Arcade Fire Cover Serge Gainsbourg

Those Arcade Fire kids have been tackling Serge Gainsbourg's “Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son” live for a while, so it makes plenty of Francophone sense that it shows up on a tour-only split 7" with LCD Soundsystem. As might be expected, the Fire's take has a bit more of a closing swell than the version France Gall made famous when she nailed the 1965 Eurovision. But note the similarly rollicking drums and string drama. It's eerily like Gainsbourg wrote it for Régine to sing, too -- though guessing Win wouldn't be into Serge handling a rifle in his lady's presence. Listen to the vinyl crackle over at Prefix.

 
[Serge & France pic via Jump Cuts]

Posted at 11:54 AM
Tags: Arcade Fire | France Gall | Serge Gainsbourg

6 Comments

technically it's a a France Gall song (though yes, Gainsbourg wrote it for her).

Posted by: jeff at 10/22/07 12:25 PM  | Reply
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didn't belle & sebastian do a cover of this too? or am i thinking of another song?

Posted by: kylie at 10/22/07 12:58 PM  | Reply
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too bad nothing about this horrible band is worth blogging about.

Posted by: bob at 10/22/07 1:21 PM  | Reply
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B&S did cover this. Anyone got mp3?

Posted by: John K. at 10/22/07 1:46 PM  | Reply
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How badass a picture is that of Serge?

Posted by: Sean at 10/22/07 4:44 PM  | Reply
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Man, this has been my favourite song for forever.

Posted by: Sarah at 10/22/07 5:37 PM  | Reply
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