Couleur Cafe

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Recorded between 1958 and 1969. When not singing in the saloons and salons of the Rive Gauche or playing the bad guy in a serious of ludicrously bad Italian films, Serge Gainsbourg also found the time to dabble in the cha-chas and mambos which had swept Europe and America in the previous decade. However while most of the dance crazes were meant as one-offs, Gainsbourg took his excursions into Caribbean rhythms as seriously (and as comically) as all of his other stylistic experiments, and continued to record them sporadically up until the 1970's. Of course some of them sound silly now (such as New York USA and Erotico-tico), but most of them still bump and grind like Desi Arnaz on a bender. The children's chorus on "Couleur Cafe" lends a moment of innocence not usually associated with Gainsbourg's usually adult songwriting; and "Baudelaire" and "Cha Cha Cha du Loup" are sure-fire party-starters at the next meeting of the international hipsters of the world convention. Great music either for smoking a cigarette and sighing, or forming a conga-line in a mosh pit.