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Nouvelle Vague is the 2004 self-titled debut album by the French band Nouvelle Vague. 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. The songs are recorded with female vocalists who had not previously heard the songs they would be covering.
Tracklist
1 ""Love Will Tear Us Apart"" (Joy Division)
2 ""Just Can't Get Enough"" (Depeche Mode)
3 ""In a Manner of Speaking"" (Tuxedomoon)
4 ""Guns of Brixton"" (The Clash)
5 ""This Is Not a Love Song"" (Public Image Ltd)
6 ""Too Drunk to Fuck"" (Dead Kennedys)
7 ""Marian"" (The Sisters of Mercy)
8 ""Making Plans for Nigel"" (XTC)
9 ""A Forest"" (The Cure)
10 ""I Melt with You"" (Modern English)
11 ""Teenage Kicks"" (The Undertones)
12 ""Psyche"" (Killing Joke)
13 ""Friday Night Saturday Morning"" (The Specials)