Mauvaises nouvelles des 茅toiles

by Gainsbourg

Mauvaises nouvelles des 茅toiles cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 November 1981
  • Label: Philips
  • Country: France
  • Length: 34:21
  • Community rating: 3.21/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serge Gainsbourg's 'Mauvaises nouvelles des 茅toiles' continued his reggae period after 'Aux armes et c忙tera'. Recorded with Jamaican musicians, the album applies his detached spoken-sung delivery and sardonic lyric style to relaxed reggae arrangements.

Genres

Descriptors: political, talk-singing, rhythmic, violence, dark-humor

Tracklist

  1. Overseas Telegram (3:36)
  2. Ecce Homo (3:20)
  3. Mickey Maousse (2:32)
  4. Juif Et Dieu (3:13)
  5. Shush Shush Charlotte (2:46)
  6. Toi Mourir (2:05)
  7. La Nostalgie Camarade (3:23)
  8. Bana Basadi Balalo (3:03)
  9. Evgu茅nie Sokolov (2:53)
  10. Negusa Nagast (3:05)
  11. Strike (2:59)
  12. Bad News From The Stars (1:26)

Credits

  • Serge Gainsbourg - primary artist, lyrics by, music by
  • I Threes - backing vocals
  • Robbie Shakespeare - bass
  • Sly Dunbar - drums
  • Jean-Marie Gu茅rin - lacquer cut by
  • Mikey Chung - lead guitar
  • Ansel Collins - organ, piano
  • Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - percussion

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