- Audio CD (19 Jun 2007)
- Format: Import
- Label: District 6
- ASIN: B000Q677FO
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,207,678 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
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| 1. Polyphonic Size - Mothers Little Helper |
| 2. Jo Lemaire - Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais |
| 3. Paul Haig - Running Away |
| 4. Joy Division - Sister Ray |
| 5. Nico - Heroes |
| 6. Snake Finger - The Model |
| 7. Honeymoon Killers - Route National 7 |
| 8. Devo - Satisfaction |
| 9. Antena - The Boy From Ipanema |
| 10. Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. The Stranglers- Walk On By |
| 2. Silicon Teens - You Really Got Me |
| 3. Karel Fialka - People Are Strange |
| 4. Devine & Statton - Bizarre Love Triangle |
| 5. Duran Duran - Fame |
| 6. Gary Numan - Broadway |
| 7. Visage - In the Year 2525 |
| 8. OMD - Waiting For the Man |
| 9. The Original Mirrors - Reflections |
| 10. Flying Lizards - Move On Up |
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Customer Reviews
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is no `Nouvelle Vague' or `Bande A Part'
It seems this is the principals behind Nouvelle Vague making (and therefore endorsing) a double CD compilation of other performers covers of well known songs. So yes I am disappointed if only in myself for not understanding what I was buying.
Notwithstanding that, what do I think of this compilation? It is entertaining and I am sure that younger listeners may be fascinated by some of the interpretations, however for someone who lived through Punk and New Wave some of these covers were lame then and have not really improved with the passage of time.
There is no way Ronny's If You Want Me To Stay can even get close to Sly and what on earth were Snake Finger even thinking of with their rendition of Model?
There are more duffs than sublimes but are there any stand out tracks? Yes!
Devo's Satisfaction takes Mick & Keef (and Otis) to a new level; The Original Mirrors's Reflections turns sad to angst (but I must add that it was better live when Steve Allen was still Enrico Cadillac in Deaf School) and Elton Motello provides a translation to Belgium's only Punk classic of which I will be eternally grateful; although I am glad I did not hear the English translation in the late `70's. I just don't think my nanna would have understood!
Despite all I have said, should you buy it? Yes, for under 7 quid for 24 tracks it is still a bargain and it does have novelty value that will keep any party conversation going well into the night. But make no mistake, it is no where near NV's first two efforts and some may say "quite rightly so."
It seems this is the principals behind Nouvelle Vague making (and therefore endorsing) a double CD compilation of other performers covers of well known songs. So yes I am disappointed if only in myself for not understanding what I was buying.
Notwithstanding that, what do I think of this compilation? It is entertaining and I am sure that younger listeners may be fascinated by some of the interpretations, however for someone who lived through Punk and New Wave some of these covers were lame then and have not really improved with the passage of time.
There is no way Ronny's If You Want Me To Stay can even get close to Sly and what on earth were Snake Finger even thinking of with their rendition of Model?
There are more duffs than sublimes but are there any stand out tracks? Yes!
Devo's Satisfaction takes Mick & Keef (and Otis) to a new level; The Original Mirrors's Reflections turns sad to angst (but I must add that it was better live when Steve Allen was still Enrico Cadillac in Deaf School) and Elton Motello provides a translation to Belgium's only Punk classic of which I will be eternally grateful; although I am glad I did not hear the English translation in the late `70's. I just don't think my nanna would have understood!
Despite all I have said, should you buy it? Yes, for under 7 quid for 24 tracks it is still a bargain and it does have novelty value that will keep any party conversation going well into the night. But make no mistake, it is no where near NV's first two efforts and some may say "quite rightly so."
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Having read the reviews below I was in two minds about buying this album. I loved the last two Nouvelle Vague albums, saw a couple of good reviews in the papers over the weekend and so thought for just over a tenner I'd take a chance. I'm really glad I did and I think people are really missing the point. This is a fascinating, and on several listens, very addictive electropop journey. As Marc Collin's sleeve notes point out it is the music that inspired him to create Nouvelle vague and an excellent selection of electropop it is at that. I loved the robotic cover of Mothers Little Helper by Polyphonic Size, Comateens version of "Summer in the city" and The Slits take on "I heard it through the grapevine" is pure bassliner groove. If you like Nouvelle vague and the 80's BUY THIS RECORD.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There simply isn't a bad track here - it absolutely reeks of je ne sais quoi, joi de vivre, and Le bruit de l'été...In an age where compilation albums are ten a penny - stand outs are few and far between. I certainly didn't expect to raving about a compilation as a potential album of the year. But by golly, I am
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
BEWARE! This is not Nouvelle Vague!
I'm not saying the tracks on here are all bad, but BEWARE, this is not Nouvelle Vague doing covers, ie, Camille and Mélanie Pain! Shame really, sniiff, sniff! Oh well! Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2009 by L. D. Overton
Uninhibited genius music
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Published on 5 Jun 2007 by Deano
knockout
Nouvelle Vague are just about the best band on the planet right now - innovative, quirky and as anyone who saw them last week at Sheperd's Bush Empire would testify, damn sexy too. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2007 by Sammy
Yeah... but no.
Read the below review, didn't believe it, bought the album, believed it:
French trio Nouvelle Vague try to do something different by using new wave artists to cover... Read more
French trio Nouvelle Vague try to do something different by using new wave artists to cover... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2007 by KitKat
Was very excited but it was a bit dissapointing
I'm a big fan of NV and rushed to buy the first copy only to be left a bit dissappointed and wishing i had instead just downloaded the tracks or borrowed the cd from a friend. Read more
Published on 31 May 2007 by KleinsteBlume
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