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- Original Release Date: 28 April 2004
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
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| 1. Love will Tear us Apart | Nouvelle Vague featuring Eloisa | 3:18 | Not Available | |||
| 2. Just Can't get Enough | Nouvelle Vague featuring Eloisa | 3:07 | Not Available | |||
| 3. In a Manner of Speaking | Nouvelle Vague featuring Camille | 3:58 | Not Available | |||
| 4. Guns of Brixton | Nouvelle Vague featuring Camille | 4:06 | Not Available | |||
| 5. This is not a Love Song | Nouvelle Vague featuring Melanie Pain | 3:47 | Not Available | |||
| 6. Too Drunk to Fuck | Nouvelle Vague featuring Camille | 2:16 | Not Available | |||
| 7. Marian | Nouvelle Vague featuring Alex | 3:53 | Not Available | |||
| 8. Making Plans for Nigel | Nouvelle Vague featuring Camille | 3:32 | Not Available | |||
| 9. A Forest | Nouvelle Vague featuring Marina Celeste | 3:39 | Not Available | |||
| 10. I Melt with You | Nouvelle Vague featuring Silja | 4:00 | Not Available | |||
| 11. Teenage Kicks | Nouvelle Vague featuring Melanie Pain | 2:13 | Not Available | |||
| 12. Psyche | Nouvelle Vague featuring Sir Alice | 4:12 | Not Available | |||
| 13. Friday Night Saturday Morning | Nouvelle Vague featuring D'Ambrosio | 4:23 | Not Available |
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Its not often that the postman waking you from your slumber is greeted with a much joy, but this morning was a little different as he brought with him my copy of Nouvelle Vague from Amazon. The drive through the wind and rain to work was considerably more pleasureable as a result.
You'll love this if you a) like this style of music or b) love these songs and like to here them reworked and reborn. I fall into both camps and as a result I am deligted by what is on offer here.
What strikes you most is how well the songs themselves stand up to such a bear, low-key interpretation. An undoubted testament to the original artists and their songs.
I have only given it 4 stars because, if there is a criticism, it is that the arrangement and sound of each song is a little to similar and perhaps some variation on instrumentation would be welcomed. That said, each song is wonderfully put together and the vocals are sublime.
This album is one of the eternal joys of music. Its all too easy to follow the same route to new music Artist A has a new album, buy new album. The real treats are the ones that come out of nowhere and surprise you. This is such a treat and worthy of a listen.
Hopefully they'll do a follow-up, maybe something a little newer, Big Mouth Strikes Again would be a great choice!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The idea of post-punk classics performed in a bossa nova/lounge style sounds as though it may have been conceived purely as a joke and if you're familiar with some of the original tracks then the extent of the transformation achieved by the versions on this album may raise a wry smile on occassion. But for the most part the music here transcends that kind of ironic detachment to achieve something altogether more deeply affecting.
Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" has been covered many times before but has never been suffused with such longing, like lying on a beautiful tropical beach as the sun goes down contemplating a love left behind on the other side of the world. The version of Public Image Limited's "This Is Not Love Song" exchanges the mocking snarl of John Lydon's delivery for that of a sassy French diva singing in a voguish underground club, simultaneously sounding both breathlessly seductive and coldly detached. And the Cure's "A Forest" is transported from the depths of the cold, dank darkness of the original to a tropical rainforest repleat with the chirruping of nameless insects and the squawking of exotic birds, something sinister lurking in the undergrowth as the percussion builds to a tense climax.
A couple of the tracks don't quite reach the generally high standard of the rest of this collection but the two tracks that represent the album's pinnacle more than make up for this. Both "In A Manner Of Speaking" and "Making Plan's For Nigel" are nothing short of beautiful, filled with a poignancy and sadness that instantly makes you want to hear them again as soon as their last note dies away.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Turning on Glastonbury, horrified to hear a band were going to cover Joy Divisions 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' - some things, surely, are sacred...
However, this works, as do the covers of The Cures 'A Forest' and, most bizare of all, PIL's 'This Is Not A Love Song'. The ideal summer album for relaxing to, not really a sit down and listen to it album, but a perfect, unobtrusive, chilled and luscious soundscape, ideal for pimms and hand rolled cigarettes. Languish! The only blip is the rather crass 'Too Drunk...' which disolves into a screech, shattering the otherwise otherworldly bliss. Try it!
However, this works, as do the covers of The Cures 'A Forest' and, most bizare of all, PIL's 'This Is Not A Love Song'. The ideal summer album for relaxing to, not really a sit down and listen to it album, but a perfect, unobtrusive, chilled and luscious soundscape, ideal for pimms and hand rolled cigarettes. Languish! The only blip is the rather crass 'Too Drunk...' which disolves into a screech, shattering the otherwise otherworldly bliss. Try it!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Brilliant Juxtaposition
The premise behind this album is New Wave = Nouvelle Vague = Bossa Nova. So what we have is English and American new wave hits, sung in a seductive French accent to a Bossa Nova... Read more
Published on 13 May 2010 by P. G. Harris
Nouvelle take on some classic tracks
This album is quite a revelation. First heard of them on a Parisien radio station called FIP that plays a lot of avant garde and jazzy music. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2009 by DP
Brilliantly different...
First time through this distinctly "left field" album is likely to leave you a bit confused... laid back interpretations of classic 80's rock tracks served up as nonchalant,... Read more
Published on 15 April 2007 by nicjaytee
Not bad, but try this
If the classy bossa nova grooves on this CD appeal, why not try Trombo Combo's Swedish Sound Deluxe?
You won't regret it. Read more
You won't regret it. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2007 by Someone with a long memory
New Wave of New Wave
Round up some female vocalists, some post-punk songs from the late seventies, then record these songs in a Bossa Nova style, and then call the resulting set of cover versions... Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2007 by Montgomery Snapper
My youth
Very funny stuff this, but done with taste, precision and style. To those who knew the songs back in ye olde punk days it may come over as a joke, or as a pishtake, but it shows... Read more
Published on 10 July 2006 by G. A. Sandtke
My youth viewed through a bottle of Vodka...?
I first heard Nouvelle Vague on the TV adverts for T-Mobile and HAD to find out who they were - I was wild with excitement when I found out they even had an album out! Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2006 by "ggggareth"
Well ....what can I say???!!!
It's not often that listening to a music CD leaves me speechless, but this is exactly how I felt when I first listened to this. What on EARTH had I spent my money on? Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2006 by J. D. L. Bailey
wow
my favorite song ever recorded is love will tear us apart by joy division, and this band have a recorded such a beautiful soulful version that is as much of an acheievment that i... Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2005 by anon
swing your pants.
I'm a big fan of Brazilian music, at least the sort that they export anyway. Celso Fonsecca, Bebel Gilberto, Cibelle and those classic Jobim recordings of the 60s, they all float... Read more
Published on 31 May 2005 by Curlynob
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