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[006] Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham - Je t'aime / I Wanna Boogie With You (7")

Angel Corpus Christi and Dean Wareham cover Serge Gainsbourg and Lou Reed - what could be more perfect?

Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham
Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham

I did declare in the introduction to this series that I was being selective about what from my AHFoW collection would be included, but deciding what to include and what to leave out was becoming far too difficult - for instance, there was no way I’d be leaving out this absolute gem… but why include this and not, for example, Dean guesting on Ivy’s Apartment Life, or Damon & Naomi’s contributions to the Pearls Before Swine Constructive Melancholy compilation. So… everything is going in. Or at least everything that I know of! So my spreadsheet now has 347 rows and weekly posts would take me well into 2029! So… I’m trying to post more frequently!

So, back to Je t’aime / I Wanna Boogie With You … I didn’t buy this at the time of release (1997), but had an mp3 that Angel had put on her “official, unauthorized web site”. I then got it on CD when it was released on ACC’s Louis Louis LP.

I eventually picked this picked this up for a tenner on Discogs in 2016, except annoyingly, without the postcard - it was described in the listing as…

Unplayed vgc pink vinyl in pvc sleeve. No postcard. No sticker. Unplayed one off. From pressing plant at time - Hence no packaging. Low price for rare 7”.

I’m not sure a tenner was a low price for a rare 7” (Discogs says the average is £9) but it was the only copy at the time that was shipping from the UK and so had reasonable postage costs. And I so wanted a copy.

The track was also released on a Munster 7” which I don’t own… yet!

The flip has Angel covering Suicide’s Cheree, with Alan Vega, and The Beach Boys’ Surfer Girl.

Angel can still be found around these parts… ACC web site, ACC Instagram, ACC Bandcamp

  • Catalogue Number: AHFOW 11/067
  • Artist: Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham
  • Title: Je t’aime / I Wanna Boogie With You
  • Notes: Pink vinyl, no postcard
  • Packaging: PVC sleeve
  • Format: 7”
  • Bought from Discogs for £10 + postage