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| | TrouserPress.com :: Malcolm McLaren |
 | | McLaren mainly uses opera for its recitative form and story lines (namely Carmen, Madam Butterfly and Turandot) and, damn it, the thing works more often than not. |
 | | McLaren then stayed out of the record racks for five years, returning in 1995 with Paris, a high-style travelogue that turns Serge Gainsbourg's heavy breathing classic ("Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus," which McLaren has the temerity to cover here 151; in English, no less) into a full-blown epic of erotic geography. |
 | | Absurd on the surface ("Walking With Satie," "Miles and Miles of Miles Davis," "Jazz Is Paris"), the album manages a seductive appeal in the monomania of its pretensions; if McLaren is a crappy poet, his devotion to the subject is touching, and even the worst photographer's snapshots show something. |
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