Figure imposée

Figure imposée
Studio album by Alain Bashung
Released	1983
Genre	French rock, New Wave
Label	Philips Records, Barclay Records, Universal Music Group
Alain Bashung chronology
Play blessures (1982) Figure imposée (1983) Live Tour 85 (1985)

Figure imposée (Compulsory routine) is the fifth album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1983 on Philips Records.

Production

The album was issued one year after Play blessures (Play harms) which was a commercial and, at first, critical failure, as well as his first and last collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg. Bashung enlisted young songwriter Pascal Jacquemin who wrote most of the lyrics (except "Imbécile" ("Dumb") written by Boris Bergman).

Reception

Commercial performance

Figure imposée was a commercial failure as well. The next year, Bashung will finally have commercial success back again with the single "S.O.S. Amor" and his next studio album, Passé le Rio Grande in 1986.

Track listing

The 1993 CD reissue had both "Lou ravi" and "Nuits Halloween" dropped, replaced by "Spiele Mich an die Wand" (Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung) and "White Spirit" (Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung), the mix of "Élégance" was replaced by its single mix, and the mix of "Imbécile" was replaced by a long version.

Singles

• 1983: Élégance / Horoscope
• 1983: What's in a Bird / Hi !