Autorisation de délirer

by Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

Autorisation de délirer cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Sterne
  • Country: France
  • Length: 38:42
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fusing the intellectual rigor of French chanson with a rough-hewn, bluesy folk-rock backing, 'Autorisation de délirer' secured Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine's status as a countercultural poet. His surreal, razor-sharp lyricism attacks bourgeois hypocrisy, armed with a deeply sarcastic and cynical worldview. The album laid the foundations for a profoundly dedicated cult following that would sustain his long, fiercely independent career.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, drugs, literary, wordplay, theatrical, french, guitar-driven, storytelling, male-vocals

Tracklist

  1. La vierge au Dodge 51 (2:54)
  2. Court-métrage (3:17)
  3. La môme kaléïdoscope (4:13)
  4. L'homme politique, le roll-mops et la cuve à mazout (5:50)
  5. Variations autour du complexe d'Icare (2:35)
  6. Enfermé dans les cabinets (avec la fille mineure des 80 chasseurs) (3:42)
  7. La queue (5:25)
  8. Dernière station avant l'autoroute (0:41)
  9. Rock-autopsie (3:43)
  10. Autorisation de délirer (1:16)
  11. Alligators 427 (5:01)

Credits

  • Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - primary artist, lyrics by, music by
  • Claude Mairet - acoustic guitar [6 & 12 strings], electric guitar, arranged by, piano
  • Claire Perrin - backing vocals
  • Jean-Paul Simonin - drums, percussion, trumpet
  • Jean-Pierre Robert - electric guitar
  • Gilles Küsmérück - keyboards, bandoneon
  • Alain Carbonare - music by

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