Slippedisc comfort zone 2: Windmills

Greg Bottini says:

I love much of Legrand’s music (“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” is marvelous), and his piano playing is excellent (he even did a jazz trio album with, if I’m not mistaken, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne), but this horrible hippy-dippy song is just that – horrible – and it was written for a two-thumbs-down movie, “The Thomas Crown Affair”, easily the worst of Steve McQueen’s starring vehicles.
The second song is lovely as instrumental music, but since I do not speak French, I can’t really form an opinion about it as a song.
But “Windmills Of Your Mind”? I know the English lyrics. And it’s merde.

PaulD says:

A clip from Jacques Demy’s and Legrand’s Les Damoiselles de Rochefort would really make us smile.