№ 3 [Les sabots d'Hélène]

by Georges Brassens

№ 3 [Les sabots d'Hélène] cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1955
  • Label: Polydor
  • Country: France
  • Length: 8:39
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Accompanying his own gruff, highly rhythmic vocal delivery with driving acoustic guitar, the iconic French poet-singer further cements his fiercely independent, anti-establishment persona. The tracks utilize simple, deeply effective folk melodies to deliver razor-sharp, often darkly humorous lyrical narratives that challenge societal hypocrisy and celebrate the marginalized. The brilliant, deeply authentic album solidified his standing as a towering literary figure in postwar European popular music.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, poverty, french, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Les Sabots d'Hélène
  2. Chanson pour l'Auvergnat
  3. La Première Fille
  4. La Prière
  5. Gastibelza
  6. La Mauvaise Herbe
  7. Une jolie fleur
  8. Je suis un voyou
  9. Le Mauvais Sujet repenti
  10. P... de toi

Credits

  • Nu Colours - primary artist

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