Dick Annegarn (Sacre Géranium) [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Product Description
L'original Serie. Reissue of the Original Album. 20 Bit Remastering. Digipack.

Dick Annegarn (Sacre Géranium),Dick Annegarn,Polygram Int'l,Int'l & World Music,Pop,World Music

Average customer rating: Not Something to Sleep To Love the score and soundtrack but CD is incomplete A better soundtrack than Eternal Sunshine! A perfectly surreal match for a fairly surreal movie Zzzzilousous

The Science of Sleep Manufacturer: Astralwerks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Science of Sleep Marie Antoinette 5:55 The Last King of Scotland Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ASIN: B000HC2P5O Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

1. Generique Stephane
2. Generique Debut
3. Stephane Visite Appart
4. Coutances
5. Reve Grosses Mains
6. Robinet Cellophane
7. Grotte Machine A Ecrire
8. Ulcer Soul
9. Aristurtle
10. Generique Stephane TV
11. Tours De Cartes
12. My Dear Neighbours
13. Baignoire Martine
14. Gerard Explique Rem
15. If You Rescue Me (A Cappella)
16. If You Rescue Me (Chanson Des Chats)
17. Grotte Stephane Stephanie
18. Steppin' Out
19. Week-End De Ski
20. Golden The Pony Boy
21. Making Certain
22. Reve Patrick Dewaere
23. Stephanie Quitte Le Cafe
24. Poursuite Pouchet
25. Stephanie Blues
26. Theme Generique Fin Golden The Pony Boy

Customer Reviews:

Not Something to Sleep To.......2007-05-04

if you had enjoyed this movie, with the dialoge streaming throughout the trippy music of his dreams, you would love this soundtrack. its beautiful and strange. i love it.

Love the score and soundtrack but CD is incomplete.......2007-03-09

I bought this primarily for the Jean-Michel Bernard music. I was disappointed because the disc doesn't include alternate versions sans voice-overs. Many of these tracks have the actors' voices over the music. Wouldn't be such a problem for me as bonus tracks perhaps. Or have music sans voice-overs as bounus tracks. Either way there's room enough as the disc clocks in at just under 49 minutes. Would be cool too if they included the film mixes of the Willowz tracks. Their "Ulcer Soul" song sounded psychedelic while fading in, out, and under the other audio in the film. I rated the disc one star but better to rate it 4 as it does have pretty much what was in the actual soundtrack, including the lovely "Coutances."

A better soundtrack than Eternal Sunshine!.......2007-01-10

I absolutely loved the music in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind and thought that there couldn't be a more fitting original score......until i saw The Science fo Sleep. I bought this album just days after seeing Michel Gondry's latest film because I immediately fell in love with the music. The original score to the film exactly reflects the atmosphere of a dream state, as do the songs with rathe rnonsensically sweet lyrics and a drowsy tone. I am a huge fan of film and perhaps moreso the music featured in them, and this montauge of imagination is really my cup of tea. I really encourage anyone who loves the atmosphere of a Gondry film to buy this soundtrack, it's a fabulous one.

A perfectly surreal match for a fairly surreal movie.......2006-10-03

Jean-Michel Bernard is the man behind the music for this, the music of the latest Michael Gondry movie ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"). I had never heard of him before, but he happens to have a few movie scores under his belt, Gondry's "Human Nature" (2001) among them, along with a few other albums.

The sound he puts out reminds of a blend between that of the previous Gondry collaborator, Jon Brion, and the specific album that David Hirschfelder composed for the movie "Shine". He incorporates samples of dialogue from the movie with classical and jazz elements, resulting in an overall score that is a perfectly surreal match for a fairly surreal movie.

The album contains a couple of very nice tracks from The Willowz (they seem to be a personal favorite of Gondry), along with a Kool & The Gang song ("Steppin' Out") that break the "spell" in the music that otherwise flows much like a dream from track to track.

Zzzzilousous.......2006-09-21

I have never slept as well as I slept while listening to this album. The sounds of crickets chirping and sea crashing against the rocks on the north shore of england allowed me to drift off into a land of bliss and serenity... i highly reccomend this album

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Plouc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007MR11C Release Date: 2006-02-07

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Le Meilleur De Dick Annegarn Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Science of Sleep ASIN: B00004SQUI Release Date: 2000-03-20

Tracks:

1. Sacre Geranium
2. Transformation
3. He He He
4. Paladin Braconnier
5. Volet Ferme
6. Ubu
7. Le Roi Du Metro
8. Bruxelles
9. Coutances
10. Mireille
11. Nicotine Queen
12. Golda
13. L'orage
14. Les Enfants
15. Bebe Elephant
16. L'institutrice
17. Mer
18. De Bemols Et De Dieses
19. Les Gueux
20. L'univers
21. Le Grand Diner
22. Frizoschenie
23. L'homme De L'aube

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Le Grand Diner/Album Tribute to Dick Annegarn ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000ECXEDY Release Date: 2006-03-07

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Approche-Toi Dick Annegarn Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000III5 Release Date: 1997-11-06

Tracks:

1. Approche-Toi
2. Tches
3. Il Pleut
4. Crscule
5. Orbre
6. Attila Joszet
7. Send My Body Home
8. Tu Ms Ta Vie
9. Buvant Seul
10. C'est Dans Les Rs
11. Travail Trop Cher
12. Rabbi Js

Average customer rating: Sublime Why didn't I buy this earlier

Dick Annegarn (Sacre Géranium) Dick Annegarn Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000I2KV Release Date: 1999-02-02

Tracks:

1. Sacre Geranium
2. Transformation
3. Grand Diner
4. Bruxelles
5. Violet Ferme
6. Faubert Waltz
7. Bebe Elephant
8. Univers
9. Institutrice
10. Orage
11. Ubu

Album Details

L'original Serie. Reissue of the Original Album. 20 Bit Remastering. Digipack.

Customer Reviews:

Sublime.......2005-09-02

It's a real shame that not more people know Dick Annegarn in the non-French speaking world. Proclaimed by many as the "son of Brel" ; he is one of the best troubadours of the chanson, plus a charismatic and irreverent performer. Unlike a lot of his contemporaries who were suckers for trends such as Bashung, Annegarn has always chosen the less wandered path. Very popular in the 70's in France, he quit the music business in 1978 at the height of his fame citing its corrupt nature and then worked on social projects in Paris before slowly returning to music, working often with avant garde and occidental musicians, before releasing a string of brilliant albums in the late 90's up to 'Plouc' (2005), where he played with musicians from the south of France, accompanying his unique voice & guitar with often sparse and unusual arrangements played on brass instruments.

Because he is not French but actually a Dutchman educated in Brussels & Paris, he has a unique French singing voice, very guttural and well articulated. His lyrics are sublime "poetry of the earth" and he has a real playful yet caustic sense of humor ; never whimsical always basing his material on his own life and stories of the "everyday" with emotive, stark and imaginative arrangements like Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark or John Martyn. He also thankfully lacks the bombast and macho-ness of many of his contemporaries, having a real humility and sensitivity ; perhaps because he also has an "outsider" status of being gay, the subject of his 'Ombre' album.

Anyway, i can't recommend his work higher. Here is a rough translation of l'institutrice', the story of a teacher of his who committed suicide, and his most famous song 'Bruxelles'. Its sometimes difficult to understand these literal translations, as obviously the words rhyme in French but the translation does not, so think of it as a prose poem in English, giving you a taste of his subject matter.

L'institutrice

madam the teacher / died this morning / this morning at dawn / in the water of her bath / some people say that she died / me i say she committed suicide // she was small and graying / dressed skillful like a governess / her cupboards with make up and the mirror / did not protect any more her history // It was yesterday with the history lesson / the roman empire against the barbarians / it`s, she said, the start of the end / the roman empire perishes tomorrow // without doubt, that perhaps it's better so / the roman empire in paradise / and us also, without institution / without teacher with a coil of hair // her life was far from being beautiful / Miss, madam, widowed and miss / perhaps you don't see what I mean / what I want to say I will not say

Bruxelles

brussels, my beautiful, I join you soon / immediately that Paris betrays me / And I feel that her love turned sour / since she suspects me of being with you in the evening / I recognize, it is true / every evening / in my head / It is the festival of old soldiers / of a war which always has to be made // Brussels wait for me , I arrive / Soon I take the drift // Michele do you remember the distress of the funfair at the Gare Du Midi? / Do you remember your Sophie / Who had not even recognized you? / Neons, Léons, the names of the guys / Sublime decline, the dance of the paunches / Ministry of beer / artery towards hell / Place de Broukère // cruel duel / that which opposes Paris neurosis and Brussels / the moron who thinks that soon it will be finished / the boredom of the bored/ Who will re-examine me, Miss Brussels / But I will not be as you once knew me / I will be dejected, aching all over, a combatant / But I will have come // Paris, I leave you my bed...

Why didn't I buy this earlier.......2001-10-09

I bought the CD for Bruxelles and I now have many other songs in my head since I received it a week ago.
Be carefull, this CD is addictive.

Average customer rating:

Adieu Verdure Dick Annegarn Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004UVDY Release Date: 1999-04-26

Tracks:

1. Que Toi
2. Rosy
3. Katinga Tango
4. Limonade
5. Boileau
6. Javer
7. Adieu Verdure
8. Rhapsode
9. Gisele
10. Keep Your Hands off Her
11. Lille

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Un Ombre Dick Annegarn Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000062U7F Release Date: 2002-03-05

Tracks:

1. Taxi
2. Enfant Sans Mere
3. Ou Es-Tu Mohand ?
4. Patera
5. Soleyman
6. Puy de Dome
7. Melchior
8. Un'ombre
9. C'est La Misere
10. Bouge Ton Boule
11. Meme en Hiver
12. Miroir

Average customer rating:

Au Cirque d'Hiver Dick Annegarn Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004VBV2 Release Date: 2000-02-25

Tracks:

1. Bebe Elephant
2. Maison Rose
3. Piste
4. Agostinho
5. Roi du Metro
6. Bruxelles
7. Approche Toi
8. Saule
9. Albert
10. Tcheques
11. Robert Caillet
12. Soleyman
13. Mireille
14. Voleur de Chevaux
15. Quelle Belle Vallee

Average customer rating:

Dick Annegarn (Sacre Géranium) Dick Annegarn Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005BH7C Release Date: 2006-11-01

Tracks:

1. Sacre Geranium
2. Transformation
3. Grand Diner
4. Bruxelles
5. Violet Ferme
6. Faubert Waltz
7. Bebe Elephant
8. Univers
9. Institutrice
10. Orage
11. Ubu

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6. Die Ronny Hitparade [Import]
7. Einer Von Uns [Import]
8. Elis Por Ela [Import]
9. Es Fährt Ein Zug Nach Nirgenwo [Import]
10. Favola [Import]

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