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L'Homme à tête de chou

Serge Gainsbourg

French Music - Released January 1, 1976 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Even tolerant music fans shudder inwardly at the mention of the concept album, a largely prog rock genre that spawned many of the greatest aesthetic indiscretions of the '70s. L'Homme à Tête de Chou (The Man with the Cabbage Head) is a concept album and shares some of prog's general characteristics, but it's unlike anything emanating from rock's beardy depths. In the spirit of his 1971 masterpiece Histoire de Melody Nelson, Gainsbourg sets this album's brief tale amid a widescreen musical canvas. Whereas Melody Nelson was provocative without being explicit, the gravel-voiced Gallic lecher goes X-rated here -- albeit without sacrificing his poetic élan. In this morbidly comic song cycle the narrator's muse is Marilou, a black shampoo girl: during their ill-fated fling, he descends into unhinged obsession, beats her to death with a fire extinguisher and ends up in a psychiatric hospital (convinced his head has turned into a cabbage). Although the title track retains something of Melody Nelson's cool Baroque pop gravitas, Chou doesn't replicate that earlier record's alternately brooding and soaring melodic grandeur. Instead, it draws on an adventurously varied palette, spanning rock, country, disco, jazz, reggae, and funk. In places, the shifting styles match the different images or situations that Gainsbourg presents, sometimes without concern for subtlety: "Marilou Reggae" finds Marilou grooving to Caribbean sounds, while tribal rhythms on "Transit à Marilou" heavy-handedly signify her exotic sexuality. The songs are most satisfying when the relationship between lyrics and music is less literal, more evocative -- especially "Lunatic Asylum," where tympani, didgeridoo-like drones, dramatic organ, and insistent percussion soundtrack the protagonist's insanity. Elsewhere, subject matter and sound are divorced completely, the cheery funk of "Ma Lou Marilou" contrasting with the narrator's murderous thoughts. L'Homme à Tête de Chou is an underrated Gainsbourg album. Notwithstanding some dubious synth coloring, it's his second-best '70s release, ranking among his finest recordings.© Wilson Neate /TiVo
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L'homme à tête de chou

Serge Gainsbourg

French Music - Released June 23, 2023 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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L'homme à tête de chou in Uruguay : variations sur la musique de Serge Gainsbourg

Daniel Zimmermann

Contemporary Jazz - Released November 18, 2022 | Label Bleu

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Alain Bashung

French Music - Released February 19, 2021 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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L'Homme à tête de chou

Alain Bashung

French Music - Released January 1, 2011 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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A track-by-track reworking of Serge Gainsbourg's 1976 concept album, L'Homme à Tête de Chou is the first posthumous studio release from the late French chanteur Alain Bashung. Originally recorded in 2006 but only released two years after his death, the murderous tale of a tabloid journalist's descent into madness was produced by Denis Clavaizolle (Jean-Louis Murat) and is also the official soundtrack to Jean-Claude Gallotta's contemporary dance production of the same name, which ran for three weeks at Paris' Theatre du Rond-Point in 2011.© Jon O'Brien /TiVo

L'homme à tête de chou

Serge Gainsbourg

French Music - Released May 16, 2023 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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L'Homme A Tête De Chou

Alain Bashung

French Music - Released January 1, 2011 | Universal Music Division Barclay

A track-by-track reworking of Serge Gainsbourg's 1976 concept album, L'Homme à Tête de Chou is the first posthumous studio release from the late French chanteur Alain Bashung. Originally recorded in 2006 but only released two years after his death, the murderous tale of a tabloid journalist's descent into madness was produced by Denis Clavaizolle (Jean-Louis Murat) and is also the official soundtrack to Jean-Claude Gallotta's contemporary dance production of the same name, which ran for three weeks at Paris' Theatre du Rond-Point in 2011.© Jon O'Brien /TiVo
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En studio avec Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg

French Music - Released October 11, 2019 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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L'homme à tête de chou

Serge Gainsbourg

French Music - Released January 1, 1976 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

Even tolerant music fans shudder inwardly at the mention of the concept album, a largely prog rock genre that spawned many of the greatest aesthetic indiscretions of the '70s. L'Homme à Tête de Chou (The Man with the Cabbage Head) is a concept album and shares some of prog's general characteristics, but it's unlike anything emanating from rock's beardy depths. In the spirit of his 1971 masterpiece Histoire de Melody Nelson, Gainsbourg sets this album's brief tale amid a widescreen musical canvas. Whereas Melody Nelson was provocative without being explicit, the gravel-voiced Gallic lecher goes X-rated here -- albeit without sacrificing his poetic élan. In this morbidly comic song cycle the narrator's muse is Marilou, a black shampoo girl: during their ill-fated fling, he descends into unhinged obsession, beats her to death with a fire extinguisher and ends up in a psychiatric hospital (convinced his head has turned into a cabbage). Although the title track retains something of Melody Nelson's cool Baroque pop gravitas, Chou doesn't replicate that earlier record's alternately brooding and soaring melodic grandeur. Instead, it draws on an adventurously varied palette, spanning rock, country, disco, jazz, reggae, and funk. In places, the shifting styles match the different images or situations that Gainsbourg presents, sometimes without concern for subtlety: "Marilou Reggae" finds Marilou grooving to Caribbean sounds, while tribal rhythms on "Transit à Marilou" heavy-handedly signify her exotic sexuality. The songs are most satisfying when the relationship between lyrics and music is less literal, more evocative -- especially "Lunatic Asylum," where tympani, didgeridoo-like drones, dramatic organ, and insistent percussion soundtrack the protagonist's insanity. Elsewhere, subject matter and sound are divorced completely, the cheery funk of "Ma Lou Marilou" contrasting with the narrator's murderous thoughts. L'Homme à Tête de Chou is an underrated Gainsbourg album. Notwithstanding some dubious synth coloring, it's his second-best '70s release, ranking among his finest recordings.© Wilson Neate /TiVo

L'homme à tête de chou

Serge Gainsbourg

French Music - Released October 11, 2019 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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French Music - Released December 1, 2023 | Wagram Music - 3ème Bureau

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France Gall

French Music - Released February 1, 2005 | Warner (France)

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Bon Entendeur

French Music - Released June 7, 2019 | Columbia

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France Gall

French Music - Released April 1, 1997 | Warner (France)

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La loi du papillon

Nuit Incolore

French Music - Released November 10, 2023 | Wagram Music - Cinq 7

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Varsovie, L'Alhambra, Paris

Saez

French Music - Released April 21, 2008 | Wagram Music - Cinq 7

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Bijou voyou caillou

Florian Pellissier Quintet

Contemporary Jazz - Released April 27, 2018 | Heavenly Sweetness

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31

Adriana Maliponte

Classical - Released April 1, 1973 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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D'un papillon à une étoile

Véronique Sanson

French Music - Released January 1, 1999 | Parlophone (France)

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Les Cowboys Fringants

French Music - Released May 13, 2003 | La Tribu