Lhomme a Tete De Chou (Mlps) [Import]

Serge Gainsbourg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Japan
• ASIN: B000HOJDXO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #969,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Homme À Tête de Chou

2. Chez Max Coiffur Pour Hommes

3. Marilou Reggae

4. Transit À Marilou

5. Flash Forward

6. Aéroplanes

7. Premiers Symptômes

8. Ma Lou Marilou

9. Variations Sur Marilou

10. Meurtre À l'Extincteur

11. Marilou Sous la Neige

12. Lunatic Asylum

Editorial Reviews

Import-only pressing of this classic 1976 album from the French songwriter and performer housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Mercury. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the essential records to understand Gainsbourg music, July 15, 1998

By A Customer

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

This record is one of the most important records in Gainsbourg's discography. It shows him desperate, inspired by the reigns of the departed woman, of the lost sex provider, and the poetic femme fatale, all recalled by a lunatic, alcoholic poet who struggles with his pain in a majestic monologue of illness and madness. I am an not an english (excellent) speaker, but, as the Melody Maker magazine rates, I rate this record BLOODY ESSENTIAL, I mean it, please, I really mean it... Sergio Coddou [e-mail]

5.0 out of 5 stars A major contribution to French poetry and music, June 15, 1998

By A Customer

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

Gaisnbourg was to French music what Miles Davis was to Jazz: A multi-talented artist, poet, song-writter, composer, innovator, talent recruiter, stage star, drug-addict, semi-shy, semi-bitter, semi-provocative, man of minority. He started with traditional Jazz and French music. He explored, created, and fusioned many styles, most of them excellent. Without him, French music would be missing several major facets of its modern scene.

This album is a key contribution in at least three ways: 1)It's his most accomplished story-album, where he walks the listener through his relationship with a frivolous lover. (structured a bit like a rock-opera). 2) the poetry is incredible beautiful and erotic 3)it uses "broken rhymes", one of Gainsbourg's inventions.

WARNING: If you think you can appreciate this album or artist by listening to a 20 sec. clip, than you probably won't like it. If you speak French, like Baudelaire, Verlaine, Chopin,(which Gainsbourg often recomposes in pop-style), edonism, and dislike puritans, P.C. people and you can sit still and experience an album for 45 mns, then you'll probably end up enthoused by this masterpiece.