Pink Elephants


Pink Elephants is the second studio album by Mick Harvey, released on 27 October 1997. The album is Harvey's second in his series of Serge Gainsbourg interpretations/translations, preceded by Intoxicated Man and followed by Delirium Tremens and Intoxicated Women.

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

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