No parlez

by Paul Young

No parlez cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: CBS
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:42:45
  • Community rating: 3.11/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'No Parlez' transformed the former Q-Tips frontman into a major international pop star, driven largely by successful interpretations of songs like Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". The production successfully merges glossy synth-pop textures with impassioned, highly stylized vocal performances.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Come Back and Stay (4:24)
  2. Love Will Tear Us Apart - 2008 Re-Master Version (4:17)
  3. Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) - 2008 Re-Master Version (5:17)
  4. Ku Ku Kurama - 2008 Re-Master Version (4:18)
  5. No Parlez - 2008 Re-Master Version (4:52)
  6. Love of the Common People (4:00)
  7. Oh Women - 2008 Re-Master Version (3:34)
  8. Iron out the Rough Spots - 2008 Re-Master Version (4:48)
  9. Broken Man - 2008 Re-Master Version (3:55)
  10. Tender Trap - 2008 Re-Master Version (4:31)
  11. Sex - 2008 Re-Master Version (4:50)
  12. Come Back and Stay - 12" Mix (7:31)
  13. Iron out the Rough Spots - 12" Mix (7:28)
  14. Love of the Common People - 12" Mix (5:51)
  15. Behind Your Smile - 2008 Re-Master Version (4:10)
  16. I've Been Lonely for So Long - 2008 Re-Master Version (3:37)
  17. Yours (5:39)
  18. Sex - Demo Version - 2008 Re-Master Version (3:49)
  19. Pale Shelter - Demo Version - 2008 Re-Master Version (3:50)
  20. Better to Have and Don't Need - Live Version - 2008 Re-Master Version (5:57)
  21. Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) - Live Version - 2008 Re-Master Version (5:59)

Credits

  • Paul Young - primary artist, arranged by [all arrangements by], guitar, adapted by, written-by, arranger
  • Ian Kewley - arranged by [all arrangements by], synthesizer [obx, emulator], marimba, bells, vocals, vocoder, piano, other [no hammond!, atmospherics and spiritual guidance], synthesizer [emulator], written-by, arranger, bell marimba piano vocoder
  • The Royal Family - backing band
  • The Fabulous Wealthy Tarts - backing vocals
  • Mark Pinder - drums, electronic drums [simmons kit], drum machine [tr808], percussion [clay pots, sauce pans], cowbell [cow-bells], cowbell membranophone
  • Steve Bolton - guitar, piano [doodlings], lap steel guitar, written-by, guitar lap steel guitar piano
  • Martin Serene - other [court jester by royal appointment]
  • Sharon Wheeler - public relations [press]

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