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L' Homme a Tete De Chou | 
 enlarge | Artist: Serge Gainsbourg
Label: Mercury Import
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 133289
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731454843225
EAN: 0731454843225
ASIN: B000051YEJ
Release Date: February 22, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | L' Homme A Tete de Chou | | • | Chez Max Coiffur Pour Hommes | | • | Marilou Reggae | | • | Transit A Marilou | | • | Flash Forward | | • | Aeroplanes | | • | Premiers Symptomes | | • | Ma Lou Marilou | | • | Variations Sur Marilou | | • | Meurtre A l'Extincteur | | • | Marilou Sous la Neige | | • | Lunatic Asylum |
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Album Description
Reissue of his 1976 release. Features 24 bit remastering, original artwork & rare photos. 2001.
Album Details
Various influences can be felt for this masterpiece. Many songs revolve around 'Marilou'. Originally released in 1976.
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| Customer Reviews:
Welcome to Monsieur Gainsbourg's haunted mansion of love! February 16, 2007
Ok, this album caught me off guard. This is one strange, beautiful and amazing piece of music. 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 March 3, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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!
GAINSBOURG'S UNIVERSE May 2, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 MELODY NELSON,but never with that panache with the lyrics.VARIATIONS SUR MARILOU can resume 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.
Storytelling with minimal instrumental backing April 1, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Five years after the masterpiece "Histoire de Melody Nelson", Serge Gainsbourg recorded another concept album. Like on "Melody Nelson", most songs on "L'homme a tete de chou" are spoken storytelling with instrumental accompaniment. On "Melody Nelson" the instrumental parts were played by an orchestra and a rock band but on this album it's a band alone. The music is even more minimalistic than on "Melody Nelson" though there are a few dramatic parts. At first I thought that this album isn't even real music, just storytelling with some instrumental backing. And I thought that it would be completely impossible to listen to for somebody who doesn't speak French. But after listening to it for a few times, I realized I had been wrong. The music may be extremely minimalistic but it's definitely good music. And there are a few songs with sung vocals, most notably "Marilou sous la neige" (Marilou Under the Snow). My French isn't perfect so there's a lot in the lyrics that I don't understad. But despite this, it's not hard to see that "L'homme a tete de chou" is a masterpiece.
 Pimpy swanky lounge music June 22, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
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