Pink Elephants

For other uses, see Pink elephant (disambiguation).

Pink Elephants
Studio album by Mick Harvey
Released	27 October 1997
Genre	Rock
Length	46:45
Label	Mute
Producer	Mick Harvey with Victor Van Vugt and Tony Cohen
Mick Harvey chronology
Intoxicated Man (1995) Pink Elephants (1997) One Man's Treasure (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Entertainment Weekly	B

Pink Elephants is Mick Harvey's second album of Serge Gainsbourg covers, released in 1997.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Harvey’s English versions of Gainsbourg songs maintain the latter’s lounge-lizard perversions, hilarious existential angst, and theatrical grandeur." Trouser Press called "I Love You...Nor Do I", the Anita Lane and Nick Cave duet, "erotic" and "the album’s centerpiece."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Serge Gainsbourg, except where indicated.

1. "Pink Elephants" (Mick Harvey, Bertrand Burgalat) – 2:35
2. "Requiem. . ." (Gainsbourg, Michel Colombier) (translation: Larry Norman, Pierre Gottfried Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:35
3. "The Javanaise" (translation: Harvey) – 2:30
4. "Black Seaweed" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:21
5. "Comic Strip" (translation: Bill Soly) – 2:42
6. "The Ticket Puncher" (translation: Harvey & Alain Chamberlain) – 2:50
7. "Non Affair" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:30
8. "Scenic Railway" (translation: by Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:52
9. "To All the Lucky Kids" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 3:53
10. "Anthracite" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:20
11. "Manon" (translation: Norman, Imhof, & Harvey) – 2:20
12. "I Love You...Nor Do I" (Harvey) – 4:38
13. "The Ballad of Melody Nelson" (Gainsbourg, Jean-Claude Vannier) (translation: Sarah Owen & Harvey) – 1:56
14. "Torrey Canyon" (translation: Owen & Harvey) – 3:12
15. "Who Is 'In' Who Is 'Out'" (translation: Harvey & Chamberlain) – 3:14
16. "Hotel Specific" (Gainsbourg, Jean-Claude Vannier) (translation: Harvey, Katy Beale, & Chamberlain) – 3:42

Personnel

• Mick Harvey – vocals, guitar, bass
• Anita Lane – vocals on "I Love You...Nor Do I" and "The Ballad of Melody Nelson"
• Nick Cave – vocals on "I Love You...Nor Do I"
• Chris Hughes – drums
• Nick Burton – violin
• Steve Bentley-Klein – violin
• James Cruickshank – organ, vocals
• David McClymont – bass
• Loene Carmen – backing vocals on "Torrey Canyon" and "Who Is 'In' Who Is 'Out'"
• Monica McMahon – backing vocals on "Torrey Canyon" and "Who Is 'In' Who Is 'Out'"
• Abigail Trundle – cello
• Bertrand Burgalat – string arrangements
• Kiernan Box – accordion on "The Javanaise"
• Eleanor Gilchrist – violin
• Theresa Whipple – viola
• Jeremy Morris – violin
• Sarah Beardsley- guitar

Technical

• P.A. Taylor - sleeve layout
• Katy Beale - photography