L'Homme a Tete De Chou [Import, Original recording remastered]

Serge Gainsbourg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Mercury Import
• ASIN: B000051YEJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,430 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. L'Homme A Tête De Chou

2. Chez Max Coiffeur Pour Hommes

3. Marilou Reggae

4. Transit A Marilou

5. Flash Forward

6. Aéroplanes

7. Premiers Symptômes

8. Ma Lou Marilou

9. Variations Sur Marilou

10. Meurtre A L'Extincteur

11. Marilou Sous La Neige

12. Lunatic Asylum

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of his 1976 release. Features 24 bit remastering, original artwork & rare photos. 2001.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, but not as an Introduction to Serge, March 2, 2004

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JR (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'Homme a Tete De Chou (Audio CD)

This is another classic album from Serge from around the time when he was really doing his best and most challenging work. However, I would definitely not recommend this as a starting point to get into Serge's work since it is probably his most difficult album and is less immediately satisfying than many of his other albums. Melody Nelson is still the best place to start if you are curious about Serge because it is simultaneously his best and most accessible album. If you have heard some of his other stuff though, you are more likely to 'get' this album and not dismiss it after a couple of listens. Definitely his most 'prog rock' album, a very weird listening experience indeed (and the 2 or 3 spoken word interludes over minimal music are kind of frustrating for non-French speakers like myself!). On a side note, I would disagree with the previous reviewer who says that his is his most 'pimpy and 'swanky' album, in many ways it is the album that is least in that sleazy vein, since it is just so odd. If you really want a CD that conjures up images of Serge sitting on a red velvet couch smoking a pipe Hugh Hefner style, listen to Vu De L'Exterieur instead. That's Serge at his pimpin' best!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GAINSBOURG'S UNIVERSE, May 1, 2003

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ALAIN ROBERT (ST-HUBERT,QUÉBEC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'Homme a Tete De Chou (Audio CD)

SERGE GAINSBOURG has never been better in establish a concept thematicelly in terms of words and music.Each piece of this wonderful opus has a musical setting that is coherent in it's ensemble.32 minutes of pure joy and delight.The famous GAINSBOURG talking voice over was of course used before in recordings like JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS,INITIALES BB and the previous concept album HISTOIRE DE MÉLODY NELSON,but never with that panache with the lyrics.VARIATIONS SUR MARILOU can résume GAINSBOURG's whole catalogue of themes and obsessions.Sit down,forget your presomptions about the often called dirty man of FRENCH music and listen to signifiant music by a creatively inspired artist.If you are wondering about the meaning of the lyrics of VARIATIONS SUR MARILOU,it's actually about woman masturbation.No kidding here,just the truth.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pimpy swanky lounge music, June 21, 2001

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Sugar1000 (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'Homme a Tete De Chou (Audio CD)

Serge Gainsbourg has many styles, this album represents his most pimpy and swanky of those styles. His voice is laid just so lightly over electric guitars and he sounds as if he is sitting in a dark room on a red velvet couch smoking a pipe, Hugh Hefner style. This is a truly great Serge album that is harder to find than most of his other works and is not to be missed.