Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
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Free Music Review: the amazon review is too harsh!
Hit: 5 Stars
i think this is a great album and i didn't find it wore on me at all ... and "the guns of brixton" cover ROCKS! annie lennox should watch out: she is getting challenged for the "best clash cover of all time" crown.
Free Music Review: star struck
Hit: 5 Stars
Oh man when I bought this I thought it was just a novelty Record man was I wrong this is fantastic and gets regular play in my jukebox!!!! love itFree Music Review: Great album
Hit: 5 Stars
This album has some really cool songs on it. If you stop and listen to it, you'll be hard pressed not to like this album.Free Music Review: weird but cool!
Hit: 5 Stars
the Clash sung by a French woman in bossa nova style, but it works!Free Music Review: Post punk goes bossa nova & puts a smile on your face.
Hit: 4 Stars
I have most of the originals & was quite into all of the original artists that this band has covered, in fact the 1977-1985 years were probably my favorite for pop/rock. Remakes/tributes are usually a mixed bag. Many are done by less talented groups to confirm their hipness & end up on cringe-inducing tribute collection albums. Those done by better artists often fail to capture the spirit of the original, or try to put a new twist on the song, but end up being really cheesy (and not in a good way). This collection of tracks seems like another gimmick, take a mix of post-punk hits & a few obscurities & give them a bossa nova facelift, making them a little bit more appealing & recognizable than the Muzak punk CD "Punk Rock Baby". However, I do feel that the album works quite well & doesn't become tiresome half way through listening to it. It's quite a lot better than another (recently-released) 80s remake CD I heard playing in a store not too long ago (I think the artist focused on politically-oriented songs from the era), which tried too hard & ultimately failed to either add anything new or match the originals in quality. Only 2 songs really fall short on those grounds & those 2 songs are probably the least known of the lot (KJ's "Psyche" & Josef K's "Sorry For Laughing"), so most people won't mind. The singer wavers between sounding like a number of different female singers (at their most subdued): Hope Sandoval (from Mazzy Star) (on #2 & #8 & #10), Bjork (without the high notes) on #4, the woman that sang that "Telephon Man" song from the 1970s on #6, & even a bit of Dusty Springfield (as on her version of "Windmills of My Mind") on #3.
This album isn't quite perfect, but I'd give it 4.5 stars if I could. Recommended more to those familiar with the originals or those who like quirky remakes than to bossa nova fans.
Here's the list of artists in case you don't recognize them:
1. Joy Division
2. Depeche Mode
3. Tuxedomoon
4. The Clash
5. PiL
6. Dead Kennedys
7. Sisters of Mercy
8. XTC
9. The Cure
10. Modern English
11. The Undertones
12. Killing Joke
13. The Specials
14. Josef K.