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Couleur Cafe (CD)

By: Serge Gainsbourg (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Couleur Cafe (CD) Album By Serge Gainsbourg (Artist)
1   Cha Cha Cha Du Loup - (TRUE instrumental)
2   Mambo Miam Miam
3   L'anthracite
4   Laissez Moi Tranquille (Leave Me Alone)
5   Cha Cha Cha Du Loup
6   L'eau A La Bouche
7   Les Amours Perdues
8   Erotico-tico - (TRUE instrumental)
9   Ces Petits Riens
10   Baudelaire
11   Couleur Cafe
12   Pauvre Lola
13   Les Cigarillos
14   New York USA
15   Tatoue Jeremie
16   Ce Grand Mechant Vous
17   La Bas C'est Naturel
18   Joanna
19   Marabout
20   L'ami Caouette
 
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Review

Rolling Stone (3/6/97, p.70) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...concentrates on his crisp Latin and Brazilian backing rhythms including period ditties...as well as more substantial songs..."
Entertainment Weekly (2/14/97, p.63) - "...a distinctive song stylist whose eclectic wanderings made him a national treasure in his native France, and a dissolute demi-god to the alternative-rock community....[COULEUR CAFE] chronicle[s]...Gainsbourg's...Latin excursions to eye-opening, often hilarious effect." - Rating: B+
Q (12/96, p.166) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...there's enough evidence...to prove the crow-visaged nihilist could swing--albeit mordantly..."

Title Note

Recorded between 1958 and 1969.

When not singing in the saloons and salons of the Rive Gauche or playing the bad guy in a serious of ludicrously bad Italian films, Serge Gainsbourg also found the time to dabble in the cha-chas and mambos which had swept Europe and America in the previous decade. However while most of the dance crazes were meant as one-offs, Gainsbourg took his excursions into Caribbean rhythms as seriously (and as comically) as all of his other stylistic experiments, and continued to record them sporadically up until the 1970's.

Of course some of them sound silly now (such as New York USA and Erotico-tico), but most of them still bump and grind like Desi Arnaz on a bender. The children's chorus on "Couleur Cafe" lends a moment of innocence not usually associated with Gainsbourg's usually adult songwriting; and "Baudelaire" and "Cha Cha Cha du Loup" are sure-fire party-starters at the next meeting of the international hipsters of the world convention. Great music either for smoking a cigarette and sighing, or forming a conga-line in a mosh pit.

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