The Stranglers - La Folie (1981) [CD-Reissue 1987]
EAC | FLAC(tracks)+CUE+LOG > 247 MB | Full Scans | MP3 CBR 320 > 100 MB
New Wave | TT - 41:25 minutes | Label: EMI Records Ltd. # CDP 746614-2
EAC | FLAC(tracks)+CUE+LOG > 247 MB | Full Scans | MP3 CBR 320 > 100 MB
New Wave | TT - 41:25 minutes | Label: EMI Records Ltd. # CDP 746614-2
Isolationist, misanthropic, and cantankerous, punk survivors the Stranglers were never a band known for ostentatious displays of affection, at least not to music journalists. However, 1981's conceptual La Folie (roughly translated as "madness") has become known in band circles as the Stranglers "love" album. Typically, these were no ordinary chansons d'amour. Songs of faith, familial strife, devotion, and dependency–spanning religion, celebrity obsession, lust, death, and drugs–the nearest the album got to being superficially palatable was on the gorgeous, harpsichord-strewn "Golden Brown," ex-jail-bird Hugh Cornwell's paean to the seduction of heroin. And then there was the chilled-out title-track, six sultry minutes of J.J. Burnel reciting–entirely in French–the true story of a Paris-based student who murdered and ate his girlfriend.
La Folie is a welcome album in the Stranglers' oeuvre, mainly a collection of tight, punchy songs that often suggest the forthright approach of American new wave bands. With one exception, the songs are shorter and more pointed, harking back to the comparative conciseness of some of the tunes on the band's first two albums, Rattus Norvegicus and No More Heroes, though acidic lyrics still predominate. "Non-Stop" is a typical example, featuring a half-spoken vocal that suggests Lou Reed, a Cars-influenced organ sound, and a bouncy, dance-derived drum beat; this particular song is atypical, however, because it employs a blues-oriented progression. An interesting excursion is encountered in the song "Golden Brown," a subdued, jazz-influenced number with purring vocals, a coolly executed synthesizer/harpsichord backing texture, and a periodically stumbling beat. Only the plushly understated title track suggests the sprawl typical of the group's immediately preceding releases. This fine album is well worth purchasing.
– Review by David Cleary, allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Non Stop
02. Everybody Loves You When You're Dead
03. Tramp
04. Let Me Introduce You To The Family
05. Ain't Nothin' To It
06. The Man They Love To Hate
07. Pin Up
08. It Only Takes Two To Tango
09. Golden Brown
10. How To Find True Love And Happiness In The Present Day
11. La Folie
12. Cruel Garden [CD Bonus track]
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The Stranglers / La Folie
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EAC extraction logfile from 10. September 2010, 22:32
The Stranglers / La Folie
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