Serge Gainsbourg was an iconic and unique personality in French popular culture

5. ADDCD3186 The Serge Gainsbourg Collection 1958-62 Serge Gainsbourg
UPC: 824046318628 Format: 2CD Imprint: Acrobat
Serge Gainsbourg was an iconic and unique personality in French popular culture, an artist, pianist, composer, singer and artistic provocateur, whose louche and unorthodox approach to life inevitably attracted scandal as well as making him a cult style guru of his times, and beyond. Beginning as a teacher and artist, he turned to music as a pianist and composer, reluctantly becoming a performer as well. Beginning his recording career in 1958, and working in a style that combined his jazz roots with the prevailing chanson genre, he made four albums over the next four years, at the same time finding an outlet for his music in the arty French film world, both as a composer and performer. He achieved his greatest notoriety, of course, with the sexually-charged international No. 1 with Jane Birkin 'Je T'Aime, Moi Non Plus', recorded outside the scope of this collection. This great-value 53-track 2-CD set comprises the complete content of those four LPs, in their original order, interspersed in chronological order with a track he recorded for release on an EP with existing album tracks, the complete content of another EP, and material which he composed for two movies. Included at the end is a recording of one of his songs by Juliette Greco, done for a short film, concluding with several titles from a 'live' performance of material from his first album. His activities over the years attracted admiration and opprobrium in equal measure but he remains a personality whose work is much in demand, his cool, taboo-shattering approach attracting attention from succeeding generations.

Track Listing

• Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas
• La Recette De l'Amour Fou
• Douze Belles Dans La Peau
• Ce Mortel Ennui
• Ronsard 58 
• La Femme Des Uns Sous Le Corps Des Autres
• L'alcool
• Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin
• Charleston Les Déménageurs De Piano
• La Jambe De Bois Friedland
• Le Claqueur De Doigts
• La Nuit d'Octobre 
• Adieu Créature
• L'Anthracite
• Mambo Miam Miam
• Indifférente 
• Jeunes Femmes Et Vieux Messieurs
• L'Amour À La Papa
• L'Eau A La Bouche
• Angoisse
• Black March
• Cha Cha Cha Du Loup
• Sois Belle Et Tais
• Judith
• Le Poinconneur Des Lilas

• Generique
• Fuite Du Rouquin
• Les Loups Dans La Bergerie
• Cha Cha Du Loup
• Les Loups Dans La Bergerie (Fin)
• La Chanson De Prévert
• En Relisant Ta Lettre
• Le Rock De Nerval 
• Les Oubliettes
• Chanson De Maglia 
• Viva Villa
• Les Amours Perdues
• Les Femmes C'est Du Chinois  
• Personne
• Le Sonnet d'Arvers  
• Les Goémons
• Black Trombone
• Baudelaire 
• Intoxicated Man
• Quand Tu T'y Mets
• Les Cigarillos
• Requiem Pour Un Twister
• Ce Grand Méchant Vous 
• Valse De L'Au Revoir
• Laissez-moi Tranquille
• Le Femme Des Uns Sous Les Corps Des Autres

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 137 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/13/17

UPC: 824046318628