Mick Harvey has been associated with Nick Cave from 'The Birthday Party' days and right up until very recently with Nick Cave's backing band 'The Bad Seeds'. But he has done a hell of a lot in-between as well... and one of his projects in 1995 was a solo album of Serge Gainsbourg covers... but translated and sung in English. The album 'Intoxicated Man' was a great introduction to Serge Gainsbourg for some, an understanding of his lyrics for us non French speaking fans and/or an addition to an ever growing collection for any keen Gainsbourg fan, like myself. He followed that album up with a second collection of Gainsbourg (English) covers in 1997 with 'Pink Elephants' and that even had a fantastic English version of "Je t'aime... moi non plus" ("I Love You...Nor Do I") sung by Nick Cave and Anita Lane. However, the unlikely surprise on the album was the title track which was an original instrumental by Mick Harvey and Bertrand Burgalat (the only non Serge Gainsbourg song)... it set the tone for the album and has been a Bitter FM favourite since the station started. The only problem with this song is that it isn't long enough.
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