La Folie is the sixth studio album of the British rock band The Stranglers , recorded at Manor Studios. The album was released on Liberty Records on November 9, 1981 and on November 21 rose to # 11 in the UK Albums Chart . [one]
| La folie | ||||
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| Studio album The Stranglers | ||||
| Date of issue | November 9, 1981 | |||
| Genres | postpunk new wave | |||
| Duration | 41:27 | |||
| Producers | The stranglers Tony visconti Steve Churchard | |||
| A country | Great Britain | |||
| Label | Liberty Records | |||
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Content
History
It is believed that after the relative commercial failure of the previous album The Gospel According to The Meninblack , EMI persuaded the group to make a more digestible product. The Stranglers, calling the album “La Folie” (“Madness”), claimed to mean “love as a form of madness” and consider the album as conceptual: each track “explores a particular aspect of love”.
Golden Brown , released as a single, ensured the group the commercial success that EMI had been waiting for, on January 9, 1982, rising to 2nd place in the UK Singles Chart [2] and becoming the group's main bestseller in its entire history. Later, suspicions appeared that this was a disguised "ode" to heroin ; The BBC realized it too late, not having time to ban a song on the radio (and the musicians denied the fact that the lyrics of the song are related to drugs).
“Let Me Introduce You To The Family” (# 42, 1981) and “La Folie” (# 47, 1982) were also released as singles from the album. The last of them also caused controversy: it is about cannibalism and is based on the real story of Issei Sagawa , a Japanese student who “out of love” killed and ate fellow student Rene Hartewelt. Originally, the third single was planned for “Tramp”; on the issue of “La Folie” insisted by Jean-Jacques Bernel .
In the book “The Stranglers - Song by Song”, Hugh Cornwell told that the record company had reduced the original title of the first track “Non Stop Nun” (in the satirical key of a nun telling about God's love), but none of the participants noticed in time .
Contents
- Non stop
- Everybody Loves You When You Dead
- Tramp
- Let Me Introduce You To The Family
- Ain't nothin 'to it
- The Man They Love To Hate
- Pin up
- It Only Takes Two To Tango
- Golden brown
- True Love And The Day
- La folie
Bonus Tracks
- Cruel Garden (1987 CD)
- Cruel Garden (2001 CD)
- Cocktail nubiles
- Vietnamerica
- Love 30
- You Hold Your Hands!
- Strange little girl
Record Members
- Hugh Cornwell - guitar , vocals
- Jean-Jacques Bernel - bass , vocals
- Dave Greenfield - keyboards , vocals
- Jet Black - drums
- Producer - Tony Visconti
- Photography - Phil Jude [3]
Notes
- ↑ La Folie (English) . - www.chartstats.com. The date of circulation is December 9, 2009. Archived March 14, 2012.
- ↑ Golden Brown . - www.chartstats.com. The date of circulation is December 9, 2009. Archived March 14, 2012.
- ↑ La Folie. Credits (English) . - www.allmusic.com. The date of circulation is December 9, 2009. Archived March 14, 2012.