NME - 7 (out of 10) - "...a laudable attempt by the habitual Bad Seed to translate the opulence and innuendo of Serge Gainsbourg...into...English....When it comes to Serge you can't go wrong..." Entertainment Weekly - "...Harvey...continues his obsessive relationship with Gallic pop idol Serge Gainsbourg. Harvey's English versions of Gainsbourg's songs maintain the latter's lounge-lizard perversions, hilarious existential angst, and theatrical grandeurl; still, Harvey adds something new..." - Rating: B NME (11/8/97, p.48) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a laudable attempt by the habitual Bad Seed to translate the opulence and innuendo of Serge Gainsbourg...into...English....When it comes to Serge you can't go wrong..." Entertainment Weekly (1/16/98, p.71) - "...Harvey...continues his obsessive relationship with Gallic pop idol Serge Gainsbourg. Harvey's English versions of Gainsbourg's songs maintain the latter's lounge-lizard perversions, hilarious existential angst, and theatrical grandeurl; still, Harvey adds something new..." - Rating: B

Rovi

Put your beret back on and light up another cig. PINK ELEPHANTS is Mick Harvey's second collection of "songs by Serge Gainsbourg sung in English" and, if nothing else, would be another fabulous guide to Gainsbourg's lyrics for non-French speakers. Among the French pop classics you get this time around are the darkly comic "The Javanaise" ("I swore that I'd be always true to my love/ Before the day that I met you, my love"), the memorably venomous "Requiema", and the Gainsbourg-Jane Birkin sex duet "Je T'aimeaMoi Non Plus" (here titled "I Love YouaNor Do I", with Anita Lane doing an admirable job faking an orgasm).
But Gainsbourg was more than simply a bawdy lounge singer with an unusual way for words. He was a master of swinging bachelor pad music who combined a dizzying array of modernist pop and rock styles into his demimonde cabaret act. With his suave, manly voice and sophisticated pop arrangements, Harvey does a great job conveying both the melodramatic silliness and musical brilliance of these tracks--many of the originals of which can be found on Gainsbourg's COMIC STRIP.|

Rovi