up to "sex born poison" back in 2002.

― dog latin, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

i always thought that was called 'sex born prison'

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Monday, 6 October 2008 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

yeah yeah probly.

― dog latin, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 23,300 for "sex born poison". (0.26 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 114 for "sex born prison". (0.23 seconds)

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Monday, 6 October 2008 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

ummm... weird... i actually was sure you were right.

― dog latin, Monday, 6 October 2008 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

LOVED that Late Night Tales mix.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 6 October 2008 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Don't know if there's a thread for the new album -"Love 2" - yet but - yeah - the first single sounds like a "10,000 Hz Legend" outtake. To me that's a very good thing.

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

"Do The Joy" = A+

― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

It's a very nice surprise. The last records were pretty good, but this is lot more exciting.

― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

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