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Journal sielwolf's Journal: Portishead Sighting! 11

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From Pitchfork Media:

Sacre bleu, Francophiles! Holy mixtapes, indie kids! Your two cherished worlds are about to coalesce in a big way. The center of gravity: suave, debonair, and--admit it-- rather creepy French crooner Serge Gainsbourg.

All your quasi-indie heroes (Cat Power, Franz Ferdinand, Portishead, Jarvis Cocker, Feist, Placebo, The Kills), alongside requisite veterans (Michael Stipe, Marianne Faithfull), original Gainsbourgian chanteuses (Jane Birkin, Françoise Hardy), and Jack White's boo have teamed up to pay tribute to the perpetually unshaven songsmith on the forthcoming covers comp Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, due out next month.

Monsieur arrives this spring bearing numerous fruits of amour: Cat Power score with White's model-wifey Karen Elson for a rendition of "Je t'aime Moi Non Plus", while Franz makes love to aging cover-girl Jane Birkin to the tune of "Sorry Angel". Brits Jarvis Cocker, Placebo, and the Rakes all get their Serge on. And there's even a little trip-hop nostalgia, with contributions from 1995's flag-bearers Portishead (yay!) and Tricky.

Tres bien:

01 Franz Ferdinand and Jane Birkin: "A Song For Sorry Angel"
02 Cat Power and Karen Elson: "I Love You (Me Either)"
03 Jarvis Cocker and Kid Loco: "I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going"
04 Portishead: "Requiem for Anna"
05 Faultline, Brian Molko, and Françoise Hardy: "Requiem For A Jerk"
06 Michael Stipe: "L'Hôtel"
07 Tricky: "Au Revoir Emmanuelle"
08 Marianne Faithfull and Sly and Robbie: "Lola R. For Ever"
09 Gonzales, Feist, and Dani: "Boomerang 2005"
10 Marc Almond and Trash Palace: "Boy Toy"
11 Placebo: "The Ballad of Melody Nelson"
12 The Rakes: "Just a Man With a Job"
13 The Kills: "I Call It Art"
14 Carla Bruni: "Those Little Things"

Some interesting things on their Marianne Faithfull + Sly & Robbie sounds cool. So does Franz and Jane Birkin. I don't know about the Cat Power collabo. And Placebo, The Rakes, and The Kills is a murderer's row of Next Song for me. But new Portishead? Pretty boss. Hopefully it isn't just some instrumental or something bizarre. You know, one of those "ugh, expanding artistic horizons" moments. But Serge was that dude.

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  • After a night out a couple of months ago, I crashed at a friends house. The following morning, we were feeling a little the worse for wear, and she put on some music. Now she's not a big music lover at all. In fact, she actively claims to dislike listening to music[1]. But she has a select few bands that she listens to. One of them is Portishead. She was utterly shocked to find out that I didn't have a clue what Portishead sounded like. I mean, I'd heard the name, but couldn't tell you what they sounded lik
    • Not offensive, but it falls in my "nothing to see here, move along" category.

      Thats hysterical. I was just listening to your CDs and thinking "WTF could I send to Tet?! More of the same? I really don't have a metal collection... perhaps other stuff that he might be interested in? Hmmm, maybe some DJ Shadow or Portishead..."

      bwahahahahahahahaha!

      P.S.- Portishead Dummy is one of the best albums evar.
      • "WTF could I send to Tet?! More of the same? I really don't have a metal collection... perhaps other stuff that he might be interested in? Hmmm, maybe some DJ Shadow or Portishead..."

        :-) If it helps any, my non-metal tastes tend to lean towards '80s synth pop (Ultravox, Depeche Mode, Jean Michel Jarre), goth (Sisters, Mission, and recently NFD) or some combination of the two (Saints Of Eden and Faithful Dawn -- which are about as close as I get to dance music).

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