Serge Gainsbourg
Cannabis - Ce Sacre Grand-Pere
Label ©  Universal
Release Year  2003
Length  48:00
Genre  Soundtrack
Personal Star Rating [1-5]  
  Ref#  S-0223
Bitrate  192 Kbps
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Cannabis (Par Serge Gainsbourg)   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       2:28  
      2.  
      		 Première Blessure   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       2:25  
      3.  
      		 Le Deuxieme Homme   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       1:10  
      4.  
      		 Jane Dans La Nuit   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       1:24  
      5.  
      		 Danger   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       2:09  
      6.  
      		 Chanvre Indien   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       2:28  
      7.  
      		 Avant De Mourrir   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       5:24  
      8.  
      		 Arabique   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       1:31  
      9.  
      		 Cannabis (Instrumental)   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       2:27  
      10.  
      		 I Want To Feel Crazy   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       1:42  
      11.  
      		 Dernière Blessure   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       1:25  
      12.  
      		 Piège   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       3:11  
      13.  
      		 Cannabis-Bis (Final)   (Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier) 
       1:49  
      14.  
      		 L'herbe Tendre (Par Michel Simon Et Serge Gainsbourg)   (Michel Colombier; Michel Simon & Arletty; Serge Gainsbourg) 
       2:24  
      15.  
      		 Ce Sacré Grand-Père (Générique)   (Michel Colombier; Michel Simon & Arletty; Serge Gainsbourg) 
       2:38  
      16.  
      		 Champêtre Et Pop 1   (Michel Colombier; Michel Simon & Arletty; Serge Gainsbourg) 
       2:16  
      17.  
      		 Nous Les Jéricho   (Michel Colombier; Michel Simon & Arletty; Serge Gainsbourg) 
       3:02  
      18.  
      		 L'herbe Tendre (Instrumental)   (Michel Colombier; Michel Simon & Arletty; Serge Gainsbourg) 
       2:18  
      19.  
      		 Baklade En Provence   (Michel Colombier; Michel Simon & Arletty; Serge Gainsbourg) 
       1:48  
      20.  
      		 Champêtre Et Pop 2   (Michel Colombier; Michel Simon & Arletty; Serge Gainsbourg) 
       1:30  
      21.  
      		 L'adieu (Générique Fin)   (Michel Colombier; Michel Simon & Arletty; Serge Gainsbourg) 
       2:31  
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      After their collaboration on Anna, Swiss film director Pierre Koralnik and Serge Gainsbourg (along with Jean Claude Vannier) worked in 1970 on a legendary dark movie shot in New York. 'Cannabis' is a film mainly about, blood, sex and death. The soundtrack had never been reissued entirely since 1970. Comes with 8 more tracks of another soundtrack that Serge Gainsbourg did with Michel Colombier, 'Ce Sacre Grand Pere' which includes a cult duo of Gainsbourg with Michel Simon. Universal. Digipak. 2003.

      Review by Thom Jurek

      Issued on CD as part of Universal France's Essentials of Cinema series, Serge Gainsbourg's soundtracks to Michel Colombier's 1968 Ce Sacre Grand-Pere, and Pierre Koralnik's scandalous Cannabis, are among the most startling pieces of music in his oeuvre. Cannabis was based around a tawdry thriller and was set by Pierre Koralnik in the free, lone-generation of the late 1960s, and starred none other than Gainsbourg and wife Jane Birkin. The film, a kind of revenge tale featured lots of gratuitous (real) sex and was a commercial flop. But its score is one of the most sophisticated pieces of music Gainsbourg ever conceived. The score is a wondrously baroque and anthemic rock score with elements of Middle Eastern folk songs, and a pop cabaret joviality (courtesy of Jean-Claude Vannier's loopy song "I Want To Be Crazy," sung by Birkin with a drugged-out string section). It was orchestrated for a complete army of electric guitars, harpsichord, strings, and the loudest bassline ever threaded through a French movie. It's truly amazing. The score the to the Colombier film is tacked on as bonus material, and is far more traditional, but has enough pop-rock charm and nutty electric guitar and Hammond B3 play to make it a worthy add on to Cannabis. This is essential listening for any Gainsbourg or '60s soundtrack fan. In addition to the music are killer stills from Cannabis, and a brutally honest translated interview with Koralnik.
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