Tribute albums can, on occasion, be wonderful things. Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, wherein musical hipsters of all types cover the songs of French troubadour Serge Gainsbourg, is quite interesting.

The Cardigans’ Nina Persson and Nathan Larson close out the CD with their version of Sorry Angel (which they title Angel’s Fall), and the minor-key echo of “sorry, Angel, sorry so, sorry Angel, sorry so” was running through my mind as I set the clocks back this morning.

The album has another curiousity in that Feist appears (with Gonzales and Dani) doing a version of Boomerang, as does Placebo, covering The Ballad of Melody Nelson.

This is interesting because, in the career of Leslie Feist, she once fronted a Calgary post-grunge band called Placebo.

Those were the days. Although I confess to enjoying Leslie’s new style much more.