Audio CD review:
Serge Gainsbourg - L' Homme a Tete De Chou

Serge Gainsbourg - L' Homme a Tete De Chou

Band: Serge Gainsbourg Title: L' Homme a Tete De Chou Rating: Release Date: 22 February, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 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

Customer Reviews Welcome to Monsieur Gainsbourg's haunted mansion of love! This is one strange, beautiful and amazing piece of music. Ok, this album caught me off guard. Let go as Monsieur Gainsbourg takes you by the hand and walks you through the twisted halls and rooms of his mansion of love. Spooky and exhilarating. Sometimes boardering on strange halloweenish music. Lamenting sappy piano song turned honky tonk break down. Capitan Cook R and B weirdness. Styles and forms of music that would usually not do me right, make me beg for more. Totally moving and manic. Who else can talk through basically an entire album and make it sound this great? I know who can, S. G. can. I love this. This seals my Gainsbourg fanaticism. I'm a Serge addict. Please help yourself and get this. Excellent, but not as an Introduction to Serge 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. This is another classic album from Serge from around the time when he was really doing his best and most challenging work. 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!. GAINSBOURG'S UNIVERSE Each piece of this wonderful opus has a musical setting that is coherent in it's ensemble. SERGE GAINSBOURG has never been better in establish a concept thematicelly in terms of words and music. 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. . You can see a complete list of all Serge Gainsbourg discography, or go back to the Serge Gainsbourg tabs