Les hommes morts sont dangereux

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Les hommes morts sont dangereux
Les hommes morts sont dangereux cover
Studio album by Métal Urbain
Released 1980, re-released 2003-04
Recorded 1977 (earliest singles) -2003 (latest remixes)
Genre Punk rock, electro
Label Celluloid, Bizz Records (original), Seventeen Records (re-releases), Felicity, Polystar (Japanese re-release)
Producer Tony Platt, Doug Bennett,
Professional reviews
Métal Urbain chronology
had previously only released singles Les hommes morts sont dangereux (1980) L'age d'or (1985) (fan-club compilation)

Les hommes morts sont dangereux (English translation: The dead men are dangerous) was the first and only full studio album by the French electro-punk band Métal Urbain. The album was originally released in 1980 (on vinyl).

Songs on the album are a compilation of the group's singles from the previous three years (Paris Maquis, Hystérie connective and Panik) and John Peel BBC Radio 1 session recordings.

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[edit] Re-releases

Hommes morts was re-released on CD on October 1, 2005 in France as a limited & signed 25th anniversary vinyl replica CD edition, with two bonus tracks on Seventeen Records, Metal Urbain right owners. A re-release in Japan took the form of a double CD with more additional tracks.

[edit] Personnel

  • Clode Panik (vocals)
  • Pat Lüger (guitar)
  • Hermann Schwartz (guitar)
  • Eric Débris (drum machine)
  • Zip Zinc (synthesiser)
  • Rikky Darling (guitar)
  • Miss OD (vocals on Lady Coca Cola)

[edit] Track listing

  1. Hystérie Connective
  2. Ghetto (John Peel session)
  3. Clé de contact
  4. Lady Coca Cola
  5. Panik
  6. Futurama (Peel session)
  7. Snuff Movie
  8. Numero Zero (Peel session)
  9. Paris Maquis
  10. Pop Poubelle
  11. 50/50 (Peel session)
  12. Ultra Violence
  13. Anarchie au Palace (Peel session)
  14. E 202 (Peel session)
  15. Crève Salope
  16. Hystérie Connective (Mix 2) (2005 CD bonus track originally offered on a bonus single included in the first 1000 LPs)
  17. Atlantis (2005 CD bonus track originally offered on a bonus single included in the first 1000 LPs)

Japan bonus CD 2003:

  1. Hystérie Connective (mix 2)
  2. Atlantis
  3. Une bite, un cul et quelques monstres
  4. Untitled Instrumental 1*
  5. Untitled Instrumental 2*
  6. Untitled Instrumental 3*
  7. Sweet Marylin (by Metal Boys, a band featuring Métal Urbain's Hermann Schwarz, Pat Lüger and Eric Débris - this was their only single, released on Rough Trade Records in 1979)
  8. Fugue for a darkening Island (the B-side of the above single)
  9. Snuff Movie (dangerous mix)
  10. Train demo version 1 (demo '79)
  11. Train 2 (version 2 '79)
  12. Colt 45 (demo '79)
  13. Amour (demo '79)
  14. Little Girl of Love (unissued demo '79)
  15. Tango Sudiste ('82 reformation demo track)

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