August 12, 2005
Your New Favorite Song.
Soundtrack for an Imaginary Wes Anderson Film, Track #6.
Time to rescue this series from oblivion (this track has actually been sitting on my server for a couple of weeks!)-- though I'm actually itching to start a Bad Obscure '80s Singles series, and I have a Soundtrack for an Imaginary Quentin Tarantino Film as well. I think I'll be staggering them from now on...
You can't have too much Francoise Hardy, and this cover of a 1970 song, "Pardon," comes from the Hang Ups, about whom I know little. (It's taken from the excellent Emperor Norton compilation from 1999, Pop Romantique: French Pop Classics.) "Pardon" is a quick sweet rush of a pop song -- dig the guitars and drums split-channel thing going on -- and I love the lines "Je suis chez lui /
sans connaitre chez lui."
Somehow I envision Anderson finally letting loose and having his characters break into a spontaneous, Bande à part-style Madison -- you know, kind of like the "Kool Thing" scene in Hal Hartley's Simple Men.
Hear it (4.22 mb, .mp3).