Nouvelle Vague (album)
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Nouvelle Vague is the debut studio album by the French band Nouvelle Vague. It was first released on 9 August 2004 on Peacefrog Records.
The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/new wave era. The band's name is a play on words, new wave and bossa nova being the literal translations, in English and Portuguese respectively, of the French phrase Nouvelle Vague, which is itself a reference to the French cinema movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Several reviewers drew comparisons, both favourable and unfavourable, with an album of Kraftwerk covers recorded by the German musician Uwe Schmidt (also known as Señor Coconut), El Baile Alemán (2000).
Track listing
| Song | Original Artist | Dur. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Love Will Tear Us Apart" | Joy Division | 3:18 |
| 2 | "Just Can't Get Enough" | Depeche Mode | 3:07 |
| 3 | "In a Manner of Speaking" | Tuxedomoon | 3:58 |
| 4 | "Guns of Brixton" | The Clash | 4:06 |
| 5 | "This Is Not a Love Song" | Public Image Ltd. | 3:47 |
| 6 | "Too Drunk to Fuck" | Dead Kennedys | 2:16 |
| 7 | "Marian" | The Sisters of Mercy | 3:53 |
| 8 | "Making Plans For Nigel" | XTC | 3:32 |
| 9 | "A Forest" | The Cure | 3:39 |
| 10 | "I Melt with You" | Modern English | 4:00 |
| 11 | "Teenage Kicks" | The Undertones | 2:13 |
| 12 | "Pssyche" | Killing Joke | 4:12 |
| 13 | "Friday Night Saturday Morning" | The Specials | 4:22 |
| ‡ | "Sorry for Laughing" | Josef K | 3:09 |
| † | "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" | A Flock of Seagulls | 2:42 |
† bonus track on limited edition
‡ bonus track on limited edition and US edition
