"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is the first track of the first album of Nouvelle Vague.
Thats the only song to hear to know if you will like the band or not.
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Showing posts with label Nouvelle Vague. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Bande à part - Nouvelle Vague
In their second album, Nouvelle Vague covered "In the name of love", originally performed by U2.
Your thoughts about this song will be an excellent proxy for your opinion about Nouvelle Vague in general, since all their songs are based on the same concept.
Your thoughts about this song will be an excellent proxy for your opinion about Nouvelle Vague in general, since all their songs are based on the same concept.
Friday, January 13, 2012
3 - Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague is a concept designed by French musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux consisting of having female singers (previously called "girls") performing new wave and rock songs with bossa nova arrangements. The experimental character of the project is enhanced by having singers performing songs they had never heard before. Yes, the entire thing is very French.
Their first two albums were very successful, at least in France. For 3, they were even able to recruit people like Martin Gore, who sings the back voice for "Master and Servant."
Overall, the entire concept of Nouvelle Vague is not that bad. Their music is OK for listening in an office and, quite honestly one gets to appreciate the music with a set of headphones. The arrangements are worth the price of the albums.
I guess that the problem with this band is that they take classic songs and rip them off their essence to make them palatable to all audiences -with the remarkable exception of the people who heard the original versions. But that's not the problem of Nouvelle Vague. During the first decade of the 21st century commercial art general was characterized by remakes. Hopefully that was just a trend and originality will eventually come back.
Their first two albums were very successful, at least in France. For 3, they were even able to recruit people like Martin Gore, who sings the back voice for "Master and Servant."
Overall, the entire concept of Nouvelle Vague is not that bad. Their music is OK for listening in an office and, quite honestly one gets to appreciate the music with a set of headphones. The arrangements are worth the price of the albums.
I guess that the problem with this band is that they take classic songs and rip them off their essence to make them palatable to all audiences -with the remarkable exception of the people who heard the original versions. But that's not the problem of Nouvelle Vague. During the first decade of the 21st century commercial art general was characterized by remakes. Hopefully that was just a trend and originality will eventually come back.
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