Mick Harvey - Delirium Tremens - Music & Performance - Vinyl

Vinyl LP pressing. It was a mixtape made by a Frenchman and handed to Mick Harvey (Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Crime & The City Solution) in reunified Berlin that first alerted him to the oeuvre of Serge Gainsbourg. Like the rest of us, he'd heard 'Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus)', but the variety and depth of Gainsbourg's genius took him aback - so much so that he set about fastidiously translating the lyrics into English and disseminating the chansons to the anglophone world with a missionary zeal. The scope of the project he undertook was breathtaking. Mick Harvey explains, "Translating a great writer is like walking through a minefield and I set myself the difficult task of attempting to keep the places of rhyming, metre and meaning accurate to the originals. One or more of these elements is usually dispensed with in the translating of poetry and lyrics, but I did not want to iron out any of Gainbourg's more aberrant angles or lose any of his especially perverse and peculair touches." With this, Mute is proud to announce the third volume in Harvey's Gainsbourg series entitled Delirium Tremens.

Vinyl LP pressing. It was a mixtape made by a Frenchman and handed to Mick Harvey (Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Crime & The City Solution) in reunified Berlin that first alerted him to the oeuvre of Serge Gainsbourg. Like the rest of us, he'd heard 'Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus)', but the variety and depth of Gainsbourg's genius took him aback - so much so that he set about fastidiously translating the lyrics into English and disseminating the chansons to the anglophone world with a missionary zeal. The scope of the project he undertook was breathtaking. Mick Harvey explains, "Translating a great writer is like walking through a minefield and I set myself the difficult task of attempting to keep the places of rhyming, metre and meaning accurate to the originals. One or more of these elements is usually dispensed with in the translating of poetry and lyrics, but I did not want to iron out any of Gainbourg's more aberrant angles or lose any of his especially perverse and peculair touches." With this, Mute is proud to announce the third volume in Harvey's Gainsbourg series entitled Delirium Tremens.

Performer	Mick Harvey
Music genre	Rock
Music subgenre	Vinyl Record - ROCK
Music release type	Release
Media format	LP
Edition	Standard
Language	English
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Mick Harvey - Delirium Tremens [Vinyl]
Track listing	The Man with the Cabbage Head (L'homme À Tête de Chou), Deadly Tedium (Ce Mortel Ennui), Coffee Colour (Couleur Cafe), The Convict's Song (Chanson de Forçat), SS C'est Bon (Est-Ce Est-Ce Si Bon), I Envisage (J'envisage), A Day Like Any Other (Un Jour Comme Un Autre), A Violent Poison That's What Love Is (Un Poison Violent C'est Ça, L'amour), More and More, Less and Less (De Plus en Plus de Moins en, Moins), Don't Say a Thing (Ne Dis Rien), Boomerang, The Decadance (La Decadanse)
Record label	Mute U.S.
Composer	Serge Gainsbourg
Songwriter	Serge Gainsbourg
Number in series	3
Track name	The Man With The Cabbage Head, Delirium Tremens, SS C'est Bon, A Day Like Any Other, A Violent Poison (That's What Love Is), More and More, Less and Less, Don't Say a Thing, Boomerang, The Decadance, Convict's Song, I Envisage, Coffee Colour
Music media format	Vinyl Record
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N