Best of Jane Birkin [Import]

Product Description
A superb 19 track compilation by the late '60s French pop chanteuse who's music career skyrocketed in 1969 with 'Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus', a duet with her lover & mentor at the time, Serge Gainsbourg. The saucy song, her most popular, was banned from airplay. This set is comprised almost entirely of Gainsbourg compositions, with two exceptions, a duet with Brett Anderson of Suede entitled 'Les Yeux Fermes' & 'La Gadoue' with Les Negresses Vertes. Philips. 1996.

Best of Jane Birkin,Jane Birkin,Polygram Int'l,French,French Pop,Int'l & World Music,Pop,World Music

Average customer rating:

J Birkin: Best of Jane Birkin Jane Birkin Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Vogue Years ASIN: B0006IGGOK Release Date: 2006-11-01

Tracks:

1. Jane B
2. Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus - Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg
3. Ddanse - Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg
4. Di Doo Dah
5. Mon Amour Baiser
6. C'est La Vie Qui Veut
7. Banana Boat
8. Si Peut Te Consoler
9. Rien Pour Rien
10. There's a Small Hotel
11. Yesterday Yes a Day
12. Ex-Fan des Sixties
13. Excercice en Forme de Z
14. Rocking Chair
15. Aquoiboniste
16. Baby Alone in Babylone
17. Fuir le Bonheur de Peur Qu'il Ne Se Sauve
18. Baby Lou
19. Dessous Chics
20. Quoi [from TV Cinecitta]
21. Lost Songs [Version Longue]
22. Chanson de Prrt [Casino de Paris]
23. Gadoue

Average customer rating:

Best Encore Jane Birkin Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004TZ03 Release Date: 2000-03-01

Tracks:

1. Jane B.
2. 69 Annotique
3. My Cherie Jane
4. Homme Imparfait
5. Nicotine
6. Exercice en Forme de Z
7. Ddanse
8. Love Fifteen
9. Lolita Go Home
10. Lost Song
11. Chanson de Slogan
12. Norma Jean Baker
13. Couteau Dans le Play
14. Amours des Feintes
15. Moi et le Je
16. Comment Te Dire Adieu
17. Couleur Caf
18. Ces Petits Riens
19. Love Slow Motion
20. la Lre [Remix]
21. C'est Comme

Average customer rating: Best of Jane Birkin etre pluse gentil, je t'en prie I tire...I tire... Oh, come on! a muse amused

Best of Jane Birkin Jane Birkin Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Jane Birkin Vol. 1 Master Serie Arabesque Fictions Les Chansons D'amour Baby Alone in Babylone ASIN: B000007WZM Release Date: 1998-01-30

Tracks:

1. Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus - Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg
2. Ex-Fan des Sixties
3. Ford Mustang
4. Ballade de Johnny-Jane
5. Gadoue - Jane Birkin,
6. Yesterday Yes a Day
7. Di Doo Dah
8. Fuir le Bonheur de Peur Qu'il Ne Se Sauve
9. Baby Alone in Babylone
10. Dessous Chics
11. C'est con Ces Consequences
12. Quoi
13. These Foolish Things - Jane Birkin, Jimmy Rowles
14. Avec le Temps
15. Et Quand Bien M
16. Baby Lou
17. Yeux Fermes - Brett Anderson, , Jane Birkin
18. Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Me M' en Vais
19. Javanaise

Album Description

A superb 19 track compilation by the late '60s French pop chanteuse who's music career skyrocketed in 1969 with 'Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus', a duet with her lover & mentor at the time, Serge Gainsbourg. The saucy song, her most popular, was banned from airplay. This set is comprised almost entirely of Gainsbourg compositions, with two exceptions, a duet with Brett Anderson of Suede entitled 'Les Yeux Fermes' & 'La Gadoue' with Les Negresses Vertes. Philips. 1996.

Album Details

Greatest Hits from Serge Gainsbourg's Favourite Muse (And Wife). Over the Years, He Composed a Collection of Beautiful Melodies Mostly Inspired from their Tumultuous Relationship.

Customer Reviews:

Best of Jane Birkin.......2005-09-19

Poor production quality and barely 30 minutes of music. Poor value, oversold and overpriced.

etre pluse gentil, je t'en prie.......2003-04-05

Birkin has a limited voice. Gainsbourgh was a troubled man. When they worked together it produced unqualified magic. He was brilliant and she was patient. Thier work is touching and ethereal. Don't expect fireworks...just sit back and appreciate his poetry and her earnest effort to express it.

I tire...I tire..........2000-10-08

I could have sworn I had this one, so I went to look for it because I wanted to hear somehing on it (since I thought I had it) again before passing judgement on it. Didn't find it. Amazon's records say I have four ( count 'em: 4) of hers, and this isn't one of them--and I can find all four and Amazon is right! And I have on my four, among other things: Je t'aime, ni moi non plus; Fuir Le Bonheur de Peur Que; Ballade de Johnny Jane; and Ex-Fan des Sixties, all of which are on this one, and I'm not getting this one too. These just mentioned, however, and many others, I personally think she can sing well enough so that, as what they are in the first place, they're fine. However, on what I do have (which has Love for Sale, for example), she can be terrible in English--as to all of: the choice of song, how she presents herself and her delivery and entire style of singing, right down to and including the arrangement. Also, another one, she absolutely cannot sing which is NOT on the above track listings, and which I have on more than one, is La DecadanSe (don't you understand the song? either? ). Also, there is a limit to how much I can take (eternally? no, thank God) of HIS songs, for which reason A La Legere is very refreshing (and has several I like, notably: Les Avalanches, Les Cles Du Paradis, Si Tout Etait Faux, and Trouble, none of which were written by him, all of which are done well enough by her and everyone involved. Also, lets face it, unless you are glamourizing people with problems to such an extent that you are glamourizing their problems (or are doing that anyway for other reasons) you know or should know that: 1. drinking yourself into the grave at any age is to be avoided 2. ditto smoking 3. ditto drugs). The fact that someone with such problems (especially the first and the third, although the second will kill ya' too) accomplishes something, whether creatively or otherwise, doesn't make those problems acceptable. Same goes for "womanizing"--it's neither glamourous nor acceptable. (Sorry.) This kind of stuff, therefore, has limited appeal--but it's definitely not no appeal. That said, for something new and different, and just possibly better, and at least "now", of Jane Birkin, I'd try A la Legere.

Oh, come on!.......2000-09-17

I will never be able to figure out how it is that someone with the musical instinct of Serge Gainsbourg would ever get into his head that this woman should be encouraged to sing. She was lovely to look upon, and a very good breather, I grant you, but a singer she most certainly is not.

a muse amused.......2000-08-20

from "je t'aime moi non plus" too "lolita go home", Gainsgour is the only one. Birkin is the only one to sing Gainsbourg's song. from"La décadence" to "je t'aime moi non plus" birkin is the only one to be able to sing these notes. La muse amusée, The muse amused. If you undersand french, you can sing it. You want to lean french, try her.

Je vous aime, moi non plus.

Average customer rating: Guilty Pleasures

Best Jane Birkin Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00003Q4AL Release Date: 1999-10-21

Tracks:

1. L'aquoiboniste
2. Yesterday Yes A Day
3. Je T'aime Moi Non Plus
4. Ex Fan Des Sixties
5. Ford Mustang
6. Ballade De Johnny-Jane
7. Gadoue
8. Di Doo Dah
9. Fuir Le Bonheur De Peur Qu'il Ne Se Sauve
10. Baby Alone In Babylon
11. Les Dessous Chics
12. Con C'est Con Ces Censequences
13. Quoi
14. These Foolish Things
15. Avec Le Temps
16. Et Quand Bien Meme
17. Baby Lou
18. Les Yeux Fermes
19. Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais
20. Javanaise

Album Details

Japanese Exclusive Best Collection.

Customer Reviews:

Guilty Pleasures.......2001-03-31

There are those albums that see the head, heart, and political correctness, effortlessly corralled in agreement. Then there are those that are, as the rock-snob game would have it, guilty pleasures. These are those albums that remind us of a certain date, or that saved us as teengaers from despair, or that simply look and sound a lot like sex must have in 1968. This is the latter. Certainly 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' is a great album, so too the first Viloent Femmes, P J Harvey's 'Dry', but what the hell is so wrong with sex in Paris in 1968 ?

Now it is possible to play the 'Serge Gainsbourg was a great artist' game, and God knows I have in my time. And so much of this rather odd best-of is Serge's work - 'Babe Alone in Babylon', 'Di Doo Dah', the iconic 'Je t'aime (Moi Non Plus)' are all brilliant examples of the way he chewed up American jazz and rock, and English Pop, music traditions, to spit them out all gauloise-y. Certainly he had his tongue in his cheek, and in Birkin's, Bardot's and Deneuve's, among others, when he wrote his endlessly French celebrations of sex, beauty, suicidal despair and death, though not necessarily in that order. The 'Serge'game, a favourite of rocksnobs, does rather miss the point, though. These songs are bizarre, sexy, unnerving, at times stupid, often funny, but it does not ultimately matter. They are all sung by Birkin.

And Birkin, as beautiful as she was, and is, and as fine an actress when faced with a challenge, could not sing. Hers was a fragile English schoolgirl voice, her French was always schoolgirl French, her phrasing was erratic, her breath-control eccentric, her ability to carry a tune dubious, but none of this matters. Birkin, like France Gall, Brigitte Bardot, Claudine Longet, and, ultimately her own daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, along with Vanessa Paradis and Alizee, more recently, are jailbait pop for those who like their gaols to be the Bastille.

Her 'best' album is probably 'Babe Alone In Babylon', while the two French Master Serie volumes are probably the best of 'Best of's, but this is a good retrospective, featuring some of the more recent of her work, as well as much of the earlier. And that earlier work is still, well, breathless, vulnerable, sexy, sometimes sensual, with her voice making a nice contrast with Gainsbourg's limousine-oaked death-rattle.

Jane's appeal, I would argue, is largely other than musical. Charm, in its most English of forms, charmant, in its most French, Birkin ultimately offers pleasure much more than guilt.

Average customer rating:

Best of Jane Birkin Jane Birkin Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000M5AKVM Release Date: 2007-05-22

Tracks:

1. Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus - Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg
2. Ex-Fan des Sixties
3. Ford Mustang
4. Ballade de Johnny-Jane
5. Gadoue - Jane Birkin,
6. Yesterday Yes a Day
7. Di Doo Dah
8. Fuir le Bonheur de Peur Qu'il Ne Se Sauve
9. Baby Alone in Babylone
10. Dessous Chics
11. C'est con Ces Consequences
12. Quoi
13. These Foolish Things - Jane Birkin, Jimmy Rowles
14. Avec le Temps
15. Et Quand Bien M
16. Baby Lou
17. Yeux Fermes - Brett Anderson, , Jane Birkin
18. Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Me M' en Vais
19. Javanaise

Average customer rating:

Best of Jane Birkin Jane Birkin Manufacturer: Mercury ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00006HBCK Release Date: 2002-09-30

Tracks:

1. Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus - Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg
2. Ex-Fan des Sixties
3. Ford Mustang
4. Ballade de Johnny-Jane
5. Gadoue - Jane Birkin,
6. Yesterday Yes a Day
7. Di Doo Dah
8. Fuir le Bonheur de Peur Qu'il Ne Se Sauve
9. Baby Alone in Babylone
10. Dessous Chics
11. C'est con Ces Consequences
12. Quoi
13. These Foolish Things - Jane Birkin, Jimmy Rowles
14. Avec le Temps
15. Et Quand Bien M
16. Baby Lou
17. Yeux Fermes - Brett Anderson, , Jane Birkin
18. Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Me M' en Vais
19. Javanaise

Album Description

Japanese exclusive reissue of 1999 compilation for the British actress who's also a French-pop star. 20 of her best know tracks including her classic collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, 'Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus', a number one hit in 1969. 2002. Philips.

Average customer rating: Best of Jane Birkin etre pluse gentil, je t'en prie I tire...I tire... Oh, come on! a muse amused

Best of Jane Birkin ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Jane Birkin Vol. 1 Master Serie Arabesque Fictions Les Chansons D'amour Baby Alone in Babylone ASIN: B00005FEDC Release Date: 2004-01-20

Album Description

A superb 19 track compilation by the late '60s French pop chanteuse who's music career skyrocketed in 1969 with 'Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus', a duet with her lover & mentor at the time, Serge Gainsbourg. The saucy song, her most popular, was banned from airplay. This set is comprised almost entirely of Gainsbourg compositions, with two exceptions, a duet with Brett Anderson of Suede entitled 'Les Yeux Fermes' & 'La Gadoue' with Les Negresses Vertes. Philips. 1996.

Album Details

Greatest Hits from Serge Gainsbourg's Favourite Muse (And Wife). Over the Years, He Composed a Collection of Beautiful Melodies Mostly Inspired from their Tumultuous Relationship.

Customer Reviews:

Best of Jane Birkin.......2005-09-19

Poor production quality and barely 30 minutes of music. Poor value, oversold and overpriced.

etre pluse gentil, je t'en prie.......2003-04-05

Birkin has a limited voice. Gainsbourgh was a troubled man. When they worked together it produced unqualified magic. He was brilliant and she was patient. Thier work is touching and ethereal. Don't expect fireworks...just sit back and appreciate his poetry and her earnest effort to express it.

I tire...I tire..........2000-10-08

I could have sworn I had this one, so I went to look for it because I wanted to hear somehing on it (since I thought I had it) again before passing judgement on it. Didn't find it. Amazon's records say I have four ( count 'em: 4) of hers, and this isn't one of them--and I can find all four and Amazon is right! And I have on my four, among other things: Je t'aime, ni moi non plus; Fuir Le Bonheur de Peur Que; Ballade de Johnny Jane; and Ex-Fan des Sixties, all of which are on this one, and I'm not getting this one too. These just mentioned, however, and many others, I personally think she can sing well enough so that, as what they are in the first place, they're fine. However, on what I do have (which has Love for Sale, for example), she can be terrible in English--as to all of: the choice of song, how she presents herself and her delivery and entire style of singing, right down to and including the arrangement. Also, another one, she absolutely cannot sing which is NOT on the above track listings, and which I have on more than one, is La DecadanSe (don't you understand the song? either? ). Also, there is a limit to how much I can take (eternally? no, thank God) of HIS songs, for which reason A La Legere is very refreshing (and has several I like, notably: Les Avalanches, Les Cles Du Paradis, Si Tout Etait Faux, and Trouble, none of which were written by him, all of which are done well enough by her and everyone involved. Also, lets face it, unless you are glamourizing people with problems to such an extent that you are glamourizing their problems (or are doing that anyway for other reasons) you know or should know that: 1. drinking yourself into the grave at any age is to be avoided 2. ditto smoking 3. ditto drugs). The fact that someone with such problems (especially the first and the third, although the second will kill ya' too) accomplishes something, whether creatively or otherwise, doesn't make those problems acceptable. Same goes for "womanizing"--it's neither glamourous nor acceptable. (Sorry.) This kind of stuff, therefore, has limited appeal--but it's definitely not no appeal. That said, for something new and different, and just possibly better, and at least "now", of Jane Birkin, I'd try A la Legere.

Oh, come on!.......2000-09-17

I will never be able to figure out how it is that someone with the musical instinct of Serge Gainsbourg would ever get into his head that this woman should be encouraged to sing. She was lovely to look upon, and a very good breather, I grant you, but a singer she most certainly is not.

a muse amused.......2000-08-20

from "je t'aime moi non plus" too "lolita go home", Gainsgour is the only one. Birkin is the only one to sing Gainsbourg's song. from"La décadence" to "je t'aime moi non plus" birkin is the only one to be able to sing these notes. La muse amusée, The muse amused. If you undersand french, you can sing it. You want to lean french, try her.

Je vous aime, moi non plus.

Rock Music:

1. Best of: Je Pense a Toi [Enhanced] [Import]
2. Buenos Aires Cafe
3. Cafe Italia
4. Camere Con Vista [Import]
5. Celestial Reiki II
6. Clandestino [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
7. Colors of My Heart
8. el-Layali [Import]
9. En Concert [Live] [Import]
10. Equilibria [Import]

Rock Music

rock music

Recommended Music:

American Woman [CD-single] [Import]

Couperin, Farina...Performed On Original Instruments

Dreamworld

One More Mile

Fafner in the Azure: No Where [Soundtrack]

Erdenklang Music 3 [Import]

Fifth Dimension [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Devil's Haircut [CD-single]

Celtic Requiem

David Matthews: Symphony No. 4, Op. 52 - Malcolm Nabarro

D'You Know What I Mean [CD-single]

Claude Francois [Import]

Considadis [CD-single]

Brahms: Piano Concerto in Bf No2, Op83

Favorite Things