Pink Elephants
1997 studio album by Mick Harvey
Pink Elephants | ||||
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Studio album by Mick Harvey | ||||
Released | 27 October 1997 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 46:45 | |||
Label | Mute[1] | |||
Producer | Mick Harvey with Victor Van Vugt and Tony Cohen | |||
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Entertainment Weekly | B[3] |
Pink Elephants is Mick Harvey's second album of Serge Gainsbourg covers, released in 1997.[4][5]
Critical reception
Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Harvey’s English versions of Gainsbourg songs maintain the latter’s lounge-lizard perversions, hilarious existential angst, and theatrical grandeur."[3] Trouser Press called "I Love You...Nor Do I", the Anita Lane and Nick Cave duet, "erotic" and "the album’s centerpiece."[6]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Serge Gainsbourg, except where indicated.
- "Pink Elephants" (Mick Harvey, Bertrand Burgalat) – 2:35
- "Requiem. . ." (Gainsbourg, Michel Colombier) (translation: Larry Norman, Pierre Gottfried Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:35
- "The Javanaise" (translation: Harvey) – 2:30
- "Black Seaweed" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:21
- "Comic Strip" (translation: Bill Soly) – 2:42
- "The Ticket Puncher" (translation: Harvey & Alain Chamberlain) – 2:50
- "Non Affair" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:30
- "Scenic Railway" (translation: by Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:52
- "To All the Lucky Kids" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 3:53
- "Anthracite" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:20
- "Manon" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:20
- "I Love You...Nor Do I" (Harvey) – 4:38
- "The Ballad of Melody Nelson" (Gainsbourg, Jean-Claude Vannier) (translation: Sarah Owen & Harvey) – 1:56
- "Torrey Canyon" (translation: Owen & Harvey) – 3:12
- "Who Is 'In' Who Is 'Out'" (translation: Harvey & Chamberlain) – 3:14
- "Hotel Specific" (Gainsbourg, Jean-Claude Vannier) (translation: Harvey, Katy Beale, & Chamberlain) – 3:42
Personnel
- Mick Harvey – vocals, guitar, bass
- Anita Lane – vocals on "I Love You...Nor Do I" and "The Ballad of Melody Nelson"
- Nick Cave – vocals on "I Love You...Nor Do I"
- Chris Hughes – drums
- Nick Burton – violin
- Steve Bentley-Klein – violin
- James Cruickshank – organ, vocals
- David McClymont – bass
- Loene Carmen – backing vocals on "Torrey Canyon" and "Who Is 'In' Who Is 'Out'"
- Monica McMahon – backing vocals on "Torrey Canyon" and "Who Is 'In' Who Is 'Out'"
- Abigail Trundle – cello
- Bertrand Burgalat – string arrangements
- Kiernan Box – accordion on "The Javanaise"
- Eleanor Gilchrist – violin
- Theresa Whipple – viola
- Jeremy Morris – violin
- Sarah Beardsley- guitar
Technical
- P.A. Taylor - sleeve layout
- Katy Beale - photography
References
- ^ Schurr, Maria (11 July 2014). "Mick Harvey: Intoxicated Man / Pink Elephants, PopMatters".
- ^ "Pink Elephants - Mick Harvey | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ a b "Pink Elephants". EW.com.
- ^ "Mick Harvey Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
- ^ Kaufman, Gil. "Bad Seeds' Mick Harvey And The Pink Elephants". MTV News. Archived from the original on 6 January 2022.
- ^ "Mick Harvey". Trouser Press. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
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