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A few years ago, rockers remembered the '60s as a sprawling, tie-dyed place where music was mightily amped and distorted. But lately that vision of the '60s has given way to a leaner, sharper, loungier slant on the decade; the nostalgia has shifted toward an impossibly cool bunch of impressions...
1997 RS:
Biography
The great French pop provocateur Serge Gainsbourg's
thirty-year-plus career -- or at least the early part of it -- has
been boiled down to three themed compilations for American
listeners. Comic Strip is the essential introduction to
his deliriously inventive late-'60s hits: lush, witty, campy, and
throbbing with the kind of irresistible erotic charisma that only
truly ugly people can pull off....
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